American Art Matters: Rethinking Materiality in American Studies

L . 702 Studies in Fiction : Rethinking the American Masterpiece

American Studies 207: American Cultural Landscapes Professor

An Unattainable Salvation Dirt, Danger & Domesticity in Old New York It was 1832, and in the Five Points area of New York, a great street excavation was under way. What would cause such a flurry over the cobbles? Here, shovels plied the earth decades before the subway tunneled beneath the crowded streets. Electrical poles and telegraph lines had yet to become a nuisance worthy of inhumation. No...

Oriental Rugs in the American Market

After the World War II was over, and due to the relative peace of mind, a population explosion occurred and baby boomers were born. This generation which is called “Generation X” entered the 80’s as the buyers of homes and consumers of furniture, bed, mattress and rugs. This was one of the reasons for huge increase in demand for Oriental rugs of the 80’s. In this short a...

Encyclopedia of American Studies

Rather than a single black intellectual tradition, there are more properly black intellectual traditions. These are intellectual movements that have developed in the modern world out of the formation of black people, who in turn were formed from a diverse set of ethnic groups. Some emerged from the many African ethnicities brought under the rubric of "black." Others are from varieties of black-...

Pan American Climate Studies

Over its ten-year lifetime, the Tropical OceanGlobal Atmosphere (TOGA) program (1985-1995) made major strides toward understanding the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, which impacts surface air temperature and rainfall over many regions of the globe. In particular, TOGA demonstrated the feasibility of operational seasonalto-interannual climate prediction of equatorial Pacific sea...