Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1 Steven A. Riess
Part I Major Chronological Eras of Sport History 11
1 The Emergence of Sport: A Historiographical Appraisal of Sport in America through 1865 13 James C. Schneider
2 The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, 1865–1920 32 Gerald R. Gems
3 The Interwar and Post-World War II Eras, 1920–1960 60 Ryan Swanson
4 Sport Since the 1960s 84 Russ Crawford
Part II Historical Processes and Sport 107
5 Scientific Habits of Mind, Technological Revolutions, and American Sport 109 Mark Dyreson
6 Urbanization and American Sport 130 Joseph C. Bigott
Part III Major Team Sports 153
7 Baseball Before 1920 155 Leslie Heaphy
8 Baseball Since 1920 177 Rebecca T. Alpert
9 Reconciling the Consequences of Modernity: College Football as Cultural History 202 Kurt Edward Kemper
10 Professional Football 221 Anthony Santoro
11 Basketball 246 Aram Goudsouzian
Part IV Major Individual Sports 269
12 Boxing: The Manly Art 271 Randy Roberts and Andrew R. M. Smith
13 Golf and Tennis 292 Robert Pruter
14 American Motor Sport: The Checkered Literature on the Checkered Flag 313 David N. Lucsko
15 Historians, Track Stars, and Amateurism: Retrospect and Prospects 334 Alan S. Katchen
Part V Sport, Government, and the Global Society 357
16 The United States and International Sport: A Historiography 359 Nicholas Evan Sarantakes
17 The United States in the Modern Olympic Movement: A Historiography 379 Robert K. Barney
Part VI Sport and Social History 403
18 Historians Take on Ethnicity, Race, and Sport 405 Gerald R. Gems
19 The African American Athlete 434 Louis Moore
20 Class and Sport 454 Steven A. Riess
21 Manhood or Masculinity: The Historiography of Manliness in American Sport 479 Brian M. Ingrassia
22 Women in American Sport History 500 Linda J. Borish
Part VII Sport and Capitalism 521
23 Explaining Exceptionalism: Approaches to the Study of American Sports Business History 523 J. Andrew Ross
24 Sport and the Media 552 James R. Walker and Robert V. Bellamy, Jr
25 Stadiums, Arenas, and Audiences 577 Robert C. Trumpbour
Part VIII Sport and Culture 599
26 Sport and American Religion 601 Richard Kimball
27 Not Always “Natural”: A Historiography of Sport in American Culture 615 Kevin B. Witherspoon
28 Sports Biographies 634 Maureen Smith
Index 656