Browsing by Subject "American Studies"
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Advertising the Impossible Earth: The Visual Culture of Post-Apollo Space Colony Concept Art
(2022-08)In post-Apollo America, speculative visions of life in space were shaped by the unabashedly optimistic space colonization proposals of physicist Gerard Kitchen O’Neill. O’Neill presented these self-contained artificial ... -
Images of Place in American Spaceflight, 1958 - 1974
(2019)This project is a cultural history of images of place in the American space programs of the 1960s, focused on images of Kennedy Space Center (KSC), where the actual launches of rockets took place, and the Manned Spacecraft ... -
Knowledge Held in Common: Tales of Luther Burbank and Science in the American Vernacular
(2001-09)During the first half of the twentieth century, the horticulturist Luther Burbank was largely considered an irrelevant figure by the scientific community, despite winning acclaim from the public as an eminent scientist. ...