Culture Watch
Week of December 14, 2009
Decoding Dan Brown by Simon Cox
The Leo Frank Case--Now a PBS Documentary by Thomas Doherty
The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century by James Livingston
What More We Can Learn from "On the Waterfront": An Interview with James T. Fisher by Rodger D. Citron
Week of November 23, 2009
Beyond Diversity: The Cosmopolitan Dilemma by Jim Cullen
Week of October 12, 2009
How the Short, Unruly Life of ‘Ramparts’ Magazine Changed America: An Interview with Peter Richardson by Aaron Leonard
Week of September 28, 2009
Fadeout at the Box Office: The Decline of Movie-going by Jim Cullen
Neverland, Nevermore by Kirk Bane
Week of September 14, 2009
The Amazin’ Mets: Baseball and the Amazing Summer of 1969 by Ron Briley
Week of September 7, 2009
To Kindle or Not to Kindle by Jim Cullen
Week of August 31, 2009
Bruce Springsteen and American History by Louis P. Masur
Week of August 24, 2009
Somebody Forgot to Mention that the Ships the Artists Painted Carried Slaves by Pearl Duncan
Week of August 17, 2009
My Woodstock by Jim Castagnera
Week of July 13, 2009
Bruno’s American Dream by Jim Cullen
Does the New Dillinger Movie Speak to Our Worries? by Ron Briley
Week of June 22, 2009
Will Moviegoers Want the Real Story of John Dillinger? by Elliott J. Gorn
Week of March 16, 2009
The Best History of Country & Western Music. Ever. by Kirk Bane
Week of December 29, 2008
Ronald Reagan and the Day the Earth Stood Still by Robert Brent Toplin
Week of December 22, 2008
Another Reason for Remembering Dock Ellis by Rodger Citron
Week of October 27, 2008
W.: History and Psychology from Oliver Stone by Robert Brent Toplin
What's Wrong with HBO's Dramatization of John Adams's Story by Jeremy Stern
Week of October 13, 2008
Why Ernie Davis Matters by Yanek Mieczkowski
Week of August 25, 2008
The Dark Knight: An Allegory of America in the Age of Bush? by Ron Briley
Week of June 9, 2008
The Legacy of Pulitzer-Prize Winning Cartoonist Bill Mauldin: An Interview with Biographer Todd DePastino by Robin Lindley
Week of June 2, 2008
"Recount": Fact and Fiction by Mark Weisenmiller
Week of May 5, 2008
Johnny Cash's Folsom at Forty by Kirk Bane
Week of March 17, 2008
Year One of the Empire: Why We Wrote a Play About the Spanish-American War by Joyce Antler and Elinor Fuchs
Week of February 25, 2008
Ridley Scott's American Gangster and the Myths of the Vietnam War by Jeremy Kuzmarov
Week of December 31, 2007
'Rap Music Invented in Scotland'? Nonsense! Rap Music Is American, of African Roots by Pearl Duncan
Charlie Wilson’s War, the Culture of Imperialism and the Distortion of History by Jeremy Kuzmarov
Week of November 12, 2007
Is Country Music Inherently Conservative? by Peter La Chapelle
Week of August 27, 2007
Review of "My Name is Rachel Corrie" by Mary Ann Fay
The Myth of Rachel Corrie by Ronald Radosh
Was CNN's "God's Warriors" Fair? by Timothy R. Furnish
Week of July 9, 2007
Sicko: Michael Moore and Freedom from Fear and Want by Ron Briley
Week of March 5, 2007
Invasion USA (1952): It Can Happen Here by Ron Briley
Week of January 1, 2007
Norman Rockwell: How Innocent Was He? by Richard Halpern
The Uneasy Relationship Between Money and Morals in Book Publishing by Richard L. Cravatts
Week of September 25, 2006
The Most Dramatic Moment in Major League Baseball History by George Beres
Week of June 26, 2006
The Vietnam War and Modern Memory by Ron Briley
Week of May 29, 2006
The Da Vinci Code: A Fun Bunch of Hooey by Cathy Schultz
Week of May 8, 2006
Flight 93 ... No Flight of Fantasy by Timothy R. Furnish
Week of April 10, 2006
Review of "The Boy in the Bubble" by Barron H. Lerner
Week of February 13, 2006
Clint Eastwood's Iwo Jima by David McNeill
Jarhead Nation by Jerry Lembcke
Week of February 6, 2006
How Accurate is Munich? by Steve Bowden
Terence Malick’s The New World: A Creation Myth for a Lost World by Ron Briley
Week of January 30, 2006
Glory Road: The Mixed Legacy of the 1966 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship by Ron Briley
Week of January 23, 2006
Brokeback Mountain and the New Western History by Ron Briley
Week of January 16, 2006
Munich: A Descent into Moral Ambiguity by Ron Briley
