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David R. Roediger (born July 13, 1952) is the Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Kansas, where he has been since the fall of 2014. [1] Previously, he was an American Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture is a nonfiction book written by David Brion Davis, originally published by Cornell University Press in 1966, [1] then republished in 1988 by Oxford University Press. [2] The book won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1967 [3] and became a National Book Award finalist. [4]
Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America is a book written by James Davison Hunter and published in 1991. [1] It concerns the idea of a struggle to define American public life between two cultures: the progressives and the orthodox .
Antebellum American Culture (1979), his panoramic look at the cultural discourse surrounding ethnicity, gender, family, race, science, and wealth and power in the pre-Civil War United States, advanced the argument that American culture needs to be understood in terms of an ongoing "moral civil war". Diverse groups of Americans debated "what was ...
The Abandonment of the Jews has been well received by most historians, and has won numerous prizes and widespread recognition, including a National Jewish Book Award, [1] the Anisfield-Wolf Award, the Present Tense Literary Award, the Stuart Bernath Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the Theodore Saloutos ...
Two New York tragedies gripping America show how politics is failing to address some of the most fundamental economic and societal problems and reflect the nation’s mood ahead of Donald Trump ...
Callahan provides multiple examples of this phenomenon in recent American history. In the 1980, when Sears instituted a production quota for its auto repair staff, mechanics began performing unnecessary and costly maintenance. Overbilling is common within the legal profession. Pressed to bill as much time as possible, young lawyers may ...
David Edward Stannard (born 1941) is an American historian and Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaii.He is particularly known for his book American Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 1992), in which he argues that European colonization of the Americas after the arrival of Christopher Columbus resulted in some of the largest series of genocides in history.