...Josh Stenberg In 1960, as part of the early People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) cultural diplomacy, a troupe of almost one hundred Chinese performers and officials visited Canada, where they were widely identified as the “Peking Opera.” This was the high Cold War, ten years before Canada would...

... 2021 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association 2021 Yoga movement Paramahansa Yogananda American spiritualism Self-Realization Fellowship Cold War U.S. empire E ILEEN LUHR Pilgrims Progress Efficient America, Spiritual India, and America s Transnational Religious...

... of “superiority.” Cold War imperatives gave these ambivalent cultural and psychological projections a special salience, particularly as each confronted the implications of Nehru’s non-alignment and his global profile as a proponent of Third World nationalism. The ambivalent representations of Nehru that we trace...

... on the implications of the murder for Cold War diplomacy, while some believed there were moral lessons to be learned from the generous actions of Oh’s family. Yet other letter writers focused on race and juvenile delinquency and constructed an idealized “model” minority in the Korean student, contrasting him...

.... Schmitz. © 2019 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association 2019 U.S. foreign relations Cold War historiography David F. Schmitz DAVID F. SCHMITZ Internationalism, Ideology, and Individuals ABSTRACT This essay is part of a roundtable titled The Scholarship, Influence...

.... Schmitz. © 2019 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association 2019 U.S. foreign relations Cold War historiography David F. Schmitz VANESSA WALKER A Question of Democracy in U.S. Foreign Policy ABSTRACT This essay is part of a roundtable titled The Scholarship, Influence...

.... Schmitz. © 2019 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association 2019 U.S. foreign relations Cold War historiography David F. Schmitz STEVEN J . BRADY David F. Schmitz The Triumph of an Internationalist ABSTRACT This essay is part of a roundtable titled The Scholarship...

.... Schmitz. © 2019 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association 2019 U.S. foreign relations Cold War historiography David F. Schmitz KIMBER M. QUINNEY Ideas are Weapons On the Academic Legacy of Professor David F. Schmitz ABSTRACT This essay is part of a roundtable titled...

... Walker, Steven J. Brady, Kimber M. Quinney, and Kathryn C. Statler; and a response from David F. Schmitz. KEYWORDS U.S. foreign relations, Cold War, historiography, David F. Schmitz In his presidential address to the American Historical Association in 1950 , Samuel Eliot Morison asserted that No person...

.... Schmitz. © 2019 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association 2019 U.S. foreign relations Cold War historiography David F. Schmitz KATHRYN C. STATLER David Schmitz On Our Side but Definitely Not on Nixon s A Reassessment of Turning Points in the Vietnam War ABSTRACT This essay...

... experiments. This article focuses on two projects overseen by the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA), Doom Town I and II, and their ties with 1950s cultural values and the consumer landscape. This article situates the two mock American townscapes as part of the cultural battlefield of the Cold War...

...Benjamin M. Han This article examines the Kim Sisters, a trio of female performers from South Korea, as a case study to explore the transpacific exchange of ethnic talent between the United States and Korea during the Cold War. It illustrates how U.S. military occupation, popular music, and Cold...

...” minority and ideas about U.S. democracy and equality at mid-century. Through a nuanced interpretation, this article reveals how certain narratives relied on a social progress framework and shifting global Cold War politics to create a “Japanese American Exceptionalism.” The little-known history of Japanese...

... Historical Association 2015 Gustav Hertz National Liberation Front Vietnam War prisoner of war kidnapping Cold War Cold War Kidnapping: The Gustav Hertz Case and the Failure of Secret Negotiations in Vietnam, 1965 1967 HELEN N. PHO The author is a Ph.D. candidate in the history department...