Marilyn Irvin Holt

Biographic Data

ID106019
NAMEMarilyn Irvin Holt
GIVEN NAMESMarilyn Irvin
FAMILY NAMEHolt
SIGNATUREHOLT M I
AFFILIATIONSAssociation of Military Surgeons of the United States
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT18
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • On the Farm Front with the Victory Farm Volunteers

    Marilyn Irvin HoltARTICLEAgricultural History2022References: 6

    During World War II, American agriculture grappled with labor shortages while being expected to produce more for the military and the home front. Historians have studied the use of labor sources such as migrant workers and the Women's Land Army during this time, but the Victory Farm Volunteers, a program of the federal US Crop Corps, have been largely overlooked, despite the numbers of urban youth who participated. This study examines the program…

  • Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought America into the Twentieth Century

    Open AccessMarilyn Irvin HoltARTICLEJournal of American History2020

  • Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War

    Marilyn Irvin HoltARTICLEJournal of American History2015

    Journal Article Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War Get access Margaret Peacock. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 286 pp. $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 1, June 2015, Pages 293–294, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav233 Published: 01 June 2015

  • When We Were Young in the West: True Stories of Childhood

    Marilyn Irvin Holt, Richard MelzerARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2005

    Journal Article When We Were Young in the West: True Stories of Childhood Get access When We Were Young in the West: True Stories of Childhood. Edited by Melzer Richard. (Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2003. 345 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. $19.95, paper.) Marilyn Irvin Holt Marilyn Irvin Holt Abilene, Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 2, Summer 2005,…

  • Children of the Western Plains: The Nineteenth-Century Experience

    Susan Arrington Madsen, Marilyn Irvin HoltARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2005

    Journal Article Children of the Western Plains: The Nineteenth-Century Experience Get access Children of the Western Plains: The Nineteenth-Century Experience. By Holt Marilyn Irvin. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2003. 224 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $26.00.) Susan Arrington Madsen Susan Arrington Madsen Hyde Park, Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 2, Summer …

  • Indian Orphanages

    Lisa E Emmerich, Marilyn Irvin HoltARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    Native peoples and their communities to this day feel the aftershocks of the assimilationist policies employed by the United States government in the late nineteenth century. Then, federal policy makers and the so-called friends of the Indian imposed programs designed to eradicate tribalism through the destruction of the land base, the erosion of sovereignty, and the suppression of indigenous cultures. Traditional family life was one of the most …

  • Indian Orphanages

    Blue Clark, Marilyn Irvin HoltARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2002

    Journal Article Indian Orphanages Get access Indian Orphanages. By Holt Marilyn Irvin. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. x + 326 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.) Blue Clark Blue Clark Oklahoma City University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 3, Autumn 2002, Pages 357–358, https://doi.org/10.2307/4144851 Published: 01 August 2002

  • Joined Forces: Robert Campbell and John Dougherty as Military Entrepreneurs

    Marilyn Irvin HoltARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1999

    Military entrepreneurs Robert Campbell and John Dougherty based their business on the U. S. Army's use of civilian contractors to transport goods and operate sutleries. At Forts Kearny and Laramie, the men had outright control of one sutlery, interest in another, held freighting contracts, and engaged in the Indian trade

  • Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930

    Julia Grant, Julia D Grant et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1997

  • Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930

    Mary S Hoffschwelle, Marilyn Irvin HoltARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1996

  • Linoleum, Better Babies, & the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930

    Katherine Jellison, Marilyn Irvin HoltARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article Linoleum, Better Babies, & the Modern Farm Woman, 1890–1930. By Marilyn Irvin Holt. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. viii, 250pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8263-1635-2.) Get access Katherine Jellison Katherine Jellison Ohio University, Athens, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, Pages 643–644, https://doi.org/10.2307/…

  • Model Ts, Pep Chapels, and a Wolf at the Door: Kansas Teenagers, 1900-1941

    David Macleod, D M Macleod et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1996

    From the Introduction: "The diaries, letters, reminiscences, and memories presented in this publication are themselves a time capsule, preserving for its readers what Kansas teenagers thought and did in the first decades of the twentieth century. The impact of technological and shifting social attitudes in Kansas's post-settlement, post-Victorian decades was recorded, unconsciously, by teenagers. They tell us about their world, and in that tellin…

  • Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930

    Rosemary G Palmer, Marilyn Irvin HoltARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1996

    Journal Article Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890–1930 Get access Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890–1930. By Holt Marilyn Irvin. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. 250 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $34.95.) Rosemary G. Palmer Rosemary G. Palmer Rock Springs, Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Qu…

  • The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America

    Dave Dawson, Marilyn Irvin HoltARTICLEThe Arkansas Historical Quarterly1993

  • The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America

    Helena M Wall, Marilyn Irvin HoltARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America. By Marilyn Irvin Holt. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. x + 248 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-8032-2360-9.) Get access Helena M. Wall Helena M. Wall Pomona College, Claremont, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Pages 684–685, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079943 Published: 01 Sep…

  • The Orphan Trains: Placing out in America

    Glenda Riley, Marilyn Irvin HoltARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1993Cited by: 2

  • The Orphan Trains: Placing out in America

    Elizabeth Hampsten, Marilyn Irvin HoltARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1993

    Elizabeth Hampsten; The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America, Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 2, 1 May 1993, Pages 247–248, https://doi.org

  • The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America

    Joseph M Hawes, Marilyn Irvin HoltARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1993