Sara Fieldston
Biographic Data
| ID | 1528697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Fieldston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Fieldston |
| SIGNATURE | FIELDSTON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Seton Hall University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5818-0444 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reexamining Operation Pedro Pan
Journal Article Reexamining Operation Pedro Pan Get access John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco. Operation Pedro Pan: The Migration of Unaccompanied Children from Castro's Cuba. Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2022. 266 pp. $32.95 (hardcover). Sara Fieldston Sara Fieldston [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhad079, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhad079 Published: 25 October 2023
Maps and Mini-Imperialists
Children no longer reside on the periphery of studies of empire. Over the past two decades, a robust body of scholarship has demonstrated that youngsters—both as symbols and as flesh-and-blood individuals—have been crucial to the project of empire building. This is particularly true when examining the history of the United States, an empire whose central tenet was a denial of its own imperialism. Cultural constructions of childhood innocence and …
A War Born Family: African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War
Journal Article A War Born Family: African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War Get access A War Born Family: African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War. By Kori A Graves. (New York: New York University Press, 2020. 301 pp. $45.00.) Sara Fieldston Sara Fieldston Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, I…
Pint-Sized Political Pawns
The U.S. presidential administration of Donald Trump made headlines—and courted outrage—with its policy of forcibly separating asylum-seeking immigrants and their children. But while the particulars of the Trump-era asylum policies were unique, the U.S. government has long played an active role in breaking up families. Taking people’s children, Laura Briggs argues in Taking Children: A History of American Terror, is a centuries-old weapon in the …
Our Frontier Is the World: The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy. By Mischa Honeck
With its neatly pressed uniforms, merit badges, and commitment to performing “good turns,” the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is at first glance the quintessential embodiment of youthful virtue and earnestness. But the sincerity of the BSA’s scores of young members has served less-than-innocent purposes. Mischa Honeck’s thought-provoking and deeply researched book, Our Frontier Is the World: The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy, demonstr…
Our dollars are celebrities abroad’: American tourists, consumption, and power after World War II
During the late 1940s and 1950s, tourism industry officials, government leaders, and travel writers described American tourists as fonts of foreign aid. Souvenir-hunters would rebuild war-devastated countries, spread American goodwill, and stimulate the global economy – all while treating themselves to fun and bargains. While travel boosters worked to connect American consumerism, U.S. power, and global prosperity, the experiences of ordinary tou…
The nursery's I ron C urtain: Children, childhood, and the global C old W ar
This essay surveys recent literature on children, childhood, and the Cold War. Over the past decade or so, numerous studies have explored the complex ways in which children and young people both bolstered and challenged the Cold War order. In doing so, they have shed new light on the social and cultural dynamics of the Cold War, encouraged historians to recover formerly marginalized voices, and expanded our definition of politics to include arena…
Little Cold Warriors: American Childhood in the 1950s
Victoria M. Grieve's well-researched Little Cold Warriors is a welcome addition to a growing field. During the past decade, many historians have turned their attention to the ways that children and ideas about childhood upheld and challenged the Cold War order. Scholarship on American childhood has been particularly robust: titles including Marilyn Irvin Holt's Cold War Kids: Politics and Childhood in Postwar America, 1945–1960 (2014) and Ann Mar…
The Global Girl Citizen
Rachel Rains Winslow. The Best Possible Immigrants: International Adoption and the American Family
When Haiti was hit by an earthquake in January 2010, American officials rushed to expedite the adoptions of Haitian children already matched with families in the United States. While the Obama administration issued visas for the youngsters, it was a private airplane, chartered by Pennsylvania governor Edward G. Rendell, that evacuated fifty-three children from their flattened orphanage. The effort to “save” foreign children through adoption into …
Modern Manhood and the Boy Scouts of America: Citizenship, Race, and the Environment by Benjamin René Jordan
Benjamin René Jordan’s book opens with a striking cartoon from a 1926 Boy Scouts of America (BSA) publication. An ax and a typewriter, each grinning widely, are shaking hands. “I like your type,” the ax assures the typewriter. “You have a good head, keen too,” the typewriter tells the ax. The amicable meeting between typewriter and ax lies at the center of Modern Manhood and the Boy Scouts of America, which uses the BSA as a lens for scrutinizing…
Raising the World: Child Welfare in the American Century
After World War II, American organizations launched efforts to improve the lives of foreign children, from war orphans in Europe and Japan to impoverished youth in the developing world. Providing material aid, education, and emotional support, these programs had a deep humanitarian underpinning. But they were also political projects. Sara Fieldston’s comprehensive account Raising the World shows that the influence of child welfare agencies around…
Little Cold Warriors: Child Sponsorship and International Affairs
During the two decades following World War II, American voluntary agencies including Christian Children's Fund, Foster Parents' Plan, and the Save the Children Federation ran child sponsorship programs that allowed Americanœ'foster parents' to send funds and exchange letters with youngsters in war-torn and poverty-stricken countries around the world. These programs were at once humanitarian gestures and political projects. American sponsorship ag…
Our dollars are celebrities abroad’: American tourists, consumption, and power after World War II
During the late 1940s and 1950s, tourism industry officials, government leaders, and travel writers described American tourists as fonts of foreign aid. Souvenir-hunters would rebuild war-devastated countries, spread American goodwill, and stimulate the global economy – all while treating themselves to fun and bargains. While travel boosters worked to connect American consumerism, U.S. power, and global prosperity, the experiences of ordinary tou…
Little Cold Warriors: Child Sponsorship and International Affairs
During the two decades following World War II, American voluntary agencies including Christian Children's Fund, Foster Parents' Plan, and the Save the Children Federation ran child sponsorship programs that allowed Americanœ'foster parents' to send funds and exchange letters with youngsters in war-torn and poverty-stricken countries around the world. These programs were at once humanitarian gestures and political projects. American sponsorship ag…
Raising the World: Child Welfare in the American Century
After World War II, American organizations launched efforts to improve the lives of foreign children, from war orphans in Europe and Japan to impoverished youth in the developing world. Providing material aid, education, and emotional support, these programs had a deep humanitarian underpinning. But they were also political projects. Sara Fieldston’s comprehensive account Raising the World shows that the influence of child welfare agencies around…
Modern Manhood and the Boy Scouts of America: Citizenship, Race, and the Environment by Benjamin René Jordan
Benjamin René Jordan’s book opens with a striking cartoon from a 1926 Boy Scouts of America (BSA) publication. An ax and a typewriter, each grinning widely, are shaking hands. “I like your type,” the ax assures the typewriter. “You have a good head, keen too,” the typewriter tells the ax. The amicable meeting between typewriter and ax lies at the center of Modern Manhood and the Boy Scouts of America, which uses the BSA as a lens for scrutinizing…
The Global Girl Citizen
Rachel Rains Winslow. The Best Possible Immigrants: International Adoption and the American Family
When Haiti was hit by an earthquake in January 2010, American officials rushed to expedite the adoptions of Haitian children already matched with families in the United States. While the Obama administration issued visas for the youngsters, it was a private airplane, chartered by Pennsylvania governor Edward G. Rendell, that evacuated fifty-three children from their flattened orphanage. The effort to “save” foreign children through adoption into …
Our dollars are celebrities abroad’: American tourists, consumption, and power after World War II
During the late 1940s and 1950s, tourism industry officials, government leaders, and travel writers described American tourists as fonts of foreign aid. Souvenir-hunters would rebuild war-devastated countries, spread American goodwill, and stimulate the global economy – all while treating themselves to fun and bargains. While travel boosters worked to connect American consumerism, U.S. power, and global prosperity, the experiences of ordinary tou…
The nursery's I ron C urtain: Children, childhood, and the global C old W ar
This essay surveys recent literature on children, childhood, and the Cold War. Over the past decade or so, numerous studies have explored the complex ways in which children and young people both bolstered and challenged the Cold War order. In doing so, they have shed new light on the social and cultural dynamics of the Cold War, encouraged historians to recover formerly marginalized voices, and expanded our definition of politics to include arena…
Little Cold Warriors: American Childhood in the 1950s
Victoria M. Grieve's well-researched Little Cold Warriors is a welcome addition to a growing field. During the past decade, many historians have turned their attention to the ways that children and ideas about childhood upheld and challenged the Cold War order. Scholarship on American childhood has been particularly robust: titles including Marilyn Irvin Holt's Cold War Kids: Politics and Childhood in Postwar America, 1945–1960 (2014) and Ann Mar…
Our Frontier Is the World: The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy. By Mischa Honeck
With its neatly pressed uniforms, merit badges, and commitment to performing “good turns,” the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is at first glance the quintessential embodiment of youthful virtue and earnestness. But the sincerity of the BSA’s scores of young members has served less-than-innocent purposes. Mischa Honeck’s thought-provoking and deeply researched book, Our Frontier Is the World: The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy, demonstr…
Pint-Sized Political Pawns
The U.S. presidential administration of Donald Trump made headlines—and courted outrage—with its policy of forcibly separating asylum-seeking immigrants and their children. But while the particulars of the Trump-era asylum policies were unique, the U.S. government has long played an active role in breaking up families. Taking people’s children, Laura Briggs argues in Taking Children: A History of American Terror, is a centuries-old weapon in the …
Maps and Mini-Imperialists
Children no longer reside on the periphery of studies of empire. Over the past two decades, a robust body of scholarship has demonstrated that youngsters—both as symbols and as flesh-and-blood individuals—have been crucial to the project of empire building. This is particularly true when examining the history of the United States, an empire whose central tenet was a denial of its own imperialism. Cultural constructions of childhood innocence and …
A War Born Family: African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War
Journal Article A War Born Family: African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War Get access A War Born Family: African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War. By Kori A Graves. (New York: New York University Press, 2020. 301 pp. $45.00.) Sara Fieldston Sara Fieldston Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, I…
Reexamining Operation Pedro Pan
Journal Article Reexamining Operation Pedro Pan Get access John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco. Operation Pedro Pan: The Migration of Unaccompanied Children from Castro's Cuba. Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2022. 266 pp. $32.95 (hardcover). Sara Fieldston Sara Fieldston [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhad079, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhad079 Published: 25 October 2023
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