Catiline in the Underworld and Afterwards

2020 ◽  
pp. 194-224
Author(s):  
D. H. Berry
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Bill Clinton ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
John Adams ◽  
White House ◽  
Roman Poetry ◽  
Roman Historiography

This chapter reviews the reception of Cicero’s Catilinarians over the two millennia from Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae until the present day. Particular attention is paid to Virgil’s Aeneid, to Ben Jonson’s Catiline His Conspiracy (1611), and to Ibsen’s Catiline (1850). The chapter also surveys the influence of the Catilinarians on Roman poetry after Virgil, on Roman historiography after Sallust, and on Christian writers. The late antique, medieval, and renaissance declamations that draw on the Catilinarians (including two speeches each known as the Fifth Catilinarian) are discussed, as is the influence of Catiline on Florentine historiography. Plays and operas about Catiline by Voltaire, Salieri, Dumas, and others are included. Mention is made of the study of the Catilinarians undertaken by two American presidents, John Adams and John Quincy Adams. The chapter ends by showing how in the twentieth century these speeches first started the young Bill Clinton on his path toward the White House.

scholarly journals The Newest Southerners: Generational Differences in Electoral Behavior in the Contemporary South

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-74
Author(s):  
Charles Prysby
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Bill Clinton ◽  
Electoral Behavior ◽  
Young Voters ◽  
White House ◽  
2008 Presidential Election ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Mitt Romney ◽  
Michael Dukakis

Young voters contributed disproportionately to Barack Obama’s presidential victory in 2012. In fact, if the electorate had been limited to those over 30 years old, Mitt Romney might be in the White House today. Obama captured 60 percent of the vote of those under 30, compared to 49 percent of those over 30, according to the national exit polls (Schier and Box- Steffensmeier 2013, 86). A similar pattern characterized the 2008 presidential election: Obama won 66 percent of the vote among those aged 29 or less, but under one-half of voters older than 45 (Pomper 2010, 53). The tendency for younger voters to be disproportionately Democratic emerged in the 2004 presidential election. Prior to that, Democratic presidential candidates did not consistently do better among younger voters. In 2000, for example, Al Gore did as well among older voters as he did among younger voters, and in 1992, Bill Clinton did his best among older voters, as did Walter Mondale in 1984 and Michael Dukakis in 1988 (Pomper 2001, 138; Pomper 1989, 133). 

After-Lives

2020 ◽  
pp. 585-598
Author(s):  
Nora Goldschmidt
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Literary Biography ◽  
Classical Scholarship ◽  
Limits Of Knowledge ◽  
Roman Poetry ◽  
Literary Biographies ◽  
Creative Life

This chapter explores biographical receptions of Greek and Roman poets in the twentieth century. Classical scholarship has now begun to recognize ancient biography as a creative mode of reception in Antiquity. In the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, reading the texts of Greek and Roman poetry for the lives of their authors has been an especially rich and multifaceted mode of reception, providing for many readers a means of grappling with the ancient texts within the changing cultural landscape of modernity. Yet, unlike the medieval and early modern traditions of literary biography, in the twentieth century, academic and creative Lives have tended to part company. When it comes to Greek and Roman poets, though a few full-length literary biographies that still attempt to claim factual status have been produced, conventional narrative biographies that aim to set out the ‘facts’ are generally only found in isagogic contexts such as introductions to texts and translations, or textbooks of literary history. Moreover, partly because modern authors are acutely aware that there are few ‘facts’ beyond the poets’ works themselves on which to base their material, and partly as a broader consequence of modern preoccupations with fragmentation and the limits of knowledge, creative life-writing about the ancient poets in this period is found more frequently in ludic snapshots rather than full-blown narrative biographies.

Exploiting Existing Opinion

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
George C. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Research Policy ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
Bill Clinton ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Strategic Defense Initiative ◽  
White House ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Policy Issue ◽  
Strategic Defense

This chapter examines how the president exploits existing opinion on policies by showing the public how its views are compatible with his policies or by increasing the salience of White House initiatives that are popular with the public. Using Abraham Lincoln as an example, the chapter explains how the president can exploit the congruence of the public’s views with those of the White House by articulating opinion in a way that clarifies its policy implications and shows the public that its wishes are consistent with his policies. It also considers how framing and priming allows the president to define what a public policy issue is about, citing the experiences of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and media resistance to the White House’s framing of issues. Finally, it shows how the president can influence fluid public opinion by analyzing Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative and George W. Bush’s stem cell research policy.

The Oslo Accords: Their Context, Their Consequences

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noam Chomsky
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Bill Clinton ◽  
White House ◽  
Palestine Liberation Organization ◽  
Oslo Accords ◽  
The Press ◽  
Yasser Arafat ◽  
Political Settlement

In September 1993, United States President Bill Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn—capping off a “day of awe,” as the press described it with reverence. The occasion was the announcement of the Declaration of Principles (DOP) for political settlement of the Israel–Palestine conflict, which resulted from secret meetings in Oslo sponsored by the Norwegian government. This chapter examines the nature and significance of the Oslo Accords, and the consequences that flowed from them. It begins by reviewing highlights of the immediate background that set the context for the negotiations. It then turns to the DOP and the consequences of the Oslo process, which extends to the present, adding a few words on lessons that should be learned.

Remedies for Human Subjects of Cold War Research: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Mastroianni ◽  
Jeffrey Kahn
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Bill Clinton ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Human Subjects Research ◽  
White House ◽  
Research Recommendations

At a White House ceremony in October 1995, the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments presented its Final Report to President Bill Clinton. The 925-page report and the over 2,000 pages of supplemental volumes summarized eighteen months of investigative research, debate, and deliberation on historical and contemporary issues in human subjects research. The Advisory Committee's efforts were aided by unprecedented support from the highest levels of the executive branch, including the heads of eight cabinet-level agencies and their departments' resources. The presidentially appointed committee and its staff delved into long-forgotten Cold Warera government archives, listened to hours of public testimony, interviewed key players in the development of medical therapies and nuclear weapons, and studied ethical issues arising in today's research.In this article we focus on a critical, but narrowly defined, part of the Advisory Committee's Final Report: remedying harms or wrongs to subjects of human radiation experiments conducted or sponsored by the U.S. government between 1944 and 1974.

The Making of the "First Dog": President Warren G. Harding and Laddie Boy

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Pycior
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
White House ◽  
Cultural Icon ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Press ◽  
American Press ◽  
History Of

AbstractThis paper traces the history of the cultural icon of the "First Dog" of the United States back to the administration of President Warren G. Harding (1921-1923). It briefly explores technological and socio-cultural factors—including the early-twentieth-century cult of human and nonhuman celebrities—that laid a basis for the acceptance of Laddie Boy, Harding's Airedale terrier, as the third member of the First Family and a celebrity in his own right. Following Laddie Boy, First Dogs would greet and entertain visitors to the White House, pose for the press, make public appearances, and "talk." While recognizing that Laddie Boy's personality was essential to his success at the White House, the paper also documents the steps taken by President Harding, his wife Florence Kling Harding, and the American press to establish Laddie Boy as the First Dog of the land. The paper argues that the construction of the cultural icon of the First Dog was not simply a political ploy to humanize the President but more a calculated attempt by President Harding to further animal welfare.

The “Secularization” Question and the United States in the Twentieth Century

2001 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Hollinger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bill Clinton ◽  
Medical Doctors

Why have secular outlooks made so little headway in the United States in the twentieth century? Why did the Congress of the United States impeach Bill Clinton in 1998? Why have so many medical doctors in the United States been intimidated into refusing to provide abortion services to women? Might the answers to these three questions be the same?

scholarly journals Closure and Penetration: Reflections on the Pola Casket

1970 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 183-227
Author(s):  
Jaś Elsner
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Christian Art

In this paper, I examine one of the great surviving objects of early Christian art and conduct a conceptual archaeology of its visual and iconographic sources. I hope in this way to honor the memory of H.P. L’Orange, one of the greatest experts of late antique art from the twentieth century, whose particular strength lay in his ability to interpret late ancient materials in the light of the Classical tradition that had developed beforehand.

scholarly journals Lucy Grig & Gavin Kelly (eds.), Two Romes: Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jóhann Páll Árnason
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Art History ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Cultural World ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The discovery of late antiquity – as a distinctive period and a cultural matrix of later developments – is one of the most important breakthroughs of recent historical scholarship. It seems justified to speak of a discovery rather than a rediscovery: although there are considerably older precedents for the identification of late antique phenomena, especially in art history, no holistic understanding of the period as a cultural world was achieved before the late twentieth century.

Living History

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Smith
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Life Story ◽  
War Crimes ◽  
Living History ◽  
Short Life ◽  
White House ◽  
Recorded Sound ◽  
Excellent Work

Stephen Smith wants you to hear history. He’s made excellent work across a broad spectrum. He produced an aural portrait of the playwright August Wilson; he uncovered war crimes in Kosovo. Some of his best docs, and those he most loves to make, explore twentieth-century history. Stephen traces the short life story of recorded sound, this magic we take for granted. And through his own pieces, like “Song Catcher, Frances Densmore of Red Wing”; “Remembering Jim Crow”; and “White House Tapes: The President Calling,” Stephen shows how radio can blast us into another time, “past the rope-line of textbook history.”

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