DOCSLIB.ORG

Part I Paper 24 Reading List

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Part I Paper 24 Reading List PAPER 24 THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1865 READING LIST Updated to reflect latest ebook purchases as of November 4, 2020 2 Historical Tripos, Part I, Paper 24 The History of the United States since 1865 [NB: Many readings overlap with other sections, especially between Themes and Topics, but are not necessarily listed twice. Please be sure to check corresponding Themes and Topics.] AHR = American Historical Review JAH = Journal of American History MAH = Modern American History * = available electronically Themes 1. American Exceptionalism 3 2. History of Capitalism 5 3. Gender and Sexuality 6 4. Religion 9 5. Immigration, Ethnicity, and Nationality 12 6. Popular and Consumer Culture 15 7. The U.S. and the World 17 8. The West and the Environment 19 9. Politics and the State 21 10. Intellectual Culture 23 Topics 11. Reconstruction 26 12. Whites, Indians, and the Consolidation of the West 27 13. Industrializing and Urbanizing America 28 14. Populism, Progressivism, Socialism 29 15. Segregation and Its Cultures 31 16. Becoming a World Power, 1865-1920 32 17. World War I Homefront and the 1920s 34 18. The Great Depression and the New Deal 35 19. World War II and the Homefront 37 20. The Cold War 39 21. McCarthyism 41 22. Liberal Ascendancy, 1945-1968 41 23. Vietnam 43 24. The Civil Rights Revolution 45 25. Conservative Resurgence, 1968-1992 48 26. Political Economy in a Global Age 50 27. America and the World After the Cold War 52 3 1. AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM Subjects include: whether America is unique or has developed along a different path, particularly regarding Europe; the difference between “quantitative” and “qualitative” exceptionalism; transnational and international challenges to exceptionalism; exceptionalism as a form of nationalism; possible areas of American difference, such as socialism and religion. a. General *Thomas Bender, ed., Rethinking American History in a Global Age (2002) Thomas Bender, A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History (2006) *“Review Essays on American Exceptionalism,” AHR (June 1997) *James W. Ceaser, “The Origins and Character of American Exceptionalism,” American Political Thought (Spring 2012) *William Cronon, “Revisiting the Vanishing Frontier: The Legacy of Frederick Jackson Turner,” Western Historical Quarterly (April 1987) *Eric Foner, “Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?” History Workshop (Spring 1984) *François Furstenberg, “Hartz Is dead. Long Live Hartz,” Reviews in American History (June 2012) *Thomas L. Haskell, “Taking Exception to Exceptionalism,” Reviews in American History (March 2000) *Michael Kammen, “The Problem of American Exceptionalism: A Reconsideration,” American Quarterly (March 1993) James T. Kloppenberg, “Requiescat in Pacem: The Liberal Tradition of Louis Hartz,” in Mark Hulliung, ed., The American Liberal Tradition Reconsidered: The Contested Legacy of Louis Hartz (2010) *Deborah L. Madsen, American Exceptionalism (1998) *Daniel T. Rodgers, “Exceptionalism,” in Anthony Molho and Gordon S. Wood, eds., Imagined Histories: American Historians Interpret the Past (1998) Byron E. Shafer, ed., Is America Different? A New Look at American Exceptionalism (1991) *“The Debate Table: Eric Rauchway and Ian Tyrrell discuss American Exceptionalism,” MAH (July 2018) *Ian Tyrrell, “American Exceptionalism in an Age of International History,” AHR (October 1991), plus commentary by Michael McGerr b. Nationalism, Patriotism, and National Identity *Andrew J. Bacevich, The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (2005; 2013) *——, ed., The Short American Century: A Postmortem (2012) 4 *Richard M. Gamble, In Search of the City on a Hill: The Making and Unmaking of an American Myth (2012) *Peter Gardella, American Civil Religion: What Americans Hold Sacred (2014) *Nicholas Guyatt, Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876 (2007) *Michael Kazin and Joseph A. McCartin, eds., Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal (2006) *Anatol Lieven, America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism (2004; 2012) Anders Stephenson, Manifest destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right (1995) *Wendy L. Wall, Inventing the “American Way”: The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement (2008) c. Transnational/International Perspectives and Comparisons *Michael Adas, “From Settler Colony to Global Hegemon: Integrating the Exceptionalist Narrative of the American Experience into World History,” AHR (December 2001) *Nicolas Barreyre, et al, eds., Historians across Borders: Writing American History in a Global Age (2014) *Brooke L. Blower, Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars (2011) *Brooke L. Blower and Mark Philip Bradley, eds., The Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn (2015) *Kiran Klaus Patel, The New Deal: A Global History (2016) *James T. Kloppenberg, Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 (1986) Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks, It didn’t Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States (2000) *Andrew Preston and Doug Rossinow, eds., Outside In: The Transnational Circuitry of U.S. History (2017) Eric Rauchway, Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America (2006) *Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998) *Ann Laura Stoler, “Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American History and (Post) Colonial Studies,” Journal of American History (December 2001) Ian Tyrrell, Transnational Nation: United States History in Global Perspective since 1789 (2007; 2015) 5 2. HISTORY OF CAPITALISM Subjects include: the transformation of the rural economy and the growth of cities; slavery and capitalism; class relations and perception of them; American economic development in comparative perspective; the rise of corporations and the development of a managerial culture; the development of labour unions and socialism. a. Overviews and general economic history *Richard F. Bensel, The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900 (2000) *Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E Gallman, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Vol. 2: The Long Nineteenth Century (1996) *Nan Enstad, “The ‘Sonorous Summons’ of the New History of Capitalism; Or, What Are We Talking about When We Talk about Economy?” MAH (March 2019) *Herbert S. Klein, A Population History of the United States (2004) *Michael Merrill, “Putting ‘Capitalism’ in Its Place: A Review of Recent Literature,” William and Mary Quarterly (1995) *Kevin H. O’Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth- Century Atlantic Economy (1999) *Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, and Matthias Judt, eds., Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century (1998) *Michael Zakim and Gary Kornblith, eds., Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America (2012) Olivier Zunz, Why the American Century? (1998) b. Corporate growth and managerial culture *Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (2014) *Alfred D. Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977) Nan Enstad, Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism (2018) Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-1960 (1995) *Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy (2005), especially Introduction *Sanford M. Jacoby, Employing Bureacracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in American Industry, 1900-1945 (1985) c. Finance and speculation 6 *Peter James Hudson, Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (2017) *Louis Hyman, Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (2011) *Jonathan Levy, Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America (2012) *Julia C. Ott, When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors’ democracy (2011) *Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014), pp. 1-35 *Adam Tooze, Crashed: How a Decade of Economic Crises Changed the World (2018) d. Labour *Thomas G. Andrews, Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War (2010) *Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (1999) *William E. Forbath, Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement (1991) Steve Fraser, The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power (2015), Introduction and chapters 1-7 *Lawrence B. Glickman, A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society (1997) Herbert G. Gutman, Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class (1992) *Robin D. G. Kelley, “‘We Are Not What We Seem’: Rethinking Black Working-Class Opposition in the Jim Crow South,” JAH (June 1993) *Nelson Lichtenstein, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (2002) *Ronald Mize and Alicia Swords, Consuming Mexican Labor: From the Bracero Program to NAFTA (2010) *David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1991) Robert H. Zieger, American Workers, American Unions (1994) 3. GENDER AND SEXUALITY Subjects include: the origins, development and characteristics of suffrage and feminist movements; women’s involvement in various reform movements;
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The Role of Military History in the Contemporary Academy
    A Society for Military History White Paper A SocietyA Society for forMilitary Military History History White White Paper Paper TheThe Role Role ofThe of Military MilitaryRole of History MilitaryHistory in in Historythe the in the ContemporaryContemporaryContemporary Academy Academy Academy By By By TamiTami Davis Davis Biddle, Biddle, U.S.Tami U.S. Army Davis Army War Biddle, War College, College, U.S. and Army and War College, and RobertRobert M. Citino,M. Citino, UniversityRobert University M. of Citino,North of North Texas University Texas of North Texas The Tresorhe resort to wart to warsignalsT signalshe theresor failurethet to failure war of farsignals of morefar more the satisf failure satisfactoryactory of means far means more of settling satisfof settlingactory means of settling humanhuman conflicts. conflicts. It forces human It forces us conflicts. to us face to face and It andwrestleforces wrestle uswith to with facethe darkestthe and darkest wrestle corners corners with of the theof human thedarkest human corners of the human psyche.psyche. It signals It signals thepsyche. comingthe coming Itof signals trauma of trauma the and coming andsuffering suffering of— traumaoften—often intense and intense suffering and andprolonged— prolongedoften— intense— and prolonged— for individuals,for individuals, families familiesfor individuals,and andsocieties. societies. families War W-fightingar and-fighting societies. conc concentrates Wentratesar -powerfighting power in nonconc in -nonentrates- power in non- democraticdemocratic ways
    [Show full text]
  • Deception, Disinformation, and Strategic Communications: How One Interagency Group Made a Major Difference by Fletcher Schoen and Christopher J
    STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES 11 Deception, Disinformation, and Strategic Communications: How One Interagency Group Made a Major Difference by Fletcher Schoen and Christopher J. Lamb Center for Strategic Research Institute for National Strategic Studies National Defense University Institute for National Strategic Studies National Defense University The Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) is National Defense University’s (NDU’s) dedicated research arm. INSS includes the Center for Strategic Research, Center for Complex Operations, Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs, Center for Technology and National Security Policy, Center for Transatlantic Security Studies, and Conflict Records Research Center. The military and civilian analysts and staff who comprise INSS and its subcomponents execute their mission by conducting research and analysis, publishing, and participating in conferences, policy support, and outreach. The mission of INSS is to conduct strategic studies for the Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Unified Combatant Commands in support of the academic programs at NDU and to perform outreach to other U.S. Government agencies and the broader national security community. Cover: Kathleen Bailey presents evidence of forgeries to the press corps. Credit: The Washington Times Deception, Disinformation, and Strategic Communications: How One Interagency Group Made a Major Difference Deception, Disinformation, and Strategic Communications: How One Interagency Group Made a Major Difference By Fletcher Schoen and Christopher J. Lamb Institute for National Strategic Studies Strategic Perspectives, No. 11 Series Editor: Nicholas Rostow National Defense University Press Washington, D.C. June 2012 Opinions, conclusions, and recommendations expressed or implied within are solely those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Defense Department or any other agency of the Federal Government.
    [Show full text]
  • The Pulitzer Prizes 2020 Winne
    WINNERS AND FINALISTS 1917 TO PRESENT TABLE OF CONTENTS Excerpts from the Plan of Award ..............................................................2 PULITZER PRIZES IN JOURNALISM Public Service ...........................................................................................6 Reporting ...............................................................................................24 Local Reporting .....................................................................................27 Local Reporting, Edition Time ..............................................................32 Local General or Spot News Reporting ..................................................33 General News Reporting ........................................................................36 Spot News Reporting ............................................................................38 Breaking News Reporting .....................................................................39 Local Reporting, No Edition Time .......................................................45 Local Investigative or Specialized Reporting .........................................47 Investigative Reporting ..........................................................................50 Explanatory Journalism .........................................................................61 Explanatory Reporting ...........................................................................64 Specialized Reporting .............................................................................70
    [Show full text]
  • M6 Memorial Resolution Honoring Judy Yung
    2020-2021 ALA Memorial #6 2021 ALA Virtual Midwinter Meeting A Memorial Resolution Honoring Judy Yung Whereas the American Library Association (ALA), the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), and the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) lost a valued colleague on December 22, 2020, with the death of Judy Yung; Whereas Judy Yung worked as a librarian for the Chinatown branch of the San Francisco Public Library; and the Asian branch of the Oakland Public Library focusing on collection development in Asian American Studies early in her career; she was a scholar and historian; and established the Asian American Studies program at University of California, Santa Cruz; Whereas Yung received a Doctor of Philosophy in Ethnic Studies; and Master of Arts in Library Science from the University of California, Berkeley; and a Bachelor of arts in English Literature and Chinese from San Francisco State University; and Whereas Yung was a mentor and friend to many library workers, students, educators and historians over the years; Yung published over ten books focusing on the experiences of Chinese immigrants; Chinese American women; and Asian American history and studies; her publications and scholarship garnered many awards and accolades; Yung was a prolific scholar; a library advocate; and a true pioneer in librarianship and the field of history; now, there, be it Resolved, that the American Library Association (ALA), on behalf of its members: 1. recognizes the significant contributions and accomplishments of Judy Yung over the course of her career and mourns her death; and 2. extends its sincerest condolences to her friends and family.
    [Show full text]
  • Defending Against Drone Terrorism
    Texas A&M Law Review Volume 2 Issue 4 2015 Game of Drones: Defending Against Drone Terrorism Tung Yin Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/lawreview Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Tung Yin, Game of Drones: Defending Against Drone Terrorism, 2 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 635 (2015). Available at: https://doi.org/10.37419/LR.V2.I4.3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Texas A&M Law Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Texas A&M Law Review by an authorized editor of Texas A&M Law Scholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. \\jciprod01\productn\T\TWL\2-4\TWL405.txt unknown Seq: 1 11-MAR-16 10:35 GAME OF DRONES: DEFENDING AGAINST DRONE TERRORISM By: Tung Yin* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION .......................................... 635 R II. THE THREAT FROM DRONES ............................ 638 R A. Brief Primer on UAVs .............................. 638 R B. Legal Views on the Use of Weaponized Drones ..... 640 R C. Game of Drones: Terrorism Advantages of Drones . 642 R III. REGULATION OF DRONES ............................... 647 R IV. DEFENDING AGAINST DRONE ATTACKS: THREE CHALLENGES ........................................... 650 R A. Detection............................................ 650 R B. Identification ........................................ 654 R C. Destruction or Disablement ......................... 655 R V. SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT WHERE TO GO FROM HERE . 667 R A. Require FAA Registration and Use of Transponders ....................................... 667 R B. Restrict Airspace Above High-Value Targets ........ 669 R C. Establish Statutory Authorization and Rules of Engagement for Anti-Drone Responses ............. 671 R D. Establish Joint Task Forces ........................
    [Show full text]
  • MA Political Science Programme
    Department of Political Science, University of Delhi UNIVERSITY OF DELHI MASTER OF ARTS in POLITICAL SCIENCE (M.A. in Political Science) (Effective from Academic Year 2019-20) PROGRAMME BROCHURE Revised Syllabus as approved by Academic Council on XXXX, 2019 and Executive Council on YYYY, 2019 Department of Political Science, University of Delhi 1 | Page Table of Contents I. About the Department ................................................................................................................ 3 1.1 About the Programme: ............................................................................................................. 4 1.2 About the Process of Course Development Involving Diverse Stakeholders .......................... 4 II. Introduction to CBCS (Choice Based Credit System) .............................................................. 5 III. M.A. Political Science Programme Details: ............................................................................ 6 IV. Semester wise Details of M.A.in Political Science Course....................................................... 9 4.1 Semester wise Details ................................................................................................................ 9 4.2 List of Elective Course (wherever applicable to be mentioned area wise) ............................ 10 4.3 Eligibility for Admission: ....................................................................................................... 13 4.4 Reservations/ Concessions: ....................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Al Qa'ida in 2010
    i [H.A.S.C. No. 111–119] AL QA’IDA IN 2010: HOW SHOULD THE U.S. RESPOND? COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION HEARING HELD JANUARY 27, 2010 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 58–293 WASHINGTON : 2010 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, http://bookstore.gpo.gov. For more information, contact the GPO Customer Contact Center, U.S. Government Printing Office. Phone 202–512–1800, or 866–512–1800 (toll-free). E-mail, [email protected]. HOUSE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS IKE SKELTON, Missouri, Chairman JOHN SPRATT, South Carolina HOWARD P. ‘‘BUCK’’ MCKEON, California SOLOMON P. ORTIZ, Texas ROSCOE G. BARTLETT, Maryland GENE TAYLOR, Mississippi MAC THORNBERRY, Texas NEIL ABERCROMBIE, Hawaii WALTER B. JONES, North Carolina SILVESTRE REYES, Texas W. TODD AKIN, Missouri VIC SNYDER, Arkansas J. RANDY FORBES, Virginia ADAM SMITH, Washington JEFF MILLER, Florida LORETTA SANCHEZ, California JOE WILSON, South Carolina MIKE MCINTYRE, North Carolina FRANK A. LOBIONDO, New Jersey ROBERT A. BRADY, Pennsylvania ROB BISHOP, Utah ROBERT ANDREWS, New Jersey MICHAEL TURNER, Ohio SUSAN A. DAVIS, California JOHN KLINE, Minnesota JAMES R. LANGEVIN, Rhode Island MIKE ROGERS, Alabama RICK LARSEN, Washington TRENT FRANKS, Arizona JIM COOPER, Tennessee BILL SHUSTER, Pennsylvania JIM MARSHALL, Georgia CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS, Washington MADELEINE Z. BORDALLO, Guam K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas BRAD ELLSWORTH, Indiana DOUG LAMBORN, Colorado PATRICK J. MURPHY, Pennsylvania ROB WITTMAN, Virginia HANK JOHNSON, Georgia MARY FALLIN, Oklahoma CAROL SHEA-PORTER, New Hampshire DUNCAN HUNTER, California JOE COURTNEY, Connecticut JOHN C. FLEMING, Louisiana DAVID LOEBSACK, Iowa MIKE COFFMAN, Colorado JOE SESTAK, Pennsylvania THOMAS J.
    [Show full text]
  • Rethinking the Federal Securities Laws
    Florida International University College of Law eCollections Faculty Publications Faculty Scholarship 2003 Accountants Make Miserable Policemen: Rethinking the Federal Securities Laws Jerry W. Markham Florida International University College of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_publications Part of the Banking and Finance Law Commons Recommended Citation Jerry W. Markham, Accountants Make Miserable Policemen: Rethinking the Federal Securities Laws, 28 N.C.J. Int'l L. & Com. Reg. 725, 812 (2003). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at eCollections. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of eCollections. For more information, please contact [email protected]. +(,121/,1( Citation: Jerry W. Markham, Accountants Make Miserable Policemen: Rethinking the Federal Securities Laws, 28 N.C.J. Int'l L. & Com. Reg. 725 (2003) Provided by: FIU College of Law Content downloaded/printed from HeinOnline Tue May 1 11:26:02 2018 -- Your use of this HeinOnline PDF indicates your acceptance of HeinOnline's Terms and Conditions of the license agreement available at https://heinonline.org/HOL/License -- The search text of this PDF is generated from uncorrected OCR text. -- To obtain permission to use this article beyond the scope of your HeinOnline license, please use: Copyright Information Use QR Code reader to send PDF to your smartphone or tablet device Accountants Make Miserable Policemen: Rethinking the Federal
    [Show full text]
  • The White Slave Trade and the Yellow Peril: Anti-Chinese Rhetoric and Women's Moral Authority a Thesis Submitted to the Depart
    The White Slave Trade and the Yellow Peril: Anti-Chinese Rhetoric and Women’s Moral Authority A thesis submitted to the Department of History, Miami University, in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for Honors in History by Hannah E. Zmuda May 2021 Oxford, Ohio Abstract Despite the mid-to-late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s cultural preoccupation with white women’s sexual vulnerability, another phenomenon managed to take hold of public consciousness: “yellow slavery.” Yellow slavery was the variation of white slavery (known today as sex trafficking) that described the practice when Asian women were the victims. This thesis attempts to determine several of the reasons why Chinese women were included as victims in an otherwise exclusively white victim pool. One of the central reasons was the actual existence of the practice, which this thesis attempts to verify through the critical examination of found contracts and testimony of Chinese women. However, beyond just the existence of the practice of yellow slavery, many individuals used the sexual exploitation of Chinese women for their own cultural, religious, and political ends. Anti-Chinese agitators leveraged the image of the Chinese slave girl to frame anti-Chinese efforts as anti-slavery efforts, as well as to depict Chinese immigrants as incapable of assimilating into American culture and adhering to American ideals of freedom. Additionally, white missionaries created mission homes to shelter and protect the Chinese women and girls escaping white slavery. However, within these homes, the missionaries were then able to push their perceived cultural and religious superiority by pushing the home’s inmates into their ideals of Protestant, middle-class, white womanhood.
    [Show full text]
  • H-Diplo ESSAY 319
    H-Diplo ESSAY 319 Essay Series on Learning the Scholar’s Craft: Reflections of Historians and International Relations Scholars 2 March 2021 Contingent Histories https://hdiplo.org/to/E319 Series Editor: Diane Labrosse | Production Editor: George Fujii Essay by Fredrik Logevall, Harvard University aybe it was Laurence Olivier who made me a historian. One evening in late 1975, not long after my family emigrated from Västerås, Sweden, to Vancouver, B.C., I happened upon the BBC’s “The World at War,” which is still for my money the gold standard among World War II documentaries. The astonishing archival footage Mdrew me right in, but so did Olivier’s narration, with its calm authority and elevated diction. Even today I can recite from memory his opening lines in the first episode, written in spare, declarative style by Neal Ascherson: Down this road, on a summer day in 1944, the soldiers came. Nobody lives here now. They stayed only a few hours. When they had gone, the community which had lived for a thousand years was dead. This is Oradour-sur-Glane, in France. I caught most of the episodes that fall. A year or so later, at age thirteen, I watched the entire series, all 23 hours, if anything more enthralled than the first time. (My English had improved in the interval.) Hungry for more, I began reading books on the war—the first one, Peter Calvocoressi and Guy Wint’s engrossing Total War, still adorns a shelf in my home office, ageless and imposing.1 I wasn’t exactly studious—my grades were middling, at best (“Fredrik needs to learn to apply himself,” read report card upon report card), and I preferred to spend my time on the tennis court or hanging around with pals—but history fascinated me.
    [Show full text]
  • George F. Kennan: an American Life
    George F. Kennan: An American Life Saturday, April 7, 2012 Griffin Hall, Room 3 Williams College Sponsored by the Stanley Kaplan Program in American Foreign Policy Saturday, April 7, 2012 8:45 - 10:00 AM The Making of a Cold War Intellectual Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut Walter Hixson, University of Akron Christina Klein, Boston College Mark Lawrence, UT-Austin/Williams College Frank Ninkovich, St. John’s University 10:15 - 11:45 AM Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy David Ekbladh, Tufts University Hope Harrison, George Washington University Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University David Mayers, Boston University Anders Stephanson, Columbia University 12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunch 1:00 - 2:15 PM Kennan, Realism, and American Grand Strategy David Kaiser, Naval War College Douglas Macdonald, Colgate University James McAllister, Williams College Mark Sheetz, Belfer Center at Harvard University 2:15 - 2:30 PM Closing Remarks John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University Conference Participants Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut Frank Costigliola is a Professor of history at the University of Connecticut. He is the author, most recently, of Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances (Princeton, 2012) and he is currently editing the diaries of George F. Kennan. David Ekbladh, Tufts University David Ekbladh is Assistant Professor of history at Tufts University. He is currently at work on a book entitled Look at the World: The Birth of an American Globalism in the 1930s, that explores the wide-ranging changes in how the United States perceived and engaged the world. His first book, The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order (Princeton University Press, 2010), won the Stuart L.
    [Show full text]
  • Download Chapter (PDF)
    ACKNOWL EDGMENTS This book began many years ago when Lisa Yoneyama invited me to consider the issue of “comfort women” for a session that she or ga nized for the annual meeting of the American Studies Association. I had been very ambivalent and even a little skeptical about the passionate investment in the issue and the consequent will to represent this history on the part of Korean/American art- ists, writers, and scholars, myself included. That session pushed me to unpack and articulate the contours of my unease and, more consequentially, brought me together with Lisa and Kandice Chuh for what has turned out to be a most generative, sustaining friendship and intellectual exchange in the many years since. This book would not exist without their steadfast support and much- needed interventions. Their scholarly brilliance and critical grace continue to inspire me to try harder. From my first book to this book, Lisa Lowe has provided me with a singular model of broad intellectual engagement and deep thinking. I would like to thank the friends who have sustained me by sharing the joys of good food, wine, music, and laughter in SoCal: Brian Albert, Eve Oishi, Sheri Ozeki, Cindy Cheng, Rachel Park, Jenny Terry, Surina Khan, Catherine Sameh, Lucy Burns, Anjali Arondekar, Christine Balance, Patty Ahn, Arlene Keizer, Alex Juhasz, Rachel Lee, Gabe Spera, David Wong Louie, Jackie Louie, Juliet Williams, Ali Behdad, Kathleen McHugh, Yong Soon Min, David Lloyd, Sarita See, and Karen Tongson. Brian, Eve, Cindy, and Lucy took very good care of me when I needed it most.
    [Show full text]