Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon
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Other Publications by Cindy Ott


Biscuits and Buffaloes: Squashing Myths about Food in Indian Country (book in progress)

Miss Indian America & the History of a Reservation Border Town (article in progress)

Top Ten Tools for Environmental Historians to Interpret Visual Sources (under contract with the University of Washington Press;
with co-author Neil Maher)

"Getting on a High Horse about Food," Reviews in American History (March 2015)

"Making Sense of Urban Gardens," Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies (August 2015)

"Giant Pumpkins" on the Oxford University Press Blog.  November 19, 2012.

"Why Americans Go Crazy For Pumpkin And Pumpkin-Flavored Stuff" on the NPR blog, the Salt. November 20, 2012.


“Visual Critique of Ken Burn’s “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” The Public Historian 33 (May 2011)
 
“Object Analysis of the Giant Pumpkin,” Environmental History 15 (4) (2010).
 
“The Human Drama of Weather,” Reviews in American History 38 (2010).
 
“Crossing Cultural Fences: The Intersecting Material World of American Indians and Euro-Americans,” Western Historical Quarterly 39 (Winter 2008).
 
“Why Lewis and Clark Matter: History, Landscape and Regional Identity,” Historical Geography 35 (2007).

“Tribal Paths: Colorado’s American Indians, 1500 to Today,” Journal of American History (December 2007). Exhibition Review.
 
“The Nature of Eating: Food, Cultures and Landscape,” Distinctly Montana (October 2006).
 
“Shiloh National Military Park: Roads and Bridges,” in Timothy Davis, et al, eds., America’s National Park Roads and Parkways: Drawings from the Historic American Engineering. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. (text and drawings) Winner of the Society for History in the Federal Government's 2004 Pendleton Prize.
 
“Visions in Wood: Twentieth-Century American Wood Sculpture,” Archives of American Art Journal 43 No.3-4 (2003).
 
“Women, Philanthropy and Environmental History,” American Society for Environmental Historians Newsletter (Summer 2003).
 
“’Sportsmen’s Paradise’: The Woodmont Rod and Gun Club,” Maryland Historical Magazine (Summer 1997).

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