Randy Roberts

Biographic Data

ID3938313
NAMERandy Roberts
GIVEN NAMESRandy
FAMILY NAMERoberts
SIGNATUREROBERTS R
AFFILIATIONSPurdue University West Lafayette
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS25
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1936
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX3

  • New York Sports: Glamour and Grit in the Empire City

    Open AccessRandy RobertsARTICLEJournal of American History2019

    New York Sports is part of the University of Arkansas's Sport, Culture, and Society series that includes separate volumes on sports in such cities as Philadelphia, San Francisco, Baltimore, and Washington. Although never explicitly stated, the idea behind the city books is that something unique exists in the sports of Baltimore or Philadelphia, binding residents together and expressing the special ethos or character of a metropolis. Certainly, fo…

  • Ty Cobb, Baseball, and American Manhood

    Randy RobertsARTICLEJournal of American History2018

    How should we remember Ty Cobb, the peerless and fearless centerfielder who spent most of his twenty-four year career (1905–1928) playing for the Detroit Tigers? Should we remember the numbers? When he retired, he held forty-three major league regular season and career records, including a .367 career batting average and 4,191 hits. By any athletic measurement, he fully merited induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown in its initia…

  • The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration’: The Many Sordid Lives of America's Bloodiest ‘Pastime’

    Randy Roberts, Andrew R M SmithARTICLEThe International Journal of the…2014Cited by: 1References: 1

    Pastimes are played. No one plays boxing. But for centuries Americans from diverse ethnic, racial and class origins have gathered to watch the spectacle of prize fights, and they have rewarded the best brawlers handsomely. For as long as it has been a spectator sport, boxing has weathered attacks by politicians, ministers, journalists, medical professionals, and a host of other critics. And it has survived largely unchanged, loosely regulated and…

  • Joe Louis: Hard Times Man

    Randy RobertsBOOKJoe Louis2010

  • D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation: A History of “the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time.”

    Randy RobertsARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2010

  • Muhammad Ali Center

    Randy RobertsARTICLEJournal of American History2009

    Permanent Exhibition, opened Nov. 2005. 93,000 sq. ft. Greg Roberts, president/chief executive officer. On January 19, 2009, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, there was a birthday party for Muhammad Ali in Washington, D.C. Celebrities from the worlds of sports, entertainment, religion, and politics feted the former heavyweight boxing champion. The next day, not far from where Ali celebrated his birthday, in a historic ceremony Barack Obama was sworn in…

  • A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory

    Gilbert M Cuthbertson, Randy Roberts et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2002

    Contents Preface Map Prologue * In the Footsteps of History *The Free Born Sons of America *The Bones of Warriors *Those Proud Tow'rs *VICTORY or DEATH INTERLUDE * In Search of Davy's Grave * Retrieving the Bones of History * King of the Wild Frontier * Only Heroes, Only Men * De la Pena's Revenge * The Third Battle of the Alamo Epilogue Notes Bibliographic Essay Index

  • The Hurricane

    Randy RobertsARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    The Hurricane. Prod. by Armyan Bernstein, John Catcham, and Norman Jewison. Dir. by Norman Jewison. Universal Pictures/Beacon Pictures in association with Azoff Films/Rudy Langlais Productions, 1999. 146 mins. Get access Randy Roberts Randy Roberts Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, December 2000, Pages 1167–1168, http…

  • My Lai: A Brief History with Documents

    William B Pickett, James S Olson et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Military History1999

  • Vietnam: The Early Decisions

    Dennis Mills, Lloyd C Gardner et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1999

    Journal Article Vietnam: The Early Decisions. Ed. by Lloyd C. Gardner and Ted Gittinger. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. x, 228 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-292-72800-X.) and My Lai: A Brief History with Documents. By James S. Olson and Randy Roberts. (Boston: Bedford, 1998. xvi, 222 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-312-17767-4. Paper, $7.50, ISBN 0-312-14227-7.) Get access Dennis Mills Dennis Mills Eglin Air Force Base, Florida Search for other works b…

  • My Lai: A Brief History with Documents

    Open AccessJames S Olson, Randy RobertsBOOKMy Lai1998

    This volume introduces students to the most controversial incident of the Vietnam War - the My Lai massacre when almost 400 Vietnamese civilians were killed in four hours. The authors discuss the rami

  • America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975

    Luu Doan Huynh, George C Herring et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1998Cited by: 2

    America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950–1975. Third edition. By George C. Herring, The Vietnam Wars, 1945–1990. By Marilyn B. Young, Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945–1968. By Michael H. Hunt and Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam, 1945 to 1995. Second edition. By James S. Olson and Randy Roberts Get access Luu doan Huynh Luu doan Huynh Hanoi, Vietnam Search for other works by this author…

  • Whittaker Chambers: A Biography

    Randy Roberts, Sam TanenhausARTICLEJournal of American History1997Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Whittaker Chambers: A Biography. By Sam Tanenhaus. (New York: Random House, 1997. xiv, 638 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-394-58559-3.) Get access Randy Roberts Randy Roberts Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 732–733, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952712 Published: 01 September 1997

  • Dan Stuart's Fistic Carnival

    Randy Roberts, Leo N MiletichARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1996

    Never have so many done so much to stop so few. The year was 1895, and Dallas gambler Dan Stuart had a modest idea: promote a boxing carnival featuring a match for the heavyweight championship of the world between Gentleman Jim Corbett and Fighting Bob Fitzsimmons. What could be simpler? This richly detailed true epic of a fight and the hard-punching (and sometimes loony) political and religious turmoil surrounding it will entertain not only spor…

  • Grantland Rice and his Heroes: The Sports-writer as Mythmaker in the 1920s

    Randy Roberts, Mark InabinettARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article Grantland Rice and His Heroes: The Sportswriter as Mythmaker in the 1920s. By Mark Inabinett. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994. xii, 130 pp. Cloth, $28.00, ISBN 0-87049-848-7. Paper, $14.00, ISBN 0-87049-849-5.) Get access Randy Roberts Randy Roberts Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, Mar…

  • Games Colleges Play: Scandal and Reform in Intercollegiate Athletics

    Randy Roberts, John R ThelinARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1996

  • Both Sides of Creation: The Public and Private Careers of Dean Acheson

    Randy Roberts, Douglas Brinkley et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1994

    A song kept running through my mind while I read Douglas Brinkley's fine study of postcreation years of Dean Acheson. Actually, it was less than a song, really only a few lines since they are all I remembered of tune, but they echoed like soundtrack of a strip of looped film. The movie: White Christmas. In one scene, Bing Crosby goes on Ed Harrison Show to send a singing invitation to men of the Old Man's World War II army division. Appealing to …

  • Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish

    Randy Roberts, Lawrence R Holt et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish. Prod. by Lawrence R. Holt and Diane Garey. Florentine Films, 1993. 57 mins. (Direct Cinema, P.O. Box 69799, Los Angeles, CA 90069-9976) Get access Randy Roberts Randy Roberts Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1403–1404, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…

  • Historical Dictionary of the Korean War

    Randy Roberts, James I Matray et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article Historical Dictionary of the Korean War. Ed. by James I. Matray. (Westport: Greenwood, 1991. xxxiii + 629 pp. $85.00, ISBN 0-313-25924-0.) and The Vietnam War: Teaching Approaches and Resources. Ed. by Marc Jason Gilbert. (Westport: Greenwood, 1991. x + 300 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-313-27740-0.) Get access Randy Roberts Randy Roberts Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…

  • Women's Sports

    Randy Roberts, Allen GuttmannARTICLEReviews in American History1992

  • Winning Is the Only Thing: Sports in America Since 1945

    Lawrence N Powell, Randy Roberts et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1991

  • Winning is the Only Thing: Sport and American Culture

    Randy RobertsBOOKWinning is the only thing1991Cited by: 5

    In "Winning is the Only Thing: Sport and American Culture," Randy Roberts offers a critical examination of the pervasive influence of the "win-at-all-costs" mentality in American sports. He explores how this ethos has shaped not only athletic competition but also broader cultural values, impacting education, business, and even politics. Roberts traces the historical development of this mindset, from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s, highl…

  • FDR in the House of Mirrors

    Randy Roberts, Geoffrey C WardARTICLEReviews in American History1990

  • Winning Is the Only Thing: Sports in America since 1945

    Allen Guttmann, Randy Roberts et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1990

    Journal Article Winning Is the Only Thing: Sports in America since 1943. By Randy Roberts and James S. Olson. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. xiv + 258 pp. $18.95.) Get access Allen Guttmann Allen Guttmann Amherst College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Page 1087, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079128 Published: 01 December 1990

  • A Whole New Ball Game: An Interpretation of American Sports

    Randy Roberts, Allen GuttmannARTICLEJournal of American History1989

    Journal Article A Whole New Ball Game: An Interpretation of American Sports. By Allen Guttmann. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. X + 233 pp. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $10.95.) Get access Randy Roberts Randy Roberts Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 233–234, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908378 Published: 01 June…