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What A Difference A Death Makes: JFK, LBJ, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (2015)
Journal Article

When the Kennedy assassination occurred in November 1963, it was not clear that his civil rights bill would pass without major modifications, and most Americans told pollsters that they were unsure of his policy. Fifty years later, the passage of the... Read More about What A Difference A Death Makes: JFK, LBJ, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The rise of the 'we' narrator in modern American fiction (2015)
Journal Article

Historically, the first-person plural narrator has been rare in US fiction, and it is both enigmatic and technically demanding. Yet an increasing number of American novelists and short story writers have turned to this formal device over the past 20... Read More about The rise of the 'we' narrator in modern American fiction.

No parents, no church, no authorities in our films: exploitation movies, the youth audience, and Roger Corman's counterculture trilogy (2015)
Journal Article

John Brown's spirit: the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom in early antilynching protest literature (2015)
Journal Article

Before his execution in 1859, the radical abolitionist John Brown wrote a series of prison letters that – along with his death itself – helped to cement the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom. This article charts the adaptation of that... Read More about John Brown's spirit: the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom in early antilynching protest literature.

The Anglo-American synecdoche?: Thomas Jefferson’s British legacy 1800-1865 (2015)
Journal Article

This article is focused on one of the behemoths of American history, Thomas Jefferson. Unlike most studies, however, it removes the Virginian statesman from his familiar American context in order to illustrate his significance as a British icon. It c... Read More about The Anglo-American synecdoche?: Thomas Jefferson’s British legacy 1800-1865.

‘Do we still need the CIA?’ Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Central Intelligence Agency and US foreign policy (2015)
Journal Article

In May 1991, writing in the op-ed column of the New York Times, the US Senator for New York, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, called for the Central Intelligence Agency to be disbanded. Arguing that the CIA represented an historical anachronism that had outl... Read More about ‘Do we still need the CIA?’ Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Central Intelligence Agency and US foreign policy.

‘The viceroys are disappearing from the roundabouts in Delhi’: British symbols of power in post-colonial India (2015)
Journal Article

In the aftermath of the Second World War, as postcolonial regimes in Africa and Asia hauled down imperial iconography, to the surprise and approval of many Western observers, India evidenced little interest in sweeping away remnants of its colonial h... Read More about ‘The viceroys are disappearing from the roundabouts in Delhi’: British symbols of power in post-colonial India.