WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO HISTORY

This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of the scholarship that has shaped our current understanding of the past. Defined by theme, period, and/or region, each volume comprises between 25 and 40 concise essays written by individual scholars within their area of specialization. The aim of each contribution is to synthesize the current state of scholarship from a variety of historical perspectives and to provide a statement on where the field is heading. The essays are written in a clear, provocative, and lively manner, designed for an international audience of scholars, students, and general readers.

WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO AMERICAN HISTORY

A Companion to the American Revolution
Edited by Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole

A Companion to 19th-Century America
Edited by William L. Barney

A Companion to the American South
Edited by John B. Boles

A Companion to American Indian History
Edited by Philip J. Deloria and Neal Salisbury

A Companion to American Women’s History
Edited by Nancy A. Hewitt

A Companion to Post-1945 America
Edited by Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig

A Companion to the Vietnam War
Edited by Marilyn B. Young and Robert Buzzanco

A Companion to Colonial America
Edited by Daniel Vickers

A Companion to American Foreign Relations
Edited by Robert D. Schulzinger

A Companion to 20th-Century America
Edited by Stephen J. Whitfield

A Companion to the American West
Edited by William Deverell

A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction
Edited by Lacy K. Ford

A Companion to American Technology
Edited by Carroll Pursell

A Companion to African American History
Edited by Alton Hornsby, Jr

A Companion to American Immigration
Edited by Reed Ueda

A Companion to American Cultural History
Edited by Karen Halttunen

A Companion to California History
Edited by William Deverell and David Igler

A Companion to American Military History
Edited by James Bradford

A Companion to Los Angeles
Edited by William Deverell and Greg Hise

A Companion to American Environmental History
Edited by Douglas Cazaux Sackman

A Companion to Benjamin Franklin
Edited by David Waldstreicher

A Companion to American Legal History
Edited by Sally E. Hadden and Alfred L. Brophy

A Companion to the U.S. Civil War
Edited by Aaron Sheehan-Dean

A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign
Edited by Edward G. Lengel

A Companion to American Sport History
Edited by Steven A. Riess

WILEY BLACKWELL PRESIDENTIAL COMPANIONS

A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt
Edited by William Pederson

A Companion to Richard M. Nixon
Edited by Melvin Small

A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt
Edited by Serge Ricard

A Companion to Thomas Jefferson
Edited by Francis D. Cogliano

A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson
Edited by Mitchell Lerner

A Companion to George Washington
Edited by Edward G. Lengel

A Companion to Andrew Jackson
Edited by Sean Patrick Adams

A Companion to Woodrow Wilson
Edited by Ross A. Kennedy

A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Edited by David Waldstreicher

A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents 1837–1861
Edited by Joel H. Silbey

A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents 1865–1881
Edited by Edward O. Frantz

Rebecca T. Alpert is associate professor of religion at Temple University. One of the first women to be ordained as a rabbi in the 1970s, she authored several books on twentieth-century American Jewish history and culture, gender and sexuality, and Jewish ethics. Co-chair of the Religion and Sport Section of the American Academy of Religion, she created and taught an undergraduate course on “Jews, America, and Sport” at Temple University. Author of Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball (2011), she was an expert commentator in Peter Miller’s documentary film Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story (2010).

Robert K. Barney, reared in Massachusetts, received his PhD from the University of New Mexico in 1968. He taught at Western University, London, Ontario for 41 years. He is recipient of the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Order (1998), the North American Society for Sport History’s Recognition Award for Exceptional Lifetime Contributions to the Study of Sport History (2003), and the Pierre de Coubertin Award given by the International Society of Olympic Historians for Lifetime Contributions to Historical Scholarship on the Modern Olympic Movement (2010). He is the author and editor of several books including Selling the Five Rings: The International Olympic Committee and the Rise of Olympic Commercialism (2004) with Stephen Ween and Scott G. Martyn.

Robert V. Bellamy, Jr is a professor in the Department of Journalism and Multimedia Arts at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He has authored numerous articles and chapters on such topics as media and sports, media technology, and television programming, and is the co-author, with Jim Walker, of Centerfield Shot: A History of Baseball on Television (2008), Television and the Remote Control: Grazing on a Vast Wasteland (1996), and The Remote Control in the New Age of Television (1993). He serves on the editorial boards of Communication & Sport and Nine: A Journal of Baseball History & Culture.

Joseph C. Bigott is associate professor of history at Purdue University, Calumet. He authored From Cottage to Bungalow: Houses and the Working Class in Metropolitan Chicago, 1869–1929 (2001). Currently, he is writing an architectural history of high schools in metropolitan Chicago that offers analysis of the impact of school building on the class, gender, and racial experiences of urban youth in the twentieth century.

Linda J. Borish is associate professor in the Department of History, Western Michigan University. A specialist in the history of rural women and Jewish women athletes, she is the co-author with Gerald R. Gems and Gertrud Pfister of Sports in American History: From Colonization to Globalization (2008), and executive producer and historian for the documentary Jewish Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the Olympics (2007).

Russ Crawford is associate professor of history at Ohio Northern University, where he has taught since 2005. An alumnus of Chadron State College, he taught social studies and Spanish, before attending the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he received his PhD in 2004. He wrote The Use of Sports to Promote the American Way of Life during the Cold War: Cultural Propaganda, 1945–1963 (2008), and has also contributed chapters to books on baseball history and popular culture. Crawford is currently researching the history of American football in France from World War I to the present.

Mark Dyreson is professor of kinesiology at Pennsylvania State University where he has taught since 1998. The former president of the North American Society for Sport History, and a winner of the Webb-Smith historical essay contest, he is the author of Making the American Team: Sport, Culture and the Olympic Experience (1998) and Crafting Patriotism: America at the Olympic Games (2008).

Gerald R. Gems is professor of physical education at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. The author of 10 books, he is a past president of the North American Society for Sport History, and former Fulbright scholar. He has lectured on sport history in 25 countries. His books include Windy City Wars: Labor, Leisure, and Sport in the Making of Chicago (1997) and The Athletic Crusade: Sport and American Cultural Imperialism (2006).

Aram Goudsouzian is professor of history at the University of Memphis, and co-editor of the University of Illinois Press series Sport and Society. His books include Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon (2004) and King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution (2010). His next book, a narrative history of the June 1966 Meredith March Against Fear, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Leslie Heaphy, associate professor of history, Kent State University at Stark, is the author of The Negro Leagues, 1869 to 1960 (2003) and editor of the journal Black Ball, published by McFarland. She has edited three other books on the Negro leagues and women’s baseball.

Brian M. Ingrassia of the Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University is a PhD graduate of the University of Illinois, Champaign–Urbana. His first book, The Rise of Gridiron University: Higher Education’s Uneasy Alliance with Big-Time Football (2012) won the 2013 North American Society of Sports Historians (NASSH) Annual Book Award. His current research examines the connection of early automotive sports to urbanization and the “good roads” movement. He is editor of the Sport and Popular Culture series at the University of Tennessee Press.

Alan S. Katchen is the author of Abel Kiviat, National Champion: Twentieth-Century Track and Field and the Melting Pot (2009). The book received Honorable Mention for the Cordner Nelson Prize of the Track & Field Writers of America and was nominated for the inaugural PEN/ESPN Prize for literary sportswriting. He is a Scholar in Residence at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, where he teaches American history.

Kurt Edward Kemper is professor of history and director of the College of Arts and Sciences honors program at Dakota State University. He teaches and writes on the intersection of race, sport, and American culture and is the author of College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era (2009). His current project examines the role of race and reform in the origins of college basketball.

Richard Kimball received his PhD from Purdue University in 1999, and has been with the Department of History of Brigham Young University since 1998. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Sport History, Utah Historical Quarterly, and Mid-America, among others, and he is the author of Sports in Zion: Mormon Recreation, 1890–1940 (2003). He is currently working on a book that examines the deaths of American athletes and how society “uses” those deaths.

David N. Lucsko is assistant professor of history at Auburn University, where he teaches courses in the histories of technology, manufacturing, waste management, and the automobile. A PhD graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is the former managing editor of Technology and Culture, and author of The Business of Speed: The Hot Rod Industry in America, 1915–1990 (2008). Lucsko is currently working on his second monograph, a cultural history of automobile salvage yards.

Louis Moore received his PhD in American history from University of California, Davis in 2008. Currently he is assistant professor of history at Grand Valley State University where he teaches African American history, civil rights, sport, and US history. His research interest is the interconnection between race, gender, class, and sport. Most recently, Moore published an article in the Journal of African American History entitled “Fit for Citizenship: Black Sparring Masters, gymnasium Owners, and the White Body, 1825–1886.” He is currently working on a manuscript about black prizefighters from 1815 to 1915.

Robert Pruter had been the government document librarian at Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois since 2001. His first love was music history, and he authored the prize-winning Chicago Soul (1991) and Doowop: The Chicago Scene (1996), and edited the Blackwell Guide to Soul Recordings (1993). Thereafter he turned to the study of sport history. His most recent book is The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control, 1880–1930 (2013).

Steven A. Riess is a Bernard Brommel Research Professor, emeritus, at Northeastern Illinois University, in Chicago, where he taught American history for 35 years. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and co-taught an NEH Seminar for college and university teachers on “Sport, Society, and Modern American Culture.” His writings have received many honors, including four Choice magazine citations for “Outstanding Academic Books.” A former editor of the Journal of Sport History, he has written several books in sport, including Sports in Industrial America, 1850–1920 (2nd ed. 2013), The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime: Horse Racing, Politics, and Organized Crime in New York, 1865–1913 (2011), Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era (rev. ed. 1999), and City Games: The Evolution of American Society and the Rise of Sports (1989). His edited books include Sports in America: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century (2011), The Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball Teams (2006), and Sports and the American Jew (1998).

Randy Roberts is Distinguished Professor of History at Purdue University. His primary research areas are sport and popular culture. Among his books are Jack Dempsey: The Manassa Mauler (1979), Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes (1983), Heavy Justice: The State of Indiana v. Michael G. Tyson (1994), “But They Can’t Beat Us”: Oscar Robertson and the Crispus Attucks Tigers (1999), and Joe Louis: Hard Times Man (2010); and, with James S. Olson, Winning is the Only Thing: Sports in America Since 1945 (1989), Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam, 1945–1990 (1989), John Wayne American (1995), and A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory (2000). His most recent books are A Team for America: The Army-Navy Game that Rallied a Nation (2001) and, with Ed Krzemienski, Rising Tide: Bear Bryant, Joe Namath, and Dixie’s Last Quarter (2013). Roberts has served frequently as a consultant and on-camera commentator for PBS, HBO, and the History Channel.

J. Andrew Ross is postdoctoral fellow in the Historical Data Research Unit at the University of Guelph, where he teaches sport, business, and economic history. He is the co-editor of Canada’s Entrepreneurs: From the Fur Trade to the Stock Market Crash: Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography (2011) and the author of the forthcoming Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945.

Anthony Santoro received his PhD in 2010 from Heidelberg University, Germany, where he teaches American history, focusing on US religious, legal, and sport history. He is the author of several book chapters on sport, religion, and capital punishment in the United States. His first book is Exile and Embrace: Contemporary Religious Discourse on the Death Penalty (2013).

Nicholas Evan Sarantakes is an associate professor of strategy and policy at the US Naval War College, who received his PhD in history from the University of Southern California. He is the author of five books, including Allies against the Rising Sun: The United States, the British Nations, and the Defeat of Imperial Japan (2009), Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War (2011), and Making “Patton”: A Classic War Film’s Epic Journey to the Silver Screen (2012). Sarantakes has won several writing awards and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a book review editor for Presidential Studies Quarterly.

James C. Schneider received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and subsequently taught history and held various administrative posts over a 32-year period at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Schneider has written mainly on US foreign affairs, including Should America Go to War? The Debate over Foreign Policy in Chicago, 1939–1941 (1988). His reputation as a diehard Red Sox fan led to a request to develop a course on Sports and American Society, which he taught regularly until his retirement in 2011.

Andrew R. M. Smith teaches US history at Purdue University and Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. His essays on boxing history have appeared in the African American National Biography, Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia, the Journal of Sport History, and the International Journal of the History of Sport. He is currently writing a biography of George Foreman.

Maureen Smith is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Science at California State University, Sacramento, where she has taught since 1995. In addition to a wide variety of essays published in books and scholarly journals, she is also the author of Wilma Rudolph: A Biography (2006). Smith is currently completing an analysis of Rudolph’s public image with Rita Liberti. She is past president of the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) and current president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS)

Ryan Swanson earned his PhD in history from Georgetown University, where he studied with Michael Kazin. He teaches in the honors program at the University of New Mexico and directs the Lobo Scholars program in conjunction with the UNM athletics department. His first book, When Baseball Went White (forthcoming), tells the story of how baseball became segregated.

Robert C. Trumpbour is associate professor of communications at Penn State Altoona. He is the author of The New Cathedrals: Politics and Media in the History of Stadium Construction (2007), and co-editor with Mark Dyreson of Cathedrals of Sport: The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States (2010). Prior to entering the teaching profession, Trumpbour worked at CBS in New York in several capacities for the television and radio networks.

James R. Walker is a professor in the Department of Communication at Saint Xavier University in Chicago. He has co-authored four books on the US television industry, Centerfield Shot: A History of Baseball on Television (2008), The Broadcast Television Industry (1998), Television and the Remote Control: Grazing on a Vast Wasteland (1996), and The Remote Control in the New Age of Television (1993), and has published more than 30 articles on mass communication. His scholarly interests include the history of sport media, electronic media programming, and new media technologies. He currently is writing a history of major league baseball on the radio.

Kevin B. Witherspoon is associate professor of history at Lander University. His book Before the Eyes of the World: Mexico and the 1968 Olympics (2008) won the 2009 North American Society of Sports Historians (NASSH) Annual Book Award. His current research is focused on US–Soviet sports rivalry during the Cold War.