Bruce J Schulman
Biographic Data
| ID | 2018423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce J Schulman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce J |
| FAMILY NAME | Schulman |
| SIGNATURE | SCHULMAN B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America
The (New) American Political Tradition
The year 2023 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It —a bestselling book that captured the imagination of many of Hofstadter's fellow Americans in the early postwar period and, at the same time, defined the terms of argument for much of academic history for the next generation. 1 It was also the book my high school teacher, Mr. Backfish, assigned in…
Paul Sabin. Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism
Since the election of Ronald Reagan, scholars of modern American politics have struggled to explain the collapse of the New Deal order and the emergence of conservatism. Over the past four decades, historians debated the forces that unraveled the postwar liberal consensus—was it economic malaise, racial conflict, the Vietnam War?—and played a Where’s Waldo? game trying to identify the origins of the conservative ascendancy among, alternately, sub…
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
In 1986 a spiral-bound cookbook from an obscure publisher became a sensational best seller. Ernest Matthew Mickler's White Trash Cooking rode a wave of nostalgia for a vanishing way of life that infused popular culture and political debate during the 1970s and 1980s. Films, TV shows, novels, songs, comic strips, political rhetoric, and recipes participated in this celebration of rural white southerners. The book's title alienated some readers, bu…
Making the American Century: Essays on the Political Culture of Twentieth Century America
Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in The 1970s
Introduction: The Constitution and Public Policy in U.S. History
Huzza! My brave boys, our work is complete; The world shall admire Columbia's fair feat; Its strength against tempest and time shall be proof, And thousands shall come to dwell under our roof: Whilst we drain the deep bowl, our toast still shall be Our government firm, and our citizens free
Governing Nature, Nurturing Government: Resource Management and the Development of the American State, 1900–1912
In the early years of the twentieth century, the United States created modern resource management—a collection of administrative bureaucracies that reversed long-standing policies of distributing lands into private hands and instead managed the public domain from Washington. The creation of these powerful, independent agencies underlay a broader effort to reorganize and enlarge the national government. The very same administrators who built the n…
Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits
The massive inflation and oil crisis of the 1970s damaged Jimmy Carter's presidency. This work traces how the Carter administration developed and implemented economic policy amid multiple crises and explores how a combination of factors beyond the administration's control came to dictate a new paradigm of Democratic Party politics. Jimmy Carter inherited a deeply troubled economy. Inflation had been on the rise since the Johnson years, and the oi…
Democracy Heading South: National Politics in the Shadow of Dixie
In his landmark 1949 study, Southern Politics in State and Nation, V. O. Key detailed an exotic landscape of demagogues and strongmen, chaotic personal factions and ironclad one-party rule. The South, Key argued, resembled the colonial outposts of the great empires— economically backward regions where the maintenance of white control, especially in those areas with black majorities, promoted bizarre, undemocratic practices and required the tolera…
Out of the Streets and into the Classroom? The New Left and the Counterculture in United States History Textbooks
The United States history survey course has become a battlefield in the contemporary culture wars. Both within and outside the academy, conservative critics complained that the standard textbook narrative represents a triumph of 1960s radicalism. What the New Left could not accomplish on the barricades, it achieved in the classroom. A small angry group of anti-American radicals, in the words of Rush Limbaugh, have bullied their way into the power…
Remaking Dixie: The Impact of World War II on the American South
Although the Civil War reconfigured Dixie, in the half century since the end of World War II the American South has been massively changed again. It is still an improbable mix of tradition and transition, but the stereotype of a region with one party politics, one crop agriculture, white supremacy, cultural insularity, grinding poverty , somnolent cotton towns, and languorous rural landscapes has largely passed into history. Possum Trot and Tobac…
Taping History
Journal Article Taping History Get access Bruce J. Schulman Bruce J. Schulman associate professor of history and director of American studies Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 571–578, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567751 Published: 01 September 1998
Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television: How Americans Challenged the Media and Seized Political Initiative during the Iran-Contra Debate
Journal Article Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television: How Americans Challenged the Media and Seized Political Initiative during the Iran-Contra Debate. By David Thelen. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. x, 247 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-226-79470-9. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-226-79471-7.) Get access Bruce J. Schulman Bruce J. Schulman Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
Forth to the Mighty Conflict: Alabama and World War II
Journal Article Forth to the Mighty Conflict: Alabama and World War II. By Allen Cronenberg Tuscaloosa and From the Outside In: World War II and the American State. By Bartholomew H. Sparrow Princeton Get access Bruce J. Schulman Bruce J. Schulman Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Pages 291–292, https://doi.o…
From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South 1938–1980
The Sunbelt South: Old Times Forgotten
During 1970s, white South at long last accepted defeat in Civil War. In wake of Civil Rights Revolution and postwar economic boom, region no longer clung to traditional southern way of life. But like Germany and Japan after World War II, this loser reaped spoils of victory. Sunbelt South prospered while old industrial heartland faced seemingly catastrophic decline. Regional conflict once again captured national attention; Business Week even ran c…
Putting the Camps into Ucla's Curriculum
(1993). Putting the Camps into UCLA's Curriculum. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 139-152
The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected
Journal Article The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected. By Earl Black and Merle Black. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. x + 400 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-94130-6.) Get access Bruce J. Schulman Bruce J. Schulman University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1688–1689, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080356 Publi…
The Changing Continuity of the South
From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938-1980
Journal Article From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980. By Bruce J. Schulman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xiv + 333 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-505703-1.) Get access From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980. By Schulman Bruce J.. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xiv + 333 pp. $35.00, …
From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938-1980
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
In 1986 a spiral-bound cookbook from an obscure publisher became a sensational best seller. Ernest Matthew Mickler's White Trash Cooking rode a wave of nostalgia for a vanishing way of life that infused popular culture and political debate during the 1970s and 1980s. Films, TV shows, novels, songs, comic strips, political rhetoric, and recipes participated in this celebration of rural white southerners. The book's title alienated some readers, bu…
Governing Nature, Nurturing Government: Resource Management and the Development of the American State, 1900–1912
In the early years of the twentieth century, the United States created modern resource management—a collection of administrative bureaucracies that reversed long-standing policies of distributing lands into private hands and instead managed the public domain from Washington. The creation of these powerful, independent agencies underlay a broader effort to reorganize and enlarge the national government. The very same administrators who built the n…
Taping History
Journal Article Taping History Get access Bruce J. Schulman Bruce J. Schulman associate professor of history and director of American studies Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 571–578, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567751 Published: 01 September 1998
From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938-1980
The Changing Continuity of the South
From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938-1980
Journal Article From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980. By Bruce J. Schulman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xiv + 333 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-505703-1.) Get access From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980. By Schulman Bruce J.. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xiv + 333 pp. $35.00, …
From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938-1980
The Sunbelt South: Old Times Forgotten
During 1970s, white South at long last accepted defeat in Civil War. In wake of Civil Rights Revolution and postwar economic boom, region no longer clung to traditional southern way of life. But like Germany and Japan after World War II, this loser reaped spoils of victory. Sunbelt South prospered while old industrial heartland faced seemingly catastrophic decline. Regional conflict once again captured national attention; Business Week even ran c…
Putting the Camps into Ucla's Curriculum
(1993). Putting the Camps into UCLA's Curriculum. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 139-152
The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected
Journal Article The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected. By Earl Black and Merle Black. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. x + 400 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-94130-6.) Get access Bruce J. Schulman Bruce J. Schulman University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1688–1689, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080356 Publi…
From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South 1938–1980
Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television: How Americans Challenged the Media and Seized Political Initiative during the Iran-Contra Debate
Journal Article Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television: How Americans Challenged the Media and Seized Political Initiative during the Iran-Contra Debate. By David Thelen. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. x, 247 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-226-79470-9. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-226-79471-7.) Get access Bruce J. Schulman Bruce J. Schulman Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
Forth to the Mighty Conflict: Alabama and World War II
Journal Article Forth to the Mighty Conflict: Alabama and World War II. By Allen Cronenberg Tuscaloosa and From the Outside In: World War II and the American State. By Bartholomew H. Sparrow Princeton Get access Bruce J. Schulman Bruce J. Schulman Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Pages 291–292, https://doi.o…
Remaking Dixie: The Impact of World War II on the American South
Although the Civil War reconfigured Dixie, in the half century since the end of World War II the American South has been massively changed again. It is still an improbable mix of tradition and transition, but the stereotype of a region with one party politics, one crop agriculture, white supremacy, cultural insularity, grinding poverty , somnolent cotton towns, and languorous rural landscapes has largely passed into history. Possum Trot and Tobac…
Taping History
Journal Article Taping History Get access Bruce J. Schulman Bruce J. Schulman associate professor of history and director of American studies Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 571–578, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567751 Published: 01 September 1998
Out of the Streets and into the Classroom? The New Left and the Counterculture in United States History Textbooks
The United States history survey course has become a battlefield in the contemporary culture wars. Both within and outside the academy, conservative critics complained that the standard textbook narrative represents a triumph of 1960s radicalism. What the New Left could not accomplish on the barricades, it achieved in the classroom. A small angry group of anti-American radicals, in the words of Rush Limbaugh, have bullied their way into the power…
Democracy Heading South: National Politics in the Shadow of Dixie
In his landmark 1949 study, Southern Politics in State and Nation, V. O. Key detailed an exotic landscape of demagogues and strongmen, chaotic personal factions and ironclad one-party rule. The South, Key argued, resembled the colonial outposts of the great empires— economically backward regions where the maintenance of white control, especially in those areas with black majorities, promoted bizarre, undemocratic practices and required the tolera…
Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits
The massive inflation and oil crisis of the 1970s damaged Jimmy Carter's presidency. This work traces how the Carter administration developed and implemented economic policy amid multiple crises and explores how a combination of factors beyond the administration's control came to dictate a new paradigm of Democratic Party politics. Jimmy Carter inherited a deeply troubled economy. Inflation had been on the rise since the Johnson years, and the oi…
Governing Nature, Nurturing Government: Resource Management and the Development of the American State, 1900–1912
In the early years of the twentieth century, the United States created modern resource management—a collection of administrative bureaucracies that reversed long-standing policies of distributing lands into private hands and instead managed the public domain from Washington. The creation of these powerful, independent agencies underlay a broader effort to reorganize and enlarge the national government. The very same administrators who built the n…
Introduction: The Constitution and Public Policy in U.S. History
Huzza! My brave boys, our work is complete; The world shall admire Columbia's fair feat; Its strength against tempest and time shall be proof, And thousands shall come to dwell under our roof: Whilst we drain the deep bowl, our toast still shall be Our government firm, and our citizens free
Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in The 1970s
Making the American Century: Essays on the Political Culture of Twentieth Century America
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
In 1986 a spiral-bound cookbook from an obscure publisher became a sensational best seller. Ernest Matthew Mickler's White Trash Cooking rode a wave of nostalgia for a vanishing way of life that infused popular culture and political debate during the 1970s and 1980s. Films, TV shows, novels, songs, comic strips, political rhetoric, and recipes participated in this celebration of rural white southerners. The book's title alienated some readers, bu…
Paul Sabin. Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism
Since the election of Ronald Reagan, scholars of modern American politics have struggled to explain the collapse of the New Deal order and the emergence of conservatism. Over the past four decades, historians debated the forces that unraveled the postwar liberal consensus—was it economic malaise, racial conflict, the Vietnam War?—and played a Where’s Waldo? game trying to identify the origins of the conservative ascendancy among, alternately, sub…
The (New) American Political Tradition
The year 2023 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It —a bestselling book that captured the imagination of many of Hofstadter's fellow Americans in the early postwar period and, at the same time, defined the terms of argument for much of academic history for the next generation. 1 It was also the book my high school teacher, Mr. Backfish, assigned in…
A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America
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