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May 2012 - Posts
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In Bonnie Parker Writes a Poem , Steven Biel explains how a culture created a character The following has been posted on the Books page of the History News Network site. Over the course of the last two decades, Steven Biel has become the foremost scholar Read More...
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Jim is observing the Memorial Day holiday weekend. His recent reading has included the latest installment of Robert A. Caro's monumental biography, The Years of Lyndon Johnson . This volume, the fourth, is entitled The Passage of Power . The first book, Read More...
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In The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812, Troy Bickham traces the origins and outcome of a conflict which, contrary to the popular view, was quite consequential The following has been posted on the Books page Read More...
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Curator Bruce Bustard's Attachments: Faces and Stories from America's Gates captures the dramas of immigration in a new exhibition at the National Archives in Washington The following has been posted on the Books page of the History News Network site. Read More...
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The following post is an excerpt from a work in progress, Stages, Pages, and Screens: A Short History of the Modern Media , under contract Wiley-Blackwell. This piece, on Taylor Swift, is one of a number of sidebar articles slated to appear in that book. Read More...
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New York Times reporter Patricia Cohen renders a sprightly rendition of mature adulthood with In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age The following has been posted on the Books page of the History News Network site. The notion that middle age is essentially Read More...
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Here's a sneak preview of the cover of my forthcoming book, to be published by Oxford University Press later this year. The book looks at the way trajectories of American history are embedded in the careers of movie stars. It surveys the careers of six Read More...
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