Women’s Health Protective Associations in the United States

Women’s Health Protective Associations in the United States Amelia Bonea, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Women’s or Ladies’ Health Protective Associations were reform groups organized in various parts of the United States from the last decades of the nineteenth century … Continue reading

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The American Russian Institute

Fred S. Naiden Abstract for the American Russian Institute The American Russian Institute, founded in 1926, served for two decades as a pro-Soviet propaganda vehicle for the Communist Party USA. Like other party-line organizations of this era, the Institute passed … Continue reading

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Creating the “First Lady”

Creating the “First Lady”: Presidents’ Wives in Popular Magazines, 1880-1930 By Donna L. Halper (Assoc. Professor of Communication, Lesley University, Cambridge MA) Summary: In our modern world, we are accustomed to reporters covering the First Lady: whether Michelle Obama or Laura … Continue reading

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“Encounter Magazine”

Scott Lahti SUMMARY Founded in 1953 and published through 1990, the Anglo-American, London-based monthly periodical Encounter, was initially sponsored by the Paris-based Congress for Cultural Freedom, covertly funded in its early years by the CIA and MI6 and initially edited … Continue reading

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Scott Lahti: Personal Background

My early interest in essays, criticism and cultural journalism took me, prior to my early-1980s major in economics at New York University, to the writings of such paleolibertarian writer-editors of the interwar period as Henry Hazlitt (from whom my high school … Continue reading

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Donna L. Halper: Personal Background

I am currently an Associate Professor of Communication at Lesley University, Cambridge MA. My areas of expertise are 19th and 20th century media history, as well as women’s history, Jewish history, and African-American history. I am the author of five … Continue reading

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Fred S. Naiden: Personal Background

I am an ancient historian at UNC Chapel-Hill, with interests in Greek politics and statecraft that led to the work of the late Sir Moses Finley, professor of ancient history at Cambridge University in England and perhaps the leading social … Continue reading

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Amelia Bonea: Personal Background

I am an historian of media, science and technology, with degrees from the Universities of Tokyo (Japan) and Heidelberg (Germany). I am originally from Romania, but call Japan my second home and have recently returned after an absence of almost … Continue reading

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