Scholarship list
Book chapter
The Meaning of the American Civil War in Southern Memory
Published 06/15/2022
War and Remembrance, 175
This chapter explores the gap between national and regional public memory narratives, which influence how Americans build their individual identity. American history was taught in the eleventh grade in the public school that I attended in Jacksonville, Florida, a city just below the Georgia border. We sat in alphabetical order by surname; the student who was placed directly behind me was Terrell Wilson. When the lesson plan reached the topic of the Civil War, Terrell’s normal geniality vanished: such was his indignation in denouncing the Union soldiers, whom he called “the Yankees,” that I felt his spittle on the back
Book chapter
"If at First You Don't Secede" War and Remembrance: New Explorations of America's Enduring Conflict
Published 01/01/2021
, 164 - 179
Book chapter
Movies in America as Paradigms of Accommodation
Published 2020
The Americanization of the Jews, 79 - 94
Book chapter
Brandeis University in the Shadow of Antisemitism
Published 2019
Anti-Semitism on the Campus, 77 - 93
Book chapter
The Uprooted: Hester Street (1975)
Published 2019
Writing History with Lightning: Representations of Nineteenth-Century America on Film
Book chapter
Published 03/01/2018
Reframing 1968
The conclusion to Reframing 1968, by one of the leading historians of the twentieth-century United States, Stephen J. Whitfield, re-examines the historical experiences and cultural myths of the 1968. The chapter argues that many of the defining features of this tumultuous year – from electoral politics, to anti-war protests, to civil rights activism, and other forms of grassroots protest – are often misremembered. The conclusion focuses on how the experience of 1968 is sometimes in tension with how the historical record characterises its key moments and protest activities.
Book chapter
The meaning of the Jewish experience for American culture
Published 2017
American Jewry, 344 - 351
American Jewry; Transcending the European Experience? Edited by Christian Wiese and Cornelia Wilhelm. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017
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The Rise and Fall of Herbert Marcuse
Published 2017
Argent, Pouvoir et Representations, 37 - 51
Book chapter
Jewish American Popular Culture
Published 2015
The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature, 584
Book chapter
Lawrence H. Fuchs: the scholar as citizen
Published 2015
The Individual in History, 461 - 474
The Individual in History; Essays in Honor of Jehuda Reinharz. ChaeRan Y. Freeze, Sylvia Fuks Fried, and Eugene R. Sheppard, editors. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2015 Reinharz, Jehuda (jubilee volume)