cultural aspects of atomic anxiety by Al Filreis (written for use in discussions of Michael Frayn's Copenhagen, Penn Reading Project, 1999
Philip Morrison, a Cornell Professor of Physics, expresses doubts about atomic warfare and then faces a Congressional anticommunist investigating committee (SISS) in 1952
Auchincloss, Louis - review of The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss by Bruce Bawer
B
baseball: Gerald Early on baseball in the 1950s, with references to Jacques Barzun's 1954 God's Country and Mine: A Declaration of Love Spiced with a Few Harsh Words
the beats
Herbert Gold's review of Kerouac and commentary on the beatnik "movement" (1957)
Filreis, Alan, review of Gerald Graff's Beyond the Culture Wars (with special connection to 1950s-style anticommunism)
Graff critical of traditional education that "expose[s] [students] to the results of their professors' conflicts" without exploring the conflicts that gave rise to those results
Philip Morrison, a Cornell Professor of Physics, expresses doubts about atomic warfare and then faces a Congressional anticommunist investigating committee (SISS) in 1952
Tucker's People, by Ira Wolfert (paperback published 1950; first published 1943); the film, Force of Evil, was made from the novel (directed by Abraham Polonsky).
U
university loyalty oaths - parody of Gilbert & Sullivan written by anonymous member of the University of California faculty, 1949
"See Jane Run": A student fleeing from mounted police during an anti-war protest, c. 1970 (photograph captioned: "We're the people our parents warned us against. See Jane Run. Run Jane Run" - mocking the ubiquitous early reader books on which sixties-era student protestors were raised in the fifties)
Declassified newsreels (in MPEG and .mov format) of the Nixon-Khruschev "kitchen" debate and several failed ICMB tests at the Nevada Test Site (the latter is available to the public here for the first time).
Renewed alliance of labor and academics (September 1996 article), with several references to the history of this relationship, which thrived in the 1930s and declined in the 1950s.
Office of War Information Collection at the Library of Congress (broadcast recordings, photographs, and research files assembled by the OWI, early 1940s)
Hints of my current project, "The Fifties Thirties"
New Deal Muralists in the federal "Section of Fine Arts" - a brief introduction with reference to Fletcher Martin's rejected mural, Mine Rescue
"Crowds around post office. Lower East Side, New York," by Dorothea Lange 1936
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