Browsing OU - Faculty and Staff Publications by Subject "History, United States."
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Central or Peripheral: Reconsidering the Place of African Americans within the American Intellectual Establishment
(2015-12)Do we think of Frederick Douglass as a founding father of the modern social democratic tradition in the United States? Or is he taken as proof in our textbooks that a slave could indeed become a “great American”—proof that, ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
"Social Science and Civil Rights," Oxford Bibliographies
(2016-06-28)Considered from within the prism of American history, the terms social science and civil rights, when combined, have a particular meaning bound up in the nation’s continuing struggle over whether to treat a certain native-born ...