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The adoption of gunpowder weapons tended to strengthen central governments against regional powers.
Publications
“Gunpowder and the Changing Military Order: The Islamic Gunpowder Empires, ca. 1450–ca. 1650.”
In The Heirs of Archimedes: Technology, Science and Warfare, 1350–1800, ed. Brett D. Steele and Tamera L. Dorland. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, in press.
"Technology and Research."
In Encyclopedia of the American Military, ed. John J. Jessup and Louise B. Ketz, 1373–1414. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.
Overview of the development of American military technology, from colonial times to the present.
“The Machines of War: European Military Technology in the Twentieth Century.”
Technology and History, in press.
Military technological change greatly influenced the course of European and American history in the 20th century.
“Military Science.”
In Cambridge History of Modern Science, vol. 8, Science in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, ed. David Livingstone and Ronald L. Numbers et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press.
Links between military and scientific institutions expanded and intensified during the 19th and 20th centuries.
"Engineering and Science."
In Encyclopedia of the American Military, ed John J. Jessup and Louise B. Ketz, 1415–44. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.
Overview of relationships between science, engineering, and American military institutions, from colonial times to the present.
West Point in the Making of America.
with Margaret Vining. Irvington, N.Y.: Hydra, 2002.
Catalog of the West Point in the Making of America exhibition.
"Military Technology and World History: A Reconnaissance."
The History Teacher 30 (August 1997): 461–487.
Military technological innovation has profoundly influenced the course of world history since earliest times.
“The World of Camp and Train: The Changing Role of Women in Early Modern Armies.”
with Margaret Vining. In Sovereign Arms: Armies and Fleets in the World between Lepanto and the French Revolution, 1571–1789, Rome, 2002.
On the necessary and vital roles women served in supporting the activities of early modern armies.
"Uniforms Make the Woman."
with Margaret Vining. In Materializing the Military. Artefacts VI: Military Technology, ed. Bernard Finn and Barton C. Hacker. London: Science Museum Press, in press
In the 1920s, a Smithsonian exhibition of women's uniforms validated women's World War I contributions and expanded political roles.
"Science and Technology in the Nineteenth Century."
In A Guide to the Sources of United States Military History: Supplement IV, ed.Robin Higham and Donald J. Mrozek, 82–117. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1998.
Bibliographical essay focused on recent scholarship on the interaction of science and technology with American military institutions in the 19th century.
“From Camp Follower to Lady in Uniform: Women, Social Class and Military Institutions before 1920.”
with Margaret Vining. Contemporary European History 10 (2001): 353–73.
Relationships between women and military institutions altered radically from the mid-19th century to World War I, reflecting the changing social status of both women and the military.
"Military Institutions and the Labor Process: Noneconomic Sources of Technological Change, Women's Subordination, and the Organization of Work."
with Sally L. Hacker. Technology and Culture 28 (1987): 743–75.
Society and economy are as much products as causes of military and technological change.
“Volunteers Inspired by Conscription: Uniformed Women in World War I.”
with Margaret Vining. In Total War, Total Defense, 1789–1900, ed. Per Iko et al., 346–52. Stockholm: Svenska militärhistorika kommissionen, 2001.
Civilian women in large numbers volunteered for military-related health and welfare services in World War I, donning military-style uniforms as a symbolic claim to full citizenship.
“The Convergence of History and Military Museums,”
with Margaret Vining. In Acta of the Asociacion de amigos de los museos militares, Madrid, Nov. 2003, in press.
Military museums and history museums arose from distinct traditions, but in recent years have come increasingly to share common views on how to exhibition military history.
"Industrial Armies: From Industrial Revolution to World War."
Acta of the International Congress of Military History, Rabat (Morocco), August 2004, in press
On the interaction of industrial and military institutions from the 18th century to World War I
World Military History Bibliography: Premodern and Nonwestern Military Institutions and Warfare.
History of Warfare, vol. 16. Leiden: Brill, 2003.
Annotated bibliography of works published 1967–97.
“Out of the Shadows: Images of Women’s Military Work, 1500–1920,”
with Margaret Vining. In War, Media and Military from Guteburg to Today, ed. M. E. Ionescu, 164-75. Bucharest: Military Publishing House, 2004.
Graphic images of women in military settings document women's changing military roles from the 16th century through World War I.
“Western Military Technology and East Asian Modernization in the 19th Century.”
In Modernization in China and East Asia, 1850–1950, ed. Edouard Vermeer and Dong Zhenghue, in press.
Adoption of Western weapons played a key role in the modernization of East Asian states.
Patent Models in the Graphic Arts Collection,
(Washington, DC: National Museum of American History, 1997).
Lists Graphic Arts Collection patent models from the following groups: Printing presses and stamps; Press-related apparatus; Compositors' tools; Type; Plate, stone, and block making; Bookbinding; Copying and autographic printing (with stencils and pantographs); Picture framing; Miscellaneous.
The Boy and His Press.
Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American History, 1992.
Amateur and young printers in the 19th century.
“Perishable: Handle with Care.”
Museum News. Vol. 56, No. 2, November/December 1977.
An article outlining guidelines for handling historic costumes delivered in a question and answer format. Also includes basics on storage, cleaning, labeling of costume as well as environmental elements.
Costume Display Techniques.
Nashville, Tennessee: American Association for State and Local History, 1977.
A book presenting an overview of preparing costumes for display to include selecting costumes for exhibition, conservation and treatment, methods of display, supports for display forms, dressing costumes, environmental conditions in display areas, and costume bibliographies. Includes appendixes and illustrations.
"Above the Boundary: The Development of Kalorama and Washington Heights, 1872–1900,"
Washington History 14:2 (fall/winter 2002).
The transformation of Kalorama Heights and Washington Heights from private estates into streets and houses is presented as a case study of the process, pace, and limits of Washington, D.C.'s suburban expansion in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
"The Evil of the Misfit Subdivisions: Creating the Permanent System of Highways of the District of Columbia,"
Washington History 14:1 (spring/summer 2002).
An examination of efforts in the 1880s and 1890s to create a master street plan for those parts of the District of Columbia outside the cities of Washington and Georgetown. The resulting Permanent System of Highways guided the city's growth during the twentieth century.
"A Catalog of Suburban Subdivisions of the District of Columbia, 1854–1902,"
with Matthew B. Gilmore. Washington History 14:2 (fall/winter 2002).
A catalog covering 176 major subdivisions of land made outside the city of Washington between 1854 and 1902, compiled out of the records of the D.C. Surveyor's Office. The information was gathered to provide modern researchers with a starting point for tracing the origins of District neighborhoods outside Florida Avenue and east of the Anacostia River.