Iron Game History Volume 13

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Issue #1 & Volume 12 Issue #4

Published August 2014

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• The Return of Iron Game History, Terry Todd.
• Doped Athletes as Enhancement Models for the Twenty-First Century, John Hoberman.
• Breaking the Physique Barrier: Steve Reeves and the Promotion of Hercules, Jan Todd, and Michael O’Brien.
• The USA vs. the World:  An Analytical Narrative of American, World, and Olympic Weightlifting Results, 1970-1992, part 2 of 3-part series, John Fair.
• Mike Jenkins (1982-2013): The Life and Death of a Strongman, Simon J. Bronner.
• A Final Note, Jan & Terry Todd.
• Science from Strength: Thomas L. DeLorme and the Medical Acceptance of Progressive Resistance Exercise, Jan Todd, Jason Shurley, and Terry Todd.
• A Snatch for the Ages (Tatiana Kashirina, Charles Rigoulot), Terry Todd.

Issue #2 & #3

Published November 2015

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• Reflections on Physical Culture – Defining Our Field and Protecting its Integrity, Jan Todd.
• The USA vs. the World: An Analytical Narrative of American, World, and Olympic Weightlifting Results, 1970-1992, part 3 of 3-part series, John Fair.
• Shifting Gear: A Historical Analysis of the Use of Supportive Apparel in Powerlifting, Jan Todd, Dominic Gray Morais, Ben Pollack, Terry Todd.
• Weighing the Options: Conversations on the Use of Performance Enhancing Gear in Powerlifting, Dominic Gray Morais, Ben Pollack, Jan Todd.
• A Prelude to Big Time Football: H.J. Lutcher Stark and the 1910 University of Texas Football Season, Tolga Ozyurtcu, Jan Todd.
• David Webster, OBE Remembers Louis Martin, MBE, David Webster.

Issue #4 & Volume 14 Issue #1

Published November 2015

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• The Kono Legacy, Terry Todd.
• Norbert Schemansky American Lifting’s Last Superstar: On Hero as the Focus of a Great Games’s “Meaning”, Al Thomas.
• The “Idol of My Young Manhood”: Norbert Schemansky May 30, 1924 – September 7, 2016, Joe Weider with Terry Todd
• American Icarus: Vic Tanny and America’s First Health Club Chain, Ben Pollack and Jan Todd.
• Unequaled Yet Never Equal: The Portrayal of John Davis in Strength & Health Magazine, 1938 – 1957, Jason Shurley.
• Bernard Shaw’s Unique Physical Culture Obsession, John Fair.
• K.V. Iyer: Mixing Bodybuilding and Yoga, Elliott Goldberg.