Edward Slavishak
Biographic Data
| ID | 2031402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Slavishak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Slavishak |
| SIGNATURE | SLAVISHAK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Susquehanna University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8688-9135 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Invisible Wounds
In the introduction to Invisible Wounds, Dillon Carroll writes of the “dark turn” in Civil War studies over the last twenty years (3). Scholars in this movement have added grim accents to popular and scholarly literature rooted in positive, emancipationist narratives. The dark turn brought studies focused on disease, suicide, shame, disgust, and atrocities, all to drag the war out of the realm of myth and into the realm of experience. Carroll’s b…
BLAM! Black Lives Always Mattered! Hidden African American Philadelphia of the Twentieth Century
This is a wonderful book. Really, it is more an experience than a book, a melding of storytelling, historical reclamation, and artistic “how to” that brings sheer vibrancy to its material. We need more projects like this in Pennsylvania history.BLAM! comes from the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University. Think of it as an encyclopedia that takes advantage of the graphic novel’s ability to stage scenes with efficiency an…
Gettysburg 1963
Studies of historical memory have shown that acts of commemoration are deeply rooted in contemporary power relations. Looking backward, together, portrays the status quo in ways that serve political and economic agendas. In Gettysburg 1963, Jill Ogline Titus demonstrates that this kind of mobilization was at play in south-central Pennsylvania a century after the Army of Northern Virginia came and went. She argues along two fronts: (1) that the fl…
Bleak Reclamation
In the late 1960s, the hills and valleys of Pennsylvania’s anthracite region came alive via two imaginative responses to the devastation of strip-mined landscapes. Paramount Pictures’ The Molly Maguires and a multiyear Penn State landscape architecture study both attempted to make something new of gouged, abandoned land. This article argues that these reclamation attempts relied upon the attraction of melancholic landscapes. The filmmakers and la…
A Nation of Descendants
Journal Article A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History Get access A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History. By Francesca Morgan. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. xiv, 301 pp. Cloth, $95.00. Paper, $29.95.) Edward Slavishak Edward Slavishak Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Collison Course
Mobility scholars tend to portray people on the move as using various strategies to outmaneuver the governments or companies aiming to control them. This article shows that when some travelers prioritized convenience on their daily trips, their shortcuts and hacks led to unexpected run-ins with dangerous machinery. In early 1900s rural America, pedestrians and motorists used railroad tracks carelessly and intentionally-a chaotic combination epito…
Game of My Life Pittsburgh Steelers
Contested Image
Bodies of Work
By the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh emerged as a major manufacturing center in the United States. Its rise as a leading producer of steel, glass, and coal was fueled by machine technology and mass immigration, developments that fundamentally changed the industrial workplace. Because Pittsburgh’s major industries were almost exclusively male and renowned for their physical demands, the male working body came to symbolize multiple ofte…
Expert Vision
and peonies.Yet it served his interests to present himself as biding his time while gazing at framed mountain scenes.The idea of an urban professional pursuing his life's work, while constantly hemmed in by the white-collar world, was central to his script.Yes, he found ways to break out.As he reminded those assembled at a forestry conference in 1929, state highways allowed him to work in the morning, eat lunch at home, and still savor the "solem…
Three Miles, Two Creeks
Edward Slavishak, Three Miles, Two Creeks: Local Pennsylvania History in the Classroom, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 139, No. 1, A Special Collaborative Issue: Teaching Pennsylvania History (January 2015), pp. 22-39
New York Hustlers
Book Review| March 01 2013 New York Hustlers: Masculinity and Sex in Modern America New York Hustlers: Masculinity and Sex in Modern America. Reay, Barry. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2010xiv + 279 pp., £65.00, $90.00 (cloth); £17.99, $35.00 (paper) Edward Slavishak Edward Slavishak Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2013) 10 (1): 164–165. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1899159 Cite Icon Cite Share…
The Slumbering Masses
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer's study takes readers into sleep clinics, pharmaceutical trade shows, and Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, to explain how Americans have defined a “good night's sleep.” Wolf-Meyer, an anthropologist interested in how historical processes shape contemporary practices, charts two transformations. The first is the emergence of the consolidated (“11 to 7”) sleep pattern that organizes working lives, child rearing, and common sense about …
Loveliness but with an Edge
In addition to the infrastructural and commercial changes it wrought in Tennessee and North Carolina, the development of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park encouraged efforts to manage visitors' perceptions of nature. Organizations that shaped regional tourism after 1920 devoted themselves to making mountain recreation both an aesthetic and kinesthetic experience. Visitors were expected to earn their sightseeing while driving along scenic ro…
From Nation to Family
By examining the professional lives of two popularizers of eugenic thought from the 1910s to the 1940s, this study illustrates the broader change from “mainline” to “reform” eugenics in the United States. Roswell Hill Johnson's university teaching, laboratory research, and later marriage counseling work contrasted greatly with George Seibel's forays into eugenic theater, moral reform, and mass physical fitness movements. Yet both men shifted from…
Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
Thirteen years after the release of Steffi Domike's film, The River Ran Red (1993), a new film narrating the 1892 lockout of workers in Homestead, Pennsylvania, has hit the nation's television screens. With the Homestead Strike installment of the History Channel's Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America series, director Rory Kennedy presents an engaging look at issues of employment and capitalism. Domike's and Kennedy's treatments share elemen…
Artificial Limbs and Industrial Workers' Bodies in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh
This article examines artificial limb manufacturers' strategies for marketing their products to Pittsburgh industrial workers at the turn of the twentieth century. Pittsburgh was home to some of the nation's most mechanized and dangerous workplaces by 1900, leading to medical and economic problems for its workers and a public image dilemma for city leaders. Prostheses promised to solve these crises by reconstructing the diligent, untiring worker'…
The Slumbering Masses
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer's study takes readers into sleep clinics, pharmaceutical trade shows, and Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, to explain how Americans have defined a “good night's sleep.” Wolf-Meyer, an anthropologist interested in how historical processes shape contemporary practices, charts two transformations. The first is the emergence of the consolidated (“11 to 7”) sleep pattern that organizes working lives, child rearing, and common sense about …
Artificial Limbs and Industrial Workers' Bodies in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh
This article examines artificial limb manufacturers' strategies for marketing their products to Pittsburgh industrial workers at the turn of the twentieth century. Pittsburgh was home to some of the nation's most mechanized and dangerous workplaces by 1900, leading to medical and economic problems for its workers and a public image dilemma for city leaders. Prostheses promised to solve these crises by reconstructing the diligent, untiring worker'…
Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
Thirteen years after the release of Steffi Domike's film, The River Ran Red (1993), a new film narrating the 1892 lockout of workers in Homestead, Pennsylvania, has hit the nation's television screens. With the Homestead Strike installment of the History Channel's Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America series, director Rory Kennedy presents an engaging look at issues of employment and capitalism. Domike's and Kennedy's treatments share elemen…
From Nation to Family
By examining the professional lives of two popularizers of eugenic thought from the 1910s to the 1940s, this study illustrates the broader change from “mainline” to “reform” eugenics in the United States. Roswell Hill Johnson's university teaching, laboratory research, and later marriage counseling work contrasted greatly with George Seibel's forays into eugenic theater, moral reform, and mass physical fitness movements. Yet both men shifted from…
Loveliness but with an Edge
In addition to the infrastructural and commercial changes it wrought in Tennessee and North Carolina, the development of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park encouraged efforts to manage visitors' perceptions of nature. Organizations that shaped regional tourism after 1920 devoted themselves to making mountain recreation both an aesthetic and kinesthetic experience. Visitors were expected to earn their sightseeing while driving along scenic ro…
New York Hustlers
Book Review| March 01 2013 New York Hustlers: Masculinity and Sex in Modern America New York Hustlers: Masculinity and Sex in Modern America. Reay, Barry. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2010xiv + 279 pp., £65.00, $90.00 (cloth); £17.99, $35.00 (paper) Edward Slavishak Edward Slavishak Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2013) 10 (1): 164–165. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1899159 Cite Icon Cite Share…
The Slumbering Masses
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer's study takes readers into sleep clinics, pharmaceutical trade shows, and Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, to explain how Americans have defined a “good night's sleep.” Wolf-Meyer, an anthropologist interested in how historical processes shape contemporary practices, charts two transformations. The first is the emergence of the consolidated (“11 to 7”) sleep pattern that organizes working lives, child rearing, and common sense about …
Expert Vision
and peonies.Yet it served his interests to present himself as biding his time while gazing at framed mountain scenes.The idea of an urban professional pursuing his life's work, while constantly hemmed in by the white-collar world, was central to his script.Yes, he found ways to break out.As he reminded those assembled at a forestry conference in 1929, state highways allowed him to work in the morning, eat lunch at home, and still savor the "solem…
Three Miles, Two Creeks
Edward Slavishak, Three Miles, Two Creeks: Local Pennsylvania History in the Classroom, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 139, No. 1, A Special Collaborative Issue: Teaching Pennsylvania History (January 2015), pp. 22-39
Contested Image
Bodies of Work
By the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh emerged as a major manufacturing center in the United States. Its rise as a leading producer of steel, glass, and coal was fueled by machine technology and mass immigration, developments that fundamentally changed the industrial workplace. Because Pittsburgh’s major industries were almost exclusively male and renowned for their physical demands, the male working body came to symbolize multiple ofte…
Game of My Life Pittsburgh Steelers
Collison Course
Mobility scholars tend to portray people on the move as using various strategies to outmaneuver the governments or companies aiming to control them. This article shows that when some travelers prioritized convenience on their daily trips, their shortcuts and hacks led to unexpected run-ins with dangerous machinery. In early 1900s rural America, pedestrians and motorists used railroad tracks carelessly and intentionally-a chaotic combination epito…
Bleak Reclamation
In the late 1960s, the hills and valleys of Pennsylvania’s anthracite region came alive via two imaginative responses to the devastation of strip-mined landscapes. Paramount Pictures’ The Molly Maguires and a multiyear Penn State landscape architecture study both attempted to make something new of gouged, abandoned land. This article argues that these reclamation attempts relied upon the attraction of melancholic landscapes. The filmmakers and la…
A Nation of Descendants
Journal Article A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History Get access A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History. By Francesca Morgan. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. xiv, 301 pp. Cloth, $95.00. Paper, $29.95.) Edward Slavishak Edward Slavishak Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Invisible Wounds
In the introduction to Invisible Wounds, Dillon Carroll writes of the “dark turn” in Civil War studies over the last twenty years (3). Scholars in this movement have added grim accents to popular and scholarly literature rooted in positive, emancipationist narratives. The dark turn brought studies focused on disease, suicide, shame, disgust, and atrocities, all to drag the war out of the realm of myth and into the realm of experience. Carroll’s b…
BLAM! Black Lives Always Mattered! Hidden African American Philadelphia of the Twentieth Century
This is a wonderful book. Really, it is more an experience than a book, a melding of storytelling, historical reclamation, and artistic “how to” that brings sheer vibrancy to its material. We need more projects like this in Pennsylvania history.BLAM! comes from the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University. Think of it as an encyclopedia that takes advantage of the graphic novel’s ability to stage scenes with efficiency an…
Gettysburg 1963
Studies of historical memory have shown that acts of commemoration are deeply rooted in contemporary power relations. Looking backward, together, portrays the status quo in ways that serve political and economic agendas. In Gettysburg 1963, Jill Ogline Titus demonstrates that this kind of mobilization was at play in south-central Pennsylvania a century after the Army of Northern Virginia came and went. She argues along two fronts: (1) that the fl…
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