cultural history

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• 8/11/19
  

  Counterculture 1969: a Gateway to the Darkest and the Brightest

  by Harlan Lebo

  The question of how counterculture emerges is a reflection of an era, with results that produced the worst and best of a generation.

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• 8/4/19
  

  Woodstock at 50: A Conversation with Award Winning Filmmaker Barak Goodman

  by Jonathan Montano

  Goodman's latest documentary, "Woodstock: Three Days That Changed a Generation," premieres on PBS August 6th. 

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• 7/28/19
  

  Invented in the Fifties, Adolescence Swallowed the Nation—And Now the White House, Too

  by Tracy Dahlby

  The fixation with our president’s juvenile leadership style overlooks a deeper one: America’s obsession with eternal adolescence.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/20/19
  

  The Vicious Fun of America’s Most Famous Literary Circle

  by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

  The Algonquin Round Table trained a generation of socially conscious writers.

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• 6/30/19
  

  What We Can Learn About Tough Times and Problem-Solving from the 1970s

  by Tracy Dahlby

  If 70s sage E.F. Schumacher has anything to teach us today, it may lie in his chronically appealing idea that optimism about the human spirit, and faith in our potential for problem-solving, can flourish even in the toughest of times.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  6/18/19
  

  The Opioid Epidemic as Metaphor

  by Faith Bennett

  As cinematic portrayals of opioid use and abuse tend to be this sensational, commonplace opioid usage almost feels as if it doesn’t fit into this pattern of addiction at all. 

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• 2/3/19
  

  What I’m Reading: An Interview With Cultural Historian Surekha Davies

  by Erik Moshe

  Understanding the past involves mental stamina and breadth

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• 12-25-16
  

  Can Cultural History Explain the Trump Phenomenon?

  by David A. Horowitz

  The Second Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s arguably represents the combination of white cultural nationalism, traditional morality, and populist self-identity we are seeing today.

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• SOURCE: Press Release -- Northeastern University
  7-31-14
  

  Groundbreaking research maps cultural history

  The team of net­work sci­en­tists used the birth and death loca­tions of more than 150,000 intel­lec­tuals to map their mobility pat­terns in order to iden­tify the major cul­tural cen­ters on the two con­ti­nents over two millennia.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10-20-13
  

  In St. Louis, Celebrating a Team Long Gone

  The St. Louis Browns (since 1953, the Baltimore Orioles) still have their fans in the old hometown.