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Morgue of the Misbegotten: O’Neill’s Pattern of Salvation in The Iceman Cometh
European Journal of American Studies, 2007 This paper analyzes Eugene O’Neill’s advocation of the impossibility of salvation or reformation on both societal and individual levels as dramatized in The Iceman Cometh. The method the playwright uses is to have a group of derelict characters gather in
Mufeed F. Al-Abdullah
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Federal History, 2016 Thomas A. Reinstein reexamines how military intelligence was evaluated and employed during the Vietnam War, especially by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
Thomas A. Reinstein
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Graphic Nonviolence: Framing “Good Trouble” in John Lewis’ March
European Journal of American Studies, 2019 This paper investigates the graphic memoir trilogy March that U.S. Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis co-authored with Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell.
Johannes C. P. Schmid
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Public Management of Big Data: Historical Lessons from the 1940s
Federal History, 2015 This article examines the use of Census Bureau data in 1942 to remove Japanese Americans to internment camps for the duration of World War II. Census data constituted the largest collection of data on Americans at that time.
Margo Anderson
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Just(ice) Smiling? Masks and Masking in the Occupy-Wall Street Protests
European Journal of American Studies, 2019 The essay analyzes concepts of social justice, which were influential during the US-American Occupy protests of 2011. It discusses the recent genealogy of notions of social justice in the alter-globalization movements of the 1990s and argues that ...
Andreas Beer
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Federal History, 2016 This article discusses the very recent story about the new science of nanotechnology and the careful and clear-headed efforts to regulate it. Nanotechnology offers great promise in numerous applications, including national security, but can also raise ...
Brandi L. Schottel, Barbara Karn
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“His cramped and claustrophobic brain”: Confinement and Freedom in John Wray’s Lowboy
European Journal of American Studies, 2019 This article shows that ambivalence is a major symbolic pattern in John Wray’s 2009 neuronovel Lowboy, and it affects the major aspects of the novel, including the characters’ identities and the narrative structure of the book.
Pascale Antolin
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A Literary Testimonial to Banal Evil: Dehumanization in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
European Journal of American Studies, 2022 The problematics of trauma and testimony are perforce in a closely-knit relation with the issue of evil, in particular with the strand of evil that made possible the concentration camps in Auschwitz.
Daniela Cârstea
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The American People and the New Deal
Federal History, 2009 Analysis of the Popular Front created by Franklin Roosevelt during the New Deal in which he was able to appeal to a broad spectrum of society across class, socioeconomic, religious, and political lines.
Michael Kazan
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On Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro” (1957): More Than Six Decades Later
European Journal of American Studies, 2022 This article engages in an examination of Norman Mailer’s fascinating yet problematic essay “The White Negro” (1957). Drawing from humanities and social sciences perspectives, I employ an interdisciplinary approach that historically contextualizes Mailer’
Andrew Urie
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