...Alan McDougall Turning away from star players and secret police surveillance, this article provides a history of East German football from below, examining the role of the people's game in shaping everyday life in the socialist state. Analyzing issues of class, gender, and youth culture...

...Hikabwa D. Chipande This article explores the complex relationship between football (soccer) and social change in late colonial Zambia (formerly known as Northern Rhodesia). Based on archival and oral sources collected over two years in Zambia, it argues that by the time the colonial state...

... Kuhn's Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics, and Sid Lowe's Fear and Loathing in La Liga: Barcelona, Real Madrid, and the World's Greatest Sports Rivalry . Goldblatt David , The Game of Our Lives: The English Premier League and the Making of Modern Britain . ( New York...

...Tamara Giles-Vernick Copyright © 2000 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2000 THE PAST IN PRINT Workers, Football Players, Musicians, and Painters: Remaking Conventional Narratives of Africa’s Colonial...

...Thomas P. Oates In the past several decades, a new narrative framework for American football in the United States has been offered to mainstream consumers. In a number of entertainments, notably fantasy football, fans are invited to enjoy National Football League (NFL) games through the lens...

... to rewarding, controlling, or destroying their lives. This article examines how sports were used to determine the value of three young black men in Missouri, all named Michael (gay football player Michael Sam, HIV felon Michael “Tiger Mandingo” Johnson, and Michael Brown of Ferguson), with dramatic and even...

... history. But let’s leap ahead to the mid-­1990s. After time spent coaching in South Africa, I was in my second year of a PhD program in history at Boston Univer- sity, intending to write the first scholarly history of black South African football.2 One day, I serendipitously stumbled...

...’ Introduction Historicizing the Politics and Pleasure of Sport The making of global culture owes much to sport. The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup, the Olympic Games, and other major sporting events generate huge revenues, fill stadiums, attract billions...

... an honorary degree at Harvard in that mem- orable year, 1968? That Championship Season “The trouble is,” explains Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the newly inaugurated president of Huxley University, “we’re neglecting football for education.” “Where would...

... and Latin American and Caribbean studies at Hofstra University. Her publications include Futbolera: Women, Gender, and Sport in Latin America (with J. Nadel), Citizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth Century Chile, and Football and the Boundaries of History. She has published...

... explain his certitude of action in the wake of the Crítica publications. 5. For Argentina, see Eduardo Archetti, Masculinities: Football, Polo, and the Tango in Argentina (Oxford, UK: Berg, 1999); and Pablo Alabarces, Fútbol y patria: El fútbol y las narrativas de la nación en la...

.... Worried that he would be stuck in B movies, Reagan introduced Warner Brothers to the idea of a film about Knute Rockne. Reagan had played football all through his youth; he got his first radio job by simulating the end of a game his college had won in the last twenty seconds by using ”the old...

... out to win. In a winner-takes-all society, this can be emotionally rough. What I accidentally stumbled onto in studying history was not a way to win more, but to see my organizing in a different framework. Organizing is not a football season in which only those who have won more than they have...

... Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa (1999). His forthcoming books include Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football and Bodies in Motion, Bodies at Rest. John J. Fitzgerald is a retired teacher from Longmeadow High School in Massachusetts, where he taught social studies and served...

...) and parole officers (12) but ahead of postal inspectors (21), podiatrists (59), astronauts (180), and lumberjacks (249). And in categories like “working environment,” historians are doing very well indeed (number 5) especially when compared to NFL football play...

... documents the war stories, and the anti- war stories, that Mount Holyoke historian Joe Ellis invented about himself when teaching—what else?—the sixties. Ellis’s fabulations about his heroic career as a high school football player, civil rights activist, Vietnam war hero, and antiwar pro- testor make...

... these "meddling, uto- pian do-gooders" who would undermine national security, Nixon watched a football game while protesters surrounded the Pentagon. Earlier, Kaiser Wilhelm I1 portrayed European peace enthusiasts as a pack of "scum, rabble, Jews and socialists" (the epithet covered Carnegie...

... for a reunion with Rummie shortly after his election to Congress, they felt themselves being treated “like constituents.” To “get him down to being a roomie again,” they used the ruse of a touch football game to tackle “the young congressman,” strip off his pants, and throw them up in a tree. “That got...

... Cipp (in real life, not the movie) only to find to his consternation that the university had presented the blue-and-gold Notre Dame sweater to Reagan, when the national champion Notre Dame football team visited the White House just before the Gipper left office. Now, let’s see: If Reagan...

... pay-cable viewers were, in effect, purchasing the in- dulgences they received, taped or not. But then, Luther is long dead. So it’s back to the dubious dispensations of Sunday afternoon football -which is too bad, as we were particularly looking forward to the commercial that would pose...