Pub Date : 2023-02-17DOI: 10.1017/S0021875823000105
J. Wills
This article explores the effect of Doom Town, a civil defense experiment conducted at Nevada Test Site in March 1953 and May 1955, on American attitudes toward the atom. Initially conceived by the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) as a means to progress knowledge and understanding of how to survive nuclear attack, the creation and destruction of two “Survival Towns” in the Nevadan desert instead accelerated national anxieties. My article looks at how local and national media negatively framed the two experiments, and how the public responded, with two specific images of Doom Town undermining public confidence in the atom: the ruined city (or homegrown Hiroshima) and the projected death of the American nuclear family.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-15DOI: 10.1017/S0021875822000329
Nina Mackert
The article introduces the approach of a critical ability history by analyzing Progressive Era diet advice. It shows how calorie counting reframed health as an ability resulting from individuals’ responsible self-conduct. At that time, novel understandings of bodies and health, techniques of measuring them, and hopes of improving them in the name of eugenics and industrial capitalism suggested that bodies and health were malleable and that it was the duty of individual citizens to care for and shape them. As such, health as ability became a terrain of exclusion as well as of struggles for citizenship recognition.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-08DOI: 10.1017/S0021875822000330
Caitlin Rathe
This article traces the changing terrain of the food stamp program in the pivotal decade of the 1970s. In 1969, President Richard Nixon promised to put an end to hunger in America, “for all time.” However, in the fifteen years following this announcement, policymakers erected boundaries around the scope of public food welfare programs. In this article, the author highlights key continuities between earlier, modest attempts at program reform under Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter and the later Reagan-era assault on welfare spending of the early 1980s.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-24DOI: 10.1017/S0021875822000299
David T. Ballantyne
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 behavior demonstrates both the continued possibilities of a more inclusive southern politics after the mid-1960s and the importance of moderate southerners to the Food Stamp Program's major expansion in the years after 1964. At the same time, however, these politicians opposed guaranteed-income schemes and endorsed “workfare” measures promoted by more conservative southerners that conditioned aid on participation in low-wage employment.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.1017/S0021875822000238
L. Plath, E. Duclos-Orsello, H. Emmett, N. King, G. Tóth, Rebecca Stone, Jon Ward
What does it mean to teach American studies in UK higher education? We teach “American” content in our classes, modules, and degree programmes, but do we also conduct our teaching in ways specific to American studies? Lee Shulman describes a “signature pedagogy” as “the forms of instruction that leap to mind when we first think about the preparation of members of particular professions,” encompassing both the types of teaching we conduct in our classrooms and the assumptions and values that underpin that practice. Initial conversations about the concept of a signature pedagogy for American studies in the UK were held in a session organized by Lydia Plath on behalf of the Teaching American Studies Network at the Digital BAAS Conference in 2021, in the midst of a global pandemic that required all of us to reflect on our teaching practice. Building on that earlier conversation, this exchange was conducted between February and July 2022. The discussion explores American studies pedagogical approaches through the assumptions, beliefs, and values that underpin our teaching; the challenges of multi- and interdisciplinarity; and questions of identity, inclusion, and national context.
在英国高等教育中教授美国研究意味着什么?我们在课堂、模块和学位课程中教授“美国”内容，但我们是否也以专门针对美国研究的方式进行教学?Lee Shulman将“签名教学法”描述为“当我们第一次考虑为特定职业的成员做准备时，我们脑海中闪现的教学形式”，包括我们在课堂上进行的教学类型以及支撑这种实践的假设和价值观。在2021年的数字BAAS会议上，莉迪亚·普拉斯(Lydia Plath)代表美国研究教学网络(Teaching American studies Network)组织了一次关于英国美国研究标志性教学法概念的初步讨论，当时正值一场全球大流行，要求我们所有人反思我们的教学实践。在先前对话的基础上，这次交流于2022年2月至7月进行。讨论通过支撑我们教学的假设、信念和价值观探索美国研究的教学方法;多学科和跨学科的挑战;以及身份、包容和国家背景的问题。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.1017/S0021875822000226
S. Colbrook
Since early 2020, pundits and commentators have scrutinized the history of past pandemics for answers to a series of questions shaped by COVID-19: what strategies have worked in the past to stem the spread of contagion? How long do epidemics typically last? Are vaccines an effective “magic bullet” against infectious diseases? The coronavirus crisis spawned comparisons to diseases as epidemiologically diverse as influenza, the Black Death, cholera, HIV/AIDS, and polio, as people excavated the records of past pandemics to try to make sense of the worst public-health disaster for over a century.1 Policy proscriptions emerged quickly from these historical analogies. Many public-health experts pointed to the trajectories of epidemics like the 1918–19 influenza outbreak and SARS to convey the gravity of what would happen if political leaders did not quickly and decisively issue stay-at-home-orders, close schools, and mandate social distancing.2
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Pub Date : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.1017/s0021875822000305
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Pub Date : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.1017/S002187582200024X
S. Whitfield
The subjects of these two books basically belonged to the same generation. Philip Rahv (1908–73) and Michael Gold (1894–1967) shared origins in the Jewish lower class, and rose to literary prominence during the Great Depression. But from the perspective of posterity, what especially links their names is the notion of “proletarian literature.” In novels and short stories, in sketches and poetry, in drama and reportage, the writers who generally accepted this label repudiated the genteel tradition that had crested in the late Victorian era. To be sure, that decorous era of belles lettres had always been contested. It had its outliers – most famously Mark Twain. The list of those who troubled the taste of the era also included, among younger writers, the barely housebroken Theodore Dreiser and Jack London.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.1017/s0021875822000317
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Pub Date : 2022-12-31DOI: 10.22505/jas.2022.54.3.02
Jinim Park
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