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Moderate Southern Senators, Hunger, and Welfare in the Long 1960s (2023)
Journal Article
Ballantyne. (2023). Moderate Southern Senators, Hunger, and Welfare in the Long 1960s. Journal of American Studies, 57(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875822000299

This article traces the approach of moderate southern Senators toward domestic hunger and welfare in the late 1960s and the 1970s. Often overlooked in scholarly accounts, these Senators formed a significant minority of the southern delegation. Their... Read More about Moderate Southern Senators, Hunger, and Welfare in the Long 1960s.

The Rhetoric of Enslavement in White Confederate Planter Women’s Civil War Diaries (1861-65) (2022)
Journal Article
Brill. (2022). The Rhetoric of Enslavement in White Confederate Planter Women’s Civil War Diaries (1861-65). Women's Writing, 30(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2022.2089962

Recent historiography has shown how slaveholding white women in the antebellum South United States often played active and eager roles in the administration of slavery and used violence against enslaved persons. Building on this recent historiography... Read More about The Rhetoric of Enslavement in White Confederate Planter Women’s Civil War Diaries (1861-65).

Examining the role of Donald Trump and his supporters in the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol: A dual-agency model of identity leadership and engaged followership (2022)
Journal Article
Haslam, S. A., Reicher, S. D., Selvanathan, H. P., Gaffney, A. M., Steffens, N. K., Packer, D., …Platow, M. J. (2023). Examining the role of Donald Trump and his supporters in the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol: A dual-agency model of identity leadership and engaged followership. Leadership Quarterly, 34(2), Article ARTN 101622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2022.101622

<p>This paper develops a dual-agency model of leadership which treats collective phenomena as a co-production between leaders and followers. The model integrates work on identity leadership and engaged followership derived from the social identity tr... Read More about Examining the role of Donald Trump and his supporters in the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol: A dual-agency model of identity leadership and engaged followership.

The impact of Charlson Comorbidity Index on de novo CIED procedural outcomes in the United States (2022)
Journal Article
Rashid, Mamas, & Wu. (2022). The impact of Charlson Comorbidity Index on de novo CIED procedural outcomes in the United States. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 88-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2021.06.029

Objective
To investigate the utility of Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) as a measure of comorbidity burden to predict procedural outcomes after de novo cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) implantation.
Methods
All de novo CIED implantati... Read More about The impact of Charlson Comorbidity Index on de novo CIED procedural outcomes in the United States.

The Courtroom as an Arena of Ideological and Political Confrontation: The Chicago Eight Conspiracy Trial (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). The Courtroom as an Arena of Ideological and Political Confrontation: The Chicago Eight Conspiracy Trial. Law and Critique, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-021-09315-w

Normative theories of law conceive the courtroom as a geometrically delineated, politically neutral, and linguistically transparent space designed for a fair and orderly administration of justice. The trial, the most legalistic of all legal acts, is... Read More about The Courtroom as an Arena of Ideological and Political Confrontation: The Chicago Eight Conspiracy Trial.

“We Shall Overcome”: First-Person Plural Pronouns From Search Volume Data Predict Protest Mobilization Across the United States (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). “We Shall Overcome”: First-Person Plural Pronouns From Search Volume Data Predict Protest Mobilization Across the United States. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1476-1485. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620987672

<jats:p> Collective action is a key driver of social and political change within societies. So far, the main factor mobilizing individuals into collective action remains the extent to which they feel identified with a protesting group (i.e., social i... Read More about “We Shall Overcome”: First-Person Plural Pronouns From Search Volume Data Predict Protest Mobilization Across the United States.

Absolutist Words From Search Volume Data Predict State-Level Suicide Rates in the United States (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Absolutist Words From Search Volume Data Predict State-Level Suicide Rates in the United States. Clinical Psychological Science, 788 - 793. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702620916925

<jats:p> Suicide continues to be a major public health issue, especially in the United States. It is a well-established fact that depression and suicidal ideation are risk factors for suicide. Drawing on recent research that shows that absolutist wor... Read More about Absolutist Words From Search Volume Data Predict State-Level Suicide Rates in the United States.

Britain in the American Civil War: Gender, Humanitarianism and Confederate Recognition (1861-65) (2019)
Book Chapter
Brill. (2019). Britain in the American Civil War: Gender, Humanitarianism and Confederate Recognition (1861-65). In The Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429059605-3

Charles Francis Adams, the US Ambassador to Great Britain in the Civil War, was born into one of the most prestigious and powerful political families in the nation. He was the son of the sixth president, John Quincy Adams, and grandson of the second... Read More about Britain in the American Civil War: Gender, Humanitarianism and Confederate Recognition (1861-65).

Custodians of a tradition: Republican leaders and the development of American foreign policy, 1944-1949
Thesis
Tyrrell, A. J. (1974). Custodians of a tradition: Republican leaders and the development of American foreign policy, 1944-1949

A study of the attempt by leading members of the Republican Party to define a coherent Republican attitude to foreign affairs at a time when America’s role was being transformed. The principal Republican leaders are identified as Senator Arthur H. Va... Read More about Custodians of a tradition: Republican leaders and the development of American foreign policy, 1944-1949.

The Jew as myth in recent Jewish-American fiction, with specific reference to the novels of Saul Bellow
Thesis
Miller, M. J. (1975). The Jew as myth in recent Jewish-American fiction, with specific reference to the novels of Saul Bellow

The premise of this thesis is that the European Holocaust, the systematic genocide practised upon the Jews by the Nazis in World War II, gave a new moral authority to the Jew in American literature; and that the onset of philo-Semitism combined with... Read More about The Jew as myth in recent Jewish-American fiction, with specific reference to the novels of Saul Bellow.

A study of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the rise and fall of the nonviolent civil rights movement
Thesis
Fairclough, A. (1977). A study of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the rise and fall of the nonviolent civil rights movement

Despite its lack of membership and vague organizational structure, the Southern Christian leadership Conference was the most effective of the various groups which composed the Southern civil rights movement: the SCLC's campaigns in Birmingham and Sel... Read More about A study of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the rise and fall of the nonviolent civil rights movement.

Debate on Yalta: Poland, the Far East, and American domestic politics, 1944-1955
Thesis
Anelay, T. R. (1978). Debate on Yalta: Poland, the Far East, and American domestic politics, 1944-1955

This is a study of the development of the United States debate on two of the Yalta agreements concluded in February 1945 by the Allied leaders, Roosevalt, Churchill and Stalin. The development of these issues of prior to the Yalta Conference is exami... Read More about Debate on Yalta: Poland, the Far East, and American domestic politics, 1944-1955.

Ideology and action: American liberalism and radicalism, 1945-1972
Thesis
O'Donnell, M. H. (1974). Ideology and action: American liberalism and radicalism, 1945-1972

This thesis, titled Ideology and Action: American Liberalism and Radicalisim 1945-1972, is an interdisciplinary study of liberal and radical thought. The term ideology is defined as a consciously held body of values, strategies and goals, and carries... Read More about Ideology and action: American liberalism and radicalism, 1945-1972.

La Frontera: contesting the cultural construction of the US-Mexico border
Thesis
Powner, L. (2012). La Frontera: contesting the cultural construction of the US-Mexico border

The purpose of this study is to explore the interconnectedness between the history and cultural memory of the United States-Mexico border with a focus on the period 1821 – 1854. In 1821, Mexico gained its independence from Spain; in 1836 it lost its... Read More about La Frontera: contesting the cultural construction of the US-Mexico border.

Single, white and Southern: slaveholding women in the nineteenth-century American South, 1830-1870
Thesis
Molloy, . M. S. (2013). Single, white and Southern: slaveholding women in the nineteenth-century American South, 1830-1870

This thesis examines the lives of single, white, slaveholding women in the nineteenth-century American South from 1830-1870. The central hypothesis is that singleness, in spite of its restrictions, was a route to female autonomy that had its roots in... Read More about Single, white and Southern: slaveholding women in the nineteenth-century American South, 1830-1870.

Standing at the crossroads: politics and the hero in black popular music
Thesis
(1980). Standing at the crossroads: politics and the hero in black popular music

Black popular music, since it was first recorded cemmercially in 1920, has, through all its evolving styles, been primarily a vocal music, where lyrical meaning is crucial to its appeal. The music comes but of a racially-defined, lewer-class communit... Read More about Standing at the crossroads: politics and the hero in black popular music.

Icebergs in the desert: the links between capitalist expansion and the spread of 'American' values in Utah, 1847-1896
Thesis
1847-1896

This thesis analyses debates over the economic future of postbellum Utah Territory, in order to demonstrate the connection between economic expansion and the promotion of a homogenous ‘American’ identity. Following the American Civil War, a dominant... Read More about Icebergs in the desert: the links between capitalist expansion and the spread of 'American' values in Utah, 1847-1896.