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The After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture (2016)
Book Chapter
Trodd, Z. (2016). The After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture. In C.-M. Bernier, & H. Durkin (Eds.), Visualising Slavery: Art Across the Black Diaspora (129-152). Liverpool University Press

By the time of his death in 1895, Frederick Douglass had sat for approximately 160 different photographs. This makes him the most photographed American of the nineteenth century, rather than Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman or General Custer (all previo... Read More about The After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture.

Unquiet Americans: The Church Committee, the CIA and the Intelligence Dimension of U.S. Public Diplomacy in the 1970s (2016)
Book Chapter
McGarr, P. (2016). Unquiet Americans: The Church Committee, the CIA and the Intelligence Dimension of U.S. Public Diplomacy in the 1970s. In H. Notaker, G. Scott-Smith, & D. J. Snyder (Eds.), Reasserting America in the 1970s: U.S. public diplomacy and the rebuilding of America's image abroad. Manchester University Press

Beyond National Literatures: Empire and Amitav Ghosh (2015)
Book Chapter
Maxey, R. (2015). Beyond National Literatures: Empire and Amitav Ghosh. The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature (567-582). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781107284289.034

Suffering and Sunset: World War I in the Art and Life of Horace Pippin (2015)
Book
Bernier, C.-M. (2015). Suffering and Sunset: World War I in the Art and Life of Horace Pippin. Temple University Press

What A Difference A Death Makes: JFK, LBJ, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (2015)
Journal Article
Ling, P. (2015). What A Difference A Death Makes: JFK, LBJ, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Sixties, 8(2), 121-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/17541328.2015.1099835

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.

A Contested Art: Modernism and Mestizaje in New Mexico (2015)
Book
Lewthwaite, S. (2015). A Contested Art: Modernism and Mestizaje in New Mexico. University of Oklahoma Press

Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American (2015)
Book
Stauffer, J., Trodd, Z., & Bernier, C.-M. (2015). Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American. Liveright Publishing Corporation

Commemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass’s birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this “tour de force” (Library Journal, starred review) reintroduced Frederick Douglass to a twenty-first-century a... Read More about Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American.

The rise of the 'we' narrator in modern American fiction (2015)
Journal Article
Maxey, R. (2015). The rise of the 'we' narrator in modern American fiction. European Journal of American Studies, 10(2), Article 11068. https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.11068

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.

Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War (2015)
Book
Brick, H., & Phelps, C. (2015). Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139027700

© Howard Brick and Christopher Phelps 2015. All rights reserved. Radicals in America is a masterful history of controversial dissenters who pursued greater equality, freedom and democracy - and transformed the nation. Written with clarity and verve,... Read More about Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War.

No parents, no church, no authorities in our films: exploitation movies, the youth audience, and Roger Corman's counterculture trilogy (2015)
Journal Article
Heffernan, N. (2015). No parents, no church, no authorities in our films: exploitation movies, the youth audience, and Roger Corman's counterculture trilogy. Journal of Film and Video, 67(2), https://doi.org/10.5406/jfilmvideo.67.2.0003

Discrepant Parallels (2015)
Book
Roberts, G. (2015). Discrepant Parallels. McGill-Queen's University Press

John Brown's spirit: the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom in early antilynching protest literature (2015)
Journal Article
Trodd, Z. (2015). John Brown's spirit: the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom in early antilynching protest literature. Journal of American Studies, 49(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875815000055

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
O'Connor, P. (2015). The Anglo-American synecdoche?: Thomas Jefferson’s British legacy 1800-1865. Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 13(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/14794012.2015.1022371

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.

Acts of violence: the World War II veteran private-eye movie as an ideological crime series (2015)
Book Chapter
Heffernan, N. (2015). Acts of violence: the World War II veteran private-eye movie as an ideological crime series. In C. Miranda, J. Anderson, & B. Pezzotti (Eds.), Serial crime fiction: dying for more. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137483690

According to Gramsci, serial tales are ‘a powerful factor in the formation of the mentality and morality of the people’. ‘The serial novel’, he suggests, ‘is a real way of day-dreaming’ whose heroes ‘enter into the intellectual life of the people […]... Read More about Acts of violence: the World War II veteran private-eye movie as an ideological crime series.

‘Do we still need the CIA?’ Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Central Intelligence Agency and US foreign policy (2015)
Journal Article
McGarr, P. M. (2015). ‘Do we still need the CIA?’ Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Central Intelligence Agency and US foreign policy. History, 100(340), 275-292. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12106

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.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Subversive: India, Pakistan and the Cultural Politics of Cold War Intelligence (2015)
Book Chapter
McGarr, P. (2015). Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Subversive: India, Pakistan and the Cultural Politics of Cold War Intelligence. In L. James, & E. Leake (Eds.), Decolonization and the Cold War: negotiating independence. Bloomsbury Press

‘The viceroys are disappearing from the roundabouts in Delhi’: British symbols of power in post-colonial India (2015)
Journal Article
McGarr, P. M. (2015). ‘The viceroys are disappearing from the roundabouts in Delhi’: British symbols of power in post-colonial India. Modern Asian Studies, 49(3), 787-831. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X14000080

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.

Martin Luther King (2015)
Book
Ling, P. (2015). Martin Luther King. (Second edition). Routledge (Taylor and Francis)

Happiness And The Liberal Imagination: How Superwoman Became Balanced (2014)
Journal Article
Rottenberg, C. (2014). Happiness And The Liberal Imagination: How Superwoman Became Balanced. Feminist Studies, 40(1), 144-168

“A perfect hell of misery”: real and imagined prison lives in an “American Siberia” (2014)
Book Chapter
MILLER, V. (2015). “A perfect hell of misery”: real and imagined prison lives in an “American Siberia”. In Transnational penal cultures: new perspectives on discipline, punishment and desistance. Routledge

This chapter provides a brief overview of George Kennan's critique of prison conditions in late nineteenth-century Siberia, examines the nascent leasing system in Florida in the 1870s and 1880s described by Powell, of vermin-infested convicts in comm... Read More about “A perfect hell of misery”: real and imagined prison lives in an “American Siberia”.