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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"American cultural history"”.
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Revolution Through Revelation: Jim Jones And The Peoples Temple In American Cultural History
<p>This thesis examines the influence of American culture on Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. While most scholarship applies a religious, sociological, or psychological approach to understating the Jonestown tragedy, this paper endeavors to understand the man, his church, and the event through the …
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An Exploration of Modern American Cultural History: An Undergraduate American Studies Course Proposal
… the curriculum for an undergraduate level American Studies course that uses three themes as its basic organizational structure. Through an interdisciplinary humanities methodology, the project specifically examines the way in which American cultural products (art, literature, and film) are …
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Comics and Conflict: War and Patriotically Themed Comics in American Cultural History From World War Ii Through the Iraq War
… has been an integral part of human history. Particularly before the advent of media such as photography, film, television, and now the Internet, illustrations in all their variety have been the primary visual way to convey history. The comic book, which emerged in its modern form in …
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Reinventing the golden age ballpark and the pastoral ideal : a new home for the Boston Red Sox on Fort Point Channel
… the relationship between the development of the American city, the pastoral ideal (a longing for a more rural and simple past) and the game of baseball, the urban ballpark has been the focus of little attention, particularly in the fields of architecture, urban design, and American cultural …
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Persian Lessons: Islamic Art in America, circa 1876–1925
This dissertation investigates the prehistory of academic Islamic art history in the United States through the lens of American cultural history. It shows that between the US Centennial in 1876 and the inauguration of the Pahlavi dynasty in Iran in 1925, aesthetic theory and American citizenship …
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Reforming manners, redeeming souls : Sunday schools, childhood, and the formation of early nineteenth-century American religious culture.
Merging religious history with childhood studies, this dissertation analyzes Sunday schools from 1790-1860 to show how concepts of childhood, and young people themselves, helped shape American religious culture. Recent scholarship by historians such as Steven Mintz and Amanda Porterfield have …