Christopher Wells
Biographic Data
| ID | 4515693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Wells |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Wells |
| SIGNATURE | WELLS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macalester College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rapid Start of HIV Antiretroviral Therapy in New York State
Rapid start of antiretroviral therapy (ART) after an HIV diagnosis is a novel approach with demonstrated benefits for HIV care. However, utilization of this approach remains poor in the United States. Using retrospective reviews of HIV clinical care data from the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute's Quality of Care Program, we examined changes in rapid start of ART from 2019 to 2022 to assess the degree to which the rapid start mo…
Grasslands Grown
Journal Article Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies Get access Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies. By Molly P Rozum. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xiv, 474 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $35.00.) Christopher W Wells Christopher W Wells Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
A War of Mobility
World War II was a global war. It was a war of transport, mobility, and speed, fought in the far corners of the planet, across four continents and four oceans. It was also a gross national product war, fought with huge armies equipped with the fruits of modern industry – guns, artillery, tanks, trucks, airplanes, and thousands of other tools and supplies. To fight a war of men and material simultaneously on opposite sides of the earth, the United…
British Columbia by the Road
"British Columbia by the Road: Car Culture and the Making of a Modern Landscape. Ben Bradley." Canadian Historical Review, 101(1), pp. 128–129
Court “Monsters”
Whereas early modern monstrosity generally has enjoyed in-depth historical investigation, the presence of so-called monsters at the European royal courts has been somewhat overlooked. By using a severity continuum of deformity and a subcontinuum of emancipation as a framework, this article addresses three specific questions regarding court monstrosity: Why did such individuals reside at court? What role did they have within the court? How were th…
Lifeblood
Green Cities, the Search for Sustainability, and Urban Environmental History
Rebuilding the City, Leaving it behind
As U.S. cities burgeoned in the late nineteenth century, their environmental problems multiplied. In response, some urban elites worked to rebuild the city to alleviate its environmental ills; others relocated to more environmentally enticing surroundings in new suburban developments. For members of both groups, new forms of transportation infrastructure profoundly shaped how they responded to the era's environmental crisis. Whereas efforts to re…
Fueling the Boom
In 1938, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the photographer Dorothea Lange turned her camera to a mundane feature of the American landscape: a sign advertising gasoline prices.Unlike most such signs, however, this one broke down its 201⁄2 cents-per-gallon price: gasoline, 51⁄2 cents; state, 5 cents; Uncle Sam, 1 cent; city, 1 cent; railroad, 23⁄4 cents; agent, 11⁄4 cents; and "Me," 4 cents.(See figure 1.)The joke lay partially in what many saw as the mode…
America, America
In their public messages, United States politicians often invoke America in an attempt to unite citizens and build electoral coalitions. Such an emphasis is particularly common in presidential debates, which are climactic “media events” late in campaigns for the White House, when candidates take questions from journalists and citizens while addressing millions of voters. We analyzed the connection between (a) candidates' highlighting of national …
American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936
Although this Web site delivers something less than its sweeping title suggests, it nevertheless offers a notable collection of images. The site assembles approximately 4,500 photographs documenting the field excursions of University of Chicago ecologists, including Henry C. Cowles and George D. Fuller, between 1891 and 1936. A majority of the images, which have been digitized from originals owned by the University of Chicago Library’s Department…
The Road to the Model T
The Road to the Model T Culture, Road Conditions, and Innovation at the Dawn of the American Motor Age Christopher W. Wells In 1920, a single vehicle dominated the American market for automobiles: Ford's famous Model T. Plain, powerful, and utilitarian, its success peaked in 1923 when Model Ts accounted for almost 55 percent of American automobile production.1 Introduced in 1908 at $850, by 1923 the efficiencies of mass production had allowed For…
The Changing Nature of Country Roads
The period from the end of the Civil War to about 1905 saw some key changes in American country roads, including the passage of the first state-aid road laws, the creation of the first federal road agency, and the growth of a strong urban-rural coalition promoting rural road improvements. Although these have been well discussed, two significant but unrecognized changes lay at their heart. First, the effect of the good-roads campaigns of the 1890s…
The Changing Nature of Country Roads
Tunneling to the Future
In 1928, looking back on the dramatic extension of New York City's subway system, which he had helped secure, George McAneny characterized it as "the city's physical salvation" (p. 268). In Tunneling to the Future, a colorful and detailed examination of the political and financial wrangling behind [End Page 803] the single largest public works project in American history up to that time, Peter Derrick, archivist for the Bronx County Historical So…
Sprachhistorische und soziolinguistische Überlegungen zu einer dubiosen Textsorte
Article Sprachhistorische und soziolinguistische Überlegungen zu einer dubiosen Textsorte: Der Denunziantenbrief was published on December 31, 1999 in the journal Sociolinguistica (volume 13, issue 1)
The Natural Norm in the Plays F. Garcia Lorca
Fueling the Boom
In 1938, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the photographer Dorothea Lange turned her camera to a mundane feature of the American landscape: a sign advertising gasoline prices.Unlike most such signs, however, this one broke down its 201⁄2 cents-per-gallon price: gasoline, 51⁄2 cents; state, 5 cents; Uncle Sam, 1 cent; city, 1 cent; railroad, 23⁄4 cents; agent, 11⁄4 cents; and "Me," 4 cents.(See figure 1.)The joke lay partially in what many saw as the mode…
America, America
In their public messages, United States politicians often invoke America in an attempt to unite citizens and build electoral coalitions. Such an emphasis is particularly common in presidential debates, which are climactic “media events” late in campaigns for the White House, when candidates take questions from journalists and citizens while addressing millions of voters. We analyzed the connection between (a) candidates' highlighting of national …
The Road to the Model T
The Road to the Model T Culture, Road Conditions, and Innovation at the Dawn of the American Motor Age Christopher W. Wells In 1920, a single vehicle dominated the American market for automobiles: Ford's famous Model T. Plain, powerful, and utilitarian, its success peaked in 1923 when Model Ts accounted for almost 55 percent of American automobile production.1 Introduced in 1908 at $850, by 1923 the efficiencies of mass production had allowed For…
Rebuilding the City, Leaving it behind
As U.S. cities burgeoned in the late nineteenth century, their environmental problems multiplied. In response, some urban elites worked to rebuild the city to alleviate its environmental ills; others relocated to more environmentally enticing surroundings in new suburban developments. For members of both groups, new forms of transportation infrastructure profoundly shaped how they responded to the era's environmental crisis. Whereas efforts to re…
The Changing Nature of Country Roads
The Natural Norm in the Plays F. Garcia Lorca
Sprachhistorische und soziolinguistische Überlegungen zu einer dubiosen Textsorte
Article Sprachhistorische und soziolinguistische Überlegungen zu einer dubiosen Textsorte: Der Denunziantenbrief was published on December 31, 1999 in the journal Sociolinguistica (volume 13, issue 1)
Tunneling to the Future
In 1928, looking back on the dramatic extension of New York City's subway system, which he had helped secure, George McAneny characterized it as "the city's physical salvation" (p. 268). In Tunneling to the Future, a colorful and detailed examination of the political and financial wrangling behind [End Page 803] the single largest public works project in American history up to that time, Peter Derrick, archivist for the Bronx County Historical So…
The Changing Nature of Country Roads
The period from the end of the Civil War to about 1905 saw some key changes in American country roads, including the passage of the first state-aid road laws, the creation of the first federal road agency, and the growth of a strong urban-rural coalition promoting rural road improvements. Although these have been well discussed, two significant but unrecognized changes lay at their heart. First, the effect of the good-roads campaigns of the 1890s…
The Changing Nature of Country Roads
The Road to the Model T
The Road to the Model T Culture, Road Conditions, and Innovation at the Dawn of the American Motor Age Christopher W. Wells In 1920, a single vehicle dominated the American market for automobiles: Ford's famous Model T. Plain, powerful, and utilitarian, its success peaked in 1923 when Model Ts accounted for almost 55 percent of American automobile production.1 Introduced in 1908 at $850, by 1923 the efficiencies of mass production had allowed For…
America, America
In their public messages, United States politicians often invoke America in an attempt to unite citizens and build electoral coalitions. Such an emphasis is particularly common in presidential debates, which are climactic “media events” late in campaigns for the White House, when candidates take questions from journalists and citizens while addressing millions of voters. We analyzed the connection between (a) candidates' highlighting of national …
American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936
Although this Web site delivers something less than its sweeping title suggests, it nevertheless offers a notable collection of images. The site assembles approximately 4,500 photographs documenting the field excursions of University of Chicago ecologists, including Henry C. Cowles and George D. Fuller, between 1891 and 1936. A majority of the images, which have been digitized from originals owned by the University of Chicago Library’s Department…
Fueling the Boom
In 1938, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the photographer Dorothea Lange turned her camera to a mundane feature of the American landscape: a sign advertising gasoline prices.Unlike most such signs, however, this one broke down its 201⁄2 cents-per-gallon price: gasoline, 51⁄2 cents; state, 5 cents; Uncle Sam, 1 cent; city, 1 cent; railroad, 23⁄4 cents; agent, 11⁄4 cents; and "Me," 4 cents.(See figure 1.)The joke lay partially in what many saw as the mode…
Green Cities, the Search for Sustainability, and Urban Environmental History
Rebuilding the City, Leaving it behind
As U.S. cities burgeoned in the late nineteenth century, their environmental problems multiplied. In response, some urban elites worked to rebuild the city to alleviate its environmental ills; others relocated to more environmentally enticing surroundings in new suburban developments. For members of both groups, new forms of transportation infrastructure profoundly shaped how they responded to the era's environmental crisis. Whereas efforts to re…
Lifeblood
Court “Monsters”
Whereas early modern monstrosity generally has enjoyed in-depth historical investigation, the presence of so-called monsters at the European royal courts has been somewhat overlooked. By using a severity continuum of deformity and a subcontinuum of emancipation as a framework, this article addresses three specific questions regarding court monstrosity: Why did such individuals reside at court? What role did they have within the court? How were th…
A War of Mobility
World War II was a global war. It was a war of transport, mobility, and speed, fought in the far corners of the planet, across four continents and four oceans. It was also a gross national product war, fought with huge armies equipped with the fruits of modern industry – guns, artillery, tanks, trucks, airplanes, and thousands of other tools and supplies. To fight a war of men and material simultaneously on opposite sides of the earth, the United…
British Columbia by the Road
"British Columbia by the Road: Car Culture and the Making of a Modern Landscape. Ben Bradley." Canadian Historical Review, 101(1), pp. 128–129
Grasslands Grown
Journal Article Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies Get access Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies. By Molly P Rozum. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xiv, 474 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $35.00.) Christopher W Wells Christopher W Wells Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Rapid Start of HIV Antiretroviral Therapy in New York State
Rapid start of antiretroviral therapy (ART) after an HIV diagnosis is a novel approach with demonstrated benefits for HIV care. However, utilization of this approach remains poor in the United States. Using retrospective reviews of HIV clinical care data from the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute's Quality of Care Program, we examined changes in rapid start of ART from 2019 to 2022 to assess the degree to which the rapid start mo…
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