Browsing OU - Faculty and Staff Publications by Author "Pandora, Katherine"
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The Children’s Republic of Science in the Antebellum Literature of Samuel Griswold Goodrich and Jacob Abbott
Pandora, Katherine (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 ... -
Knowledge Held in Common: Tales of Luther Burbank and Science in the American Vernacular
Pandora, Katherine (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. ... -
“Mapping the New Mental World Created by Radio": Media Messages, Cultural Politics, and Cantril and Allport's The Psychology of Radio
Pandora, Katherine (1998)During the 1930s a number of interesting critiques of science and society emerged in the social sciences in general, and in psychology in particular. One example of this trend is The Psychology of Radio (1935), authored ... -
Popular Science in National and Transnational Perspective: Suggestions from the American Context
Pandora, Katherine (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 ... -
Popularizing, Moralizing, and the Soul of American Science
Pandora, Katherine (2019-12) -
Science in the everyday world - Why perspectives from the history of science matter
Pandora, Katherine; Rader, Karen (2008-07)The history of science is more than the history of scientists. This essay argues that various modem "publics" should be counted as belonging within an enlarged vision of who constitutes the "scientific community"--and ...