scholarly journals Performing Political Persuasion in the United States in the Early Years of the Republic

2021 ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Tomas Kacer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
National Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Early American ◽  
American National Identity ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Bunker Hill ◽  
Valley Forge

Theater productions were born out of a paradox in the United States of the Revolutionary War and shortly afterwards. While the nation’s dominant ideology was anti-theatrical, theater often served a nationalist agenda, co-defining the new American nation and its nascent identities – such were, for example, productions of Joseph Addison’s Cato at Valley Forge in 1778 and William Dunlap’s André at the New Park in New York in 1798. These theater events empowered the audience to publicly perform their national identity as Americans and exercise their republican fervor. Similarly, a production of Bunker-Hill by J. D. Burk at the Haymarket in Boston in 1797 was crucial in helping define the social and political identities of its audiences, who were motivated to attend the performances as an expression of their partisan preferences. This article shows that literary, theatrical and social practices served to constitute performatively the early American national identity.

Interpretative theories as roadmaps to constitutional identity: The case of the United States

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
OR BASSOK
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Affordable Care Act ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Identity ◽  
American Constitution ◽  
Patient Protection ◽  
American National Identity ◽  
Constitutional Identity

AbstractAs long as the American Constitution serves as the focal point of American identity, many constitutional interpretative theories also serve as roadmaps to various visions of American constitutional identity. Using the debate over the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, I expose the identity dimension of various interpretative theories and analyse the differences between the roadmaps offered by them. I argue that according to each of these roadmaps, courts’ authority to review legislation is required in order to protect a certain vision of American constitutional identity even at the price of thwarting Americans’ freedom to pursue their current desires. The conventional framing of interpretative theories as merely techniques to decipher the constitutional text or justifications for the Supreme Court’s countermajoritarian authority to review legislation and the disregard of their identity function is perplexing in view of the centrality of the Constitution to American national identity. I argue that this conventional framing is a result of the current understanding of American constitutional identity in terms of neutrality toward the question of the good. This reading of the Constitution as lacking any form of ideology at its core makes majority preferences the best take of current American identity, leaving constitutional theorists with the mission to justify the Court’s authority to diverge from majority preferences.

Political, Military, and Cultural Memoirs in Vietnamese

2020 ◽  
pp. 179-188
Author(s):  
Tuan Hoang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Second Republic ◽  
First Republic ◽  
Positive Assessment ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Ngo Dinh Diem

This chapter discusses how historians view the values and limitations of personal memoirs. It also reviews some of the most important memoirs written in the Vietnamese language by former government and civil society leaders of the Republic of Vietnam (RVN). These memoirs have been published in the United States for many years, but scholars have hardly used them. This chapter's review helps not only to provide a broader context for the testimonies in this volume but also to draw out the major themes in those memoirs that parallel the discussion on the challenges facing nation-building efforts in the republic. These themes include communist violence that explains the harsh anticommunist policies in the early years of Ngô Đình Diệm, contested views of the First Republic, and a generally more positive assessment of the Second Republic. The bourgeois values embraced by the RVN, the chapter points out, drew support from many Vietnamese at the time and are a source of nostalgia for many in Vietnam today.

THE PROCESS CHEESE INDUSTRY IN THE UNITED STATES: A REVIEW1,2

1974 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter V. Price ◽  
Merlin G. Bush
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Cheese Industry ◽  
Marketing Orders ◽  
Milk Marketing ◽  
Process Cheese ◽  
Meeting Problems

The process cheese industry of the United States began over 55 years ago. Basic patents describing blending and heating and use of emulsifiers were the first, shared by Kraft and Phenix interests. In the early years a few competitors were licensed. Some dealers and cheese makers believed processing could ruin the cheese industry, but cheese consumption per capita increased. About 60% of consumers preferred process to natural cheese. Investigations of early practices led to definitions at state and federal levels; these have been re-defined and frequently revised. Demands of processors have affected the natural cheese industry in developing and locating new factories and aiding in composition and quality control. Processors promoted packaging and mechandising of all cheese. Cheese processors, associated dealers, and distributors organized the National Cheese Institute which has been a force in meeting problems of research, education, and regulation. From 1944 to 1968 it gave over $225,000 for independent research on problems of public health and industrial practices. The industry defended its trading practices in New York, Illinois, and Wisconsin with mixed success when accused of conspiracy to fix prices by the Federal Trade Commission in the 1940s, but today is largely responsible for orderly trading on the Wisconsin Cheese Exchange. Values established are important factors in Federal Milk Marketing orders which determine prices of fluid milk.

The United States in Search of a Policy: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Palestine

1962 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Halperin ◽  
Irvin Oder
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
Early American ◽  
Middle Eastern Politics

This study traces the development during World War II of official American attitudes toward Palestine. Utilizing recently released official papers of President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, New York, and documentation in the Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem, our goal is to describe early American efforts to accommodate policy to the complexities of Middle Eastern politics. While relevant documents are still unavailable, the diplomatic and domestic politics chronicled here may provide better perspective than has hitherto been possible.

The Kodály Concept in the United States: Early American Adaptations to Recent Evolutions

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Megan M. Sheridan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Music Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Philosophy Of Music ◽  
Zoltan Kodaly ◽  
Early American ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Kodaly Concept

Zoltán Kodály, a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, and music educator, is widely known for his philosophical and pedagogical contributions to music education. The purpose of this article was to trace the development of the Kodály movement in the United States from its implementation in the 1960s to present day. Questions that guided the research were (1) Who was Zoltán Kodály and what was his philosophy of music education? (2) Who were some of the American music educators who initially implemented the Kodály concept in the United States and what role did they play in the spread of the concept? and (3) How has the Kodály concept evolved in the United States? Following an overview of Kodály and his philosophy, the contributions of Mary Helen Richards, Denise Bacon, Lois Choksy, and Sr. Lorna Zemke during the early years of the Kodály movement are discussed. The evolution of the Kodály concept is discussed in relation to the work of Lois Choksy, Ann Eisen and Lamar Robertson, John Feierabend, Susan Brumfield, and Mícheál Houlahan and Philip Tacka. A conclusion includes suggestions for the advancement of the Kodály concept, including the need for research on the methods of the approach.

Alcoholism in the Republic of Ireland

1969 ◽  
Vol 115 (526) ◽  
pp. 1021-1025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dermot Walsh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
United States Army ◽  
New York State ◽  
Rejection Rate ◽  
Chronic Alcoholism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Diagnostic Categories ◽  
The Republic

The impression that alcoholism is common among the Irish is a very old one. It has been given some scientific basis by comparative studies of alcoholism in various ethnic groups in the United States. Thus, Hyde and Chisholm (1944) found that the rejection rate for enlistees in the United States army because of chronic alcoholism was higher in the Irish than in any other national group. Confirmatory evidence came from Malzberg (1940) in a study of first hospitalization rates for various diagnostic categories in New York State, and Roberts and Myers (1954) in a prevalence study in New Haven found that the Irish had a far higher proportion under treatment for alcoholism and drug addiction than other national groups.

Hanya Holm and an American Tanzgemeinschaft

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tresa Randall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Old World ◽  
Central Institute

Hanya Holm arrived in the United States in September 1931 to open the New York Wigman School, created under the patronage of impresario Sol Hurok. On the heels of Mary Wigman's first, highly acclaimed U.S. tour from 1930 to 1931, interest in the Wigman method was high among American dancers, and a small staff from the Wigman Central Institute in Dresden, led by Holm, were sent to New York to capitalize on it. This chapter counters the standard narrative of Holm's assimilation and Americanization. Focusing on Holm's writings during her early years in the United States, it demonstrates how she saw her New World milieu through an Old World lens, conceptualizing the United States as a fragmented society (Gesellschaft) in need of a community that integrated its members and that dance could provide (Tanzgemeinschaft).

Prologue

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
Billy Coleman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Music ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Early American ◽  
The Social ◽  
American National Identity ◽  
European Standards

This prologue surveys the key political challenges, debates, and ideologies that animated American political life following the creation of the United States. It also gestures to the emerging political purposes of music within this context. It distinguishes Federalists from Republicans, explains their conflicting visions, and overviews the logic Federalists used to justify their desire for social control and their insistence on social order and hierarchy as preconditions for freedom and liberty. The prologue similarly outlines the social context of early American music, especially its connections to religion, morality, science, and European standards of excellence. Finally, it highlights music’s perceived capacity to help define the terms of a new, uniquely American national identity.

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