Adam Berg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Berg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Berg |
| SIGNATURE | BERG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6350-6242 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sport Historians Reflect on Their Most Important Sport History Book
Editors’ Note: The Book Reviews section of the Journal of Sport History is a place sport historians can go for an overview of the developing research in the field and to learn about new directions scholars are taking their work. It is also a place to assess contemporary debates and decide what to read next. We thought it would be similarly valuable to look back. In the fall of 2023, we started recruiting renowned sport historians to participate i…
Playing the Populist
From 2015 through 2020, Donald Trump used tackle football to perform the populist persona that allowed him to seize the American presidency. Trump's deployment of tackle football becomes apparent when considering his references to the game within the context of three vital historical elements: football's ideological origins, the Republican Party's Long Southern Strategy (LSS), and the gendered, racial, and religious debates that occurred in and t…
Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against Sars-CoV-2: An interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK
Background A safe and efficacious vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), if deployed with high coverage, could contribute to the control of the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated the safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine in a pooled interim analysis of four trials. Methods This analysis includes data from four ongoing blinded, randomised, controlled trials done across the UK, Brazil, and South Afri…
Battles of the North Country: Wilderness Politics and Recreational Development in the Adirondack State Park, 1920–1980
Book Review| April 01 2020 Battles of the North Country: Wilderness Politics and Recreational Development in the Adirondack State Park, 1920–1980 Anzalone, Johnathan D. Battles of the North Country: Wilderness Politics and Recreational Development in the Adirondack State Park, 1920–1980. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2018. Pp. ix–xx + 279. Illustrations, maps, and index. $32.95, pb. Adam Berg Adam Berg University of North Carolina, …
Manning Up: Modern Manhood, Rudimentary Pugilistic Capital, and Esquire Network's White Collar Brawlers
Debuting in 2013, Esquire Network's first season of White Collar Brawlers features professional-class men with workplace conflicts looking to 'settle the score in the ring.' In the show, white-collar men are portrayed as using boxing to reclaim ostensibly primal aspects of masculinity, which their professional lives do not provide, making them appear as better men and more productive constituents of a postindustrial service economy. Through this …
Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West
To Conquer Myself ”: The New Strenuosity and the Emergence of “Thru-hiking” on the Appalachian Trail in the 1970s
In the early 1970s hundreds of hikers began to traverse all 2,000-plus miles of the Appalachian Trail in a single effort. Spanning from Maine to Georgia, today over 14,000 have trekked across the entirety of the famed “wilderness footpath.” A particular mentality, characterized by perceptions of asocial self-discovery gained though physical activity and “wilderness” recreation led to the initial 1970s “thru-hiker” surge. This sense of autonomous …
Escaping into Nature: The Making of a Sportsman-Conservationist and Environmental Historian
Getting Physical: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America
Book Review| April 01 2015 Getting Physical: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America McKenzie, Shelly. Getting Physical: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. Pp. viii+182 with illustrations. Notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 cloth. Andrew D. Linden; Andrew D. Linden The Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Adam Berg Adam Berg The Pennsylvania St…
A Brief Taxonomy of Sports that Were Not Quite American National Pastimes: Fads and Flashes-in-the-Pan, Nationwide and Regional Pastimes, the Pastimes of Other Nations, and Pan-National Pastimes
Several sports have served as American national pastimes over the course of the nation's history. Horse racing, hunting, prize fighting, baseball, football, and basketball have waxed and waned in a long series of debates over what constitutes ‘true' national pastimes. Unlike some nations that have declared national pastimes by governmental fiat, US national games emerge from organic and sometimes chaotic cultural processes. An alternative history…
The Flying Finn's American Sojourn: Hannes Kolehmainen in the United States, 1912–1921
Shortly after he won three gold medals and one silver medal in distance running events at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, Finland's Hannes Kolehmainen immigrated to the United States. He spent nearly a decade living in Brooklyn, plying his trade as a mason and dominating the amateur endurance running circuit in his adopted homeland. He became a naturalised US citizen in 1921 but returned to Finland shortly thereafter. During his American sojourn, th…
Perseus' Hysteria
To Conquer Myself ”: The New Strenuosity and the Emergence of “Thru-hiking” on the Appalachian Trail in the 1970s
In the early 1970s hundreds of hikers began to traverse all 2,000-plus miles of the Appalachian Trail in a single effort. Spanning from Maine to Georgia, today over 14,000 have trekked across the entirety of the famed “wilderness footpath.” A particular mentality, characterized by perceptions of asocial self-discovery gained though physical activity and “wilderness” recreation led to the initial 1970s “thru-hiker” surge. This sense of autonomous …
Playing the Populist
From 2015 through 2020, Donald Trump used tackle football to perform the populist persona that allowed him to seize the American presidency. Trump's deployment of tackle football becomes apparent when considering his references to the game within the context of three vital historical elements: football's ideological origins, the Republican Party's Long Southern Strategy (LSS), and the gendered, racial, and religious debates that occurred in and t…
Manning Up: Modern Manhood, Rudimentary Pugilistic Capital, and Esquire Network's White Collar Brawlers
Debuting in 2013, Esquire Network's first season of White Collar Brawlers features professional-class men with workplace conflicts looking to 'settle the score in the ring.' In the show, white-collar men are portrayed as using boxing to reclaim ostensibly primal aspects of masculinity, which their professional lives do not provide, making them appear as better men and more productive constituents of a postindustrial service economy. Through this …
The Flying Finn's American Sojourn: Hannes Kolehmainen in the United States, 1912–1921
Shortly after he won three gold medals and one silver medal in distance running events at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, Finland's Hannes Kolehmainen immigrated to the United States. He spent nearly a decade living in Brooklyn, plying his trade as a mason and dominating the amateur endurance running circuit in his adopted homeland. He became a naturalised US citizen in 1921 but returned to Finland shortly thereafter. During his American sojourn, th…
Perseus' Hysteria
The Flying Finn's American Sojourn: Hannes Kolehmainen in the United States, 1912–1921
Shortly after he won three gold medals and one silver medal in distance running events at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, Finland's Hannes Kolehmainen immigrated to the United States. He spent nearly a decade living in Brooklyn, plying his trade as a mason and dominating the amateur endurance running circuit in his adopted homeland. He became a naturalised US citizen in 1921 but returned to Finland shortly thereafter. During his American sojourn, th…
A Brief Taxonomy of Sports that Were Not Quite American National Pastimes: Fads and Flashes-in-the-Pan, Nationwide and Regional Pastimes, the Pastimes of Other Nations, and Pan-National Pastimes
Several sports have served as American national pastimes over the course of the nation's history. Horse racing, hunting, prize fighting, baseball, football, and basketball have waxed and waned in a long series of debates over what constitutes ‘true' national pastimes. Unlike some nations that have declared national pastimes by governmental fiat, US national games emerge from organic and sometimes chaotic cultural processes. An alternative history…
To Conquer Myself ”: The New Strenuosity and the Emergence of “Thru-hiking” on the Appalachian Trail in the 1970s
In the early 1970s hundreds of hikers began to traverse all 2,000-plus miles of the Appalachian Trail in a single effort. Spanning from Maine to Georgia, today over 14,000 have trekked across the entirety of the famed “wilderness footpath.” A particular mentality, characterized by perceptions of asocial self-discovery gained though physical activity and “wilderness” recreation led to the initial 1970s “thru-hiker” surge. This sense of autonomous …
Escaping into Nature: The Making of a Sportsman-Conservationist and Environmental Historian
Getting Physical: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America
Book Review| April 01 2015 Getting Physical: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America McKenzie, Shelly. Getting Physical: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. Pp. viii+182 with illustrations. Notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 cloth. Andrew D. Linden; Andrew D. Linden The Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Adam Berg Adam Berg The Pennsylvania St…
Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West
Battles of the North Country: Wilderness Politics and Recreational Development in the Adirondack State Park, 1920–1980
Book Review| April 01 2020 Battles of the North Country: Wilderness Politics and Recreational Development in the Adirondack State Park, 1920–1980 Anzalone, Johnathan D. Battles of the North Country: Wilderness Politics and Recreational Development in the Adirondack State Park, 1920–1980. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2018. Pp. ix–xx + 279. Illustrations, maps, and index. $32.95, pb. Adam Berg Adam Berg University of North Carolina, …
Manning Up: Modern Manhood, Rudimentary Pugilistic Capital, and Esquire Network's White Collar Brawlers
Debuting in 2013, Esquire Network's first season of White Collar Brawlers features professional-class men with workplace conflicts looking to 'settle the score in the ring.' In the show, white-collar men are portrayed as using boxing to reclaim ostensibly primal aspects of masculinity, which their professional lives do not provide, making them appear as better men and more productive constituents of a postindustrial service economy. Through this …
Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against Sars-CoV-2: An interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK
Background A safe and efficacious vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), if deployed with high coverage, could contribute to the control of the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated the safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine in a pooled interim analysis of four trials. Methods This analysis includes data from four ongoing blinded, randomised, controlled trials done across the UK, Brazil, and South Afri…
Playing the Populist
From 2015 through 2020, Donald Trump used tackle football to perform the populist persona that allowed him to seize the American presidency. Trump's deployment of tackle football becomes apparent when considering his references to the game within the context of three vital historical elements: football's ideological origins, the Republican Party's Long Southern Strategy (LSS), and the gendered, racial, and religious debates that occurred in and t…
Sport Historians Reflect on Their Most Important Sport History Book
Editors’ Note: The Book Reviews section of the Journal of Sport History is a place sport historians can go for an overview of the developing research in the field and to learn about new directions scholars are taking their work. It is also a place to assess contemporary debates and decide what to read next. We thought it would be similarly valuable to look back. In the fall of 2023, we started recruiting renowned sport historians to participate i…
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