The Businessman as Artist in American Civilization by John Dean

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The West and the Western as grounds for reconciliation in the American Civil War by Juliette Bourdin

“…It also aims to show how and to what extent the Western genre proved to be a convenient means to sustain the tale of national reconciliation in the American Civil War. These films reveal that the genre simply drew on preexisting codes and past trends to represent both the war and Southerners, but also used what the West had to offer, notably stock enemies and a neutral territory, to bring about the national reunification.…”
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Dangerous Liaisons: Working Women and Sexual Justice in the American Civil War by E. Susan Barber, Charles F. Ritter

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Re-building the Nation-State: The American Civil War in a transnational perspective by Daniele Fiorentino

“…This article analyzes the reading of the American Civil War in Europe, how this conflict was perceived. …”
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A «new society will come»: C.L.R. James in American Civilisation by Matteo Battistini

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Figures of Violence in Ron Rash’s The World Made Straight by Frédérique Spill

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Layering Public Park Histories: Uncovering the Effects of Restoration Idea[l]s in Post-War Urban Spaces in Germany and the U.S. by Laura Brannan Fretwell, Eliane Schmid

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Immigrants italiens et frontière américaine : Pioneers ! Ο pioneers ! by Marie-Christine Michaud

“…As a matter of fact, they were building American society and felt they were part and parcel of the pioneers who spread American civilization in the new territories. Hence they lived in a new "western identity space," and became pioneers—Italian-American pioneers.…”
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Rejuvenescence American Style: Longevity, Aging, The US Tradition of Rejecting the Old & the US Baby Boom Generation Now by John Dean

“…To accomplish this investigation the essay tries to blend Cultural History, Cohort Analysis, Sociology of Mass Media, American Studies, and Cross-cultural analysis. Key American civilization traits are used as analytical tools: The Promised Land, Progress, Superabundance, Innocence, Rejuvenation, Success, Opportunity, Ingenuity, Technology, Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Founding Fathers, Isolationism…”
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Progress and Criticism of Progress as a Characteristic of Modern Civilizations in the Work of Friedrich Nietzsche and Ludwig Wittgenstein by Ulrich Arnswald

“…Ludwig Wittgenstein explicitly distances himself here from the spirit that defined the prevailing European and American civilization in the 1930s. He does not succumb to the delusions of grandeur of new, higher-level civilization, but leaves progress as the constantly progressing background noise of any civilization. …”
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Gastronomy vs gastro-anomie? Japan’s foodscape by А. V. Malov, S. V. Chugrov

“…It is proved that, along with the import of foreign food products, which undermined the food self-sufficiency of the state, the patterns of the Euro-American civilization were imported, which modified the model of social behavior, ingrained eating habits, and age-old culinary foundations of Japanese society. …”
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Milices et guérillas paysannes face à l’armée régulière: le combat asymétrique au Rio de la Plata et la fragmentation territoriale (1810-1852) by Alejandro M. Rabinovich

“…This paper analyzes the Spanish-American civil conflicts from the first half of the 19th century through the lens of their usually asymmetric nature, where permanent forces of the central governments were facing militias of provinces and regions. …”
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Waving the Black-and-White Bloody Shirt: Civil War Remembrance and the Fluctuating Functions of Images in the Gilded Age by William GLEESON

“…The vicissitudes in the post-Civil War period of images made of the conflict tell us a great deal about the lack of permanence and the constant struggle to make images “mean”, even for an event as momentous as the American Civil War. In the 1890s, with the advancing age of the generation of combatants, there was a re-emergence of the images taken during the War, whether it be in lantern slide shows or in publications. …”
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“This is 1986. This isn’t like the 60s and 50s”: Locating the Long Civil Rights Narrative in Just Mercy (2019) by Johanne Østergaard, Mikkel Jensen

“…Many historians have heeded Jacqueline Dowd Hall’s call to revise the American civil rights narrative, and this article argues that Destin Daniel Cretton’s Just Mercy (2019) is a part of a wave of “long civil rights films.” …”
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The Nurse, the Veteran, and the Female Scientist: Dependency and Separation by Kirsten Twelbeck

“…The discourse that emerged around the female nurses who served in American Civil War hospitals has been a major topic in the debate about nineteenth-century gender relations. …”
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The Union Army’s Surgical Handbook and the Positive Story of Civil War Surgery by John M. Harris, Jr., MD

“…Recent research shows that the Union Army’s American Civil War (1861–1865) surgical case fatality rates improved as the war progressed, much like the US Army’s experience in later wars, and were generally superior to comparable European results. …”
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Horsing Around: Carnivalesque Humor and the Aesthetics of Dehierarchization in Mister Ed by Stefan L. Brandt

“…Mister Ed playfully advocates a radical move toward alternative representations of body, identity, and species, even postulating an analogy between the African American Civil Rights Movement and the discourse of animal liberation. …”
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The History of Miss Jane Pittman by Christopher Mulvey

“…For Gaines, the war that makes the great turning point of a nation and a people is the American Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865. It resulted in a moment of history after which life would not be the same. …”
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