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Full-Text Articles in American Studies
Review Of: Forests In Time: The Environmental Consequences Of 1,000 Years Of Change In New England, Review Of: Sightseeking: Clues To The Landscape History Of New England, Kent C. Ryden
American and New England Studies [Discontinued]
The article reviews the books "Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1,000 Years of Change in New England," edited by David R. Foster and John D. Aber and "Sightseeing: Clues to the Landscape History of New England," Christopher J. Lenney.
The War That Wasn't: Religious Conflict And Compromise In The Common Schools Of New York, 1865-1900 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan
The War That Wasn't: Religious Conflict And Compromise In The Common Schools Of New York, 1865-1900 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan
History Faculty Publications
Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.
Justice, Benjamin. The War That Wasn't: Religious Conflict and Compromise in the Common Schools of New York, 1865-1900. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. ISBN 9780791462119; 9780791484463
Documenting Queer Community Histories: Whose History Is It?, Jessica Stern, Nicholas Ray
Documenting Queer Community Histories: Whose History Is It?, Jessica Stern, Nicholas Ray
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
What does it mean to be a member of a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ) community? When did LGBTQ community history begin? Where do queer communities differ? How do we broach these questions to document communities' experiences? And significantly, why is it important to document the histories of those who are defined as LGBTQ?
Unlv Magazine, Erin O'Donnell, Gillian Silver, Lori Bachand, Regina Barcolas, Tony Allen, Gian Galassi, Suzan Dibella, Diane Russell, Doug Mcinnis, Cate Weeks, Jennifer Robison, Holly Ivy De Vore
Unlv Magazine, Erin O'Donnell, Gillian Silver, Lori Bachand, Regina Barcolas, Tony Allen, Gian Galassi, Suzan Dibella, Diane Russell, Doug Mcinnis, Cate Weeks, Jennifer Robison, Holly Ivy De Vore
UNLV Magazine
No abstract provided.
Lost And Found: The Imagined Geographies Of American Studies, Cindi Katz
Lost And Found: The Imagined Geographies Of American Studies, Cindi Katz
Publications and Research
In the days after September 11th, 2001, and continuing until now, the national guard and other military personnel fanned out around New York City. Automatic rifles slung over their camouflaged shoulders, they "guarded" New York City's transportation stations, vital corners and thoroughfares, marquee buildings, and each and every bridge and tunnel entrance. Their comportment was usually cordial and rarely vigilant. Exuding the antithesis of an urban sensibility, they complemented the beefy boredom of the police who usually stood nearby, with an almost surreal sense of incredulity; not just "Why am I here?" but a sort of bafflement that anyone would …
Revelation And The Left Behind Novels, Craig R. Koester
Revelation And The Left Behind Novels, Craig R. Koester
Faculty Publications
The Left Behind novels appeal because they affirm God's control of history in the face of violence and moral decay. Our challenge is to be more biblical than Left Behind, not less biblical to hear Revelation's call to persevere in the face of evil and to trust in the final victory of God and the Lamb.
How The Hindus Became Jews: American Racism After 9/11, Vijay Prashad
How The Hindus Became Jews: American Racism After 9/11, Vijay Prashad
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Hope In The Face Of Empire: Failed Patriotism, Civil International Publicity, And Patriotic Peacebuilding, Gary M. Simpson
Hope In The Face Of Empire: Failed Patriotism, Civil International Publicity, And Patriotic Peacebuilding, Gary M. Simpson
Faculty Publications
The patriotism of empire is a failed patriotism that longs for empire as the way to achieve security. America needs instead a repenting patriotism, in the tradition of Lincoln, that recognizes public accountability and moves toward peacebuilding.
Melville, Slavery, And The Failure Of The Judicial Process, Steven L. Winter
Melville, Slavery, And The Failure Of The Judicial Process, Steven L. Winter
Law Faculty Research Publications
No abstract provided.
Sabbatical Report, Neil Archer
Sabbatical Report, Neil Archer
Sabbaticals
In the fall of 2002, I was awarded a sabbatical leave for the spring of 2004 to study early American history and literature. I chose this topic out of personal interest, but also to prepare myself to teach my department’s early American literature course, an area of study in which I had little previous experience.
My project proposal consisted of two main parts. One was simply to read a selection of historical and literary works that are ordinarily taught in or used as background for that literature course. The other was to pursue original research into a family legend—my family—and …
Harlem Renaissance (1919-1929), A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Harlem Renaissance (1919-1929), A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
The Messenger (1917-1928), A Yemisi Jimoh,
The Messenger (1917-1928), A Yemisi Jimoh,
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Invasion Usa: Setting And National Identity In Cold War Film, Jon Radwan
Invasion Usa: Setting And National Identity In Cold War Film, Jon Radwan
CHDCM Publications
No abstract provided.
The Reflection Of Karst In The Online Mirror: A Survey Within Scientific Databases, 1960-2005, Lee J. Florea, Beth Fratesi, Todd A. Chavez
The Reflection Of Karst In The Online Mirror: A Survey Within Scientific Databases, 1960-2005, Lee J. Florea, Beth Fratesi, Todd A. Chavez
Academic Resources Faculty and Staff Publications
The field of cave and karst science is served by a literature that is dispersed across far-flung topical journals, government publications, and club newsletters. As part of an inter-institutional project to globalize karst information (KIP, the Karst Information Portal), the USF Library undertook a structured battery of literature searches to map the domain of karst literature. The study used 4,300 individual searches and four literature databases: GeoRef, BIOSIS, Anthropology Plus, and GPO Access. The searches were based on a list of 632 terms including 321 karst-related keywords culled from three leading encyclopedias and glossaries of cave and karst science. An …
The Social Foundations Of Law, Martha Albertson Fineman
The Social Foundations Of Law, Martha Albertson Fineman
Faculty Articles
There are several important questions to ask both our politicians and ourselves as we seek to refine and further define an otherwise abstract commitment to substantive equality with which to replace our current formal version. As with many concepts of historic magnitude, some of the most significant questions to pose about equality have to do with how we should respond to evolutions in understanding and changes in aspiration for the term: ls a mere commitment to formal equality sufficient for a humane and modem state? How should the state respond to the fact that our society is increasingly one in …
Sacco And Vanzetti: The Italian American Legacy, Fred L. Gardaphé
Sacco And Vanzetti: The Italian American Legacy, Fred L. Gardaphé
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
Plato. Spider-Man And The Meaning Of Life, Jeremy Barris
Plato. Spider-Man And The Meaning Of Life, Jeremy Barris
Humanities Faculty Research
Some versions of mysticism have taught that the ordinary world around us is sacred and wonderful, that the meaning of life is to be found not through some extraordinary knowledge or awareness, but in appreciating what already surrounds us. I believe that both Spider-Man comics and Plato’s dialogues offer exactly this deep vision, and that they introduce us to it in some remarkably similar ways. I cannot do any kind of justice here to the richness of either set of works, or to the variations of style and meaning within each of them. Instead I shall focus only on four …
The Hillbilly In The American Imagination, Anthony Harkins
The Hillbilly In The American Imagination, Anthony Harkins
History Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Shanachie Volume 17, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
The Shanachie Volume 17, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
The Shanachie (CTIAHS)
No abstract provided.
Beyond 'Hot Lips' And 'Big Nurse': Creative Writing And Nursing, Sandra Young
Beyond 'Hot Lips' And 'Big Nurse': Creative Writing And Nursing, Sandra Young
English Faculty Publications
This essay describes a special topics creative writing course designed for nursing students, and argues that creative writing strategies work to improve nurses' compositional skills. Also discussed are other potential benefits from creatively writing patients' lives, notably, the blending of arts and sciences, and the ways in which medical schools are encouraging their students to study the humanities, especially literature and creative writing. The essay includes student creative writing samples.
The essay also discusses the depiction of nurses in popular culture. M*A*S*H*, Richard Hooker’s black comedy about the antics of doctors and nurses during the Korean War, gave us “Hot …
Female Iconography In Invisible Man, Shelly J. Eversley
Female Iconography In Invisible Man, Shelly J. Eversley
Publications and Research
Argument concerning female visuality in Ralph Ellison's novel, Invisible Man.
An Anti-Locust Campaign In Nabokov (And Pushkin), Victor Fet
An Anti-Locust Campaign In Nabokov (And Pushkin), Victor Fet
Biological Sciences Faculty Research
Pushkin’s non-apocryphal anti-locust campaign is reflected in Nabokov’s unpublished sequel to The Gift.
Interracial Love, Virginians' Lies, And Donald Mccaig's Jacob's Ladder, Suzanne W. Jones
Interracial Love, Virginians' Lies, And Donald Mccaig's Jacob's Ladder, Suzanne W. Jones
English Faculty Publications
The Old South's taboo against love between blacks and whites has cast a long shadow. No cross-racial relationship has been so pathologized by American society. Even in 1967, when the Supreme Court finally declared antimiscegenation laws unconstitutional in the case of Loving v. Virginia, sixteen states still prohibited interracial marriage, down from thirty states as recently as 1948. Not until 1998 and 2000 did ballot initiatives in South Carolina and Alabama finally eliminate the last of the antimiscegenation laws, although no one had tried to enforce them for years. Recent U.S. census figures show interracial unions increasing--up from 3 …
Images Of God: The Effect Of Personal Theologies On Moral Attitudes, Political Affiliation, And Religious Behavior, Christoper Bader, Paul Froese
Images Of God: The Effect Of Personal Theologies On Moral Attitudes, Political Affiliation, And Religious Behavior, Christoper Bader, Paul Froese
Sociology Faculty Articles and Research
Social scientists often explain religious effects in terms of religious group affiliations. Typically, researchers identify religious groups by denomination or some broader popular categorization, such as “fundamentalist” or “evangelical.” To capture religious differences more effectively, Steensland et al. (2000) propose an intricate classification of American denominations that takes into account the theology and historical development of various American religious traditions to predict individual attitudes and behaviors. We believe that equal care and attention should be devoted to the development of key measures of belief that may cross denominational lines. In this article, we propose one such measure: personal conceptions or …
Grappling With Scholarship On Pro Wrestling: Comparative Media Studies Inside The Ring., Sam Ford
Grappling With Scholarship On Pro Wrestling: Comparative Media Studies Inside The Ring., Sam Ford
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
No abstract provided.
Josephine Miles, Erik Muller
Josephine Miles, Erik Muller
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
“You could say I saw California grow up. Right along with me!” So Josephine Miles linked her life and region (Childress 40). The link between her poetry and California has not always been declared by the poet or detected by her readers. Miles mused upon the problem: “Sometimes there’s a certain kind of critic that says I’m a California poet [. . .] he says I have a lot of loose lines and a lot of locale. But then another critic will say, ‘She’s not to be identified as anything but English because her poetry is rather neat and universal’” …
James Stevens, James H. Maguire
James Stevens, James H. Maguire
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
By 1930, James Stevens had gained a national reputation as one of the Northwest’s most promising and outspoken young writers. Seventy-five years later, he has slipped so far into obscurity that relatively few people know of his contributions not only to Northwest writing but also to American literature in general and to the literature of the American West in particular. His tall tales made Paul Bunyan one of the great heroes of American popular culture. The controversial literary manifesto he co-authored with Oregon author H. L. Davis led to a new era in the history of the Northwest’s literature. And …
Gary Paul Nabhan, Gioia Woods
Gary Paul Nabhan, Gioia Woods
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
Between spoonfuls of posole at the Morning Glory Cafe in Flagstaff, Arizona, Gary Paul Nabhan mused about the distinctive character of western American literature. “What is western literature about?” I asked him. Without hesitation, he replied, “It is about a process of disorientation and reorientation.” The mountains, sand dunes, and canyons of the western landscape govern western imagination. That landscape, he believes, is responsible for the dis- and reorientation that characterizes the work of many western writers. Nabhan continued, “I should say that in an odd way, that’s even true of Native American literature [....] Leslie Silko writes about the …
Louis Owens, Linda Lizut Helstern
Louis Owens, Linda Lizut Helstern
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
“'I prefer infinitions to definitions,’” Alex Yazzie, the cross-dressing Navajo anthropologist in Louis Owens’ Bone Game, declares (46). So did Louis Owens. In his life, in his death, and above all in his writing, Louis Owens (1948-2002), novelist, essayist, literary and cultural critic, crossed boundaries and refused definitions. Born in Lompoc, California, Owens came to understand the arid landscape of the west through the lens of his early childhood in the Yazoo bottoms of Mississippi. He was a Native mixedblood who acknowledged not only his multi-tribal heritage, Choctaw on his father's side and Cherokee on his mother’s, but the …
History Of Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek
History Of Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek
CLCWeb Library
No abstract provided.