Thomas Doherty

Biographic Data

ID3625636
NAMEThomas Doherty
GIVEN NAMESThomas
FAMILY NAMEDoherty
SIGNATUREDOHERTY T
AFFILIATIONSBrandeis University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS44
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT36
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Celtics City

    Open AccessDaniel A Nathan, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2026

  • Good Night, and Good Luck

    Open AccessJeffrey S Miller, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2025

  • How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer (a cautionary tale)

    Open AccessStephen J Whitfield, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2025

  • Arnold

    Open AccessJon Lewis, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2024

    Journal Article Arnold Get access Arnold. Dir. by Lesley Chilcott. Prod. by Lesley Chilcott, Allen Hughes, Peter Nelson, and Doug Pray. Invented by Girls and Defiant Ones Media Group. Originally aired on Netflix on June 7, 2023, 180 mins. Jon Lewis Jon Lewis Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 111, Issue 1, June 2024, Pages 197–200,…

  • The Incomparable Mr. Buckley

    Open AccessStephen J Whitfield, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2024

  • Phil Spector

    Open AccessJon Lewis, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2023

    Journal Article Phil Spector Get access Phil Spector. Dir. by Don Argott and Sheena M Joyce. Prod. by Lightbox. Showtime Documentary Films. Distributed by NOW, Sky Documentaries, 2022. 208 mins. (https://www.sho.com/spector) Jon Lewis Jon Lewis Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 1, June 2023, Pages 182–185, https://doi.o…

  • "The Movement and the "Madman

    Open AccessAlan Nadel, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2023

    Journal Article The Movement and the “Madman.” Get access The Movement and the “Madman.” Dir. by Stephen Talbot. Prod. by Stephen Talbot and Steve Ladd. Glen Park Films for American Experience, Pbs, 2023. 82 Mins. (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/movement-and-madman/). Alan Nadel Alan Nadel University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American His…

  • My Name Is Pauli Murray

    Open AccessStephen J Whitfield, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2022

    Posterity has been kinder to Pauli Murray (1910–1985) than many of her contemporaries were. A third of a century after her death, the Department of the Interior designated her childhood home in Durham, North Carolina, a National Historic Monument; and visitors to the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice in that city can learn more about her than this fine documentary has time to reveal. Yale University opened up a residential colleg…

  • The Eyes of Tammy Faye

    Open AccessTona Hangen, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2022

    Among the mushrooming industry of feature-length biopics and straight-to-streaming shows based on public celebrities and entrepreneurs, The Eyes of Tammy Faye—both the 2000 documentary and the 2021 biopic—stand out for centering the narrative on a complex and unforgettable female protagonist: televangelist, singer, activist, and cultural icon of the 1980s Tammy Faye Bakker (later, Messner). The two same-titled films are linked by the pair who wro…

  • American Oz: The True Wizard behind the Curtain

    Open AccessKathleen Lawrence, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2021

    The new Pbs documentary American Oz aims to uncover the unknown history behind L. Frank Baum's enduring 1900 children's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, precursor to the beloved 1939 film adaptation starring Judy Garland. Co-directed and co-written by Wesleyan University professors Randall MacLowry and Tracy Heather Strain, who together established the Wesleyan Documentary Project, this latest installment of the long-running American Experienc…

  • The Last Dance

    Open AccessDaniel A Nathan, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2021

  • Harriet

    Open AccessKathleen Lawrence, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2020

    Harriet, the biopic on the remarkable abolitionist and human rights activist Harriet Tubman, arrives at a fraught political moment that underscores the importance of finally bringing her antebellum struggles to the big screen. This past year has seen Americans contending with the intersection of the Black Lives Matter movment and the #MeToo movement, confronting the four-hundredth anniversary of the arrival of enslaved West Africans to the North …

  • Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band

    Open AccessJames I Deutsch, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2020

    Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band. Dir. by Daniel Roher. Prod. by Andrew Munger, Stephen Paniccia, Sam Sutherland, and Lana Belle Mauro. Imagine Documentaries/White Pine Pictures, 2019. 102 mins. (https://www.whitepinepictures.com/once-were-brothers-robbie-robertson-the-band) James I Deutsch James I Deutsch Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C Search for other works by this aut…

  • Father's Kingdom

    Open AccessTona Hangen, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2019

    The job of any charismatic religious leader carries with it two inherent problems: legitimacy and succession. Uniquely, Father Divine, the African American founder of the International Peace Mission movement, had a third problem, which James T. Fisher of Fordham University euphemistically designates a “public relations issue.” Divine claimed not just to speak for God or embody the will of God, as have so many American prophets, but to literally b…

  • BlacKkKlansman

    Open AccessDavid Cunningham, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2019

    Though set in 1970s Colorado, Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman trains a lens on the broad sweep of American history. Its cinematic bookends span the film version of Gone with the Wind (1939) and footage of contemporary white-supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Birth of a Nation (1915), the film that sparked and styled the real-life reformation of the Ku Klux Klan (Kkk), features prominently as well, juxtaposed with Harry Belafonte's …

  • Hidden Figures

    James I Deutsch, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2018

    Hidden Figures is a clever title. It suggests how the film's protagonists—known as computers, due to their mathematical abilities to calculate numbers accurately and rapidly by hand, in support of the U.S. aeronautics and space program—have been largely hidden from history. It also suggests how the solutions to certain mathematical problems are hidden until cracked by someone with the right stuff. Credit for the title goes to Margot Lee Shetterly…

  • The Gilded Age

    Matthew E Stanley, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2018

    The producer-director Sarah Colt's new documentary describes a society of widespread poverty amid unprecedented plenty—a society in which the richest four thousand families amassed as much wealth as the remaining 11.6 million families combined. No, it is not a survey of the post–great recession United States. Rather, The Gilded Age examines the period between Reconstruction and the end of the nineteenth century, when bloodshed over slavery and ci…

  • The Perfect Crime

    Stephen J Whitfield, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2017

    The twentieth century was scarred by so many atrocities designated as “the crime of the century” that it may be somewhat capricious to single out a 1924 event in Chicago: the kidnapping and murder of fourteen-year-old Robert “Bobby” Franks. Nevertheless, two features of this crime make it distinctive. First, Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, who were ultimately tried and convicted of the murder, lacked a discernible motive. They were not anima…

  • Born to Be Blue

    Paula Musegades, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2016

    Billed as an “anti-biopic” by the director Robert Budreau, Born to Be Blue provides a compelling snapshot of the jazz trumpet player Chet Baker (played by Ethan Hawke) during the late 1960s. Baker, a leader in West Coast jazz, developed a major following during the 1950s that reached far beyond the expected circle of jazz aficionados. Appropriately nicknamed the “James Dean of jazz,” Baker's handsome looks and bad-boy reputation made him a major …

  • The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

    Larry A Greene, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2016Cited by: 2

    The Black Panther party flashed across the nation's consciousness in the latter half of the 1960s, following the integrationist, nonviolent, and mainly southern-oriented civil rights movement. The party captured the imagination of the urban black youth and black college students and won allies in the predominantly white anti–Vietnam War movement and among Latino and Asian American activists. Police harassment and brutality against young black men…

  • Spotlight

    Michael J Socolow, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2016

    Journal Article Spotlight Get access Dir. by Tom McCarthy Prod. by Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer. Open Road Films, 2015. 128 mins. (http://spotlightthefilm.com/) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 293–294, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw167 Published: 01 June 2016

  • Rosenwald

    Stephen J Whitfield, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2016

    Journal Article Rosenwald Get access Dir. and prod. by Aviva Kempner. Ciesla Foundation, 2015. 95 mins. (http://www.rosenwaldfilm.org) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 285–287, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw164 Published: 01 June 2016

  • National Lampoon: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead

    Horton Andrews, Horton Andrew et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2016

    Journal Article National Lampoon: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead Get access Dir. by Douglas Tirola Prod. by John Battsek and Dirk Hoogstra. Magnolia Pictures, 2015. 98 mins. (www.magpictures.com/nationallampoon/) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 294–296, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw168 Published: 01 June 2016

  • The Seventies

    James I Deutsch, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2016

    Journal Article The Seventies Get access Prod. by Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog. cnn Playtone, and Herzog & Co., 2015. 8 episodes, 340 mins. (http://www.cnn.com/shows/the-seventies) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 287–290, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw165 Published: 01 June 2016

  • Chuck Norris vs. Communism

    James I Deutsch, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2016

    In 1989 country after country in Central and Eastern Europe shifted from rule by Communist dictatorships to rule by constitutional democracies. In every case but one the transitions were nonviolent. Indeed, Czechoslovakia's evolution in that year was so smooth that it became known as a velvet revolution. The exception was Romania, where Nicolae Ceauşescu, longtime general secretary of the Romanian Communist party, and his wife, Elena, were summar…