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Showing 1 to 20 of 457 for “"American culture"”.
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The specter of Salem in American culture
<p>The specter of Salem witchcraft haunts the American imagination. No other historical event has provided such a wide range of scholars, dramatists, fiction writers, poets, and amateur sleuths with a subject that so stubbornly resists a final resolution. Although barely nine months passed from the …
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Clearing out: Escape genres and American culture, 1880-1915
… worlds proliferated in turn-of-the-century American literature and culture, including the White City at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Boston in 2000, Mars, Oz, and the West. Focusing on utopian, fantasy, and western writings, this project theorizes the white middle-class desire …
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It's an Irish Lullaby: One Story of Hyphenated American Culture
… was to come to a clear understanding of Irish-American culture--and how that culture expresses itself in individuals. The text considers the role of myth, religion, language, tradition, stereotypes and to a lesser degree gender in the molding of character. Although autobiographical in nature …
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Neil Gaiman's American Gods: An Outsider's Critique of American Culture
<p>In 2001, Neil Gaiman published American Gods, a novel of American life and mythology. As a British author living in the United States, Gaiman has a powerful vantage point from which to critique American culture, landscape, and ideology. Rich with re-invented deities, legends, mythic creatures, …
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The remembered war: the Korean war in American culture, 1953-1995
… July 27, 1953. It profoundly shaped and directed American Cold War policy for the next four decades. Korea’s place in American culture and memory, however, has seemingly been less profound. This dissertation reassesses the war’s legacy from the armistice in 1953 through the construction of the …
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Narrative at Risk: Accident and Teleology in American Culture, 1963-2013
… effects of accident? I ask this of a number of American cultural objects that were produced over the last fifty years, from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to the present. Narrative at Risk interrogates representations of accident primarily in novels and films--but also in …
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Beneath the Surface: American Culture and Submarine Warfare in the Twentieth Century
<p>Cultural perceptions guided the American use of submarines during the twentieth century. Feared as an evil weapon during the First World War, guarded as a dirty secret during the Second World War, and heralded as the weapon of democracy during the Cold War, the American submarine story reveals …
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Beneath the Surface: American Culture and Submarine Warfare in the Twentieth Century
<p>Cultural perceptions guided the American use of submarines during the twentieth century. Feared as an evil weapon during the First World War, guarded as a dirty secret during the Second World War, and heralded as the weapon of democracy during the Cold War, the American submarine story reveals …
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Teaching South American Culture in Spanish: An Argentine Model for Secondary Schools
… various aspects of Argentinian life, history and culture for use at the secondary school level. A second dimension of the study applied to foreign language education research in an educational setting designed to test the significance and effectiveness of the teaching units. With the purpose of …
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Are they family?: Queer parents and queer pasts in contemporary American culture
… in depictions of LGBTQ people and communities in American popular culture occurring alongside political activism that culminated in the repeal of the Pentagon's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy (2010) and the Supreme Court's overturning of same-sex marriage bans in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015). Even as …
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Making their own faith : Lutheranism and American culture in the Civil War era.
From 1830 to 1900, the American Lutheran church grew from less than 50,000 members to more than 1,600,000—five times the growth rate of the U.S. population—and became the nation's fourth largest religious denomination. Along with this tremendous growth came dramatic changes in theological and …
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