Katherine G Aiken
Biographic Data
| ID | 962904 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine G Aiken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine G |
| FAMILY NAME | Aiken |
| SIGNATURE | AIKEN K G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Idaho |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
"The Environmental Consequences … Were Calamitous"
During the Progressive Era, public scrutiny of corporate power and expansion was a central political and economic theme. As Americans grappled with modernity and its impact, they often struggled to identify the appropriate balance between traditional values and burgeoning economic growth. Metallurgical plants represented a vital component of United States industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This article examine…
Dangerous Subjects
Kenneth R. Coleman's Dangerous Subjects brings a new perspective to the story of early non-Indian settlement and the Oregon Trail. Using the frame of microhistory, Coleman traces the fascinating life of outlier James D. Saules, and through Saules he follows social and historical change in Oregon. This study examines the intersection of various races—indigenous peoples, African Americans, whites, and people of mixed blood—as they jockeyed for posi…
Gender Remade
While much has been written about woman suffrage, the consequences for citizenship that women's right to vote implied have not received historians’ attention. Sandra F. VanBurkleo has explored these ramifications by examining the unusual history of suffrage in Washington State. By 1883, “Washingtonians had fashioned a formidable equal-rights regime rooted in civil equality and co-headship within marriage” (p. 50). Women lost their right to vote i…
Robyn Muncy. Relentless Reformer
Robyn Muncy has written an exhaustive biography of Josephine Roche, a woman literally lost to history. In the process, Muncy has not just revealed an individual heretofore hidden, but she has illustrated key challenges that confront historians of women. Muncy’s provocative study of Roche’s life and career also provides the author with an opportunity to present insights into the nature of twentieth-century U.S. reform movements. Born in Neligh, Ne…
Idiosyncrasy and Enigma
Superhero History
Captain America recently visited my home state of Idaho. To be more precise, in early February 2010, readers of issue #602 of Captain America learned that the superhero's evil double, also calling himself Captain America, was in Boise, plotting with a right-wing militia-type organization called the Watchdogs. Meanwhile, the good Captain America, joined by African American superhero Falcon, arrived in town to infiltrate the group and foil their pl…
Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty
Reviewed by: Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers Katherine G. Aiken (bio) Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers. By Michelle Murphy . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. x+253. $21.95. Michelle Murphy's study of sick building syndrome brings together elements of women's history, medical h…
Boise, Idaho, 1882-1910
Journal Article Boise, Idaho, 1882–1910: Prosperity in Isolation Get access Boise, Idaho, 1882–1910: Prosperity in Isolation. By MacGregor Carol Lynn. (Missoula, MT: Mountain Press, 206. xiv + 306 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $24.00.) Katherine G. Aiken Katherine G. Aiken University of Idaho Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 4, Winter 200…
Old Paint
Since Dr. Alice Hamilton's work in the early part of the twentieth century, lead-poisoning issues have been on the cutting edge of industrial medicine and health concerns in the United States. Peter English examines a century of lead-paint poisoning cases in a study that combines medicine and history to explore this disease that especially impacted children. He traces the "social construction of disease, technology and the definition of disease, …
Harnessing the Power of Motherhood
Harnessing the Power of Motherhood
Journal Article Harnessing the Power of Motherhood: The National Florence Crittenton Mission, 1883–1925. By Katherine G. Aiken. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. xxiv, 266 pp. $38.00, ISBN 1-57233-017-1.) Get access Rickie Solinger Rickie Solinger Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Page 247, https://doi.org/10.2307/25…
Oil, Wheat & Wobblies
Journal Article Oil, Wheat & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905– 1930 Get access Oil, Wheat & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905– 1930. By Sellars Nigel Anthony. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xiii +298 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Katherine G. Aiken Katherine G. Aiken University of Idaho Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wes…
Hazards of the Job
Reviewed by: Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science, and: Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910–1935 * Katherine G. Aiken (bio) Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science. By Christopher C. Sellers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xv+331; illustrations, figures, notes, index. $45. Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910…
Hazards of the Job
Working the North
Journal Article Working the North: Labor and the Northwest Defense Projects, 1942–1946 Get access Working the North: Labor and the Northwest Defense Projects, 1942–1946. By Morrison William R. Coates Kenneth A.. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1994. xiv + 270 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00, cloth; $20.00, paper.) Katherine G. Aiken Katherine G. Aiken University of Idaho Search for other works by this au…
It May Be Too Soon to Crow
Journal Article “It May Be Too Soon to Crow”: Bunker Hill and Sullivan Company Efforts to Defeat the Miners' Union, 1890–1900 Get access Katherine G. Aiken Katherine G. Aiken assistant professor of history University of Idaho and wishes to acknowledge support from the John Calhoun Smith Fund Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 3, August 1993, Pages 309–331, https:…
Dangerous Subjects
Kenneth R. Coleman's Dangerous Subjects brings a new perspective to the story of early non-Indian settlement and the Oregon Trail. Using the frame of microhistory, Coleman traces the fascinating life of outlier James D. Saules, and through Saules he follows social and historical change in Oregon. This study examines the intersection of various races—indigenous peoples, African Americans, whites, and people of mixed blood—as they jockeyed for posi…
Superhero History
Captain America recently visited my home state of Idaho. To be more precise, in early February 2010, readers of issue #602 of Captain America learned that the superhero's evil double, also calling himself Captain America, was in Boise, plotting with a right-wing militia-type organization called the Watchdogs. Meanwhile, the good Captain America, joined by African American superhero Falcon, arrived in town to infiltrate the group and foil their pl…
It May Be Too Soon to Crow
Journal Article “It May Be Too Soon to Crow”: Bunker Hill and Sullivan Company Efforts to Defeat the Miners' Union, 1890–1900 Get access Katherine G. Aiken Katherine G. Aiken assistant professor of history University of Idaho and wishes to acknowledge support from the John Calhoun Smith Fund Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 3, August 1993, Pages 309–331, https:…
Working the North
Journal Article Working the North: Labor and the Northwest Defense Projects, 1942–1946 Get access Working the North: Labor and the Northwest Defense Projects, 1942–1946. By Morrison William R. Coates Kenneth A.. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1994. xiv + 270 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00, cloth; $20.00, paper.) Katherine G. Aiken Katherine G. Aiken University of Idaho Search for other works by this au…
Hazards of the Job
Reviewed by: Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science, and: Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910–1935 * Katherine G. Aiken (bio) Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science. By Christopher C. Sellers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xv+331; illustrations, figures, notes, index. $45. Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910…
Hazards of the Job
Oil, Wheat & Wobblies
Journal Article Oil, Wheat & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905– 1930 Get access Oil, Wheat & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905– 1930. By Sellars Nigel Anthony. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xiii +298 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Katherine G. Aiken Katherine G. Aiken University of Idaho Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wes…
Harnessing the Power of Motherhood
Harnessing the Power of Motherhood
Journal Article Harnessing the Power of Motherhood: The National Florence Crittenton Mission, 1883–1925. By Katherine G. Aiken. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. xxiv, 266 pp. $38.00, ISBN 1-57233-017-1.) Get access Rickie Solinger Rickie Solinger Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Page 247, https://doi.org/10.2307/25…
Old Paint
Since Dr. Alice Hamilton's work in the early part of the twentieth century, lead-poisoning issues have been on the cutting edge of industrial medicine and health concerns in the United States. Peter English examines a century of lead-paint poisoning cases in a study that combines medicine and history to explore this disease that especially impacted children. He traces the "social construction of disease, technology and the definition of disease, …
Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty
Reviewed by: Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers Katherine G. Aiken (bio) Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers. By Michelle Murphy . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. x+253. $21.95. Michelle Murphy's study of sick building syndrome brings together elements of women's history, medical h…
Boise, Idaho, 1882-1910
Journal Article Boise, Idaho, 1882–1910: Prosperity in Isolation Get access Boise, Idaho, 1882–1910: Prosperity in Isolation. By MacGregor Carol Lynn. (Missoula, MT: Mountain Press, 206. xiv + 306 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $24.00.) Katherine G. Aiken Katherine G. Aiken University of Idaho Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 4, Winter 200…
Superhero History
Captain America recently visited my home state of Idaho. To be more precise, in early February 2010, readers of issue #602 of Captain America learned that the superhero's evil double, also calling himself Captain America, was in Boise, plotting with a right-wing militia-type organization called the Watchdogs. Meanwhile, the good Captain America, joined by African American superhero Falcon, arrived in town to infiltrate the group and foil their pl…
Idiosyncrasy and Enigma
Robyn Muncy. Relentless Reformer
Robyn Muncy has written an exhaustive biography of Josephine Roche, a woman literally lost to history. In the process, Muncy has not just revealed an individual heretofore hidden, but she has illustrated key challenges that confront historians of women. Muncy’s provocative study of Roche’s life and career also provides the author with an opportunity to present insights into the nature of twentieth-century U.S. reform movements. Born in Neligh, Ne…
Gender Remade
While much has been written about woman suffrage, the consequences for citizenship that women's right to vote implied have not received historians’ attention. Sandra F. VanBurkleo has explored these ramifications by examining the unusual history of suffrage in Washington State. By 1883, “Washingtonians had fashioned a formidable equal-rights regime rooted in civil equality and co-headship within marriage” (p. 50). Women lost their right to vote i…
"The Environmental Consequences … Were Calamitous"
During the Progressive Era, public scrutiny of corporate power and expansion was a central political and economic theme. As Americans grappled with modernity and its impact, they often struggled to identify the appropriate balance between traditional values and burgeoning economic growth. Metallurgical plants represented a vital component of United States industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This article examine…
Dangerous Subjects
Kenneth R. Coleman's Dangerous Subjects brings a new perspective to the story of early non-Indian settlement and the Oregon Trail. Using the frame of microhistory, Coleman traces the fascinating life of outlier James D. Saules, and through Saules he follows social and historical change in Oregon. This study examines the intersection of various races—indigenous peoples, African Americans, whites, and people of mixed blood—as they jockeyed for posi…
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