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The article argues on the need to amend the outdated Wire Act in the U.S. to enable interstate sports betting. Topics include the cultural history of gambling and sports betting legislation in the U.S., factors that led to the passage of the Wire Act, how the Act's current form hinders bettors and sportsbooks, and the proposed amendment to the law that will authorize interstate sports betting and support betting across state lines using mobile sportsbooks.

This article looks at the phenomenon of computer dating through its appearance in the classified ads of the Village Voice. Popular between the late 1960s and mid-1970s, computer dating services used questionnaire data to match singles. Highlighting new perspectives drawn from the classifieds, this article offers a cultural history of computer dating in the United States, charting its rise and fall and the shifting public sentiments around it. The article argues that computer dating should be understood as a media phenomenon and demonstrates how computer dating ads complicate teleological narratives about contemporary dating technologies, offering an alternative history of how computers became "personal." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Second wave feminist legal and educational reform contributed to the fourfold rise in the number of women doctors in the United States between 1970 and 1990, challenging the hierarchical medical workplace from within. At the same moment, the feminist women's health movement (FWHM) identified and protested gendered health disparities, changing medical practice from without. This article analyses five women doctors' autobiographical reflections of medical training published between 1976 and 1987, during this period of gendered upheaval. In these works, authors shared their experiences of entering a male-dominated profession, addressing second wave feminist concerns about women's workplace equality. They explored whether women could become full and equal members of the medical professional, but also how women should become members of a profession that mistreated female patients in ways the FWHM sought to address. Through autobiographical writing, women doctors shared experiences that amplified these reform imperatives, while reflecting on their position as agents within an unequal healthcare system., Competing Interests: Competing interests: None declared., (© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2024. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.)

This article analyses two Swedish documentaries, Broadway Playground (Marklund and Ribbsjö 1977) and Kiki (Jordenö 2016), to interrogate how these ethnographic studies of disinvested Black communities in the United States are presented from the standpoint of Swedish racial innocence, a position that implicitly lays claim to neutrality and objectivity by highlighting an imagined national history of ethnic and cultural homogeneity and promoting a perennial myth of race and colour-blindness. In this context, the visual archiving of Black and Brown bodies in low-income neighbourhoods interpellates people of colour – inscribed by non-Whiteness, economic disenfranchisement and non-heteronormativity – into vulnerable documentary film subjects. The article also explores how White Swedish filmmakers negotiate their positions as 'objective' witnesses to Black lives and Black bodies, concluding with a call to decentre Whiteness in (Scandinavian) studies of people of colour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Beginning in 1924, the US Office of Indian Affairs sent public health or 'field' nurses to Native nations to provide preventative healthcare and education. The field nurse programme began under the US policy of assimilating Native Americans. To that end, field nurses championed 'modern' institutionalised medicine and opposed Indigenous health traditions. They taught an ethnocentric form of health education to Native mothers, and their work was complicit in the genocidal policy of removing Native children to federal boarding schools. However, Indigenous women resisted many of the interventions of the field nurse programme. They also exercised medical pluralism and sought other field nurse services relating to childbirth, prenatal and postpartum health, sometimes in defiance of the nursing programme's professional boundaries. The history of the field nurse programme reveals the ways in which professionalised public health nursing served settler colonial policy, yet it also showcases Native women's self-determination as pregnant patients and as nurses themselves., Competing Interests: Competing interests: None declared., (© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2024. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.)

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The article explores the role of Indian actresses in Native American activism in the film industry. Topics discussed include the significance of the decision of actor Marlon Brando to send actress Sacheen Littlefeather to refuse his award for Best Supporting Actor for the film "The Godfather" on March 28, 1973 as a sign of protest against the industry mistreatment of Native Americans, the author's approach as a Native cultural historian, and the activism of actress Lois Red Elk.

Under the powerful influence of the Cartesian split, American psychotherapy theories usually take for granted the separation of the sociopolitical and the psychological. The intellectual movement referred to as The Interpretive Turn, composed of postmodernism and hermeneutics, directly opposes the split. Drawing from hermeneutic conceptions of the cultural clearing, the everyday social experience of similarity and difference, and Gadamer's description of dialogue, psychotherapy can be thought of as an encounter with difference. This way of conceiving of therapy opposes the split and welcomes Kohut's concept of the group self as an early approach to cultural history. This way of conceiving of similarity and difference aids in meeting the challenges—such as those related to race, gender, sexual orientation, and class—therapists confront in their everyday practices. It is also suggested that some therapists could engage in the role of public intellectual, thus bringing more psychologically sophisticated interpretations of our current political struggles over authoritarianism and democracy. In that way a hermeneutic cultural history could aid in combating the rise of neo-fascism in the United States and throughout the world, and in developing ways of building a more humane society dedicated to the well-being of all its inhabitants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A growing number of historians are self‐identifying as historians of capitalism, a new subfield within the discipline, and have produced research on interesting new questions that transcend the subfields of economic, business, social, cultural, and political history. Ironically, what is missing from the "new" history of capitalism is any serious engagement with the new subfield's central character—capitalism, which instead is simply assumed despite being a contested concept. The implications are not trivial and include making unfalsifiable claims, unwittingly implying that capitalism is totalizing, and reproducing rather than exposing ahistorical understandings of the concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2015 there emerged a nationwide campaign to remove all Confederate memorials commemorating white supremacy of "the old South" from public parks and city centers in the United States. Given that fighting racism and fascism is not equivalent to fighting monuments, one can ask if an attack on dead slaveholders and famous American Confederate generals is worth a large-scale cleansing of the American cultural landscape. Questioning some of the rationales of the campaign is not about defending these statues. If people democratically so decide, they may well get rid of any historical memorials they find ethically offensive. This essay deals with the issue as it pertains to the American cultural landscape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Before the 2020 publication of Elana K. Arnold's Red Hood and Sarah Cuthew's Blood Moon, Judy Blume's 1970 novel Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, which ends with the heroine praising God for blessing her with menarche, was one of the only young adult novels to feature menstruation as a central theme. This paper opens with a brief overview of recent English and American menstrual activism and a discussion of scholarly considerations of the menstrual cycle in literature. Then, through a close comparative reading of works by Arnold and Cuthew, I argue that both novels fulfil their feminist agendas by representing the stigmatised experience of the physicality of menses, and by depicting young women negotiating instances of the kinds of misogyny that punctuate contemporary Western culture. At the same time, the novels share an overly simplistic, binarised attitude towards male adolescents. That aspect highlights the need for the development of affirmative feminist boys studies. Such progress would foster more nuanced literary depictions of young males-and address the challenges of building a more equitable world, thereby responding to some of the motivating concerns of Red Hood and Blood Moon ., Competing Interests: Competing interests: None declared., (© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2024. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.)

The article explores the rise of high culture with classical music, opera, theater, the fine art, and its corresponding ethic of cosmopolitanism through the work of the German immigrant and classical pianist Florenz Ziegfield. It reports that the classical pianist was one of Chicago, Illinois 's busiest cultural entrepreneurs during the Gilded Age.

By the middle of the twentieth century, American universities had evolved into powerful institutions with aggressive cultural agendas. Renewed interest in the arts provided a platform for composers employed by these universities to grow into powerful civic leaders. This article investigates the contributions of four modernist composers—Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, William Schuman, and David Diamond,—who held academic and administrative posts at Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Juilliard School of Music. During this period, these four composers used their academic positions to shape American classical music culture—not through their compositions—but by overhauling music departments, authoring textbooks, and extending the reach of universities and conservatories far beyond the campus walls. This project relies on primary and secondary sources, weaving together academic records, administrative reports, and composer correspondence into a narrative of educational reform, cultural patronage, and even urban renewal. This article endeavors to widen the historiographic focus on postwar composers like the Four to reconsider their relevance as music educators, cultural authorities, and practitioners of modernism outside of the concert hall. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information on the Cultures of Conservatism in the United States and Western Europe between the 1970s and 1990s, a conference that was held at the Deutsches Historisches Institut London in London, England from September 14-16, 2017 is presented. Topics discussed include cultural history of the U.S., neoliberalism in the country and historical research on conservatism.

While the Early American Republic continues to be largely neglected by diplomatic historians, it has been attracting vibrant new historiography taking the "global turn." This forum showcases studies by Nancy Shoemaker, Emily Conroy-Krutz, Rachel Tamar Van, and Courtney Fullilove. Each examines Americans venturing overseas at a time when their secondhand knowledge and firsthand experience of the world was woefully limited. The Early American Republic indicates that we must interrogate a fraught process of globalizing before we can presume any existence of global interconnection. By the 1830s the outcome of American ventures was a world with increasingly more Americans in it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the history of Vaqueros and shares information on their skills, work ethic and origin. Topics discussed include the evident origination of Vaqueros in the Rio Grande Valley; their livelihood in ranchos of Texas and Mexico and recognition of area south of San Antonio "The Neueces Diamond" as the centre of cowboy culture; and the future aspects of the cowboy traditions.

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John D. Rockefeller, Jr. expended some $2.85 million on restoration work at Versailles, Fontainebleau, and Reims Cathedral in the 1920s and 1930s. Tempting as it is to see this expenditure as part of a broader philanthropic strategy after World War I, Rockefeller Junior was pursuing a largely personal interest in natural and cultural conservation; in these years he funded many other projects in the U.S. and around the world. Looking specifically at the French restorations, Gabriel Hanotaux characterized the work as "the internationalism of beauty." During the war, as president of the Rockefeller Foundation and chairman of the United War Work Campaign, Rockefeller had learned a great deal about how philanthropy was being transformed. He and others began to see discrete and distinctive roles for mass popular giving campaigns, professionalized foundations, and government. Through his restoration work, he began to draw on those lessons to shape a distinctive role for his personal giving. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses intersectionality in the Iranian refugee community in the U.S. Topics discussed include social, political, cultural history of immigration and forced displacement in the Iranian immigrant community in the U.S., and social injustice and discrimination because of post-revolutionary political tensions in the relationship between the United States and Iran.

An essay is presented on factors affecting the American Civil War focusing on beliefs, civilization, cultural and social values. It discusses an overview of violence present during the war between the Union and Confederate States, the practice of guerilla warfare, and the influence of racism. The author also explains the impact of citizenship and the practice of retaliation during the period.

We review some of the most significant research trends as well as emerging issues in the archaeology of the American Southwest and Northwest Mexico. Among the many topics being studied that we could discuss, we have chosen to focus on engaged archaeology, "big data", the research potential of museum collections, agriculture, social organization, regional connectivity, and culture history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay critically examines the postcapitalist characteristics of civil sphere theory (CST) and their implications for locating media in large-scale processes of social change. Providing a case study of U.S. media between the 1930s and 1980s, the essay argues that because CST treats media as free-floating images, rather than cultural industries and consumer practices, it is unable to account for a wide range of episodes in the making and unmaking of solidarity, including the Depression era’s specter of social unraveling, the suburban dismantling of the industrial city’s public amusement culture, and the emergence of a post-1960s New Right lens on media. The essay suggests that CST’s approach to solidarity should be modified to account for media’s deep embeddedness in the culture of capitalism. This would include recognizing that popular visions of community take shape within, and in response to, an economic culture uniquely prone to change. It would also include recognizing that messages and moments of solidarity are always experienced within built environments shaped by capital flows. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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A practice-based dialectic theory of identity was used in this study to explore the cultural-historical context of an urban charter school in which a group of newly arrived Muslim Turk refugee students’ academic identities were formed. The school, located in the Southwestern United States, was founded by a global Islamist movement. Ethnographic methods were employed over a nine-month period of fieldwork. Findings suggest the demands and consequences of claiming competent learner identities were costly when the refugee students struggled to participate in multiple cultural worlds. The refugee students were sorted into generic institutional identities such as English Language Learners that came with negative social implications and resulted in exclusion of the students from general education classrooms. Over time, the refugee students became closer to special education identification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the significance of using the strategic phenomenon of mainstreaming immigrant cultural narratives for the development of immigrant workers movement for citizenship rights in the U.S. Topics discussed include workplace standards for immigrant workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act, transnational citizenship for aliens, and civil rights of immigrant workers under the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The mobility of sportsmen and women, like that of professional entertainers, is a neglected but important theme in social and cultural history. Focusing on the transatlantic migration stream between the United States and Britain, and on three sporting case studies (association football, boxing, and speedway racing), this article demonstrates that patterns of sporting migration were rooted in wider migration systems and that regulatory responses were embedded in the broader policies of governments, governing bodies, and trade unions. Like many other migrant workers, athletes faced considerable restrictions between the wars. Yet, in the context of the increasing internationalization of sporting competition, and an emerging interconnection between national sporting cultures, interwar sport also offered new and unprecedented opportunities for mobility and for the construction of transnational sporting stars. Drawing on a range of archival sources, this article provides a fresh perspective on both the character of international migration and the tensions between transnational and national identities between the wars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Debates around the "soft power" have generated the advance of an area of study yet a little unexplored: the cultural history of the international relations. We are to approach the role of the cultural diplomacy as an essential tool to understand the role that culture played at a certain moment and of those who stand in the place of its interpreters, the intellectuals who were participating in a certain way of diplomacy. The case of study which is presented here is a synthesis of a major work which will soon appear as a book, the one that is dedicated to the study of the relations between Mexico and the International organization of intellectual cooperation during a wide period of time which goes between 1922 and 1948. This allows the understanding of the complex net of relations that the Mexican cultural diplomacy had in order to place itself in the international stage without losing sight of the regional conflicts which specially had with its neighbor, The United States of America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on emerging forms of formative intervention research in educational settings in the United States. The examples presented share three key features with cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) formative intervention research: (a) a focus on historically accumulating structural tensions within and across activity systems, (b) use of double-stimulation as a method of intervention, and (c) expanding agency as the object of intervention. The examples differ from CHAT approaches in that they employ theories and tools from research on subject-matter learning and organizations. In presenting these examples, I aim to renew dialogue between CHAT researchers and learning scientists about intervention research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Santa Fe Style is an assembly of cultural features associated with the city of Santa Fe and its surrounding Upper Rio Grande Valley. The style, often dismissed as a confection for tourists because of its gloss and worldliness, is in fact a manifestation of reflexive regionalism. This overlooked cultural process occurs when worldly outsiders fashion regional traits into responses to the life challenges that they and their extraregional reference groups face. In this case, outsiders fashioned what they found in early-twentieth-century Santa Fe into responses to challenges that accompanied the rise of American industrial capitalism. Threats to elite hegemony, the destruction of established lifeways, and the need for new perspectives on American society were prominent among the challenges to which the Santa Fe Style responded. Reflexive regionalism is thus the kind of cultural process that Regulation Theory posits but has found difficult to convincingly identify in the real world, i.e., one that adapts individuals and societies to periodic shifts in the logic and practices of capitalism. I examine seven individuals who made signal contributions to the Santa Fe Style. Each reveals a key facet of Santa Fe’s reflexive regionalism. Together they show how this process created the Santa Fe Style and, more generally, how it works as an engine of cultural invention. The key concepts here are reflexive regionalism, the Santa Fe Style, cosmopolitanism, Regulation Theory, the work of the age, and the project of the self. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses her experiences in utilizing the history of cigarettes and cigarette smoking in the U.S. in teaching 20th century U.S. cultural history to students at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science (MCPHS) University. She discusses the history of the prevalence of cigarettes in U.S. culture, the use of primary sources such as cigarette advertising in her course, information concerning smoking health risks, and government policies toward the tobacco industry.

European advertising, its aesthetics, institutions and its central organisations, the advertising agencies, were profoundly changed by the arrival of American advertising agencies during the inter-war period. Supported by industrial clients who demanded global communications campaigns, and based on new forms of professional advertising management, these agencies soon dominated the course of European advertising history. During the 1960s, the influence of American advertising agencies began to wane, and global advertising increasingly followed new trends that originated in Europe. This article searches for the origins of this remarkable change of direction. In doing so, it compares the cultural-economic development of major European advertising industries from the immediate post-war years to the twenty-first century. It can be shown that the European advertising industries followed ‘non-American’ pathways in their development, which combined an emphasis on creativity with radically new forms of advertising production and agency management. As a result, successful advertising agencies today look less like American full-service agencies, and much more like the smaller European agencies of the type that had emerged between the world wars. The article discusses these findings in the light of the often-applied term ‘Americanisation’. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Can race and assimilation be taught? Interdisciplinary pedagogy provides a methodology, context, and use of nontraditional texts culled from American cultural history such as from, theater and historical texts. This approach and these texts prove useful for an examination of race and assimilation in America. The paper describes a course that while organized chronologically, used the juxtaposition of varied texts to highlight the complexity of these social issues. By design, this methodology raises questions rather than providing specific answers. The purpose of this course was to encourage students to think critically about their own role in constructing concepts of race. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information related to anti-Vietnam war movement, which has put the U.S. into cultural crossroads. It is stated that in the era of Vietnam War, many literary, musical and popular culture artifacts were created, which suggest that the decision of the U.S. to enter the Vietnam War was incorrect. It is noted that Anti-Vietnam War movement of 1960s has a noteworthy position within the cultural history of the U.S.

In this essay I consider the unlikely proximity of Walter Lippmann and American cultural studies. I advance two arguments. First, I argue that the 1980s invention of Walter Lippmann as an anti-democrat played an important, constitutive role in the formulation and propagation of a communication-centric version of cultural studies. Second, I argue that the recent reinvention of Lippmann holds the potential to reanimate Carey's articulation of communication and cultural studies. For, as I demonstrate, Lippmann helps us rethink the articulation of expertise, democracy, and communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay analyzes ten disparate but linked moments in the history of the depiction of the spaces of public housing. Investigating the image of public housing that emerges from a range of cultural forms and practices – from hip-hop to literature to social reform to urban planning to boogaloo – the essay inhabits the perspectives of a host of different actors with an interest in the life of public housing. By surveying a range of attitudes towards public housing from different moments in its history, it hopes to renew a vision of the public goals at the heart of its creation. Understanding the creative use of public housing's superblock spaces offers a way to imagine a form of shared ownership over its fate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Through its analysis of the complex discursive struggle over Times Square's – and later America's – ‘bobby sox brigade’, this article reintroduces young women into historical and theoretical accounts of youth culture. In doing so it challenges subculture and moral panic theories for their over-emphasis on working-class masculinity and their inability to account for the complexity and localized specificity – both historical and geographic – that such case studies command. The bobby soxer and the conflicting debates she engendered must be understood as a product of wartime contingency and in relation to the contested discourses within and between different localized contexts and media forms; the bobby soxer was simultaneously positioned as the key problem of wartime and promise of the post-war prosperity ahead. This article ultimately proposes a theoretical framework focusing on localized and contested terrains of discourse, appropriate to (sub)cultural activity in times of war and other disruptions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The 2011-12 U.S. presidential campaign was the most expensive and broadly troubling contest in the country's history. "Perdition" provides a doubly apt metaphor for assessing its place in cultural history. The gangster film "Road to Perdition" (2002), a "blood" or "revenge" tragedy, captures the sense of inter-necine warfare that the GOP primary and caucus battles enacted. John Milton's "Paradise Lost" (1667) parallels the public's sense of the country's descent into a state of darkened disgust and despair. The unexpected con-sequences of the '70s party structural reforms, the fracturing of the Republican base in the 2010 bi-election, the number of increasingly acrid GOP debates, and the sheer amount of money spent by candidates, PACs, and especially anonymous superPACs during the electoral contest are explored as accounts for the aptness of the metaphors. Calls for reform complete the analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cultural historian Philip Deloria employs the concepts of "expectation and anomaly" to illuminate the influence of "unexpected" American Indians on the formation of American popular culture during the early twentieth century. I apply Deloria's framework towards an examination of Creek and Kaw saxophonist Jim Pepper at the time of his 1969 release "Witchi Tai To" I situate Pepper's music as sounding a unique vision of Indigenous musical modernity, exploring expectations relating to his fusion of musical styles and concluding with a reflection upon "Witchi Tai To's" ownership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]