“Speaking Out of the Most Passionate Love” – James Baldwin and Pragmatism by Ulf Schulenberg

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Rudy Kelly’s Eyes: Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco’s Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Øyvind Vågnes

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Strike a Pose, Forever: The Legacy of Vogue and its Re-contextualization in Contemporary Camp Performances by Constantine Chatzipapatheodoridis

“…By employing a poetics of camp, voguing constantly challenges traditional understandings of gender. In this context, this article examines the re-contextualization of voguing in parallel with vogue’s contemporary gay camp politics.…”
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1776 and Hamilton: Comparing “Founding” Histories in Musical Theatre by Anne Melissa Potter

“…Their responses to these issues are also shaped by the political administrations and contexts in place when they were written. 1776 is more critical of the current political system than Hamilton, but both musicals disrupt traditional historical narratives through music.…”
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The Power of Conformity: Music, Sound, and Vision in Back to the Future by Marc Priewe

“…I argue that the film employs music strategically in order to convey a nostalgic view of American culture and society in the 1950s by including certain songs and excluding others, as well as by a score that is deeply rooted in the traditions of Hollywood film music. …”
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Only Dead Metaphors Can Be Resurrected: A Review of Jill Lepore’s These Truths by George Blaustein

“…Traditionally, U.S. history textbooks announce a civic function when aimed at U.S. readers: they exist to read America into the future, to imply a futurity for the American “experiment.” …”
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Ordinary Women and Conservative Talk Radio in the US: A Comparative Study of Women Callers on The Rush Limbaugh Show and The Laura Ingraham Show (2004 -2010) by Sébastien Mort

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Le radicalisme de Michael Moore by Jean-Marie Ruiz

“…Michael Moore is famous and popular in many European countries, where he is seen as a critic of American culture. However, his main thesis, which is repeatedly expressed in his films and books, does not primarily criticize American popular culture or political tradition. …”
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‘You’re considered a warrior then’ by Marjo Väyrynen

“…Keywords: Native Americans, military service, values, respect, individualism, identity, tradition …”
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The Ubiquity of Strange Frontiers: Minor Eschatology in Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker by Zachary Tavlin

“…Though this counter-tradition is hardly apolitical, it refocuses its politics on the everyday instead of the American millennium, and on the proximate instead of the distant, substituting the imperial appetites of the all-consuming settler subject for the embodied, proprioceptive confusions of the domestic subject. …”
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« Very much in the dark about light » : Franklin, lumières et critiques by James Delbourgo

“…The fundamental question raised was whether Franklin’s famous experiments constituted legitimate natural philosophy in the tradition of Isaac Newton. This dim view of Franklinist enlightenment is linked to the conflicts of the American Revolution, social anxieties about mechanical ingenuity, and geographical hierarchies of knowledge-making. …”
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Le Krimi sous le Troisième Reich : une invention de l'étranger by Vincent Platini

“…The crime novel then took on dictatorial forms, reflecting the changed conception of the law in the new Germany and contrasting with the English tradition of the genre. Although Nazi Krimis and American hard-boiled stories converged to a certain extent, the German products differed unmistakably in their opposition to the imagination prevalent in democratic countries. …”
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European Studies by V. O. Pechatnov, E. O. Obichkina

“…Another characteristic of the tradition is the analysis of foreign policy and diplomacy in a close relationship with the socio-economic and political processes. …”
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Le personnel est encore politique by Claude Chastagner

“…Corridos, a popular musical genre among Mexican and Mexican-American populations, are part of a realistic aesthetic that for a long time made them vectors of social protest and resistance. …”
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A Science of Diplomacy by T. V. Zonova

“…A possibility of converting the study of diplomacy in the field of modern political science became evident. Having preserved the tradition of the historical and international law studies, MGIMO scientists started analyzing complex diplomacy as a political institution, evolving according to its own rules and in accordance with certain laws. …”
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Blacking Up : Une histoire du rock au prisme du blackface by Keivan Djavadzadeh

“…Thus, White artists, such as Elvis Presley or Mick Jagger, have worn a metaphorical blackface mask while “borrowing” signs from the African-American tradition. But some Black artists who were “rediscovered” in the 1960s (Blues Revival) also had to entertain their White audience with the thrill of a so-called “racial authenticity.”…”
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Black Boarding Academies as a Prudential Reparation by Roy Brooks

“…Unfortunately, I do not believe they can. The American race problem is simply too big for reparations to fix. …”
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Black Boarding Academies as a Prudential Reparation by Roy Brooks

“…Unfortunately, I do not believe they can. The American race problem is simply too big for reparations to fix. …”
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Restricting Voting Rights in Modern America by Desmond King, Rogers M. Smith

“…Holder ruling invalidating Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is in part a product of efforts to resist further transformations to the traditional American institutional arrangements that have conferred advantages on whites, especially disproportionate political power. …”
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Contemplation and social transformation: the example of Thomas Merton by P. Sheldrake

“… This essay examines the relationship between the Christian tradition of contemplation and social action. It takes as its paradigm the life and writings of Thomas Merton (Fr Louis), an American Cistercian monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, who became one of the most widely-read and influential spiritual writers as well as Christian social commentators of the mid-twentieth century. …”
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