Michele Pierson
Biographic Data
| ID | 777962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michele Pierson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michele |
| FAMILY NAME | Pierson |
| SIGNATURE | PIERSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Lowell |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4920-2183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859–1939
Hidden Materialities
Genevieve Yue. Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality. New York: Fordham University Press, 2021. 185 pages. $110.00 cloth. $32.00 paperback
Four feral women and the rise of sectionalism in the 1850s
This article studies how the national media reacted to four feral woman episodes between 1843 and 1857. In 1843 and 1848, newspapers reprinted stories about two feral women without sectional variations in coverage. This national consensus collapsed after a feral woman in Texas was identified as African. Northern newspapers then broke from the consensus. Dramatic sectional differences in coverage also appear after the Wild Woman of Cincinnati show…
At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C
Journal Article At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. Get access At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. By Tamika Y Nunley. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. xvi, 254 pp. Cloth, $95.00. Paper, $27.95.) Michael D Pierson Michael D Pierson University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts Search for other works by this …
Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War
Brian Taylor's Fighting for Citizenship uncovers the public debate among Black Americans about whether they should enlist in the U.S. military during the Civil War. Previous histories have emphasized African Americans' willingness to volunteer, but Taylor has amassed convincing evidence showing that many men refused to do so. Instead, they argued that Black men should hold out until the nation recognized their full citizenship. Important for unde…
From rage to riches: Swag and capital in the Tanzanian hip hop industry
This article traces how Tanzanian Bongo Flava hip hop has shifted from a politically conscious genre at the dawn of democratization and liberalization to its contemporary articulations, more commonly aligned with glamorous, geographically abstracted Western pop sensibilities. It argues that 'swag', as an intimately embodied and musically performed charisma, has served as a connective thread across political and economic transformations because of…
Exhibitionist performance and theatricality in Trick Film and Philosophy in the Bedroom, Part 1 and 2
From the Super-8 films of the mid-to-late 1980s through to The Star Eaters in 2003, one of the things we find in Peggy Ahwesh's body of work is a consistently actor-oriented cinema. Ahwesh has on more than one occasion pointed out similarities between her ways of working with actors and those of Jack Smith and Andy Warhol, artists whose films, along with those of Roger Jacoby, offered models of filmmaking as a collaboration between intimates. The…
James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War; The Election of 1860 Reconsidered
The Aesthetics of Action Film-making
A review of Adrian Martin's The Mad Max Movies (Currency Press and ScreenSound Australia, Sydney, 2003
Débat: L'association, l'entreprise et l'administration : quelle circulation des normes de gestion
Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North
If Civil War battlefields saw vast carnage, Northern home-front was itself far from tranquil. Fierce political debates set communities on edge, spurred secret plots against Union, and triggered widespread violence, such as New York City draft riots. And at heart of all this turmoil stood Northern anti-war Democrats, nicknamed Copperheads. Now, Jennifer L. Weber offers first full-length portrait of this powerful faction to appear in almost half a …
Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform
Bruce Laurie's Beyond Garrison examines the relationships between the antislavery political parties and social reform movements in Massachusetts. Laurie pays particular attention to the drives for civil rights for African Americans and for a ten-hour work day, though issues such as nativism, temperance, and statelevel political reform also receive substantial treatments. While focused on the Liberty and Free Soil parties, the book closes with a c…
Antislavery Politics in Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing and The Pearl of Orr's Island
Harriet Beecher Stowe established her literary credentials in the early 1850s with the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. After one more novel of the plantation South, however, she set The Minister's Wooing (1859) and The Pearl of Orr's Island (1861-62) in the North. Historians and literary critics have taken this as a signal that Stowe had moved her focus to the gender and religious issues that would dominate much of her later work. Slavery, h…
The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement
In her study of American antebellvun and wartime abolitionism, Julie Roy Jeffrey argues that "ordinary" women formed the essential foundation of the movement to eradicate slavery.Chiding historians for ignoring the muted masses of female abolitionists, Jeffrey challenges scholars to consider how abolitionism rnight have become marginalized if ordinary women had not pursued reformist roles.If it were not for these women, Jeffrey hypothesizes, abol…
Welcome to Basementwood: Computer Generated Special Effects and Wired Magazine
Postmodern Culture - Volume 8, Number 3, May 1998
Gender and party ideologies: The constitutional thought of women and men in American anti‐slavery politics
Political Culture in the Nineteenth-Century South: Mississippi, 1830-1930
The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln
"All Southern Society Is Assailed by the Foulest Charges": Charles Sumner's "The Crime against Kansas" and the Escalation of Republican Anti-Slavery Rhetoric
JN May 1856, South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks physically assaulted Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner in retaliation for Sumner's The Crime against Kansas. Arguing for the admission of Kansas to the Union as a free state, Sumner's lengthy Senate address rehearsed Republican party interpretations of the history of Kansas since its organization as a territory in 1854. Brooks's aggressive response convinced many Northerners of the viol…
Guard the Foundation Well’: Antebellum New York Democrats and the Defense of Patriarchy
Débat: L'association, l'entreprise et l'administration : quelle circulation des normes de gestion
Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform
Bruce Laurie's Beyond Garrison examines the relationships between the antislavery political parties and social reform movements in Massachusetts. Laurie pays particular attention to the drives for civil rights for African Americans and for a ten-hour work day, though issues such as nativism, temperance, and statelevel political reform also receive substantial treatments. While focused on the Liberty and Free Soil parties, the book closes with a c…
"All Southern Society Is Assailed by the Foulest Charges": Charles Sumner's "The Crime against Kansas" and the Escalation of Republican Anti-Slavery Rhetoric
JN May 1856, South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks physically assaulted Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner in retaliation for Sumner's The Crime against Kansas. Arguing for the admission of Kansas to the Union as a free state, Sumner's lengthy Senate address rehearsed Republican party interpretations of the history of Kansas since its organization as a territory in 1854. Brooks's aggressive response convinced many Northerners of the viol…
Guard the Foundation Well’: Antebellum New York Democrats and the Defense of Patriarchy
The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln
Political Culture in the Nineteenth-Century South: Mississippi, 1830-1930
Welcome to Basementwood: Computer Generated Special Effects and Wired Magazine
Postmodern Culture - Volume 8, Number 3, May 1998
Gender and party ideologies: The constitutional thought of women and men in American anti‐slavery politics
The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement
In her study of American antebellvun and wartime abolitionism, Julie Roy Jeffrey argues that "ordinary" women formed the essential foundation of the movement to eradicate slavery.Chiding historians for ignoring the muted masses of female abolitionists, Jeffrey challenges scholars to consider how abolitionism rnight have become marginalized if ordinary women had not pursued reformist roles.If it were not for these women, Jeffrey hypothesizes, abol…
Antislavery Politics in Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing and The Pearl of Orr's Island
Harriet Beecher Stowe established her literary credentials in the early 1850s with the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. After one more novel of the plantation South, however, she set The Minister's Wooing (1859) and The Pearl of Orr's Island (1861-62) in the North. Historians and literary critics have taken this as a signal that Stowe had moved her focus to the gender and religious issues that would dominate much of her later work. Slavery, h…
Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform
Bruce Laurie's Beyond Garrison examines the relationships between the antislavery political parties and social reform movements in Massachusetts. Laurie pays particular attention to the drives for civil rights for African Americans and for a ten-hour work day, though issues such as nativism, temperance, and statelevel political reform also receive substantial treatments. While focused on the Liberty and Free Soil parties, the book closes with a c…
Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North
If Civil War battlefields saw vast carnage, Northern home-front was itself far from tranquil. Fierce political debates set communities on edge, spurred secret plots against Union, and triggered widespread violence, such as New York City draft riots. And at heart of all this turmoil stood Northern anti-war Democrats, nicknamed Copperheads. Now, Jennifer L. Weber offers first full-length portrait of this powerful faction to appear in almost half a …
Débat: L'association, l'entreprise et l'administration : quelle circulation des normes de gestion
The Aesthetics of Action Film-making
A review of Adrian Martin's The Mad Max Movies (Currency Press and ScreenSound Australia, Sydney, 2003
Exhibitionist performance and theatricality in Trick Film and Philosophy in the Bedroom, Part 1 and 2
From the Super-8 films of the mid-to-late 1980s through to The Star Eaters in 2003, one of the things we find in Peggy Ahwesh's body of work is a consistently actor-oriented cinema. Ahwesh has on more than one occasion pointed out similarities between her ways of working with actors and those of Jack Smith and Andy Warhol, artists whose films, along with those of Roger Jacoby, offered models of filmmaking as a collaboration between intimates. The…
James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War; The Election of 1860 Reconsidered
From rage to riches: Swag and capital in the Tanzanian hip hop industry
This article traces how Tanzanian Bongo Flava hip hop has shifted from a politically conscious genre at the dawn of democratization and liberalization to its contemporary articulations, more commonly aligned with glamorous, geographically abstracted Western pop sensibilities. It argues that 'swag', as an intimately embodied and musically performed charisma, has served as a connective thread across political and economic transformations because of…
Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War
Brian Taylor's Fighting for Citizenship uncovers the public debate among Black Americans about whether they should enlist in the U.S. military during the Civil War. Previous histories have emphasized African Americans' willingness to volunteer, but Taylor has amassed convincing evidence showing that many men refused to do so. Instead, they argued that Black men should hold out until the nation recognized their full citizenship. Important for unde…
Hidden Materialities
Genevieve Yue. Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality. New York: Fordham University Press, 2021. 185 pages. $110.00 cloth. $32.00 paperback
Four feral women and the rise of sectionalism in the 1850s
This article studies how the national media reacted to four feral woman episodes between 1843 and 1857. In 1843 and 1848, newspapers reprinted stories about two feral women without sectional variations in coverage. This national consensus collapsed after a feral woman in Texas was identified as African. Northern newspapers then broke from the consensus. Dramatic sectional differences in coverage also appear after the Wild Woman of Cincinnati show…
At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C
Journal Article At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. Get access At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. By Tamika Y Nunley. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. xvi, 254 pp. Cloth, $95.00. Paper, $27.95.) Michael D Pierson Michael D Pierson University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts Search for other works by this …
The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859–1939
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