K Austin Kerr

Biographic Data

ID283165
NAMEK Austin Kerr
GIVEN NAMESK Austin
FAMILY NAMEKerr
SIGNATUREKERR K A
AFFILIATIONSThe Ohio State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS24
TOTAL CITATIONS16
AUTHOR COUNT24
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1967
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
H-INDEX3

  • John Barleycorn Must Die: The War against Drink in Arkansas

    K Austin Kerr, Ben F JohnsonARTICLEThe Arkansas Historical Quarterly2005

  • In the Shadow of Prohibition: Domestic American Alcohol Policy since 1933

    Pamela E Pennock, K Austin KerrARTICLEBusiness History2005Cited by: 5

    American domestic policy towards alcoholic beverages during the twentieth century has swung from prohibition of the businesses that supplied drink, to promotion of those same industries, and back t

  • The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman

    K Austin Kerr, Maury KleinARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article The Life & Legend of E. H. Harriman. By Maury Klein. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xviii, 521 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2517-4.) Get access K. Austin Kerr K. Austin Kerr Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Page 225, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674987 Published: 01 June 2001

  • Distilling Democracy: Alcohol Education in America's Public Schools, 1880-1925 (review)

    K Austin KerrARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2000

    Scientific Temperance Instruction was a popular movement during the late nineteenth century to persuade schoolchildren to abstain from drinking alcoholic beverages. Led by Mary Hunt--indefatigable leader of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction, and later of the Scientific Temperance Federation--thousands of American women campaigned for a variety of local regulations and state laws requiring ins…

  • Revisiting Business Historians and the Internet

    Open AccessK Austin KerrARTICLEEnterprise & Society2000

    During the 1996 annual meeting of the Business History Conference, a session on the World Wide Web attracted considerable attention from curious members (see Business and Economic History 25 [Fall 1996]: 46—54). The Internet was then somewhat of an infant, and most of us, just becoming accustomed to the speed and convenience of electronic mail, were barely aware of the opportunities afforded by the then-new graphical interface known as the Web. N…

  • Technology & the West: A Historical Anthology from Technology and culture

    K Austin KerrARTICLETechnology and Culture1999

  • BFGoodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870-1995

    Keith L Bryant, Mansel G Blackford et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1997

    Journal Article BFGoodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870–1995. By Mansel G. Blackford and K. Austin Kerr. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1996. x, 507 pp. $30.00, ISBN 08142-0696-4.) Get access Keith L. Bryant, Jr. Keith L. Bryant, Jr. University of Akron, Akron, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 671–672, https://doi.or…

  • Henry Ford

    K Austin Kerr, Peter TarshisARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article Henry Ford. Prod. by Peter Tarshis. HTV Productions, 1994. 57 mins. (A&E Biography, 235 East 45th St., New York, NY 10017) Get access K. Austin Kerr K. Austin Kerr Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 1122–1123, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945816 Published: 01 December 1996

  • Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920

    K Austin Kerr, Richard F HammARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1996

  • Losing Time: The Industrial Policy Debate

    K Austin Kerr, Otis L GrahamARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article Losing Time: The Industrial Policy Debate. By Otis L. Graham, Jr. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. xiv + 370 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-53919-2.) Get access K. Austin Kerr K. Austin Kerr Ohio State University, Columbus Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Page 1692, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080360 Published: 01 March 1993

  • Conservative History by Assertion

    K Austin Kerr, Morton KellerARTICLEReviews in American History1991Cited by: 1

  • Railroads in the Nineteenth Century

    K Austin Kerr, Robert L Frey et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1991

    Journal Article Railroads in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. by Robert L. Frey. (New York: Facts on File, 1988. xxxiii + 491 pp. $75.00.) and Railroads in the Age of Regulation, 1900–1980. Ed. by Keith L. Bryant, Jr. (New York: Facts On File, 1988. xxix + 518 pp. $75.00.) Get access K. Austin Kerr K. Austin Kerr Ohio State University, Columbus Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…

  • Organized for Prohibition: A New History of the Anti-Saloon League

    Harry G Levine, K Austin KerrARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1987

  • Organized for Prohibition: A New History of the Anti-Saloon League

    Thomas J Noel, K Austin KerrARTICLEThe American Historical Review1986

    Traces the history of the Anti-Saloon League, the political group most responsible for prohibition, and explains why prohibition failed.

  • Mergers and the Rise of Big Business

    K Austin Kerr, Naomi R LamoreauxARTICLEReviews in American History1986

  • Organized for Prohibition: A New History of the Anti-Saloon League

    W J Rorabaugh, K Austin KerrARTICLEJournal of American History1986

    Journal Article Organized for Prohibition: A New History of the Anti-Saloon League. By K. Austin Kerr. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. xvii + 293 pp. Illustrations, notes, note on sources, and index. $25.00.) Get access W. J. Rorabaugh W. J. Rorabaugh University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 1, June 1986, Pages 230–231, https://doi.org/…

  • Organizing for Reform: The Anti-Saloon League and Innovation in Politics

    Open AccessK Austin KerrARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1980Cited by: 3

    rediscovered the importance of single-issue pressure groups, and some have expressed alarm over the splintering of the body politic that their power entails. The history of the American political system, however, informs us that the organizations that give rise to this concern are not new phenomena. Ever since the publication in 1928 of Peter Odegard's Pressure Politics, scholars have realized that a new kind of political institution, represented…

  • Deliver Us from Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition

    K Austin Kerr, Norman H ClarkARTICLEThe American Historical Review1977

    It shows the profound impact of the prohibition movement on political history before 1916 and analyzes its ambiguous triumph in the 1920s. In doing so, it reveals the relationship between liquor control and the unique moral history of the American family. Here is social history at its best, wiping away the myth and legends of the past.

  • West Virginia and the Captains of Industry

    K Austin Kerr, John A WilliamsARTICLEJournal of American History1976Cited by: 1

    Journal Article West Virginia and the Captains of Industry. By John Alexander Williams. (Morgantown: West Virginia University Library, 1976. vii + 352 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, essay on sources, and index. $11.00.) Get access K. Austin Kerr K. Austin Kerr Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 3, December 1976, Pages 741–7…

  • Enterprise Denied: Origins of the Decline of American Railroads, 1897-1917

    K Austin Kerr, Albro MartinARTICLEJournal of American History1972

    Journal Article Enterprise Denied: Origins of the Decline of American Railroads, 1897–1917. By Albro Martin. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1971. xiv + 402 pp. Chart, table, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $10.95.) Get access K. Austin Kerr K. Austin Kerr Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 1, June 1972, Pages 182–183, https:/…

  • The Myth of a Progressive Reform: Railroad Regulation in Wisconsin 1903-1910

    K Austin Kerr, Stanley P CaineARTICLEJournal of American History1971

    Journal Article The Myth of a Progressive Reform: Railroad Regulation in Wisconsin 1903–1910. By Stanley P. Caine. (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1970. xvi + 226 pp. Illustrations, notes, essay on sources, and index. $7.95.) Get access K. Austin Kerr K. Austin Kerr Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 4, March 1971, Pages 943–…

  • American Railroad Politics, 1914-1920: Rates, Wages, and Efficiency

    Morton Keller, K Austin KerrARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1969

  • American Railroad Politics, 1914-1920: Rates, Wages, and Efficiency

    Vincent P Carosso, K Austin KerrARTICLEJournal of American History1969Cited by: 4

    Journal Article American Railroad Politics, 1914–1920: Rates, Wages, and Efficiency. By K. Austin Kerr. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1968. viii + 250 pp. Notes, bibliographical note, and index. $7.95.) Get access Vincent P. Carosso Vincent P. Carosso New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 56, Issue 1, June 1969, Pages 168–169, https://doi.org…

  • Decision For Federal Control: Wilson, McAdoo, and the Railroads, 1917

    K Austin KerrARTICLEJournal of American History1967Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Decision For Federal Control: Wilson, McAdoo, and the Railroads, 1917 Get access K. Austin Kerr K. Austin Kerr instructor of history Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 54, Issue 3, December 1967, Pages 550–560, https://doi.org/10.2307/2937406 Published: 01 December 1967