The Routledge History of American Sport provides the first comprehensive overview of historical research in American sport from the early Colonial period to the present day.

Table of Contents

• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction - LINDA J. BORISH, DAVID K. WIGGINS, AND GERALD R. GEMS
• Part I Introduction to American Sport History: Perspectives and Prospects
• 1 Theory and Method in American Sport History - JOHN SOARES
• 2 New Directions and Future Considerations in American Sport History - JAIME SCHULTZ
• 3 The Wild West of Pedagogy: Thoughts on Teaching American Sport History - RYAN SWANSON
• Part II Sport and Education
• 4 Progressive-Era Sport, Education, and Reform - BRIAN M. INGRASSIA
• 5 Intercollegiate Sports - RONALD A. SMITH
• 6 High School Sports - ROBERT PRUTER
• 7 Youth Sports - DENNIS GILDEA
• Part III Race, Ethnicity, American Sport, and Identity
• 8 Native American Sports - JOHN D. BLOOM
• 9 African Americans and Sports - CHARLES H. MARTIN
• 10 Latinos and Sport - ADRIAN BURGOS, JR.
• 11 Irish Americans and Sport - RALPH C. WILCOX
• 12 German Americans and Sport - ANNETTE R. HOFMANN
• 13 Sport and Italian American Identity - GERALD R. GEMS
• 14 Jews and American Sports - STEVEN A. RIESS
• 15 Asian Americans and Sport - JOEL S. FRANKS
• Part IV Gender and American Sport
• 16 The Historical Influence of Sport in the Lives of American Females - ROBERTA J. PARK
• 17 Title IX, Race, and Recent Sport - SARAH K. FIELDS
• 18 Sport and Masculinity - KEVIN B. WAMSLEY AND MACINTOSH ROSS
• 19 Queering Fields and Courts: Considerations on LGBT Sport History - RITA LIBERTI
• Part V The Business of Sport
• 20 Sport, Television, and the Media - RICHARD C. CREPEAU
• 21 Commercialized Sport, Entrepreneurs, and Unions in Major League Baseball - BRAHAM DABSCHECK
• 22 Play for Pay: Professional Sports and American Culture - RICHARD O. DAVIES
• 23 Sport in American Film - DONALD J. MROZEK
• 24 Hegemony and Identity: The Evolution of American Women's Participation in Active Sport Tourism - BRENDA P. WIGGINS AND MARGARET J. DANIELS
• Part VI Material Culture and Sport
• 25 Playgrounds, Stadiums, and Country Clubs - ROBERT C. TRUMPBOUR
• 26 Building American Muscle: A Brief History of Barbells, Dumbbells, and Pulley Machines - JAN TODD AND JASON SHURLEY
• 27 Sport Training, Sport Science, and Technology - AMANDA N. SCHWEINBENZ
• Part VII Social Movements and Political Uses of Sport
• 28 “Faster, Higher, Stronger”—And More Patriotic: American Olympic Narratives - MARK DYRESON, TOM RORKE, AND ADAM BERG
• 29 American Military Sport from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century - WANDA ELLEN WAKEFIELD
• 30 A Divided World: The U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Sport during the Cold War - CHRIS ELZEY
• Part VIII Facets of Sport in Recent American Culture
• 31 Active Radicals: The Political Athlete in the Contemporary Moment - AMY BASS
• 32 Alternative, Extreme (and Avant-Garde) Sport - ROBERT E. RINEHART
• 33 Not Quite a Slam Dunk: Globalization and American Team Sports - JOHN NAURIGHT
• Suggested Further Readings