Brian Rouleau
Biographic Data
| ID | 1062666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Rouleau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Rouleau |
| SIGNATURE | ROULEAU B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5401-2240 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Love in the Time of the Korean War
This article examines the role played by comic books in justifying the Korean War to adolescent readers in the United States. Specifically, it argues that romance comics—perhaps the most widely read youth publications of the early 1950s—helped to prepare teenaged girls for the trials and tribulations that an emerging Cold War would entail. Love-themed comic books dealt with issues like dating and marriage at a time of mass mobilization and intern…
Teaching Gape History through Amateur Newspapers and Adolescent Storytelling
Beginning in 1867 with the invention of the miniature (or “hobby”) press, young people in the United States began to publish their own amateur newspapers. Within the pages of those publications, adolescents included news articles, editorials, short stories, serialized fiction, poetry, and jokes. The collective result of their literary efforts was referred to as Amateurdom, or “the ’Dom” for short. Included in this teaching supplement are several …
A Pint-Sized Public Sphere
During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, thousands of middle-class youths published their own amateur newspapers. These periodicals were printed using the so-called toy (or “novelty”) press, a portable tabletop device that helped democratize word processing. Children often used their presses to compose miniature novels and short stories. They then shared their prose with a national community of fellow juvenile writers collectively known as “Ama…
In Dartmoor Did the Prince Regent, a Wretched Prison Yard Decree
Journal Article In Dartmoor Did the Prince Regent, a Wretched Prison Yard Decree Get access Nicholas Guyatt. The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain’s Most Terrifying Prison. New York: Basic Books, 2022. 432 pp. $32.00 (hardcover). Brian Rouleau Brian Rouleau Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 47, Issue 4, September 2023, Pages 696–699, https://doi.org/…
Resisting Independence
Journal Article Resisting Independence: Popular Loyalism in the Revolutionary British Atlantic Get access Resisting Independence: Popular Loyalism in the Revolutionary British Atlantic. By Brad A Jones. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. 314 pp. $49.95.) Brian Rouleau Brian Rouleau Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Is…
Smugglers and Pirates and Patriots, Oh My
Smugglers and Pirates and Patriots, Oh My! Tyson Reeder. Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 335 pp. $45.00 (hardcover). Brian Rouleau Brian Rouleau Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 45, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 407–410, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhaa082 Published:…
The Bloody Flag
Sailors have often spelled trouble. No less an authority than Plato spoke of the sea and its often-disorderly denizens as a destabilizing force. Observers since have often echoed those concerns. Niklas Frykman's excellent book suggests that such worries were warranted. Focusing on shipboard mutinies throughout the Atlantic world during the wars of the French Revolution, Frykman finds a rowdy “lower deck” of ordinary seamen fiercely committed to d…
How the West Was Fun
This article discusses the important role that juvenile literature played in creating America's frontier mythos. It argues that children were a crucial audience for adult authors seeking to justify and normalize settler colonial policies. But, more importantly, young people themselves were active participants in the perpetuation of a popular culture that glorified westward expansion and the eradication of Indigenous peoples. In acknowledging as m…
Bernardo de Gálvez
In 2014 Barack Obama bestowed honorary U.S. citizenship on Bernardo de Gálvez. Citing service rendered the Republic during the American Revolution, Obama expressed the nation's enduring gratitude for a man who “risked his life for the freedom of the United States” (p. 2). And yet, despite this display of devotion, very few Americans—save those living in towns such as Galveston, Texas, or Galvez, Louisiana—are aware of Gálvez and his numerous achi…
Poseidon’s Curse
Impressment, the coercion of men into naval service—whether by a man-of-war stopping a merchantman at sea or a press-gang capturing men ashore—is an issue most often associated with the War of 1812. In Poseidon’s Curse, however, Magra makes a compelling case that “the press,” as the abduction of mariners was colloquially known, played a pivotal role in justifying the movement for American independence. In arguing as much, Magra is swimming agains…
Children and Youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Book Review| May 01 2016 Children and Youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Children and Youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Marten, James, ed. New York: New York University Press, 2014v + 297 pp., $79.00 (cloth); $27.00 (paper) Brian Rouleau Brian Rouleau Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2016) 13 (2): 104–107. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-3460933 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook…
Matthew Taylor Raffety. The Republic Afloat
In The Republic Afloat: Law, Honor, and Citizenship in Maritime America, Matthew Taylor Raffety successfully fuses legal and social history to provide fascinating new insight into the early American republic’s substantial maritime footprint. As the author reminds us, the Constitution granted the federal government exclusive jurisdiction over admiralty issues, meaning that from the founding through the antebellum period, seafarers maintained a clo…
Citizen Sailors
Journal Article Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution. By Nathan Perl-Rosenthal Get access Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution. By Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. 372 pp. $29.95). Brian Rouleau Brian Rouleau Texas A&M University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 50, Issue 1, F…
True Yankees
"True Yankees: the South Seas and the discovery of American identity." The Journal of Pacific History, 51(1), pp. 68–70
With sails whitening every sea
Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling fleet that circled the globe, the United States sought a maritime empire to complement its territorial ambitions in North America. In With Sails Whitening Every Sea, Brian Rouleau argues that because of their ubiquity in foreign ports, American sailors were …
How Honolulu Almost Burned and Why Sailors Matter to Early American Foreign Relations
This article argues that in ignoring the exploits of American sailors overseas, diplomatic historians have missed a very important facet of the early republic’s foreign relations. It claims that 1898 did not represent any decisive turn to the international, but rather, a moment in which primary control over the nation’s foreign relations shifted from maritime nonstate actors to the state itself. To make this case, the essay discusses the form and…
Work, Class, and Power in the Borderlands of the Early American Pacific
The Bloody Flag
Sailors have often spelled trouble. No less an authority than Plato spoke of the sea and its often-disorderly denizens as a destabilizing force. Observers since have often echoed those concerns. Niklas Frykman's excellent book suggests that such worries were warranted. Focusing on shipboard mutinies throughout the Atlantic world during the wars of the French Revolution, Frykman finds a rowdy “lower deck” of ordinary seamen fiercely committed to d…
How the West Was Fun
This article discusses the important role that juvenile literature played in creating America's frontier mythos. It argues that children were a crucial audience for adult authors seeking to justify and normalize settler colonial policies. But, more importantly, young people themselves were active participants in the perpetuation of a popular culture that glorified westward expansion and the eradication of Indigenous peoples. In acknowledging as m…
With sails whitening every sea
Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling fleet that circled the globe, the United States sought a maritime empire to complement its territorial ambitions in North America. In With Sails Whitening Every Sea, Brian Rouleau argues that because of their ubiquity in foreign ports, American sailors were …
How Honolulu Almost Burned and Why Sailors Matter to Early American Foreign Relations
This article argues that in ignoring the exploits of American sailors overseas, diplomatic historians have missed a very important facet of the early republic’s foreign relations. It claims that 1898 did not represent any decisive turn to the international, but rather, a moment in which primary control over the nation’s foreign relations shifted from maritime nonstate actors to the state itself. To make this case, the essay discusses the form and…
Work, Class, and Power in the Borderlands of the Early American Pacific
Children and Youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Book Review| May 01 2016 Children and Youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Children and Youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Marten, James, ed. New York: New York University Press, 2014v + 297 pp., $79.00 (cloth); $27.00 (paper) Brian Rouleau Brian Rouleau Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2016) 13 (2): 104–107. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-3460933 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook…
Matthew Taylor Raffety. The Republic Afloat
In The Republic Afloat: Law, Honor, and Citizenship in Maritime America, Matthew Taylor Raffety successfully fuses legal and social history to provide fascinating new insight into the early American republic’s substantial maritime footprint. As the author reminds us, the Constitution granted the federal government exclusive jurisdiction over admiralty issues, meaning that from the founding through the antebellum period, seafarers maintained a clo…
Citizen Sailors
Journal Article Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution. By Nathan Perl-Rosenthal Get access Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution. By Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. 372 pp. $29.95). Brian Rouleau Brian Rouleau Texas A&M University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 50, Issue 1, F…
True Yankees
"True Yankees: the South Seas and the discovery of American identity." The Journal of Pacific History, 51(1), pp. 68–70
Poseidon’s Curse
Impressment, the coercion of men into naval service—whether by a man-of-war stopping a merchantman at sea or a press-gang capturing men ashore—is an issue most often associated with the War of 1812. In Poseidon’s Curse, however, Magra makes a compelling case that “the press,” as the abduction of mariners was colloquially known, played a pivotal role in justifying the movement for American independence. In arguing as much, Magra is swimming agains…
Bernardo de Gálvez
In 2014 Barack Obama bestowed honorary U.S. citizenship on Bernardo de Gálvez. Citing service rendered the Republic during the American Revolution, Obama expressed the nation's enduring gratitude for a man who “risked his life for the freedom of the United States” (p. 2). And yet, despite this display of devotion, very few Americans—save those living in towns such as Galveston, Texas, or Galvez, Louisiana—are aware of Gálvez and his numerous achi…
How the West Was Fun
This article discusses the important role that juvenile literature played in creating America's frontier mythos. It argues that children were a crucial audience for adult authors seeking to justify and normalize settler colonial policies. But, more importantly, young people themselves were active participants in the perpetuation of a popular culture that glorified westward expansion and the eradication of Indigenous peoples. In acknowledging as m…
Smugglers and Pirates and Patriots, Oh My
Smugglers and Pirates and Patriots, Oh My! Tyson Reeder. Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 335 pp. $45.00 (hardcover). Brian Rouleau Brian Rouleau Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 45, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 407–410, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhaa082 Published:…
The Bloody Flag
Sailors have often spelled trouble. No less an authority than Plato spoke of the sea and its often-disorderly denizens as a destabilizing force. Observers since have often echoed those concerns. Niklas Frykman's excellent book suggests that such worries were warranted. Focusing on shipboard mutinies throughout the Atlantic world during the wars of the French Revolution, Frykman finds a rowdy “lower deck” of ordinary seamen fiercely committed to d…
In Dartmoor Did the Prince Regent, a Wretched Prison Yard Decree
Journal Article In Dartmoor Did the Prince Regent, a Wretched Prison Yard Decree Get access Nicholas Guyatt. The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain’s Most Terrifying Prison. New York: Basic Books, 2022. 432 pp. $32.00 (hardcover). Brian Rouleau Brian Rouleau Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 47, Issue 4, September 2023, Pages 696–699, https://doi.org/…
Resisting Independence
Journal Article Resisting Independence: Popular Loyalism in the Revolutionary British Atlantic Get access Resisting Independence: Popular Loyalism in the Revolutionary British Atlantic. By Brad A Jones. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. 314 pp. $49.95.) Brian Rouleau Brian Rouleau Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Is…
Teaching Gape History through Amateur Newspapers and Adolescent Storytelling
Beginning in 1867 with the invention of the miniature (or “hobby”) press, young people in the United States began to publish their own amateur newspapers. Within the pages of those publications, adolescents included news articles, editorials, short stories, serialized fiction, poetry, and jokes. The collective result of their literary efforts was referred to as Amateurdom, or “the ’Dom” for short. Included in this teaching supplement are several …
A Pint-Sized Public Sphere
During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, thousands of middle-class youths published their own amateur newspapers. These periodicals were printed using the so-called toy (or “novelty”) press, a portable tabletop device that helped democratize word processing. Children often used their presses to compose miniature novels and short stories. They then shared their prose with a national community of fellow juvenile writers collectively known as “Ama…
Love in the Time of the Korean War
This article examines the role played by comic books in justifying the Korean War to adolescent readers in the United States. Specifically, it argues that romance comics—perhaps the most widely read youth publications of the early 1950s—helped to prepare teenaged girls for the trials and tribulations that an emerging Cold War would entail. Love-themed comic books dealt with issues like dating and marriage at a time of mass mobilization and intern…
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