Nancy K Bristow
Biographic Data
| ID | 1072373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy K Bristow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy K |
| FAMILY NAME | Bristow |
| SIGNATURE | BRISTOW N K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Puget Sound |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Steeped in the Blood of Racism
This book recounts the death of two young African Americans, Phillip Gibbs and James Earl Green and the wounding of twelve others when white police and highway patrolmen opened fire on students in front of a dormitory at Jackson State College, a historically black college (HBCU) in May 1970. It situates this story in the broader events of the civil rights and black power eras, emphasizing the role white supremacy played in causing police violence…
Making Men Moral
On May 29, 1917, Mrs. E. M. Craise, citizen of Denver, Colorado, penned a letter to President Woodrow Wilson, which concluded, We have surrendered to your absolute control our hearts' dearest treasures--our sons. If their precious bodies that have cost us so dear should be torn to shreds by German shot and shells we will try to live on in the hope of meeting them again in the blessed Country of happy reunions. But, Mr. President, if the hell-hole…
“Reconsidering the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic in the Age of Covid-19”
For many us who have studied, researched, written, and taught about the influenza pandemic of 1918–19, the current period of the global viral pandemic is eerily and unpleasantly familiar. Today, the rapid global spread of a virus has prompted policies calling for widespread closures, social distancing, constant handwashing, and public mask wearing in additional to other non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). We have also seen pushback and resis…
The Portland Black Panthers
Until 1951, interracial marriage was illegal in the city of Portland, Oregon. Fair employment protections did not pass the state legislature until 1949, while public accommodations and fair housing were not legally guaranteed until 1953 and 1957 respectively. As one World War Two veteran who relocated there in 1960 recalled, “Living in Portland at that time was almost like living in Alabama...black folk had it rough in Portland (37).” It was in t…
Sandra Opdycke, The Flu Epidemic of 1918
In 1976, the distinguished historian Alfred W. Crosby, already credited with writing the path-breaking Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492, published another influential work, Epidemic and Peace, 1918.1 When the book was re-released years later, Crosby appropriately retitled the text America's Forgotten Pandemic, foregrounding one of the mysteries surrounding his subject, the 1918–19 outbreak of influenza that had rac…
Mark Osborne Humphries, The Last Plague
By 1919, Frederick Montizambert, Canada's Director-General of Public Health, had managed Canada's system of maritime quarantine for more than half a century. When the nation established its first federal Department of Health that year, he anticipated appointment as the Deputy Minister, seeing in the role a final triumph and a fitting tribute to his years in service to Canadians' health. But Montizambert watched from the sidelines as Dr John Amyot…
Erika KUHLMAN. Of Little Comfort
Journal Article Erika Kuhlman. Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War. Get access Erika Kuhlman. Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War.New York: New York University Press. 2012. Pp. x, 225. $49.00. Nancy K. Bristow Nancy K. Bristow University of Puget Sound Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
Battling Breast Cancer
In 1978 the writer Susan Sontag published her now famous essay, Illness as Metaphor, detailing, she explained, "not what it is really like to emigrate to the kingdom of the ill and live there, but" rather "the punitive or sentimental fantasies concocted about that situation," "not physical illness itself but the uses of illness as a figure or metaphor." Maintaining that the tendency to rely on metaphors to discuss illness and disease was widespre…
Prohibition and Politics
Making Men Moral
Making Men Moral
Forgotten Summers
Journal Article Forgotten Summers: The Story of the Citizens' Military Training Camps, 1921–1940. By Donald M. Kington. (San Francisco: Two Decades, 1995. xvi, 238 pp. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 09645789-0-5.) Get access Nancy K. Bristow Nancy K. Bristow University ofPuget Sound, Tacoma, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 701–702, http…
What Trouble I Have Seen
Making Men Moral
On May 29, 1917, Mrs. E. M. Craise, citizen of Denver, Colorado, penned a letter to President Woodrow Wilson, which concluded, We have surrendered to your absolute control our hearts' dearest treasures--our sons. If their precious bodies that have cost us so dear should be torn to shreds by German shot and shells we will try to live on in the hope of meeting them again in the blessed Country of happy reunions. But, Mr. President, if the hell-hole…
Battling Breast Cancer
In 1978 the writer Susan Sontag published her now famous essay, Illness as Metaphor, detailing, she explained, "not what it is really like to emigrate to the kingdom of the ill and live there, but" rather "the punitive or sentimental fantasies concocted about that situation," "not physical illness itself but the uses of illness as a figure or metaphor." Maintaining that the tendency to rely on metaphors to discuss illness and disease was widespre…
Making Men Moral
Making Men Moral
Forgotten Summers
Journal Article Forgotten Summers: The Story of the Citizens' Military Training Camps, 1921–1940. By Donald M. Kington. (San Francisco: Two Decades, 1995. xvi, 238 pp. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 09645789-0-5.) Get access Nancy K. Bristow Nancy K. Bristow University ofPuget Sound, Tacoma, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 701–702, http…
What Trouble I Have Seen
Prohibition and Politics
Battling Breast Cancer
In 1978 the writer Susan Sontag published her now famous essay, Illness as Metaphor, detailing, she explained, "not what it is really like to emigrate to the kingdom of the ill and live there, but" rather "the punitive or sentimental fantasies concocted about that situation," "not physical illness itself but the uses of illness as a figure or metaphor." Maintaining that the tendency to rely on metaphors to discuss illness and disease was widespre…
Mark Osborne Humphries, The Last Plague
By 1919, Frederick Montizambert, Canada's Director-General of Public Health, had managed Canada's system of maritime quarantine for more than half a century. When the nation established its first federal Department of Health that year, he anticipated appointment as the Deputy Minister, seeing in the role a final triumph and a fitting tribute to his years in service to Canadians' health. But Montizambert watched from the sidelines as Dr John Amyot…
Erika KUHLMAN. Of Little Comfort
Journal Article Erika Kuhlman. Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War. Get access Erika Kuhlman. Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War.New York: New York University Press. 2012. Pp. x, 225. $49.00. Nancy K. Bristow Nancy K. Bristow University of Puget Sound Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
Sandra Opdycke, The Flu Epidemic of 1918
In 1976, the distinguished historian Alfred W. Crosby, already credited with writing the path-breaking Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492, published another influential work, Epidemic and Peace, 1918.1 When the book was re-released years later, Crosby appropriately retitled the text America's Forgotten Pandemic, foregrounding one of the mysteries surrounding his subject, the 1918–19 outbreak of influenza that had rac…
The Portland Black Panthers
Until 1951, interracial marriage was illegal in the city of Portland, Oregon. Fair employment protections did not pass the state legislature until 1949, while public accommodations and fair housing were not legally guaranteed until 1953 and 1957 respectively. As one World War Two veteran who relocated there in 1960 recalled, “Living in Portland at that time was almost like living in Alabama...black folk had it rough in Portland (37).” It was in t…
Steeped in the Blood of Racism
This book recounts the death of two young African Americans, Phillip Gibbs and James Earl Green and the wounding of twelve others when white police and highway patrolmen opened fire on students in front of a dormitory at Jackson State College, a historically black college (HBCU) in May 1970. It situates this story in the broader events of the civil rights and black power eras, emphasizing the role white supremacy played in causing police violence…
Making Men Moral
On May 29, 1917, Mrs. E. M. Craise, citizen of Denver, Colorado, penned a letter to President Woodrow Wilson, which concluded, We have surrendered to your absolute control our hearts' dearest treasures--our sons. If their precious bodies that have cost us so dear should be torn to shreds by German shot and shells we will try to live on in the hope of meeting them again in the blessed Country of happy reunions. But, Mr. President, if the hell-hole…
“Reconsidering the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic in the Age of Covid-19”
For many us who have studied, researched, written, and taught about the influenza pandemic of 1918–19, the current period of the global viral pandemic is eerily and unpleasantly familiar. Today, the rapid global spread of a virus has prompted policies calling for widespread closures, social distancing, constant handwashing, and public mask wearing in additional to other non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). We have also seen pushback and resis…
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