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Innovation, imitation, and resisting manipulation: The first twenty years of American teenagers, 1941-1961.
(1998)
Over the twenty-year span of the 1940s and 1950s, a growing sense of separation and resistance to the mainstream culture developed, characterized by distinctive food, slang, music, dress, and sexual behavior. By studying ...
Popular Science in National and Transnational Perspective: Suggestions from the American Context
(2009-06)
In what ways can the study of science and popular culture in the American context contribute to ongoing debates on popularization and popular science? This essay suggests that, for several reasons, attention to the antebellum ...
The mountain man in American history and culture.
(2000)
The mountain man hero evolved mostly during the nineteenth century owing to various media and changing cultural currents. He embodied and projected Jacksonian ideals (as an adventurous enterpriser), notions of Manifest ...
Gettysburg, a living battlefield.
(2000)
National Park Service (NPS) battlefields are designed as eternal tributes, but there is little permanence about these landscapes. Structures, scenery, and stories frequently change in relation to public memory of the events ...
Exploration in the mare incognita: Natural history and conservation in early twentieth century America.
(2000)
More a space than a place, the ocean had long occupied the American imagination as a geographical border to be crossed. The process of coming to know of the ocean as a place began in the nineteenth century, but it was not ...
Listening to our grandmothers' stories: An historical analysis of the literacy curricula at Bloomfield Academy/Carter Seminary for Chickasaw Females, Indian Territory/Oklahoma, 1852-1949.
(1997)
This project examines the literacy curriculum of the Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, a boarding academy established by the Chickasaw tribe in conjunction with missionaries. The school is unique in that the Chickasaw ...
The Children’s Republic of Science in the Antebellum Literature of Samuel Griswold Goodrich and Jacob Abbott
(2009-01)
The antebellum years in the United States were marked by vigorous debates about national identity in which issues of hierarchy, authority, and democratic values came under intense scrutiny. During this period, a prime ...