Bill Ward

Biographic Data

ID111340
NAMEBill Ward
GIVEN NAMESBill
FAMILY NAMEWard
SIGNATUREWARD B
AFFILIATIONSNewcastle University
ORCID0000-0002-2878-8763
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Beatlemania in America

    Open AccessBill Ward, Brian WardARTICLEThe English Historical Review2025

  • Modjeska Monteith Simkins and black female leadership

    Open AccessBill WardARTICLEPatterns of Prejudice2024

  • “He Was Shot because America Will Not Give Up on Racism”

    Open AccessMegan Hunt, Benjamin Houston et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Studies2021

    This article examines how Martin Luther King Jr. and the movement with which he is often synonymous are taught in UK schools, as well as the consequences of that teaching for twenty-first-century understandings of Britain's racial past and present. The UK's King-centric approach to teaching the civil rights movement has much in common with that in the US, including an inattention to its transnational coordinates. However, these shared (mis)repres…

  • Winning the vote for women

    Bill WardARTICLEIrish Studies Review2019Cited by: 1

    The Irish Women’s Franchise League was formed in 1908 by Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington and Margaret Cousins to act as a new and radical voice in the campaign for Irish women’s suffrage. As part of this

  • Reaction to Safety Equipment Technology in the Workplace and Implications

    Open AccessBill Ward, Brian WardARTICLEQualitative Report2017References: 9

    In the 1990s the firefighter’s hood became a standard article of safety equipment worn by municipal firefighters, eliciting a negative reaction among many of these firefighters. I used data from interviews with 42 firefighters to explain why this reaction occurred. Data analysis revealed that negative reactions ultimately stemmed from the hood’s disruption of autonomy, repudiation of the complex mental and physical skill needed to perform tasks r…

  • Reception of the Easter Rising in British and American little magazines

    Bill WardARTICLEIrish Studies Review2017References: 6

    This article examines the reactions of writers and readers to the Easter Rising in five British and American little magazines. The New Age, The Egoist, The Little Review, The Masses and The Phoenix have been chosen due to their links with Irish writers and culture, and because they were established periodicals that published over several years. Little magazines have been described as counterpublic spheres, in which oppositional opinions could be …

  • Big Jim Larkin

    Bill WardARTICLEIrish Studies Review2016Cited by: 2

    Emmet O’Connor’s latest work explores the life of Jim Larkin, one of the more enigmatic individuals in modern Irish history. Although a perennial figure in the histories of early twentieth-century

  • Newspapers and newsmakers

    Bill WardARTICLEIrish Studies Review2015

    Researching newspapers and journals provides an opportunity for scholars to challenge canonical assumptions or simply to reassess the opinions of a person, period or movement in the context of thei

  • Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Relationship Among Cigarette Use, Religiosity, and Social Norms for U.S. Adolescents

    Bill Ward, Brian W Ward et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnicity in Substance…2014

    This study investigated the racial/ethnic differences in the role of social norms in the protective relationship between religiosity and cigarette smoking. The 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health was used to investigate the relationships between smoking, religiosity, and social norms of U.S. adolescents (N = 13,278). Significant indirect effects between religiosity and smoking were found through social norms for non-Hispanic White adolesc…

  • Border identities in Galway and Derry

    Bill WardARTICLEIrish Studies Review2014References: 2

    The introduction of the Third Home Rule Bill in 1912 to the House of Commons created further tension between the unionist and nationalist communities in Ireland. This tension was described that year by the Times journalist William Flauvelle Monypenny as more than a political dispute; instead, during the nineteenth century, the country had split into “Two Irelands”. Monypenny described two communities which existed separately and with completely d…

  • What’s Better—R, SAS ® , SPSS ® , or Stata ® ? Thoughts for Instructors of Statistics and Research Methods Courses

    Open AccessBill WardARTICLEJournal of Applied Social Science2013

    Knowledge of statistical software is an important skill for undergraduate sociology students to possess when seeking postgraduation employment; however, formal discussion of which software may be most beneficial to students and appealing to potential employers is lacking. The author’s goal in this teaching note is to provide the strengths and limitations of R, SAS, SPSS, and Stata software in a succinct and nontechnical manner, and discuss how th…

  • MATTHEW F. Delmont. The Nicest Kids in Town

    Bill WardARTICLEThe American Historical Review2013

    Journal Article Matthew F. Delmont. The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia. Get access Matthew F. Delmont. The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia. (American Crossroads, number 32 ; A George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Pres…

  • Just My Soul Responding

    Bill Ward, Brian WardBOOKJust My Soul Responding2012

    Brian Ward is Lecturer in American History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne .; This book is intended for american studies, American history postwar social and cultural history, political history, Black history, Race and Ethnic studies and Cultural studies together with the general trade music

  • The ‘C’ is for Christ”

    Bill WardARTICLEPopular Music & Society2012Cited by: 1References: 5

    This article argues that it is impossible to understand the genesis, evolution, or cultural significance of the “more popular than Jesus” controversy which engulfed the Beatles in 1966 without paying close attention to Arthur Unger, the man whose decision to reprint an interview with John Lennon in his magazine Datebook sparked the furore. Contrary to the conventional wisdom repeated in countless books and articles dealing with the “Jesus” contro…

  • A curious relationship’

    Bill WardARTICLEPatterns of Prejudice2011Cited by: 3

    Ward explores the diverse ways in which memories, understandings and misunderstandings of the 1960s were mobilized during the 2008 election cycle. At the time, Barack Obama's campaign and triumph were hailed by many as marking a series of a decisive breaks with the past, notably with the culture wars and fiercely ideological political partisanship unleashed in the late 1960s. Others suggested that Obama represented a new kind of candidate who som…

  • Jinn Eviction as a Discourse of Power

    Open AccessBill WardARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2010

  • Culture and Redemption

    Bill Ward, Brian WardARTICLEAmerican Nineteenth Century History2009

  • The Master's Thesis

    Open AccessBill WardARTICLEJournal of Applied Social Science2009

    Although attention has been given to the manner in which applied sociology is learned by students, the master's thesis is not often taken into account. In the following manuscript, I argue that the thesis should be considered as a tool for learning applied sociology. Graduate students can use the thesis to learn new skills and further develop skills already gained in the classroom and through outside of the classroom experiences. To provide an ex…

  • Good thinking

    Bernard C K Choi, Anil Gupta et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2009Cited by: 1References: 7

    In public health, it is desirable that scientists and policy makers communicate their knowledge effectively or run the risks of barriers in language and understanding. More incentives and opportunities to collaborate will help scientists and policy makers appreciate their different goals, career paths, attitudes towards information, and perception of time.1 2 Knowledge brokers can also bring scientists and policy makers closer to understanding ea…

  • Journalism ethics and climate change reporting in a period of intense media uncertainty

    Open AccessBill WardARTICLEEthics in Science and Environmental…2008Cited by: 5

    The best editors and reporters in the USA adhere to a well-defined, if somewhat abstract, code of journalistic ethics, but doing so during a time of revolutionary changes in the mainstream media -and during a severe financial crisis nationally and globally-presents peculiar challenges. How those challenges may affect the coverage of global climate change presents its own set of questions, and the outcome for journalism ethics is as unpredictable …

  • Using Data Hierarchies to Identify Health Disparities Geographically

    Bill Ward, Jae Eun Lee et al.ARTICLEPracticing Anthropology2007

    GIS as an applied technology has blossomed rather recently (http://envstudies.brown.edu/Thesis/2001/james/gishistory.html). With increasing computational power, researchers are able to handle massive amounts of data. However, as with all quantitative analysis, they often lack depth of analysis. Anthropologists, through their case studies, have long provided tremendous social and cultural depth (http://www.yale.edu/hraf/) and have provided perspec…

  • Radio and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the South

    Laurie B Green, Bill Ward et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2007

    Radio and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the South. By Brian Ward. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. Pp. xiv, 437. $39.95.) At the height of the civil rights movement, radio, more so than television or print media, served as African Americans' main source of news and entertainment. Scholars, however, have generally overlooked this essential element of African-American life. Brian Ward, in Radio and the Struggle for Civil Rights i…

  • Radio and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the South

    Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Bill Ward et al.ARTICLEThe Arkansas Historical Quarterly2005

  • Media, Culture, and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle

    Bryan Mccann, Bryan J Mccann et al.ARTICLEThe Arkansas Historical Quarterly2002

    Stimulating and insightful, these essays on the relationship among the media, popular culture, and the postwar African American freedom struggle offer new perspectives on the nature of the Civil Rights Movement and its legacies. At the same time, they suggest how much the struggle itself shaped important trends in American culture and mass media in the 1950s and 1960s. Bringing together a range of voices seldom heard together, this book challenge…

  • Race, Rock, and Elvis

    Bill Ward, Brian Ward et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    Michael T. Bertrand has managed to argue more cogently and with more evidential authority than any previous commentator that the music that Elvis Presley and his rockabilly cousins fashioned in the South in the 1950s represented a serious threat to various national and regional social conventions, particularly those relating to race, class, and gender. Like previous critics, Bertrand notes that the admiration of young southern whites for black mu…