Vincent Vinikas

Biographic Data

ID704234
NAMEVincent Vinikas
GIVEN NAMESVincent
FAMILY NAMEVinikas
SIGNATUREVINIKAS V
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Arkansas at Little Rock
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Peter Ward. The Clean Body: A Modern History

    Open AccessVincent VinikasARTICLEThe American Historical Review2023

    Journal Article Peter Ward. The Clean Body: A Modern History. Get access Peter Ward. The Clean Body: A Modern History. Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. Pp. xi, 313. Cloth $34.95. Vincent Vinikas Vincent Vinikas University of Arkansas at Little Rock, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages…

  • Paul Rutherford. The Adman’s Dilemma: From Barnum to Trump

    Open AccessVincent VinikasARTICLEThe American Historical Review2020

    Paul Rutherford’s The Adman’s Dilemma: From Barnum to Trump posits evidence of a moral standard against which one may measure the advertising agents whose work came to subsidize and then to saturate the media of modern American life. Rutherford surveys a variety of cultural representations of advertising agents, account executives, copywriters, art directors, media buyers, and market researchers portrayed in literature, film, television, memoirs,…

  • Pioneers of Promotion: How Press Agents for Buffalo Bill, P. T. Barnum, and the World's Columbian Exposition Created Modern Marketing

    Open AccessVincent VinikasARTICLEJournal of American History2019

    Pioneers of Promotion chronicles the professionalization of public relations in the late nineteenth century by focusing on three seminal practitioners. Richard Francis “Tody” Hamilton, as P. T. Barnum's protégé and press agent, authored countless feature stories for newspapers and magazines. Demonstrating that “news” could be carefully crafted to stimulate consumer demand for particular goods and services in the guise of legitimate journalism, Ha…

  • Dying to Be Beautiful: The Fight for Safe Cosmetics

    Vincent VinikasARTICLESocial History of Medicine2006

    Journal Article Dying to Be Beautiful: The Fight for Safe Cosmetics Get access Vincent Vinikas Vincent Vinikas University of [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 19, Issue 2, August 2006, Pages 352–353, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkl019 Published: 01 August 2006

  • Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1847-1947

    Vincent Vinikas, Michael J Pfeifer et al.ARTICLEThe Arkansas Historical Quarterly2005

  • The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative

    Vincent Vinikas, Christopher Metre et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2004

    At 2:00 A.M. on August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, visiting from Chicago, was abducted from his great-uncle's cabin in Money, Mississippi, and never seen alive again. When his battered and bloated corpse floated to the surface of the Tallahatchie River three days later and two local white men were arrested for his murder, young Till's death was primed to become the spark that set off the civil rights movement. With a collection of mo…

  • Specters in the Past: The Saint Charles, Arkansas, Lynching of 1904 and the Limits of Historical Inquiry

    Vincent VinikasARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1999Cited by: 1

  • The Lynching of Cleo Wright

    Vincent Vinikas, Dominic J Capeci et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1999

  • Soft Soap, Hard Sell: American Hygiene in an Age of Advertisement

    Charles F Mcgovern, Charles Mcgovern et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993Cited by: 3

    Journal Article Soft Soap, Hard Sell: American Hygiene in an Age of Advertisement. By Vincent Vinikas. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1992. xx + 168 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8138-1788-9.) Get access Charles McGovern Charles McGovern National Museum of American History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1639–1640, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080300…

  • Lustrum of the Cleanliness Institute, 1927-1932

    Vincent VinikasARTICLEJournal of Social History1989Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Lustrum of the Cleanliness Institute, 1927–1932 Get access Vincent Vinikas Vincent Vinikas University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Department of HistoryLittle Rock, AR 72204 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 22, Issue 4, Summer 1989, Pages 613–630, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/22.4.613 Published: 01 July 1989

  • The Day after World War III

    Vincent Vinikas, Edward Zuckerman et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1986