Russell Olwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Russell Olwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Russell |
| FAMILY NAME | Olwell |
| SIGNATURE | OLWELL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Michigan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
David Allen Burke. Atomic Testing in Mississippi: Project Dribble and the Quest for Nuclear Weapons Treaty Verification in the Cold War Era
Nuclear history has only a few genres available for historians and writers. One is the sweeping epic, typified by Richard Rhodes's The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986). Then there are the thick biographies of leading scientists and policymakers, such as Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird's American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005). Both the sweeping epic and the heroic biography emphasize the top players in the story a…
TRAVIS GLASSON. Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) was, as Travis Glasson notes, “the largest and most influential missionary organization in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world” (p. 3). While accurate, this is rather like describing fish and chips as Britain's greatest contribution to world cuisine. Mastering Christianity examines why Anglican authorities came (belatedly) to the missionary impulse, how they sought to …
Two Views of Cassandra: Lawrence Badash, A Nuclear Winter's Tale John Mueller, Atomic Obsession
The end of the cold war and the end of the threat of all-out nuclear war between the superpowers have made the field of nuclear technology studies less relevant. Thermonuclear war and the threat of global destruction framed scholarship in the history of nuclear technology, as proponents and opponents of deterrence crossed swords in books and on the pages of academic and policy journals. The world has changed, and with it the context for nuclear s…
Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (review)
Reviewed by: Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age Russell Olwell (bio) Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age. By Jacob Darwin Hamblin. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2008. Pp. x+311. $49.95. When historians of technology write about disposal of nuclear waste, it is usually in terms of sites such as Yucca Mountain—vast underground nuclear gra…
The Problems of Elementary Social Studies: Are Curricular and Assessment Sprawl to Blame
(2006). The Problems of Elementary Social Studies: Are Curricular and Assessment Sprawl to Blame? The Social Studies: Vol. 97, No. 5, pp. 222-224
Making National History Day Their Own: The Rewards of and Barriers to Bringing Project-Based Learning to Urban Students
Ask any teacher, parent, or child who has participated: National History Day is a powerful tool for encouraging students to research history in depth. The exhibits, papers, media projects, and performances completed by elementary, middle, and high school students consistently exceed expectations, and the best work in the contest surpasses the quality found in much college student work. The History Teacher, for example, annually publishes the top …
Knocking at the Schoolhouse Door: The SHOT/AHA Booklet Series Historical Perspectives on Technology, Culture, and Society
Knocking at the Schoolhouse Door:The SHOT/AHA Booklet Series Historical Perspectives on Technology, Culture, and Society Russell Olwell (bio) and Maureen Sullivan (bio) A visitor to Washington, D.C., who happens upon the United States Department of Education is in for a surprise: in front of the massive building housing the federal government's education bureaucracy now stand four bright-red, one-room schoolhouses, each labeled "No Child Left Beh…
Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971-Present (review)
Reviewed by: Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971–Present Russell Olwell (bio) Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971–Present. By Lawrence S. Wittner. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv+657. $32.95. Nuclear weapons are a technology that dominated the latter half of the twentieth century, and continue to shape policies of war and pea…
Chasing Spies: How the FBI Failed in Counterintelligence but Promoted the Politics of McCarthyism in the Cold War Years
In the Shadow of the Bomb: Bethe, Oppenheimer, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist (review)
Silvan S. Schweber's In the Shadow of the Bomb is a rare example of a successful hybrid work. It is neither a full biography of physicists J. Robert [End Page 823] Oppenheimer and Hans Bethe nor a complete study of postwar American science and its ethical dilemmas. Instead, it is an examination of the professional, personal, and scientific lives of two men, and the ways in which they confronted the changes in science and politics before and after…
The Mare Island Mutiny: Pressure to Desegregate die U.S. Armed Forces
The Mare Island Mutiny: Pressure to Desegregate die U.S. Armed Forces Get access Russell Olwell Russell Olwell Russell Olwell is an assistant professor of history at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 15, Issue 2, Winter 2001, Pages 64–70, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/15.2.64 Published: 01 January 2001
Capital Moves: RCA's 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
Bohm-Biederman Correspondence. Volume 1: Creativity in Art and Science . David Bohm , Charles Biederman , Paavo Pylkkanen
Use Narrative to Teach Middle School Students about Reconstruction
Physical Isolation and Marginalization in Physics: David Bohm's Cold War Exile
David Bohm's career as a postwar American physicist demonstrates the effects of the cold war on the theoretical physics of that period. Bohm was fired from Princeton University because of his connections to the Communist Party while a graduate student at Berkeley during World War II; he left the country and took positions in Brazil and Israel and finally found a permanent post in England at Birkbeck College, University of London. Because of his p…
Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War
Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War by Hugh Gusterson
technology and culture Book Reviews 133 Attention very much centers on his policy concerns and their expres sion. This may reflect the book’s origin. In 1983 Francis X. Gannon began the project as a set ofessays on the retired congressman’s nuclear energy views. It evolved into a socalled authorized biography supported by a group ofclose associates and friends organized as the Holifield Book Associates. When Gan non suffered a fatal heart attac…
Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project. Peter Bacon Hales
Condemned to Footnotes: Marxist Scholarship in the History of Science
From its inception, the academic study of the history of science and technology has been contested terrain in the debate over whether science and capitalism are in fundamental conflict. Marxist writers such as Boris Hessen, Nikolai Bukharin, and J. D. Bernal raised these issues against the backdrop of the Great Depression of the 1930s, and writers such as Dirk Struik, Bernhard Stern and Henry Sigerist applied this work to American science. This c…
The Plutonium Story: The Journals of Professor Glenn T. Seaborg, 1939-1946 . Glenn Theodore Seaborg , Ronald L. Kathren , Jerry B. Gough , Gary T. Benefiel Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of Worl…
"Detroit-Motor City," at the Detroit Historical Museum
Exhibit Reviews “DETROIT—MOTOR CITY, ” AT THE DETROIT HISTORICAL MUSEUM RUSSELL OLWELL Located in the heart ofAmerica’s automobile capital, “Detroit — Motor City,” a new permanent exhibit at the Detroit Historical Mu seum, presents a nostalgic picture of the past and a hopeful vision of the future. Strikingly optimistic about both the automobile indus try and the city of Detroit, the exhibit begins with the development of small automobile compa…
Student Designed Socially Responsible Research as Part of a Course in The Ethics and Politics of Science
L'etude des relations entre les sciences, les technologies et la societe est un encouragement aux reflexions du savoir-faire et de l'application des sciences
Physical Isolation and Marginalization in Physics: David Bohm's Cold War Exile
David Bohm's career as a postwar American physicist demonstrates the effects of the cold war on the theoretical physics of that period. Bohm was fired from Princeton University because of his connections to the Communist Party while a graduate student at Berkeley during World War II; he left the country and took positions in Brazil and Israel and finally found a permanent post in England at Birkbeck College, University of London. Because of his p…
The Problems of Elementary Social Studies: Are Curricular and Assessment Sprawl to Blame
(2006). The Problems of Elementary Social Studies: Are Curricular and Assessment Sprawl to Blame? The Social Studies: Vol. 97, No. 5, pp. 222-224
Use Narrative to Teach Middle School Students about Reconstruction
Student Designed Socially Responsible Research as Part of a Course in The Ethics and Politics of Science
L'etude des relations entre les sciences, les technologies et la societe est un encouragement aux reflexions du savoir-faire et de l'application des sciences
Condemned to Footnotes: Marxist Scholarship in the History of Science
From its inception, the academic study of the history of science and technology has been contested terrain in the debate over whether science and capitalism are in fundamental conflict. Marxist writers such as Boris Hessen, Nikolai Bukharin, and J. D. Bernal raised these issues against the backdrop of the Great Depression of the 1930s, and writers such as Dirk Struik, Bernhard Stern and Henry Sigerist applied this work to American science. This c…
The Plutonium Story: The Journals of Professor Glenn T. Seaborg, 1939-1946 . Glenn Theodore Seaborg , Ronald L. Kathren , Jerry B. Gough , Gary T. Benefiel Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of Worl…
"Detroit-Motor City," at the Detroit Historical Museum
Exhibit Reviews “DETROIT—MOTOR CITY, ” AT THE DETROIT HISTORICAL MUSEUM RUSSELL OLWELL Located in the heart ofAmerica’s automobile capital, “Detroit — Motor City,” a new permanent exhibit at the Detroit Historical Mu seum, presents a nostalgic picture of the past and a hopeful vision of the future. Strikingly optimistic about both the automobile indus try and the city of Detroit, the exhibit begins with the development of small automobile compa…
Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War
Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War by Hugh Gusterson
technology and culture Book Reviews 133 Attention very much centers on his policy concerns and their expres sion. This may reflect the book’s origin. In 1983 Francis X. Gannon began the project as a set ofessays on the retired congressman’s nuclear energy views. It evolved into a socalled authorized biography supported by a group ofclose associates and friends organized as the Holifield Book Associates. When Gan non suffered a fatal heart attac…
Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project. Peter Bacon Hales
Use Narrative to Teach Middle School Students about Reconstruction
Physical Isolation and Marginalization in Physics: David Bohm's Cold War Exile
David Bohm's career as a postwar American physicist demonstrates the effects of the cold war on the theoretical physics of that period. Bohm was fired from Princeton University because of his connections to the Communist Party while a graduate student at Berkeley during World War II; he left the country and took positions in Brazil and Israel and finally found a permanent post in England at Birkbeck College, University of London. Because of his p…
Capital Moves: RCA's 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
Bohm-Biederman Correspondence. Volume 1: Creativity in Art and Science . David Bohm , Charles Biederman , Paavo Pylkkanen
In the Shadow of the Bomb: Bethe, Oppenheimer, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist (review)
Silvan S. Schweber's In the Shadow of the Bomb is a rare example of a successful hybrid work. It is neither a full biography of physicists J. Robert [End Page 823] Oppenheimer and Hans Bethe nor a complete study of postwar American science and its ethical dilemmas. Instead, it is an examination of the professional, personal, and scientific lives of two men, and the ways in which they confronted the changes in science and politics before and after…
The Mare Island Mutiny: Pressure to Desegregate die U.S. Armed Forces
The Mare Island Mutiny: Pressure to Desegregate die U.S. Armed Forces Get access Russell Olwell Russell Olwell Russell Olwell is an assistant professor of history at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 15, Issue 2, Winter 2001, Pages 64–70, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/15.2.64 Published: 01 January 2001
Chasing Spies: How the FBI Failed in Counterintelligence but Promoted the Politics of McCarthyism in the Cold War Years
Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971-Present (review)
Reviewed by: Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971–Present Russell Olwell (bio) Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971–Present. By Lawrence S. Wittner. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv+657. $32.95. Nuclear weapons are a technology that dominated the latter half of the twentieth century, and continue to shape policies of war and pea…
Making National History Day Their Own: The Rewards of and Barriers to Bringing Project-Based Learning to Urban Students
Ask any teacher, parent, or child who has participated: National History Day is a powerful tool for encouraging students to research history in depth. The exhibits, papers, media projects, and performances completed by elementary, middle, and high school students consistently exceed expectations, and the best work in the contest surpasses the quality found in much college student work. The History Teacher, for example, annually publishes the top …
Knocking at the Schoolhouse Door: The SHOT/AHA Booklet Series Historical Perspectives on Technology, Culture, and Society
Knocking at the Schoolhouse Door:The SHOT/AHA Booklet Series Historical Perspectives on Technology, Culture, and Society Russell Olwell (bio) and Maureen Sullivan (bio) A visitor to Washington, D.C., who happens upon the United States Department of Education is in for a surprise: in front of the massive building housing the federal government's education bureaucracy now stand four bright-red, one-room schoolhouses, each labeled "No Child Left Beh…
The Problems of Elementary Social Studies: Are Curricular and Assessment Sprawl to Blame
(2006). The Problems of Elementary Social Studies: Are Curricular and Assessment Sprawl to Blame? The Social Studies: Vol. 97, No. 5, pp. 222-224
Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (review)
Reviewed by: Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age Russell Olwell (bio) Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age. By Jacob Darwin Hamblin. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2008. Pp. x+311. $49.95. When historians of technology write about disposal of nuclear waste, it is usually in terms of sites such as Yucca Mountain—vast underground nuclear gra…
Two Views of Cassandra: Lawrence Badash, A Nuclear Winter's Tale John Mueller, Atomic Obsession
The end of the cold war and the end of the threat of all-out nuclear war between the superpowers have made the field of nuclear technology studies less relevant. Thermonuclear war and the threat of global destruction framed scholarship in the history of nuclear technology, as proponents and opponents of deterrence crossed swords in books and on the pages of academic and policy journals. The world has changed, and with it the context for nuclear s…
TRAVIS GLASSON. Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) was, as Travis Glasson notes, “the largest and most influential missionary organization in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world” (p. 3). While accurate, this is rather like describing fish and chips as Britain's greatest contribution to world cuisine. Mastering Christianity examines why Anglican authorities came (belatedly) to the missionary impulse, how they sought to …
David Allen Burke. Atomic Testing in Mississippi: Project Dribble and the Quest for Nuclear Weapons Treaty Verification in the Cold War Era
Nuclear history has only a few genres available for historians and writers. One is the sweeping epic, typified by Richard Rhodes's The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986). Then there are the thick biographies of leading scientists and policymakers, such as Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird's American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005). Both the sweeping epic and the heroic biography emphasize the top players in the story a…
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