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  • How American Bandstand created the American teenager
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    American Bandstand (Television program); Teenagers; Race discrimination;
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    From a small studio in 1950's Philadelphia, American Bandstand became the first national television program directed at teenagers. The show brought rock and roll into American living rooms, shaped the way a generation danced and dressed, and...
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    2012-11-08
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  • Through the glass closet: the homosexual origins of the American right
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    Chambers, Whittaker; Homosexuality - Political aspects - United States; Cold War; Communism - United States - History - 20th century; Right and left (Political science); Gay men - Political activity; Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972; Hiss,...
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    Whittaker Chambers was a major figure in the intellectual development of the American right in the post-war period. During his tenure at Time Magazine during the Cold War, he championed a fervent anti-communist viewpoint, identifying an existential...
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    2008-02-21
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  • Lessons from L.A. schools: some gleanings from the toils of the past that would make the work of the future easier if only someone would listen
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    Public schools; Educational change; Education; Los Angeles Unified School District;
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    The story of public education in Los Angeles is one of institutional decline and hollowing out mixed with daily heroism and self-sacrifice on the part of teachers and administrators who try to make an old institution do things it was not designed...
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    2007-11-11
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  • Sabbatical in my garage: building a relpica of an 18th century printing press
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    Printing presses; Isaiah Thomas & Co. (Walpole, N.H.); American Antiquarian Society
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    During his sabbatical in 2011-12, Professor of Literature and HMC Dean of Faculty Jeff Groves studied a rare wooden printing press, built in 1747, as a Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA. To obtain a practical knowledge of...
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    2013-02-28
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  • Screening the rural: the American countryside in silent film
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    Culture; Country life; Homesickness; Rural-urban relations; Silent films; United States - Social life and customs;
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    The rise of motion pictures during the 1910s and 1920s was a critical component of an emerging consumer culture in the United States that coincided with its broader transformation from a rural to an urban society. Because of this conjuncture,...
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    2006-09-28
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  • Ripping the veil, weaving meaning: the textures of African American expressive culture
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    Sacred texts; Social psychology; Bible; Bible - Criticism, interpretation, etc.; African Americans; Christianity; Consciousness
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    How do groups of people engage themselves with a "central and center-ing" text? What does this engagement tell us about how the people express themselves? How do dominant groups interpret this engagement? Seen in the refracting mirror of...
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    2005-03-09
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  • Poet Robert Mezey reads from his works
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    American poetry; Poetry - Translations into English; Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986; Poetry - Study and teaching
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    Poet and translator Robert Mezey, an Emeritus Professor of English at Pomona College, reads his poems and translations of poems and offers his thoughts on contemporary poets, free verse, and the teaching and condition of poetry in America today.
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    2008-03-26
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  • Manifold Greatness: the King James Bible at Claremont Graduate University
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    Bible; Exhibitions; Bible. English - Versions - Authorized;
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    Professor Lori Anne Ferrell will introduce the Honnold Library exhibit "Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible" which opens on 10 November. On tour in 40 select U.S. venues from 2011-2015, "Manifold Greatness" was...
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    2011-11-10
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  • The Constitution and the American family
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    United States. Constitution; Constitution Day and Citizenship Day (U.S.); Families; Marriage; Same-sex marriage; Reproductive technology
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    The Constitution aims to guarantee individual rights, yet is remarkably silent on the matter of what defines a family and which family members are entitled to particular constitutional protections. Debates over such topics as marriage, parental...
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    2012-09-19
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  • The satisfactory midwife bag: midwifey regulation in South Carolina in the early twentieth century
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    Midwifery; South Carolina; Twentieth century; Childbirth
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    How did childbirth, once commonly administered in the household by lay midwives for women, become the domain of the hospital and the state? During the early 20th century, it was common for older African-American women -- Granny Midwives -- to...
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    2013-03-14
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  • What was postmodernism?
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    American literature; Artists; Authors as artists; Mr. Potato Head (Trademark); Nature; Poetry; Postmodernism; Reality; Self
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    In the 1980s, the term "postmodernism" was adopted by literary critics to designate what the reigning generation of artists and theorists, figures like Pynchon, Cage, Warhol, and Barthes, had in common. Postmodernists shared an interest in...
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    2006-11-08

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