Browsing HIS Faculty Publications by Title
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Historians' reaction to the documentary, The Dust Bowl
(Agricultural History Society, 2014-04-14)Historical documentaries have a wider audience and often a greater visceral impact than written histories. They frequently resonate deeply with viewers through the use of images, first-person narratives, and evocative ... -
"In our image, according to our likeness" : John D. Rockefeller, jr. and reconstructing manhood in post-Ludlow Colorado
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-01)John D. Rockefeller, Jr.' s reactions to the Colorado Coal Wars resulted in the creation of the Employee Representation Plan, better known as the Rockefeller Plan. While labor historians identify the Rockefeller Plan as a ... -
Influenza pandemics since Russian Flu. Do they provide insight to COVID-19?
(Wichita State University, 5/3/2020)The surprising appearance and rapid spread of Covid-19 has prompted comparisons with pandemic influenza. This presentation will examine influenza pandemics from 1889 Russian flu through the Novel 2009 H1N1 pandemic with ... -
Introduction: Popular music and space in post-war German history
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-05)Scholars are increasingly turning to rock'n’roll and its many genres as a means of exploring the recent past. What is electrifying about popular music in all its myriad forms is that it becomes a channel for rethinking ... -
Krawall in der Zionskirche: skinhead violence and political Legitimacy in the GDR
(SAGE Publications, 2015-04)In 1987, an East Berlin punk concert was attacked by Skinheads. This event and others like it provoked sustained outcry in the German Democratic Republic in the last years of the 1980s. The political opposition transformed ... -
Legionnaires' disease: building a better world for you
(Oxford University Press, 2018-07-01)The emergent or newly reemerging disease model often relies on poverty as a contributing factor in the transmission of infectious diseases. But as Andrew Price-Smith has argued, affluence can also be a factor in the enhanced ... -
Serving up a slice of entrepreneurship on campus: The new Pizza Hut museum
(University of California Press, 2022-02-01)An interdisciplinary team at Wichita State University with individuals from the departments of Business, Communication, History, and Museum Studies worked with a design firm to rehabilitate the first Pizza Hut into a museum, ... -
Shouting back: Popular music and protest
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WHO knows best? National and international responses to pandemic threats and the "lessons" of 1976
(Oxford University Press, 2010-10-01)The discovery of a novel influenza strain at Fort Dix, New Jersey, in 1976-dubbed Swine Flu-prompted differing responses from national and international health organizations. The United States crafted a vaccination campaign ... -
Wutanfall: emotional entanglements in the East German punk subculture
(Routledge, 2022-11-23)Emotions played a critical role in the history of East German punk subculture. Emerging in the late 1970s, punks challenged the SED state and subverted socialist norms through their music, fashion, and lifestyle. However, ...