Alexis Mccrossen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1017115 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexis Mccrossen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexis |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccrossen |
| SIGNATURE | MCCROSSEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Methodist University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-5513-6082 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Seeing time
Deploying ‘all[-]important moments’: Seeing time in Duke University’s collections of early North American advertisements
Time as an anchor
On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping by Ken Mondschein
Reviewed by: On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping by Ken Mondschein Alexis McCrossen (bio) On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping By Ken Mondschein. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Pp. 256. On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping By Ken Mondschein. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Pp. 256. In this synthesis, the medievalist and public intellectual Ken Mondschein presents a history of the development of W…
The Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity
If, after reading Kevin M. Kruse's One Nation under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (2015), you want to know more about the political clout of evangelicals in twentieth-century America, turn to Darren E. Grem's The Blessings of Business. Grem's two-part book looks first at the influence of big businessmen over mostly parachurch expressions of conservative evangelical Christianity and then at conservative evangelicals' approp…
Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream
Journal Article Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream Get access Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013. xii, 237 pp. Paper, $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1176–1177, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau013 Published: 01 March 2014
Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life
CHARLES Demotte. Bat, Ball and Bible: Baseball and Sunday Observance in New York
The “Very Delicate Construction” of Pocket Watches and Time Consciousness in the Nineteenth‐Century United States
This essay, about pocket watches and time consciousness in the nineteenth‐century United States, suggests that the increasing volume of pocket watches in circulation throughout the United States after the 1830s prodded a wide cross section of Americans into more than just simple awareness of mechanical time. The evidence, some of which is drawn from accounts relaying details about repairs to watches, shows that watches augmented, rather than repl…
Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States–Mexico Borderlands
Drawing Boundaries between Markets, Nations, and Peoples, 1650-1940
Disrupting Boundaries: Consumer Capitalism and Culture in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1940-2008
Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States-Mexico Borderlands
Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States–Mexico Borderlands
Historians and anthropologists unravel the interplay of the national and transnational, and of scarcity and abundance, in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands
One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity (review)
Reviewed by: One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity Alexis McCrossen (bio) One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity. By Ian R. Bartky. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. xxv+292. $49.95. To start with a personal aside: In the mid-1970s, when National Bureau of Standards employee Ian Bartky was preparing a report for the U.S. Congress about whether year-round daylight saving time would save energy,…
Conventions of Simultaneity”: Time Standards, Public Clocks, and Nationalism in American Cities and Towns, 1871-1905
This article considers the saturation of American cities and towns with government-sponsored public clocks during the Gilded Age. In doing so, it seeks to establish that while clocks are part of the modern technological landscape of order, discipline, and efficiency, they also constitute another terrain of power: that of the state. The article considers the diffusion of government clocks across the nation and the nationalist symbolism associated …
Sunday: Marker of time, setting for memory
This historical essay seeks to frame Sunday as a marker of time and a setting for memory. Although the article's examples come from nineteenth-century United States, its larger argument - that spaces of time function as settings for memory - can be applied to other geographic regions and chronological eras. The article opens and closes with Sunday at sea; the body addresses Sunday as a site for religious, domestic, and national memories
Beloved Strangers: Interfaith Families in Nineteenth Century America
Introduction: In Search of Ancestors 1 Children of the Religious Enlightenment Parents How Children Reinterpreted Their Parents' Values Getting Married, Raising Families Descendants 2 Conversations about Interfaith Marriage Official Opinions Moral Tales Newspaper Romances 3 The Strange Intimacy of Piety and Politics Washington Courtships Converts and Their Husbands Interfaith Families and Their Church A Failed Marriage The Rabbi's Daughter 4 The …
Merry Christmas! Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday
Merry Christmas! is an exuberant romp through the stuff of Christmas—wrapping paper, Christmas trees, candy and cookies, greeting cards, charity, Santa Claus, and television specials. Karal Ann Marling, a professor of art history at the University of Minnesota, examines the material culture of Christmas and much more. As she unpacks (and unwraps) the various rituals that mark the holiday season, she speculates about why Americans love Christmas. …
Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday
Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday
Journal Article Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday. By Alexis McCrossen. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. xiv, 209 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-9014-3417-3.) Get access Paul Gutjahr Paul Gutjahr Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 688–689, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675195 Published: 01 September 200…
Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Imagination
Murder Most Foul: The Killer and American Imagination. By Karen Halttunen. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 322. Illustrations. $29.95.) Karen Halttunen situates origins of conventions that shape contemporary tales of murder-mystery and horror-in antebellum America, and thus is appropriate that this journal include a review of her latest book. Murder Most Foul is as inspired and compelling as best of studies concerning the Ame…
Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday
Journal Article Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday Get access Mccrossen Alexis. Holy Day, Holiday: The American SundayIthaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000. xii, 209 pp. $39.95. Gerald J. Russello Gerald J. Russello New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 44, Issue 4, October 2000, Pages 458–459, https://doi.org/10.2307/3113805 Published: 01 O…
Religion and the American Experience: A Social and Cultural History, 1765- 1997
Journal Article Religion and the American Experience: A Social and Cultural History, 1765–1997. By Donald C. Swift, New Directions in American Religious History. Ed. by Harry S. Stout and D. G. Hart and Religious Diversity and American Religious History: Studies in Traditions and Cultures. Ed. by Walter H. Conser Jr. and Sumner B. Twiss Get access Alexis McCrossen Alexis McCrossen Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Search for other work…
American Sacred Space
Journal Article American Sacred Space. Ed. by David Chidester and Edward T. Linenthal. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. xvi, 352 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-253-32915-9. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-253-21006-2.) Get access Alexis McCrossen Alexis McCrossen Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Page 9…
Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream
Journal Article Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream Get access Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013. xii, 237 pp. Paper, $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1176–1177, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau013 Published: 01 March 2014
Sunday: Marker of time, setting for memory
This historical essay seeks to frame Sunday as a marker of time and a setting for memory. Although the article's examples come from nineteenth-century United States, its larger argument - that spaces of time function as settings for memory - can be applied to other geographic regions and chronological eras. The article opens and closes with Sunday at sea; the body addresses Sunday as a site for religious, domestic, and national memories
Merry Christmas! Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday
Merry Christmas! is an exuberant romp through the stuff of Christmas—wrapping paper, Christmas trees, candy and cookies, greeting cards, charity, Santa Claus, and television specials. Karal Ann Marling, a professor of art history at the University of Minnesota, examines the material culture of Christmas and much more. As she unpacks (and unwraps) the various rituals that mark the holiday season, she speculates about why Americans love Christmas. …
Conventions of Simultaneity”: Time Standards, Public Clocks, and Nationalism in American Cities and Towns, 1871-1905
This article considers the saturation of American cities and towns with government-sponsored public clocks during the Gilded Age. In doing so, it seeks to establish that while clocks are part of the modern technological landscape of order, discipline, and efficiency, they also constitute another terrain of power: that of the state. The article considers the diffusion of government clocks across the nation and the nationalist symbolism associated …
Beloved Strangers: Interfaith Families in Nineteenth Century America
Introduction: In Search of Ancestors 1 Children of the Religious Enlightenment Parents How Children Reinterpreted Their Parents' Values Getting Married, Raising Families Descendants 2 Conversations about Interfaith Marriage Official Opinions Moral Tales Newspaper Romances 3 The Strange Intimacy of Piety and Politics Washington Courtships Converts and Their Husbands Interfaith Families and Their Church A Failed Marriage The Rabbi's Daughter 4 The …
American Sacred Space
Journal Article American Sacred Space. Ed. by David Chidester and Edward T. Linenthal. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. xvi, 352 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-253-32915-9. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-253-21006-2.) Get access Alexis McCrossen Alexis McCrossen Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Page 9…
Religion and the American Experience: A Social and Cultural History, 1765- 1997
Journal Article Religion and the American Experience: A Social and Cultural History, 1765–1997. By Donald C. Swift, New Directions in American Religious History. Ed. by Harry S. Stout and D. G. Hart and Religious Diversity and American Religious History: Studies in Traditions and Cultures. Ed. by Walter H. Conser Jr. and Sumner B. Twiss Get access Alexis McCrossen Alexis McCrossen Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Search for other work…
Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Imagination
Murder Most Foul: The Killer and American Imagination. By Karen Halttunen. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 322. Illustrations. $29.95.) Karen Halttunen situates origins of conventions that shape contemporary tales of murder-mystery and horror-in antebellum America, and thus is appropriate that this journal include a review of her latest book. Murder Most Foul is as inspired and compelling as best of studies concerning the Ame…
Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday
Journal Article Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday Get access Mccrossen Alexis. Holy Day, Holiday: The American SundayIthaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000. xii, 209 pp. $39.95. Gerald J. Russello Gerald J. Russello New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 44, Issue 4, October 2000, Pages 458–459, https://doi.org/10.2307/3113805 Published: 01 O…
Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday
Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday
Journal Article Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday. By Alexis McCrossen. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. xiv, 209 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-9014-3417-3.) Get access Paul Gutjahr Paul Gutjahr Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 688–689, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675195 Published: 01 September 200…
Beloved Strangers: Interfaith Families in Nineteenth Century America
Introduction: In Search of Ancestors 1 Children of the Religious Enlightenment Parents How Children Reinterpreted Their Parents' Values Getting Married, Raising Families Descendants 2 Conversations about Interfaith Marriage Official Opinions Moral Tales Newspaper Romances 3 The Strange Intimacy of Piety and Politics Washington Courtships Converts and Their Husbands Interfaith Families and Their Church A Failed Marriage The Rabbi's Daughter 4 The …
Merry Christmas! Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday
Merry Christmas! is an exuberant romp through the stuff of Christmas—wrapping paper, Christmas trees, candy and cookies, greeting cards, charity, Santa Claus, and television specials. Karal Ann Marling, a professor of art history at the University of Minnesota, examines the material culture of Christmas and much more. As she unpacks (and unwraps) the various rituals that mark the holiday season, she speculates about why Americans love Christmas. …
Sunday: Marker of time, setting for memory
This historical essay seeks to frame Sunday as a marker of time and a setting for memory. Although the article's examples come from nineteenth-century United States, its larger argument - that spaces of time function as settings for memory - can be applied to other geographic regions and chronological eras. The article opens and closes with Sunday at sea; the body addresses Sunday as a site for religious, domestic, and national memories
Conventions of Simultaneity”: Time Standards, Public Clocks, and Nationalism in American Cities and Towns, 1871-1905
This article considers the saturation of American cities and towns with government-sponsored public clocks during the Gilded Age. In doing so, it seeks to establish that while clocks are part of the modern technological landscape of order, discipline, and efficiency, they also constitute another terrain of power: that of the state. The article considers the diffusion of government clocks across the nation and the nationalist symbolism associated …
Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States–Mexico Borderlands
Drawing Boundaries between Markets, Nations, and Peoples, 1650-1940
Disrupting Boundaries: Consumer Capitalism and Culture in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1940-2008
Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States-Mexico Borderlands
Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States–Mexico Borderlands
Historians and anthropologists unravel the interplay of the national and transnational, and of scarcity and abundance, in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands
One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity (review)
Reviewed by: One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity Alexis McCrossen (bio) One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity. By Ian R. Bartky. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. xxv+292. $49.95. To start with a personal aside: In the mid-1970s, when National Bureau of Standards employee Ian Bartky was preparing a report for the U.S. Congress about whether year-round daylight saving time would save energy,…
The “Very Delicate Construction” of Pocket Watches and Time Consciousness in the Nineteenth‐Century United States
This essay, about pocket watches and time consciousness in the nineteenth‐century United States, suggests that the increasing volume of pocket watches in circulation throughout the United States after the 1830s prodded a wide cross section of Americans into more than just simple awareness of mechanical time. The evidence, some of which is drawn from accounts relaying details about repairs to watches, shows that watches augmented, rather than repl…
Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life
CHARLES Demotte. Bat, Ball and Bible: Baseball and Sunday Observance in New York
Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream
Journal Article Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream Get access Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013. xii, 237 pp. Paper, $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1176–1177, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau013 Published: 01 March 2014
The Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity
If, after reading Kevin M. Kruse's One Nation under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (2015), you want to know more about the political clout of evangelicals in twentieth-century America, turn to Darren E. Grem's The Blessings of Business. Grem's two-part book looks first at the influence of big businessmen over mostly parachurch expressions of conservative evangelical Christianity and then at conservative evangelicals' approp…
On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping by Ken Mondschein
Reviewed by: On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping by Ken Mondschein Alexis McCrossen (bio) On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping By Ken Mondschein. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Pp. 256. On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping By Ken Mondschein. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Pp. 256. In this synthesis, the medievalist and public intellectual Ken Mondschein presents a history of the development of W…
Seeing time
Deploying ‘all[-]important moments’: Seeing time in Duke University’s collections of early North American advertisements
Time as an anchor
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