The Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture Betsy Gotbaum Leslie T. Davol Beyer Blinder Belle American History Workshop John Hilberry Leher McGoivern Bovis, Inc.

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Yerkovich
Keyword(s):  
American History ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Henry Luce

Republicanism in American History

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-136
Author(s):  
James Kloppenberg
Keyword(s):  
American History ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Great Books ◽  
The People ◽  
Democracy In America ◽  
Political Economic

Toequevilie's Democracy in America, like most great books, displays a tich appreciation of paradox. Unlike so many commentators on America, who have sought to unmask either the greatness or venality of the people or their leaders, or the triumphs or tragedies flowing from America's political, economic, or social institutions, Tocquevillc understood that conflicting values have been held in suspension in American culture.

Violence, Non-Violence, and Political Strategy

Worldview ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
Mulford Q. Sibley
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam War ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
American History ◽  
Political System ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
History Writing ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Vietnam War

The problem of violence in American culture has been a subject of increasing concern during the past two decades. In the fifties, there was rampant the school of “consensus” history writing, which tended to deny the existence of conflicts about basic issues in American history. More recently, the past has been portrayed in an entirely different light: Conflict, and particularly violent conflict, are seen as having been virtually endemic. Against the background of violent crime and civil disturbance, several presidential commissions have investigated violence, and they usually emerge with the conclusion that Americans are a peculiarly violent people. The atrocities of the Vietnam war, and police and ghetto violence, have led many to wonder at the same time whether the alleged merits of the American political system are as great as its defenders have insisted.

The Bible in American Literature

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shira Wolosky
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Literature ◽  
American History ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Religion And Literature ◽  
Biblical Exegesis ◽  
Cultural Institution ◽  
The Bible ◽  
European Institutions

In an America bereft of European institutions, the Bible emerged as the major shared cultural institution. It became a thread linking American history, politics, religion, and literature to each other, in both consensus and conflict; with literature itself never quite shedding its ties to biblical exegesis. American culture thus has a paradigmatic identification with biblical textuality. This begins with the Protestant groups who defined their venture to America through a specific biblical hermeneutic; then was disseminated, often with striking and startling shifts in position and interpretation, through subsequent groups, denominations, and parties, even into the twentieth century, albeit in increasingly pluralized and fractured forms. This impulse to fragmentation becomes in the twentieth century an enactment of plural identities in ways increasingly claimed not only to be legitimate but to define American peoplehood.

Our Masters

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lane Demas
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
American History ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Professional Sport ◽  
Negro Leagues ◽  
History Of ◽  
Professional Golfers ◽  
Tiger Woods ◽  
Over Time

This chapter discusses black professional players and the little-known history of the United Golfers Association (UGA), a black golf organization that was founded in 1925 and served as a parallel institution to the all-white Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) that formed nine years earlier in 1916. Along with many other activities, the UGA operated a national golf tour for professionals, amateurs, and intercollegiate golfers, and it continued to host events well after the desegregation of the PGA in 1961. Similar to the story of baseball’s Negro Leagues and their central place in American culture, the UGA also featured African Americans who used professional sport to carve out autonomous sites for leisure, business, and fandom. As the only national professional golf tour for black players in American history, virtually every black pro before Tiger Woods experienced playing in UGA events, a long list that includes John Shippen, Robert “Pat” Ball, John Brooks Dendy, Howard Wheeler, Charlie Sifford, Bill Spiller, Ted Rhodes, and Lee Elder. The UGA also supported a full women’s division, which over time featured gifted stars like Marie Thompson, Lucy Williams, Geneva Wilson, Ann Gregory, Thelma Cowans, Ethel (Powers) Funches, Althea Gibson, and Renee Powell.

Law in American History, Volume III

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Edward White
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Social Context ◽  
North America ◽  
American History ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Constitutional History ◽  
The Third ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This is the third in a series of volumes exploring central themes in American legal and constitutional history and the relationship of those themes to important events and contested issues in American culture at large. The first volume covered the period from colonial settlements in North America through the Civil War. The second volume covered the years from Reconstruction through the 1920s. This volume addresses central legal themes and their social context from 1930 through the close of the twentieth century.

scholarly journals Cinco Dedos: A Mexican American Studies Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-103
Author(s):  
Nicolas García ◽  
Anthony Gonzales
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
American History ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
Mexican American Studies ◽  
Mexican American Culture

Mexican American Studies (MAS) courses have been criticized for many years. Legislation in Arizona and Texas have attempted to ban the content. This article pushes back on this attempt of oppression and offers MAS teachers a framework to apply when teaching the content. Using a timeline to depict the years of attempts for Mexican American Studies to be approved, we offer practitioners and researchers an Ethnic Studies framework particularly with MAS courses. Using cultural art, poetry, and literature, MAS teachers can benefit from using the Cinco Dedos framework especially at the secondary (6-12) grade levels. This framework prepares MAS teachers to utilize various Chicanx histories to tell the stories of Mexican American heroes not talked about in traditional American history courses. This article also provides tools to use in secondary MAS classrooms that highlight Mexican American culture for students provided by a MAS teacher. One of the founders of the framework uses this in his MAS course at a high school located in San Antonio, TX. 

Gender and Religion in American Culture, 1870-1930

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-157
Author(s):  
David G. Hackett
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
American History ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Interpretive Paradigm ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Women’S Roles

Since the early 1980's, advances in the study of gender in American history have come primarily through an unmasking of the assumptions of earlier studies. Some have questioned the explanatory power of the field's dominant interpretive paradigm, that of “women's sphere,” because this theoretical lens has often led historians to mistake what was said by and about women for their actual historical experience. Others have laid bare the earlier scholarship's assumption of universal gender definitions that do not take into account differences in women's roles based on race, class, or region. Additionally, several historians have begun to explore the influence of gender relations on the lives of men. As a result, we are beginning to get a picture of gender in American history that goes beyond the “women's sphere” experience of white, middle-class, northeastern women.

scholarly journals MODEL PENGEMBANGAN SOAL READING TOEFL BERBASIS TEKS-TEKS KEISLAMAN

Ta dib ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
IRWAN IRWAN
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
American History ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Background Knowledge ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
American Science ◽  
Model Validity ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Trapping Model ◽  
English Students

Problem of this research is the unfamiliarity of the topics in TOEFL test. Many of the topics are talking about American and Europe.  They are about American science, American history, American economic system, American culture and European culture.  The topics above are not familiar to the students of State Islamic College because they seldom study about the topic. To answer the TOEFL tes it will be better for us to have background knowledge about the topics of the reading.  If we are familiar with the topic, it will help us to be easy in answering and understanding about the text.  This research used Research & Development (R&D) approach.  The sample of the try out test for developing these questions are the sixth semester English students of STAIN Batusangkar.  The data were analyzed by using Kappa model to differenciate the items difficulties, items differenciation, trapping model, validity and reliability.  The product of this research then revised for three times.  Then, the product is also commented and analyzed by the experts.  After analyzing the revision of the product, the result finally getting ready to be used for a test.

American Folk Ideas, Beliefs, and Worldview

2018 ◽  
pp. 58-74
Author(s):  
Jay Mechling
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
American History ◽  
American Studies ◽  
American Culture ◽  
High Culture ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Folklore Studies ◽  
American Folklore

Alan Dundes (1971) proposed the phrase “folk idea” as a concept folklorists could and should use to link the folk items and practices they usually study to larger patterns in American culture, a goal that other familiar folklore concepts (such as myth and genre) could not accomplish. Folk ideas are “underlying assumptions” and offer people ways to order and understand their experiences. Folk ideas move across levels of culture, entering popular culture and even high culture. Dundes saw the folk idea as the smallest unit of the worldview of a people, recognizing that the concept of “worldview” is as vague as “folk idea” and that both needed to be operationalized through concrete examples. The Dundes project is where American folklore studies and American Studies meet, as American Studies scholars look to American history, literature, and the arts for evidence of larger patterns in American culture.

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