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...Darien Brahms This comparative photographic essay examines the socioeconomic state of Puerto Rico in the pre- and post-Operation Bootstrap eras. A visual narrative, it pairs the images of 1940s Farm Security Administration photographer Jack Delano with contemporary photographs by the author...

... American heavyweights like Sam McVea, Joe Jeannette, and world champion Jack Johnson ventured across the ocean in search of better opportunities for fame, fortune, and personal freedom. Their incredible commercial success bolstered the myths of French color blindness that had long circulated in black...

... critique of American militarism as it appeared to Young, Jack Reed, and the artists and intellectuals associated with The Masses , who rose in opposition to this violent new political enemy. Through a close reading of this image and its place in the visual culture of early-twentieth-century radicalism, I...

...Brian D. Bunk On September 14, 1923, Jack Dempsey and Luis Firpo of Argentina fought for boxing's heavyweight championship of the world. This article argues that descriptions of Firpo generated in the buildup to the title match reveal the ambiguous racial positioning of Latin Americans and Southern...

...Jack Conway This article is an interview with former Provisional Irish Republican Army active service volunteer and current Sinn Féin activist and visual artist Danny Devenny. Culled from interviews conducted in Belfast between 1998 and 2000, during the Northern Ireland peace process, Danny...

...Jen Jack Gieseking Queer theory's embrace of instability paints stabilizing practices as normalizing and unjust. Rather than upholding a stance of opposition by championing instability alone, what can be gleaned for queer theory by examining the tension of the in/stability dialectic? This essay...

... in Late-Victorian London. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. $35.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Tales of the traffic in young virgins, of women narrowly escaping confinement in asylums, of Victorian men and women trying to talk openly about sex, and finally of the legendary Jack...

... genocide. Notes An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, November 1989. I would like to thank Jack Campisi, Laurence M. Hauptman, and Arlinda F. LocWear for their comments...

... Empire." In a review of one of my early books of essays, Time magazine did a raging attack on me-saying that one of the things that made me such an evil figure was that I used that phrase, "the American Empire." We cannot be an empire, of course. I remember Jack Javits years ago saying "Gore, how...

... Sea, Marcus Rediker recreates the world of Jack Tar with vivid detail and theoretical sophistication. Turning him slowly around to reveal each of his complex facets, Rediker shows us the tar as both the creator and vic- tim of trans-Atlantic merchant-capitalism. Using a wide range...

... of history at the College of the Holy Cross. She is the author of From Jack Tar to Union Jack: Representing Naval Manhood in the British Empire, 1870 – 1918 (2009). Her current project is a comparative history of childhood in the British Empire. John Corbally is working on finishing his doctoral...

... white supremacist groups as well as plots resembling those of al-­Qaeda. While the study focused on how these plans were thwarted (primarily through observations made by the general public and/or law enforcement personnel, not the Jack Bauer – like counterterrorism efforts that dominate popular...

...”) in King’s Row. Why should the body of a legless man have possessed Reagan so personally?17 Reagan begins Where’s the Rest of Me? with his birth, switches to his rebirth in King’s Row, and then returns to his father. Jack Reagan was a shoe salesman. ”He loved shoes. He sold them as a clerk...

... video (“Commies and their Mommies”) made it inappropriate for him to attend. Jesse Lemisch is professor of history emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York. Best known for his work on “Jack Tar,” the politics of merchant sea...

... sequence of the succession of the moderates by the radicals and the Thermidorian return of moderation, even in its extended and more rigorously formalized pattern sketched by Jack Goldstone, does not allow for the examina- tion of the institutional consequences of revolutions.4 Furthermore...

... solemn, and Jack Dawkins addressing of 'em as intimate and comfortable as if he was the judge's own son making a speech arter dinner-ha! ha! ha In fact, Mr. Fagin had so well humoured his young friend's eccentric disposition, that Master Bates, who had at first been disposed...

... reflected a growing bond between Eastern State and adjacent businesses, especially the new restaurants lining Fairmount Avenue’s south side. Jack McDavid, the chef who began serving up “haute country cuisine” at Jack’s Firehouse in 1989, hosted a party for Eastern State’s Ribbon of Gold vol- unteers...

... and sexuality. Jen Jack Gieseking is a cultural geographer who researches the co-­productions of space, identities, and justice in digital and material environments. S/he is working on her second book, Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queer Women, 1983-­2008. Jack is postdoctoral...

... it; a model of, well, political correctness. ALL THAT'S SOLID MELTS The 1890s, as any fast food historian knows, were one of the most creative decades for packaged consumables. The 1893 Chicago Exposi- tion brought us the Cracker Jack as well as the Aunt Jemima pancake. Two years later...

... the nineteenth century to understand itself. Deeply embedded in popular consciousness, it was what Raymond Williams would call a "structure of feeling," constituting one of the mythologies of the nineteenth century with its scheming aristocrats, noble jack tars, virtuous women, comic retainers...