Sam Lebovic
Biographic Data
| ID | 1528515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sam Lebovic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sam |
| FAMILY NAME | Lebovic |
| SIGNATURE | LEBOVIC S |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Correspondents
If the owl of Minerva flies only at dusk, what are we to make of the recent flurry of popular histories about foreign correspondents? In 2021, with You Don't Belong Here , Elizabeth Becker told us “How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War” in Vietnam, and Judith Mackrell gave us the stories of “Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II” in The Correspondents. 1 The year before, Nancy Cott, the pioneering scholar of U.S. gender history,…
Mapping a Magazine Empire
Journal Article Mapping a Magazine Empire Get access Shanon Fitzpatrick. True Story: How a Pulp Empire Remade Mass Media. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 320 pp. $39.95 (hardcover). Sam Lebovic Sam Lebovic [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhad080, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhad080 Published: 25 October 2023
Introduction to “On Agency” at Twenty
In 2003, the Journal of Social History published “On Agency.” Walter Johnson’s short, sharp, nine-page reckoning with perhaps the foundational category of “history-from-the-bottom-up” has become a classic of methodological and theoretical self-reflection. Two decades on, it remains the Journal of Social History’s most cited article. To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of “On Agency,” the Journal asked ten leading historians to reflect once mor…
The Historical Presidency
This article reconstructs the bureaucratic and legal processes that culminated in the creation of the modern national security classification system in Executive Order No. 10,290, issued by Harry Truman in 1951. It argues that classification was shaped by processes of improvisation endogenous to the federal bureaucracy, which produced the problems of overclassification, definitional vagueness, and ambiguous constitutional status that have haunted…
Susan Herbst. A Troubled Birth
Journal Article Susan Herbst. A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public Opinion. Get access Susan Herbst. A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public Opinion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 310. Cloth $105.00. Sam Lebovic Sam Lebovic George Mason University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 4, December 20…
Introduction
This introduction sketches the common themes of the five articles in this special section, outlines the importance of studying the security state as a central feature of modern social history, and suggests future avenues for research and analysis of security institutions devoted to policing, surveillance, violence, and control. It focuses particularly on: the globalization of security practices; the relationship between cultural subjectivity, soc…
The Idealist
In 1942, in one of the stranger second acts in American political life, the failed Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie went on a 31,000-mile tour of thirteen countries, acting as an informal ambassador for the war policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, against whom he had so recently campaigned. The tour was a media sensation; Willkie's account of the trip, One World (1943), became a runaway best seller. Willkie's tour often features in…
The Conservative Press and the Interwar Origins of First Amendment Lochnerism
In the 1930s and 1940s, the conservative newspaper industry argued that the First Amendment should shield them from New Deal economic regulations. This article uses these forgotten clashes about freedom of the press to provide a new history of the origins and trajectory of the anti-regulatory First Amendment. It shows that conservative newspaper attorneys were at the forefront of efforts to use civil liberties to protect their economic interests …
The Politics of Pluralism
In 1976, a Federal government inquiry into the Australian Broadcasting System received 621 submissions from members of the Australian public interested in the problems, politics and future of the Australian media landscape. This article provides the first analysis of those submissions, using them to shed new light on Australian attitudes to their broadcast media and their public sphere in an era of rapid change. In particular, it focuses on attit…
No Right to Leave the Nation
This article provides an institutional and legal history of passport denial in the United States from World War I to the early Cold War. Identifying the Passport Division as a central institution of the national security state, the article shows that the state was deeply invested in regulating the international movement of people and in monopolizing international connections in a globalizing age. It also analyzes the rise of the Passport Division…
Newsprint Metropolis
As daily papers close their doors amid the media revolutions of the early twenty-first century, their continued existence apparently threatened, it has become easier to historicize the newspaper as a media form. Rather than simply relying on newspapers as sources, scholars are asking new questions about the history, and historical significance, of the newspapers themselves. In her wonderful new book, Julia Guarneri returns us to the salad days of…
Uncle Sam’s Policemen
In the first half of the twentieth century, international policing involved a degree of improvisation. In the early 1890s, for instance, William Schreiber absconded to Canada after robbing the US bank at which he worked. He could only be arrested on US soil, so detectives employed an erstwhile love-interest to lure him to Detroit. Dealing with a criminal in Mexico several decades later, police resorted to abduction, towing the fugitive across the…
Free speech and unfree news
Does America have a free press? Many who answer yes appeal to First Amendment protections that shield the press from government censorship. But in this comprehensive history of American press freedom as it has existed in theory, law, and practice, Sam Lebovic shows that, on its own, the right of free speech has been insufficient to guarantee a free press. Lebovic recovers a vision of press freedom, prevalent in the mid-twentieth century, based on…
From War Junk to Educational Exchange
Journal Article From War Junk to Educational Exchange: The World War II Origins of the Fulbright Program and the Foundations of American Cultural Globalism, 1945–1950 Get access Sam Lebovic Sam Lebovic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 37, Issue 2, April 2013, Pages 280–312, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dht002 Published: 23 February 2013
A Breath from Home
During World War II, USO Camp Shows provided entertainment to American soldiers to boost morale and depict the home for which the troops were fighting. This article uses this under-explored cultural formation to analyze the nationalist politics of popular culture during World War II. Recovering the production, censorship, content, and reception of the shows reveals that they were a centralized site for the construction of a particular vision of A…
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From War Junk to Educational Exchange
Journal Article From War Junk to Educational Exchange: The World War II Origins of the Fulbright Program and the Foundations of American Cultural Globalism, 1945–1950 Get access Sam Lebovic Sam Lebovic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 37, Issue 2, April 2013, Pages 280–312, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dht002 Published: 23 February 2013
A Breath from Home
During World War II, USO Camp Shows provided entertainment to American soldiers to boost morale and depict the home for which the troops were fighting. This article uses this under-explored cultural formation to analyze the nationalist politics of popular culture during World War II. Recovering the production, censorship, content, and reception of the shows reveals that they were a centralized site for the construction of a particular vision of A…
Uncle Sam’s Policemen
In the first half of the twentieth century, international policing involved a degree of improvisation. In the early 1890s, for instance, William Schreiber absconded to Canada after robbing the US bank at which he worked. He could only be arrested on US soil, so detectives employed an erstwhile love-interest to lure him to Detroit. Dealing with a criminal in Mexico several decades later, police resorted to abduction, towing the fugitive across the…
Free speech and unfree news
Does America have a free press? Many who answer yes appeal to First Amendment protections that shield the press from government censorship. But in this comprehensive history of American press freedom as it has existed in theory, law, and practice, Sam Lebovic shows that, on its own, the right of free speech has been insufficient to guarantee a free press. Lebovic recovers a vision of press freedom, prevalent in the mid-twentieth century, based on…
Newsprint Metropolis
As daily papers close their doors amid the media revolutions of the early twenty-first century, their continued existence apparently threatened, it has become easier to historicize the newspaper as a media form. Rather than simply relying on newspapers as sources, scholars are asking new questions about the history, and historical significance, of the newspapers themselves. In her wonderful new book, Julia Guarneri returns us to the salad days of…
The Politics of Pluralism
In 1976, a Federal government inquiry into the Australian Broadcasting System received 621 submissions from members of the Australian public interested in the problems, politics and future of the Australian media landscape. This article provides the first analysis of those submissions, using them to shed new light on Australian attitudes to their broadcast media and their public sphere in an era of rapid change. In particular, it focuses on attit…
No Right to Leave the Nation
This article provides an institutional and legal history of passport denial in the United States from World War I to the early Cold War. Identifying the Passport Division as a central institution of the national security state, the article shows that the state was deeply invested in regulating the international movement of people and in monopolizing international connections in a globalizing age. It also analyzes the rise of the Passport Division…
The Conservative Press and the Interwar Origins of First Amendment Lochnerism
In the 1930s and 1940s, the conservative newspaper industry argued that the First Amendment should shield them from New Deal economic regulations. This article uses these forgotten clashes about freedom of the press to provide a new history of the origins and trajectory of the anti-regulatory First Amendment. It shows that conservative newspaper attorneys were at the forefront of efforts to use civil liberties to protect their economic interests …
The Idealist
In 1942, in one of the stranger second acts in American political life, the failed Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie went on a 31,000-mile tour of thirteen countries, acting as an informal ambassador for the war policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, against whom he had so recently campaigned. The tour was a media sensation; Willkie's account of the trip, One World (1943), became a runaway best seller. Willkie's tour often features in…
The Historical Presidency
This article reconstructs the bureaucratic and legal processes that culminated in the creation of the modern national security classification system in Executive Order No. 10,290, issued by Harry Truman in 1951. It argues that classification was shaped by processes of improvisation endogenous to the federal bureaucracy, which produced the problems of overclassification, definitional vagueness, and ambiguous constitutional status that have haunted…
Susan Herbst. A Troubled Birth
Journal Article Susan Herbst. A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public Opinion. Get access Susan Herbst. A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public Opinion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 310. Cloth $105.00. Sam Lebovic Sam Lebovic George Mason University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 4, December 20…
Introduction
This introduction sketches the common themes of the five articles in this special section, outlines the importance of studying the security state as a central feature of modern social history, and suggests future avenues for research and analysis of security institutions devoted to policing, surveillance, violence, and control. It focuses particularly on: the globalization of security practices; the relationship between cultural subjectivity, soc…
Of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Correspondents
If the owl of Minerva flies only at dusk, what are we to make of the recent flurry of popular histories about foreign correspondents? In 2021, with You Don't Belong Here , Elizabeth Becker told us “How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War” in Vietnam, and Judith Mackrell gave us the stories of “Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II” in The Correspondents. 1 The year before, Nancy Cott, the pioneering scholar of U.S. gender history,…
Mapping a Magazine Empire
Journal Article Mapping a Magazine Empire Get access Shanon Fitzpatrick. True Story: How a Pulp Empire Remade Mass Media. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 320 pp. $39.95 (hardcover). Sam Lebovic Sam Lebovic [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhad080, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhad080 Published: 25 October 2023
Introduction to “On Agency” at Twenty
In 2003, the Journal of Social History published “On Agency.” Walter Johnson’s short, sharp, nine-page reckoning with perhaps the foundational category of “history-from-the-bottom-up” has become a classic of methodological and theoretical self-reflection. Two decades on, it remains the Journal of Social History’s most cited article. To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of “On Agency,” the Journal asked ten leading historians to reflect once mor…
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