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Prince Basketball's Ambassadors: Virginia Union's "Dream Team" And The Origins Of Integrated College Basketball, 1938-42, Marvin T. Chiles
Prince Basketball's Ambassadors: Virginia Union's "Dream Team" And The Origins Of Integrated College Basketball, 1938-42, Marvin T. Chiles
History Faculty Publications
This article explores the history of integrated college basketball in the United States, with a focus on the Virginia Union Panthers. The Panthers, known as the "Dream Team," broke the color barrier in college basketball in the 1930s and 1940s. The article also discusses the 1992 U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball Team, known as the "Dream Team," and its impact on race relations. It argues that the original Dream Team was actually the Virginia Union Panthers, who symbolized the defeat of white supremacy through athletic achievement. The article highlights the challenges faced by historically black college sports, such as lack of …
Colonels, Hillbillies And Fightin’: Twentieth-Century Kentucky In The National Imagination, Anthony Harkins
Colonels, Hillbillies And Fightin’: Twentieth-Century Kentucky In The National Imagination, Anthony Harkins
History Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Hillbillies, Rednecks, Crackers And White Trash, Anthony Harkins
Hillbillies, Rednecks, Crackers And White Trash, Anthony Harkins
History Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Review: 'Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, And American Motors', John Alfred Heitmann
Review: 'Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, And American Motors', John Alfred Heitmann
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Nash, Hudson, and now even American Motors are automobile brands that have largely disappeared from the American memory. Yet, despite riding the twentieth-century economic roller coaster and operating in the shadow of the Big Three, these firms made sustained, significant technological and economic contributions. Charles K. Hyde’s Storied Independent Automakers is the author’s latest foray into the area of automotive business history, following work on the Chrysler Corporation and the Dodge brothers. A professor of History at Wayne State University, Hyde has written a needed critical business history on an important topic that complements the vast amount of “buff” and …
Review: 'Fighting Traffic: The Dawn Of The Motor Age In The American City', John Alfred Heitmann
Review: 'Fighting Traffic: The Dawn Of The Motor Age In The American City', John Alfred Heitmann
History Faculty Publications
During the early 1960s, as the Golden Age of the automobile in America began to wane, several commentators, including Lewis Mumford, raised the critical question of whether the automobile existed for the modern city or the city for the automobile. How and when the automobile became central to urban life is deftly addressed in Peter Norton’s Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City. This study is certainly one of the most important monographs focusing on the place of the automobile in American society within a historical context to appear in recent times; it interestingly supplements …
The Automobile And American Life, John Alfred Heitmann
The Automobile And American Life, John Alfred Heitmann
History Faculty Publications
This is the story of how the automobile changed the essence of life in America. Both a general history of the automobile and a broad-ranging analysis of its cultural effects, the text addresses such topics as cars' inception as a mechanical curiosity and later a plaything for the well-to-do; Henry Ford and the rise of the machine age; competition and the evolving consumer in the 1920s; the development of roads and the accompanying road culture; religion, gender, courtship and sex; effects of the Great Depression and World War II; the 1950s golden age of automobiles and the emergence of youth …
Danger On The Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism And American Print Culture In The Progressive Era (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan
Danger On The Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism And American Print Culture In The Progressive Era (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan
History Faculty Publications
Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.
Nordstrom, Justin. Danger on the Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism and American Print Culture in the Progressive Era. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. ISBN 9780268036058
From ‘Sweet Mamas’ To ‘Bodacious’ Hillbillies: Billy Debeck’S Impact On American Culture, Anthony Harkins
From ‘Sweet Mamas’ To ‘Bodacious’ Hillbillies: Billy Debeck’S Impact On American Culture, Anthony Harkins
History Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Hillbilly In The American Imagination, Anthony Harkins
The Hillbilly In The American Imagination, Anthony Harkins
History Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Hillbilly In The Living Room: Television Representations Of Southern Mountaineers In Situation Comedies, 1952-1971, Anthony Harkins
The Hillbilly In The Living Room: Television Representations Of Southern Mountaineers In Situation Comedies, 1952-1971, Anthony Harkins
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No abstract provided.
Commies, H-Bombs And The National Security State: The Cold War In The Comics, Anthony Harkins
Commies, H-Bombs And The National Security State: The Cold War In The Comics, Anthony Harkins
History Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Significance Of ‘Hillbilly’ In Early Country Music, 1924-1945, Anthony Harkins
The Significance Of ‘Hillbilly’ In Early Country Music, 1924-1945, Anthony Harkins
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No abstract provided.