Food, Health and Welfare in the Long Twentieth Century: Introduction
(2023)
Journal Article
Ballantyne. (2023). Food, Health and Welfare in the Long Twentieth Century: Introduction. Journal of American Studies, 57(2), 151-153. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875823000014
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/S0021875822000299This 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/10.1080/09699082.2022.2089962Recent 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.2021.06.029Objective
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-wNormative 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.
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/10.4324/9780429059605-3Charles 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).
Icebergs in the desert: the links between capitalistexpansion and the spread of 'American' values in Utah,1847-1896 (2018)
Thesis
Williamson, J. (2018). Icebergs in the desert: the links between capitalistexpansion and the spread of 'American' values in Utah,1847-1896. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/410406This 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 capitalistexpansion and the spread of 'American' values in Utah,1847-1896.
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, 1830-1870This 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.
The New York Times and the Algerian revolution, 1956-1962: an analysis of a major newspaper's reporting of events
Thesis
Barkaoui, M. (1988). The New York Times and the Algerian revolution, 1956-1962: an analysis of a major newspaper's reporting of eventsThis thesis examines the response of The New York Times international edition to the Algerian revolution from 1956 to 1962. During the early years the paper took the French official view; however as the inevitability of independence became apparent,... Read More about The New York Times and the Algerian revolution, 1956-1962: an analysis of a major newspaper's reporting of events.
Black American soldiers in Britain 1942-1945
Thesis
(1982). Black American soldiers in Britain 1942-1945
Relations between blacks and seminoles after removal
Thesis
(1984). Relations between blacks and seminoles after removalThe basic aim of this thesis is to describe and assess relations between Blacks and Seminoles from removal to the end of the frontier. After a brief Introduction recounting the history of Seminole-Black relations prior to removal and presenting the m... Read More about Relations between blacks and seminoles after removal.
Recent forces of change affecting radical black American women
Thesis
(1980). Recent forces of change affecting radical black American womenRadical Black American women are creations of a powerful heritage and the cataclysm of the sixties. From these forces a particular individual has emerged. Firstly being black and secondly a woman, she has historically been denied achievement of her f... Read More about Recent forces of change affecting radical black American women.
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 borderThe 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.
Judicial activism in American government: a study of the role philosophies of Supreme Court justices George Sutherland and William O. Douglas
Thesis
McKeever, R. J. (1978). Judicial activism in American government: a study of the role philosophies of Supreme Court justices George Sutherland and William O. DouglasThe aim of this thesis is to formulate a concept of judicial activism which may be used in the analysis of United States Supreme Court decisions.
Because the methodology employed here departs radically from the behaviouralist approach which has dom... Read More about Judicial activism in American government: a study of the role philosophies of Supreme Court justices George Sutherland and William O. Douglas.
Parchment barriers and budgetary reform: aspects of executive-legislative relations in the Nixon era
Thesis
Dumbrell, J. W. (1978). Parchment barriers and budgetary reform: aspects of executive-legislative relations in the Nixon eraBetween 1945 and 1969, discussions and public perceptions of executive-legislative relations were dominated by an intrinsic commitment to the executive branch as the controlling and ascendant partner. During the period of the Nixon Presidency, tradit... Read More about Parchment barriers and budgetary reform: aspects of executive-legislative relations in the Nixon era.
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, 1944-1955This 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.
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 movementDespite 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.
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 BellowThe 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.