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Mahini, Ramtin Noor-Tehrani (Noor), Erin Barth, and Jed Morrow. "Tim O’Brien’s “Bad” Vietnam War: Going after Cacciato & Its Historical Perspective." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 8, no. 11 (2018): 1397. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0811.03.

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Being the only Vietnam War author on the English curriculum for American middle and high schools, Tim O’Brien skillfully mixes his real wartime experience with fiction in his various bestsellers and awarded novels. All O'Brien's Vietnam War stories are always "bad," meaning that the war contains mostly sad and horrific experience for American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians. A closer look at O’Brien’s war stories reveals that he indeed touches upon almost all issues the American GIs encountered during this war; nevertheless, not all online literary analysis websites and peer-reviewed authors

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Boeschoten, Riki van. "Daddy’s War: Greek American Stories by Irene Kacandes." Journal of Modern Greek Studies 33, no. 1 (2015): 193–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2015.0014.

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Miller, John. "Critiques of Domesticity in Ray Bradbury’s Cold War Fiction." Extrapolation 65, no. 2 (2024): 135–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/extr.2024.10.

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This paper explores the interactions of nostalgic and gothic tendencies in Ray Bradbury’s representations of the home, a recurring symbol in his fiction of the postwar period and in the American cultural imagination of the time. Bradbury’s fiction complicates various ideals associated with and invested in the postwar American home, and paired stories often suggest different responses to specific domestic themes. The essay concludes by arguing that several Bradbury stories offer possible alternatives to the problematic ideal of the “detached,” “nuclear” family home. The argument thus also usefu

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Schrader, Benjamin. "Positionality in Embodied War Imaginaries: American Snipers." Review of Human Rights 3, no. 1 (2018): 43–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.35994/rhr.v3i1.82.

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This paper maps the positionality of two soldiers embodied experiences as snipers for the US military. One, Chris Kyle who is labeled as “the most lethal sniper in US military history,” wrote a book uncritically glorifying his experiences, which was later turned into the Oscar nominated film American Sniper. His attempt to help veterans heal from PTSD by taking them shooting was a possible trigger that reignited the traumas of war, which can be traced to his eventual death. The other, Garett Reppenhagen, who was the first active duty member of the antiwar group Iraq Veterans Against the War, a

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Çingiz qızı Əliyeva, Ülviyyə, and Leyla Pərviz qızı Kazımzadə. "American Reality in Washington Irving's “The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip." SCIENTIFIC WORK 65, no. 04 (2021): 95–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.36719/2663-4619/65/95-100.

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This article analyzes Washington Irving's two most popular novels in American literature, "Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." The main issue is the issue of identity in this period of history. The author of these short stories answers everyone who asks about the American people's quest for freedom and what it means to be an American. These novels are a source of inspiration for Americans to build their own culture. Key words: novella, Revolutionary war, colonialism, spirit, personality

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M Alosman, M. Ikbal. "Whose Victims Are the Casualties of War?: Victims in American War Stories." International Journal of Literary Humanities 22, no. 2 (2023): 33–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2327-7912/cgp/v22i02/33-46.

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Hebb, Ross N. "American and Canadian Great War Nurse Writers: A Difference of Perspective?" Nursing History Review 33 (January 2025): 20–44. https://doi.org/10.5325/nursinghistory.33.0020.

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Abstract The accounts of World War I nursing experiences range from the nurses’ letters home, to histories penned by the nurses, to their semi-fictionalized short stories. This article examines and contrasts the short stories of two well-known American authors, Mary Borden and Ellen La Motte, with the writings of two Canadian nurses, Agnes Warner and Mabel Clint. Its purpose is to explore the reasons for the variance in emphasis and perspective. Both Warner’s letters home as well as Clint’s later history provide many points of contrast to the two American writers. Borden and La Motte’s short s

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Novak, K. V. "THE IMAGE OF THE CIVIL WAR IN “TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS” BY AMBROSE BIERCE." Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series History and Philology 31, no. 2 (2021): 405–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2412-9534-2021-31-2-405-410.

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The article deals with the image of the Civil War in war stories by Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?). The specifics of the war's representation in writer's literary works are analyzed, the features of man at war are revealed. The particularity of the artistic world of stories by A. Bierce is recognized. The research is carried out on the material of the collection of short stories “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians” (1891): “Killed at Resaca” (1887), “A Son of the Gods” (1888), “One of the Missing” (1888), “A Tough Tussle”, (1888), “A Horseman in the Sky” (1889), “Chickamauga” (1889), “The Affair at

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Dettman, Sean. "Friendships Forged in War: Edward R. Murrow, the BBC, and the Battle for Pro-British Publicity in the United States, 1939–1941." Home Front Studies 3, no. 1 (2023): 51–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hfs.2023.a943196.

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Abstract: Across the opening months and years of World War II in Europe, British officials worked to feed American journalists, correspondents, and broadcasters positive news stories for the purpose of garnering much-needed sympathy and support for Britain's war effort. In particular, officials at the BBC American Liaison Unit and the Ministry of Information's American Division forged a close working relationship with US broadcaster Edward R. Murrow by attempting to arrange special privileges and facilities. However, officials and senior military personnel at the war ministries and Foreign Off

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Siham Hattab Hamdan, Dr. "kamaugawar and the creation of a dystopian reality: A study in hassan Blasim's "Crossword" and Ambrose Bierce's "Chi." لارك 3, no. 42 (2021): 1206–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.31185/lark.vol3.iss42.1947.

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The study shows how war can create a dystopian reality worse than the reality depicted in the dystopian stories. War creates a circular or enclosed world that has no exit where people cannot see the end of the tunnel. The study discusses two short stories, one is for the Iraqi writer Hassan Blasim entitled "Crosswords" and the other for the American writer Ambrose Bierce entitled "Chickamauga". These two short stories fit one of the categories of dystopian fiction where the society witnesses the effects of war and civilians and soldiers become the victims. Though the two stories do not adhere

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BESPALOV, Aleksander V. "For the King and the Fatherland! Organizing, arming, manning, equipping and supplying American loyalists in the American War of Independence (1775–1783)." CULTURE AND SAFETY 1 (2024): 86–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.25257/kb.2024.1.86-96.

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Based on the analysis of previously published documents, reference books, regimental stories, scientific monographs and articles, this article examines organizing, arming, manning, equipping and supplying American loyalists in the American War of Independence (1775-1783).

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Mahini, Ramtin Noor-Tehrani (Noor), Erin Barth, and Jed Morrow. "Tim O’Brien’s “Bad” Vietnam War: In the Lake of the Woods & Its Historical Perspective." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 8, no. 12 (2018): 1582. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0812.03.

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Award-winning author Tim O’Brien was sent to Vietnam as a foot soldier in 1969, when American combat troops were gradually withdrawn from the country. A closer look at his Vietnam war stories reveals that he indeed touched upon almost all issues or problems of American soldiers in this “bad” war; yet not many peer-reviewed authors or online literary analysis websites could identify and discuss them all. The purpose of this article is to address the war details in O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods and its historical perspective, so that middle and high school readers can understand the meaning

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Ehrick, Christine. "Buenas Vecinas?" Feminist Media Histories 5, no. 3 (2019): 60–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2019.5.3.60.

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During World War II, US–Latin American relations were shaped by the noninterventionist Good Neighbor policy and the projection of soft power via US government-orchestrated public relations and propaganda campaigns. This included extensive film and radio propaganda overseen by the US Office of Inter-American Affairs (OIAA) and disseminated throughout the region. One dimension of that campaign involved radio propaganda aimed specifically at women, who were regaled with stories of heroic Latin American women and carefully curated female perspectives on life in the United States during wartime. In

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Kalpakian, Jack. "War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims: Melody Moezzi." Digest of Middle East Studies 18, no. 1 (2009): 147–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1949-3606.2009.tb00123.x.

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Willsey, Kristiana. "At War with Stories: A Vernacular Critique of the Storytelling Boom from American Military Veterans." Poetics Today 43, no. 2 (2022): 243–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/03335372-9642595.

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Abstract In a post-draft era in which American civilians have grown increasingly apart from their military, veterans are urged to share their stories, to personalize distant and poorly understood conflicts—to make war meaningful. But individual veterans can't control the larger conversation in which their stories are interpreted or used. Veterans’ stories are ventriloquized by candidates in campaign rallies, recapped in late-night news monologues, retweeted by celebrities, optioned for film, and consistently cited as evidence of why we should, or shouldn't, be at war. This politically charged

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Räisänen, Ari. "Flanking Maneuvers: The Counternarratives of the Military Unconscious in Phil Klay's “After Action Report” and “War Stories”." American Studies in Scandinavia 53, no. 1 (2021): 121–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/asca.v53i1.6222.

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This article examines the ways in which Phil Klay’s short stories “After Action Report” and “War Stories” generate counternarratives that challenge and fragment populist representations of soldiering, war, and Americanness. In doing so, the analysis reveals new ways of approaching the contemporary American civilian-military disconnect. The article examines this disconnect in a framework based on Fredric Jameson’s theories that reveals the text’s underlying military unconscious: a type of political unconscious that rises from the lived-in social realities of veterans and active duty personnel.

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Jin, Michael R. "Citizen Aliens: American Xenophobia, Japanese American Migrants, and the Transpacific Borders of Belonging." Journal of American Ethnic History 44, no. 4 (2025): 73–99. https://doi.org/10.5406/19364695.44.4.04.

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Abstract Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, thousands of US-born Japanese Americans moved to Japan to escape anti-Asian xenophobia and start new lives. Nearly twenty thousand of these migrants, collectively known as Kibei, returned to the United States on the eve of Pearl Harbor. Dispossessed of their US citizenship, the Kibei lived with the stigma of being too Japanese and were ostracized from their community during the war. The Kibei's wartime struggles in American concentration camps defined their lives as citizens and migrants. This article explores the perspectives of Kib

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Panova, Olga Yu. "Five Adventure Stories: Americans in Stalin’s Moscow (Lapina, Galina. Americans in Moscow, 1930–1940. Moscow: Litfakt Publ., 2023. 206 p.)." Literature of the Americas, no. 15 (2023): 297–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2023-15-297-307.

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The monograph by Russian-American researcher, translator and critic Galina Lapina Americans in Moscow: 1930–1940 is dedicated to pre-war Soviet-American theatrical, educational, cinematic, diplomatic, literary contacts. Among the heroes of the book are American Ambassador Joseph E. Davis and his chauffeur Charles Ciliberti, writers Langston Hughes and Dorothy West, playwright Sophie Treadwell, actress Blanche Yurka and other writers, artists, diplomats, journalists who came to the USSR in the 1930s and early 1940s. The book consists of five chapters; each of them is devoted to a certain episod

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Jacco, Zwetsloot. "Visual Metaphors in North Korean Graphic Novels for Children." Global Politics Review 2, no. 1 (2016): 65–82. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1238561.

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Abstract: North Korea produces dozens of comic books each year for its children of various ages. Comic books for younger readers are often populated with anthropomorphized animal characters – not humans. Some of them tell stories that seem to be allegories of the Korean War. In these graphic novels, the animals represent through visual metaphor the various groups found in Korean War stories – good and pure North Koreans, traitorous and cowardly South Koreans, and their evil American overlords. This paper examines these visual metaphors to see how good and bad characters are graphic

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Reitan, E. A. (Earl Aaron). "Old Glory Stories: American Combat Leadership in World War II (review)." Journal of Military History 71, no. 2 (2007): 575–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jmh.2007.0148.

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Dewi, Novita. "COUNTERING XENOPHOBIA AND RACISM THROUGH SHORT STORIES FOR HISTORY STUDENTS." International Journal of Humanity Studies (IJHS) 5, no. 1 (2021): 38–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/ijhs.v5i1.3697.

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Short stories provide suitable reading materials to enrich the study of American History. Using literary works can help foster transformative history teaching, especially when discussing the violent past to construct a better future. This study aims at examining two American short stories that deal with racism and prejudice. Used as primary data are “Désirée’s Baby” (1893) which tells about racial intolerance in a pre-Civil War plantation society; and “Shame” (1964), a story about intolerance experienced by a Black schoolboy. Critical reading method is applied by making contextualization with

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Kiely, Denis O., and Lisa Swift. "Instructional Note: Casualties of War: Combat Trauma and the Return of the Combat Veteran." Teaching English in the Two-Year College 36, no. 4 (2009): 357–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/tetyc20097082.

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This essay discusses how firsthand accounts of American soldiers can help literature students appreciate how the combat trauma and homecoming experiences of today’s soldiers parallel the stories of Homeric heroes.

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Leffler, Christopher T., Stephen G. Schwartz, Ricardo D. Wainsztein, Adam Pflugrath, and Eric Peterson. "Ophthalmology in North America: Early Stories (1491-1801)." Ophthalmology and Eye Diseases 9 (January 1, 2017): 117917211772190. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1179172117721902.

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New World plants, such as tobacco, tomato, and chili, were held to have beneficial effects on the eyes. Indigenous healers rubbed or scraped the eyes or eyelids to treat inflammation, corneal opacities, and even eye irritation from smoke. European settlers used harsh treatments, such as bleeding and blistering, when the eyes were inflamed or had loss of vision with a normal appearance (gutta serena). In New Spain, surgery for corneal opacity was performed in 1601 and cataract couching in 1611. North American physicians knew of contralateral loss of vision after trauma or surgery (sympathetic o

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Franch, Pere. "Praising the fallen heroes: Storytelling in US war presidential rhetoric, from Johnson to Obama." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 27, no. 4 (2018): 311–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947018805651.

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This paper analyses the use of storytelling by United States presidents in their war speeches, from the Vietnam War to the War on Terror. The study proposes a dual concept of storytelling in political communication: first, the global story that lies behind the presidential rhetoric aimed at justifying war; and second, the use of a specific technique consisting of inserting particular, personal stories into the speeches in order to communicate specific messages to the audience. The methodology used consists of an in-depth, interpretive, qualitative content analysis of a sample of presidential s

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Beidler, Philip D. "Making a Production Out of It: Victory at Sea and American Remembering." Prospects 22 (October 1997): 521–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300000211.

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“Of course. It's my father's absolute favorite. He was there, you know.” Thus a friend replied when I told her I was writing about Victory at Sea, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) classic television documentary of U.S. and Allied Naval Operations in World War II. The father in question, moreover, was no ordinary judge of the material, but an old Navy Chief who had actually been there for much of it, before, during, and after. Nor was the friend – a career journalist of long acquaintance with sea stories – an uncritical interpreter of the information. Still, as regards the forms and proc

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Aqeeli, Ammar A. "Tim O’Brien’s representation of the subjugated other’s voice against war in The Things They Carried." Ars Aeterna 12, no. 2 (2020): 20–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aa-2020-0008.

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Abstract Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam-based The Things They Carried has been criticized for exclusively depicting the painful and traumatic experiences of the American soldiers in the war zone. Despite the limited number of Vietnamese characters in the novel, and despite their relegation to the role of powerless and voiceless onlookers, their presence shows the degree of the power imbalance between Vietnam and America. This article demonstrates how O’Brien infused sentiments in his stories to emphasize his opposition to the war and his concern for the dignity of the Vietnamese people. O’Brien asserts

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Fujitani, Takashi. "National Narratives and Minority Politics: The Japanese American National Museum's War Stories." Museum Anthropology 21, no. 1 (1997): 99–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mua.1997.21.1.99.

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Lin, Mao. "Voices from the Vietnam War: Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans." Journal of Cold War Studies 17, no. 3 (2015): 244–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jcws_r_00575.

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POWELL, IRENA. "Japanese Writer in Vietnam: The Two Wars of Kaiko Ken (1931-89)." Modern Asian Studies 32, no. 1 (1998): 219–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x98002741.

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Our image and knowledge of the Vietnam war come predominantly from American sources, which all stress the unusual character of that war. From the despatch of the first combat units to Vietnam in 1960 to the fall of Saigon and the takeover by the North Vietnamese in 1975, it was America's longest war. American literature from Vietnam depicts the war as being waged not only against the enemy (particularly as it was often difficult to determine who and where the enemy was) but also against the elements — heat, rain, jungle, mosquitoes, leeches, dust and mud. The moral confusion surrounding this w

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Huang, Yanpei. "Seeing and Being Seen." International Journal of Education and Humanities 19, no. 3 (2025): 48–52. https://doi.org/10.54097/7r6q5a64.

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William Faulkner is a representative writer of the American modernist writer of the twentieth century, and the setting of his novels is the American southern society after the Civil War when the society was undergoing radical change. Telling stories of the vicissitude of the aristocratic families, his novels have vividly reflected the alteration of power and tortuous development in the South at that time. This thesis mainly analyzes the gaze of major characters in Faulkner’s three short stories to enhance readers’ comprehension of power and gaze.This thesis concludes that the gaze in Faulkner’

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Riseman, Noah. "‘Japan Fight. Aboriginal People Fight. European People Fight’: Yolngu Stories from World War II." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 37, S1 (2008): 65–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/s1326011100000387.

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Abstract Did you know that a Bathurst Islander captured the first Japanese prisoner of war on Australian soil? Or that a crucifix saved the life of a crashed American pilot in the Gulf of Carpentaria? These are excerpts from the rich array of oral histories of Aboriginal participation in World War II. This paper presents “highlights” from Yolngu oral histories of World War II in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Using these stories, the paper begins to explore some of the following questions: Why did Yolngu participate in the war effort? How did Yolngu see their role in relation to white Austra

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Li, Rong (Aries). "Wartime Storytelling and Mythmaking: Interpreting and Remembering the Flying Tigers in the United States, 1941–1945." Journal of American-East Asian Relations 27, no. 4 (2020): 347–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18765610-27040003.

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Abstract This article investigates the storytelling and mythmaking about the American Volunteer Group (avg), popularly known as the Flying Tigers, in the United States during World War ii. The avg was an aircrew of discharged U.S. military pilots and mechanics that China hired to assist in its war against Japan. Although this group was in combat for only seven months, its exploits became legendary in the United States. Based on examination of newspaper reports, magazine articles, Hollywood movies, popular biographies, and declassified documents, this article shows that Americans interpreted th

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Riabov, Oleg V. ""From America with love"? Love stories and the "Iron Curtain" in the Soviet Thaw cinema." Imagologiya i komparativistika, no. 21 (2024): 259–75. https://doi.org/10.17223/24099554/21/13.

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The article deals with an analysis of the Soviet Thaw films that contain love stories of USSR and USA citizens. Hollywood released a number of films that told the stories of love between representatives of the two hostile blocs; following the canon established in Ninotchka, they served as a part of the “struggle for hearts and minds,”, as it is shown in many studies. Meanwhile the Soviet cinema also produced the movies that touched the theme of romances between Soviet and American characters: from Meeting on the Elbe (1949) to Lost in Siberia (1991). The author points out that Soviet love stor

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Vincent, Jonathan. "Fighting for Real: Truth and American War Memory." American Literary History 35, no. 3 (2023): 1326–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad073.

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Abstract This essay-review considers two recent books on the subject of American veteran memoir—Stephen Cushman’s The General’s Civil War (2021) and Myra Mendible’s American War Stories (2021). Surveying military conflicts centered on the US Civil War and the more recent wars from Vietnam to Afghanistan, both authors examine a range of veteran nonfiction writing, and with the explicit purpose of speaking to US audiences in our own time. Given the United States’ severely divided political culture today, both authors see the lessons and hard truths expressed in veteran memoir as rife with possib

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Wilner, Isaiah Lorado. "Reembodying Our Occupied Geographies: Boyd Cothran's Remembering the Modoc War, Benjamin Madley's An American Genocide, and the Future of Native American Studies." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 41, no. 2 (2017): 115–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.41.2.wilner.

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Narratives of innocence are stories born of the dispossession of bodies from lands that continue to serve as vectors of violence, reenacting the scene that created them. The term was introduced by Boyd Cothran to describe the cunning afterlife of conflicts between settler states and indigenous peoples: state violence yields stories that reiterate erasure, weaponizing memory to forget the lessons of colonization. In a situation of violence that produces silence, names resonate as instruments of clarity, cutting through erasure. Genocide is a name historians are now using to describe a process o

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Mahini, Ramtin Noor-Tehrani (Noor), Erin Barth, and Jed Morrow. "Tim O’Brien’s “Bad” Vietnam War: The Things They Carried & Its Historical Perspective." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 8, no. 10 (2018): 1283. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0810.05.

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Tim O’Brien was sent to Vietnam as a foot soldier in 1969, during the later part of the Vietnam War that can be called the “bad” or unwinnable war. Based on his experience, O'Brien's writing about the Vietnam War in his award-winning fiction novels is always "bad," meaning that the war was terrible for American grunts like himself, his fellow soldiers, and Vietnamese civilians, with practically no good or inspiring stories. Nevertheless, O’Brien touches upon almost all problems of American soldiers in the Vietnam War, but not many peer-reviewed authors or online literary analysis websites coul

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de Groot, Renee. "What If the Pen Was Mightier Than the Sword? Civil War Alternate History as Social Criticism." aspeers: emerging voices in american studies 10 (2017): 55–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.54465/aspeers.10-06.

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Alternate histories about the American Civil War seem ideally set up to explore the possibilities and tensions of social criticism through art and literature. Counterfactual stories about the war easily invoke contemporary issues of inequality and exploitation, and they are part of a genre—alternate history—that has traditionally lent itself to social commentary. Yet while scholarship on alternate history has captured the presentist orientation of many alternate histories in the fantasy-nightmare dichotomy, these categories appear reductive as a reflection of the layered and intriguing forms s

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Li, Rong. "I am an American scientist of the world." Molecular Biology of the Cell 30, no. 23 (2019): 2865–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1091/mbc.e19-07-0389.

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The ongoing trade war between the United States and China has led to questions about the loyalty and intent of Chinese American scientists. In this essay, I use my own small stories to recall the history of my generation of Chinese American scientists and our journey in this country to build career and life, all in fewer than 1000 words. It intends to be a tribute to the generosity of the American spirit and its openness to strangers, which is the very reason behind the inexhaustible creativity and world-leading research of this country.

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Schwebel, Sara L. "Rewriting the Captivity Narrative for Contemporary Children: Speare, Bruchac, and the French and Indian War." New England Quarterly 84, no. 2 (2011): 318–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00091.

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Juxtaposing the French and Indian War stories of Elizabeth George Speare, a mid-twentieth- century Anglo-American children's author, against those of Joseph Bruchac, a twenty-first- century Abenaki children's author, reveals how flexible and powerful captivity narratives have been in shaping arguments about gender, nationhood, citizenship, and land in the postwar United States.

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Tropp, Jacob. "“Intertribal” Development Strategies in the Global Cold War: Native American Models and Counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia." Comparative Studies in Society and History 62, no. 2 (2020): 421–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417520000109.

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AbstractThis article bridges the traditionally segregated fields of Native American history and the history of American foreign relations by investigating a series of activities in the late 1960s and early 1970s that interconnected Native American development and American counterinsurgency agendas in the unstable political landscapes of Southeast Asia. A small coterie of American bureaucrats, with careers spanning foreign assistance and Native American development work, saw great potential in selectively showcasing Indian economic “success stories” to serve “hilltribe” development and counteri

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Filimonova, Maria A. "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben: Aide-de-camp to Frederick the Great in Washington’s Army." Novaya i Novejshaya Istoriya, no. 1 (May 23, 2024): 196–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s0130386424010154.

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Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben played a key role in the professionalization of George Washington’s Continental Army, managing to pass on to the Americans his experience gained in the Seven Years’ War and the War of the Austrian Succession. At the same time, there are no studies dedicated to Steuben in American studies in Russia. It seems that this gap needs to be filled, especially since some episodes of Steuben’s biography are connected with Russia. In addition, the article sets the task of critically verifying Steuben’s self-representations – a task that somehow confronts all his biographers.

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Talib Gharbawee, Kawakib. "The Historical Myth in American and Iraqi plays." Wisdom Journal For Studies & Research 4, no. 07 (2024): 266–85. https://doi.org/10.55165/wjfsar.v4i07.550.

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The mythological Greek heroes of Sophocles' Ajax encounter contemporary stories of the Iraq War and sexual harassment of local soldiers. Ajax, a Greek warrior who loses to Odysseus for the armor of Achilles and succumbs to his arrogance. McLaughlin no doubt saw striking parallels between the Iraq War and the Trojan War. According to McLaughlin, the Greek “history” was most relevant to the audience of the time, and was intended to refer to ongoing wars around the world, including Iraq (McLaughlin, 2014). Rasha Fadhil reveals the archaic origins of Iraqi culture at Ishtar in Baghdad. Tigris-Euph

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Donawerth, Jane. "Body Parts: Twentieth-Century Science Fiction Short Stories by Women." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 3 (2004): 474–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x20532.

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This essay is a feminist, historical exploration of body parts in short science fiction stories by women. In early-twentieth-century stories about prostheses, blood transfusion, and radioactive experiments, Clare Winger Harris, Kathleen Ludwick, and Judith Merril use body parts to explore fears of damage to masculine identity by war, of alienation of men from women, and of racial pollution. In stories from the last quarter of the twentieth century, the South American author Angélica Gorodischer depicts a housewife's escape from oppressive domestic technology through time travel in which she mu

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Ferguson, Jane M. "Buddhist bomb diversion and an American airman reincarnate: World War folklore, airmindedness, and spiritual air defense in Shan State, Myanmar." cultural geographies 25, no. 3 (2018): 473–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474474018762809.

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The Second World War indelibly transformed the political landscape of Southeast Asia. Few people in Myanmar’s Shan State today have any direct memories of the Japanese occupation and Allied bombing campaigns in the area. Therefore, folklore offers an important connection to the historical events and cultural geographies of war. Based on ethnography among Shan villagers carried out in 2015, this article discusses folklore regarding two specific aerial bombing incidents between the towns of Kyaukme and Hsipaw, Shan State. According to these narratives, local spiritual powers influenced the effec

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Winfield, Betty Houchin, and Janice Hume. "The Continuous Past: Historical Referents in Nineteenth-Century American Journalism." Journalism & Communication Monographs 9, no. 3 (2007): 119–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/152263790700900301.

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This study examines how nineteenth-century American journalism used history. Based primarily on almost 2,000 magazine article titles, the authors found a marked increase in historical referents by 1900. Primarily used for context and placement, historical references often noted the country's origins, leaders and wars, particularly the Civil War. By connecting the present to the past, journalists highlighted an American story worth remembering during a time of nation-building, increased magazine circulation, and rise of feature stories. References to past people, events and institutions reitera

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Crager, K. E. "Li, Voices from the Vietnam War: Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans." Oral History Review 38, no. 1 (2011): 204–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ohr/ohr037.

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Coletes Blanco, Agustín. "War stories: British and American writers in/on the Italian front (1915–18)." Journal of Modern Italian Studies 21, no. 2 (2016): 206–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1354571x.2015.1134177.

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Pham, Vu H. "The Vietnamese American 1.5 Generation: Stories of War, Revolution, Flight, and New Beginnings." Journal of American Ethnic History 27, no. 1 (2007): 113–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40543280.

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Burns, Tom. "Ernest Hemingway e a Guerra Civil Espanhola." Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura 19, no. 2 (2009): 225–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.19.2.225-236.

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Resumo: Este artigo discute o romance For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940 [Por quem os sinos dobram], do escritor e jornalista americano Ernest Hemingway, uma ficção sobre a Guerra Civil Espanhola que o autor escreveu na Espanha enquanto servia como correspondente de guerra. O romance, favorável à causa legalista, parece assumir uma posição mais política que os romances e histórias anteriores de Hemingway, mas, na verdade, desenvolve mais uma variação do típico “herói de Hemingway”, celebrado em quase toda a obra do autor: o indivíduo solitário, corajoso, destinado ao fracasso, mas determinado a ext

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Darda, Joseph. "The Thin White Line: Veterans and the White Racial Politics of Creative Writing." American Literature 91, no. 4 (2019): 783–810. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917308.

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Abstract This essay considers how the creative writing workshop transformed the white Vietnam vet into a minority writer. The MFA system, which organized the group-based politics of post–civil rights American literature, originated as a space geared toward white combat veterans. Some of the first graduate programs in creative writing were founded in the years after World War II, and their classes were dominated by white vets attending college on the GI Bill. The vets received the now-clichéd advice to write what they know, to turn their war experiences into war stories. The next wave of progra

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