Richard L Hughes
Biographic Data
| ID | 2009428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard L Hughes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard L |
| FAMILY NAME | Hughes |
| SIGNATURE | HUGHES R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Hint of Whiteness: History Textbooks and Social Construction of Race in the Wake of the Sixties
As historians and publishers scrambled to revise American history textbooks in the wake of the 1960s, textbooks increasingly strove to include the experiences of African Americans and avoid dangerous racial stereotypes. After the Civil Rights movement and decades before scathing criticism of textbooks for their inability to address racism in American history from authors such as James Loewen, one textbook, John Wiltz's The Search for Identity: Mo…
Burning Birth Certificates and Atomic Tupperware Parties: Creating the Antiabortion Movement in the Shadow of the Vietnam War
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRichard L. HughesRichard L. Hughes is an assistant professor of history at Illinois State University
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1990s?”: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Struggle for Racial Justice
In 1964, Claude and Jeanne Nolen, who were white, joined an interracial NAACP team intent on desegregating local restaurants in Austin, Texas as a test of the recently passed Civil Rights ACt. Twenty-five years later, the Nolens pleaded "no contest" in a courtroom for their continued social activism. This time the issue was not racial segregation, but rather criminal trespassing for blockading abortion clinics with Operation Rescue. The Nolens se…
Longer Hospitalization at Veterans Administration Hospitals Than Private Hospitals: Verification and Additional Insights
Utilizing 1,297 male patients under the primary care of an identical group of house officers and under treatment between 1985 and 1987 for ten common medical diagnoses, length of hospitalization was compared between a private sector (n = 481) and Veterans Administration (VA) (n = 816) facility, both affiliated with the same medical school. All patients were rated by the Horn Severity of Illness Index. After researchers controlled for diagnosis, s…
Academic freedom and academic agitation at Northwestern University
Electromyographic Response to Evaluative Stress in Test Anxiety
High and low test-anxious subjects performed a challenging tracking task after receiving instructions designed to maximize or minimize their evaluative apprehension. Electromyographic measures of frontalis muscle tension were recorded during the task. Actual tracking performance, subjective tension, and estimates of relative success on the task were also assessed. There were no statistically significant differences between high and low test-anxio…
Is the Little Professor Right
There are parallel developments in TA and physiological psychology. The intuitive, creative, nonverbal contributions of the Little Professor sound much like the information processing that is characteristic of the right cerebral hemisphere; and the logical, analytical functioning of the Adult sounds much like the information processing that is characteristic of the left hemisphere
A Hint of Whiteness: History Textbooks and Social Construction of Race in the Wake of the Sixties
As historians and publishers scrambled to revise American history textbooks in the wake of the 1960s, textbooks increasingly strove to include the experiences of African Americans and avoid dangerous racial stereotypes. After the Civil Rights movement and decades before scathing criticism of textbooks for their inability to address racism in American history from authors such as James Loewen, one textbook, John Wiltz's The Search for Identity: Mo…
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1990s?”: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Struggle for Racial Justice
In 1964, Claude and Jeanne Nolen, who were white, joined an interracial NAACP team intent on desegregating local restaurants in Austin, Texas as a test of the recently passed Civil Rights ACt. Twenty-five years later, the Nolens pleaded "no contest" in a courtroom for their continued social activism. This time the issue was not racial segregation, but rather criminal trespassing for blockading abortion clinics with Operation Rescue. The Nolens se…
Is the Little Professor Right
There are parallel developments in TA and physiological psychology. The intuitive, creative, nonverbal contributions of the Little Professor sound much like the information processing that is characteristic of the right cerebral hemisphere; and the logical, analytical functioning of the Adult sounds much like the information processing that is characteristic of the left hemisphere
Electromyographic Response to Evaluative Stress in Test Anxiety
High and low test-anxious subjects performed a challenging tracking task after receiving instructions designed to maximize or minimize their evaluative apprehension. Electromyographic measures of frontalis muscle tension were recorded during the task. Actual tracking performance, subjective tension, and estimates of relative success on the task were also assessed. There were no statistically significant differences between high and low test-anxio…
Academic freedom and academic agitation at Northwestern University
Longer Hospitalization at Veterans Administration Hospitals Than Private Hospitals: Verification and Additional Insights
Utilizing 1,297 male patients under the primary care of an identical group of house officers and under treatment between 1985 and 1987 for ten common medical diagnoses, length of hospitalization was compared between a private sector (n = 481) and Veterans Administration (VA) (n = 816) facility, both affiliated with the same medical school. All patients were rated by the Horn Severity of Illness Index. After researchers controlled for diagnosis, s…
Burning Birth Certificates and Atomic Tupperware Parties: Creating the Antiabortion Movement in the Shadow of the Vietnam War
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRichard L. HughesRichard L. Hughes is an assistant professor of history at Illinois State University
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1990s?”: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Struggle for Racial Justice
In 1964, Claude and Jeanne Nolen, who were white, joined an interracial NAACP team intent on desegregating local restaurants in Austin, Texas as a test of the recently passed Civil Rights ACt. Twenty-five years later, the Nolens pleaded "no contest" in a courtroom for their continued social activism. This time the issue was not racial segregation, but rather criminal trespassing for blockading abortion clinics with Operation Rescue. The Nolens se…
A Hint of Whiteness: History Textbooks and Social Construction of Race in the Wake of the Sixties
As historians and publishers scrambled to revise American history textbooks in the wake of the 1960s, textbooks increasingly strove to include the experiences of African Americans and avoid dangerous racial stereotypes. After the Civil Rights movement and decades before scathing criticism of textbooks for their inability to address racism in American history from authors such as James Loewen, one textbook, John Wiltz's The Search for Identity: Mo…
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