While the health care reform is making Americans throw hateful slurs at each other and discuss whether it will be the end of the republic, there are certain things that most Americans can agree on. One of those things is that WWII not only provides damn good entertainment, but also a way to stroke your [...]
A new miniseries about the Kennedy family and John F. Kennedy’s presidency is being produced for The History Channel – which sounds like fairly non-controversial news. However, the series has spurned the violent reaction among Kennedy supporters who have started the website stopkennedysmears.com. The reason for all this is that the series is being produced [...]
Tagged KennedysThe other day during a much needed lunch break a few colleagues and I got into a conversation about social drug use. What else would a group of new Ph.D. students be talking about in the dark corridors of the academy! I think I started us on our downward spiral as I was complaining that [...]
Tagged drugsIn the late 1960s, Texas poster art, long an important mainstay of the state’s printmaking tradition, entered a fertile and innovative period in Austin. Drawing inspiration from the counter culture and psychedelic music movements, a new generation of Texas graphic arts designers created one-of-a-kind posters. Today their works are considered some of the finest artifacts [...]
Tagged Poster Art, TexasWhich I wish to remark And my language is plain That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar. Which the same I would rise to explain. Ah Sin was his name; And I shall not deny In regard to the same What that name might imply, [...]
“Will Race Survive in the US? The Possibilities and Impossibilities of the Obama Phenomena” By Professor David Roediger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sponsored by the Embassy of the United States, Copenhagen Center for American Studies University of Southern Denmark, Odense Thursday, September 25, 2008 14:15-16:00, Room 100 This lecture, based on David Roediger’s shortly [...]
One of the most captivating presentations at the recent EAAS conference in Oslo was Kay Koppedrayer’s narration of the events at a Lakota sundance ceremony on the Pine Ridge reservation where American Flags were flown during the ceremony: One year, four American flags flew over a Lakota sundance on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Raised on [...]
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Tagged History, Musicology, Race and EthnicityAn interesting project of history writing through music appeared last September. It’s a 3 CD compilation of American songs stretching from 1492 to present day. Added interest in the project may be offered by the fact that the executive producer of the compilation is former Attorney General, Janet Reno… Reno has this to say about [...]