46-603: Perlstein is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Rick Perlstein (born 1969), American historian and journalist Shlomo Perlstein (1902–1979), Israeli politician See also [ edit ] Helen Perlstein Pollard (born 1946), American academic ethnohistorian and archaeologist Arnold Perlstein , character in The Magic School Bus [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
92-656: A complete undergraduate and graduate program in American studies combined with British studies. The Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library also offers a range of events and fellowships, as well as promoting the American collections held at the British Library. Russia's main center for American studies is the Institute for US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences . In
138-404: A nameable and adducible unit." More recently, scholars have questioned American as a categorizing term. "In consideration of the limitations of conventional terms," Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera argued in 2018, instead of American , terms like "spaces claimed by the political body" and "residents of spaces claimed by the political body" would offer a "more sensitive and attuned description ... of
184-677: A piece of cultural material may be understood as unhyphenated—and thus archetypal—only when authors meet certain demographic criteria; any deviation from these demographic or cultural prescriptions are subordinated to hyphenated status. Institutionally, in the last decade the American Studies Association has reflected the interdisciplinary nature of the field, creating strong connections to ethnic studies, gender studies, cultural studies and post- or de-colonial studies. Environmental perspectives, in ascendance in related fields, such as literature and history, have not penetrated
230-1102: A postgraduate program in US Studies is run by the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. In Canada, the University of Alberta has the Alberta Institute for American Studies. The University of Western Ontario has a Centre for American Studies that has both an undergraduate and master's program in American studies, with specializations at the graduate level in American Cultural Studies, and Canadian-American Relations. York University offers an undergraduate program in United States Studies. American studies centers in China include
276-802: Is Perlstein's longest publication at almost 1,200 pages long. Reaganland received favorable reviews from The Guardian , the Los Angeles Times , and The New Republic . Reaganland was one of the New York Times 100 Notables Books of 2020. It was also subject to a scathing critique in Commentary by Steven F. Hayward , himself an author of a two-part volume on Reagan. Conservative author and public relations consultant Craig Shirley has alleged that The Invisible Bridge stole distinctive words and phrasing from his 2004 book, Reagan's Revolution . Perlstein's supporters regarded
322-563: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Rick Perlstein Rick Perlstein (born September 3, 1969) is an American historian and journalist who has garnered recognition for his chronicles of the post-1960s American conservative movement. The author of five bestselling books, Perlstein received the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his first book, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and
368-632: Is one of the country's foremost research associations devoted to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and society within the Korean context. Founded at Bellagio, Italy , in 2000, the International American Studies Association has held World Congresses at Leyden (2003), Ottawa (2005), Lisbon (2007), Beijing (2009), Rio de Janeiro (2011), The Sixth World Congress of IASA at Szczecin, Poland, August 3–6, 2013, and Alcalá de Henares , Madrid (2019). The IASA
414-565: Is run by the Department of English along with English literature and linguistics. Keimyung University (Daegu, Korea), Hansung University (Seoul, Korea), Pyeongtaek University (Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do, Korea), Kyunghee University (Yongin, Gyonggi-do, Korea) also provide a major in American studies. Seoul National University (Seoul, Korea) and Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea) offers undergraduate interdisciplinary courses in American studies. The American Studies Association of Korea (ASAK)
460-495: Is the only worldwide, independent, non-governmental association for Americanists. Furthering the international exchange of ideas and information among scholars from all nations and various disciplines who study and teach America regionally, hemispherically, nationally, and transnationally, IASA is registered in the Netherlands as a non-profit, international, educational organization with members in more than forty countries around
506-524: The 1928 Pulitzer Prize . In the introduction to Main Currents in American Thought , Parrington described his field: I have undertaken to give some account of the genesis and development in American letters of certain germinal ideas that have come to be reckoned traditionally American—how they came into being here, how they were opposed, and what influence they have exerted in determining
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#1732780508786552-574: The Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn . While in New York, Perlstein interned at Lingua Franca , a magazine about academic and intellectual life, where he would become an associate editor. Perlstein also began writing book reviews, for publications like The Nation and Slate . It was Perlstein's 1996 Lingua Franca essay "Who Owns the Sixties?" that won him public notice, by exposing
598-688: The University of Bonn . American Studies Leipzig at the University of Leipzig is a center for American studies on the territory of former East Germany . Founded in 1992, the Center for American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark now offers a graduate program in American studies. In the Netherlands the University of Groningen and the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen offer a complete undergraduate and graduate program in American studies. The University of Amsterdam ,
644-516: The University of Chicago , earning a bachelor's degree in history in 1992. While at the University of Chicago – years Perlstein described as "delightfully noisy and dissident", and a stark contrast to the suburbia of his youth, which "felt like a jail" – he was able to engage with and catch neighborhood jam sessions. After graduate study in American studies at the University of Michigan , Perlstein moved to New York in 1994, settling in
690-583: The University of Leiden and the University of Utrecht only offer a graduate program in American studies. Both the University of Sussex and the University of Nottingham in England offer both a number of postgraduate and undergraduate programs. In Sweden , the Swedish Institute for North American Studies at Uppsala University offers a minor in American studies. In Slovakia , the University of Presov and Pavol Jozef Safarik University offer
736-497: The surname Perlstein . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Perlstein&oldid=1245344915 " Categories : Surnames Surnames of Jewish origin Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
782-516: The 1960s. He later recounted in an interview: "I ended up getting my own archive on the 1960s culture wars. That's where it started." He also wrote in Rolling Stone : "A sixties obsessive since childhood, I misspent my teenage years prowling a ramshackle five-story used-book warehouse that somehow managed ... to stay one step ahead of Milwaukee, Wisconsin's building inspectors." Following graduation from Nicolet High School , Perlstein attended
828-825: The American Studies Center ( Beijing Foreign Studies University ) in 1979, the Institute of American Studies ( Chinese Academy of Social Science ) in 1981, Center for American Studies ( Fudan University ) in 1985, American Studies Center ( Peking University ) in 1980, Center for American Studies ( Tongji University ), American Studies Center ( Sichuan University ) in 1985, Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies in 1986, American Social and Cultural Studies Center ( China Foreign Affairs University ) and Center for American Studies ( East China Normal University ) in 2004. These centers do not have undergraduate programs. Based on
874-704: The Bavarian America-Academy, the University of Munich , the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) and the Center for North American Studies (Zentrum für Nordamerikaforschung or ZENAF) at Goethe University Frankfurt . Graduate studies in the field of North American studies can also be undertaken at the University of Cologne , which works together in joint partnership with the North American studies program at
920-605: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan. In his New York Times review, Frank Rich wrote that the tome was "a Rosetta stone for reading America and its politics today." The Invisible Bridge received favorable reviews from The New Yorker , Slate , and The Washington Post among others. In August 2020, Perlstein published a fourth work detailing the events of the years before Ronald Reagan 's presidency and his presidential race against Jimmy Carter from 1976 to 1980. Reaganland
966-735: The Middle East, the oldest American Studies program is the American Studies Center at the University of Bahrain in Sakhir which was founded in 1998. An American studies program is offered at the University of Tehran within the Faculty of World Studies. In Oceania, the University of Canterbury in Christchurch New Zealand operated a full undergraduate and graduate American studies program until 2012, and in Australia,
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#17327805087861012-519: The US borders. Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera described the phenomenon as an attempt to transition the "cultural symbols of the invading communities from 'foreign' to 'natural,' 'domestic,'" through three discrete and sequential phases: Also termed "explorers" e.g., Lewis and Clark E.g., minerals, trade routes, spices, furs, communities to tax or conscript, fertile agricultural zones, strategic geography, etc . An invasion force Implement martial law so that
1058-616: The United States. In the past decades, however, it has also broadened to include Atlantic history and interactions with countries across the globe. Subjects studied within the field are varied, but often examine the literary themes, histories of American communities, ideologies, or cultural productions. Examples might include topics in American social movements, literature, media, tourism, folklore, and intellectual history. Fields studying specific American ethnic or racial groups are considered to be both independent of and included within
1104-1004: The Unmaking of the American Consensus . Politico has dubbed him "a chronicler extraordinaire of modern conservatism." Perlstein was born in Milwaukee , Wisconsin to a Reform Jewish family, the third child of Jerold and Sandra (née Friedman) Perlstein. His father ran Bonded Messenger Service, a delivery company founded by his grandfather in 1955. Perlstein grew up in the Bayside and Fox Point neighborhoods of suburban Milwaukee, taking cross country trips with his parents and siblings to national landmarks like Mount Rushmore and Yellowstone National Park . In high school, upon earning his driver's license, Perlstein would head to Renaissance Books in downtown Milwaukee, and spend hours in its basement among stacks of old magazines from
1150-419: The broader American studies discipline. This includes European American studies , African American studies , Latino studies , Asian American studies , American Indian studies , and others. Vernon Louis Parrington is often cited as the founder of American studies for his three-volume Main Currents in American Thought , which combines the methodologies of literary criticism and historical research; it won
1196-491: The case of immigrants) social tendencies . While the third phase continues "in perpetuity," the imperial appropriation tends to be "gradual, contested (and continues to be contested), and is by nature incomplete." The Americanization of the continent has been described as a cultural engineering project that strives to "isolate residents within constructed spheres of symbols" such that they (eventually, in some cases after several generations) abandon other cultures and identify with
1242-540: The central themes of American historiography," argued William Appleman Williams, "is that there is no American Empire"" Contesting such assertions has been a central part of the Imperial Turn in the field. Amy Kaplan maintained that "an imperial unconscious of national identity" lead to "overseas expansion, conquest, conflict, and resistance which have shaped the cultures of the United States." More recently, scholars have examined how cultural imperialism occurs within
1288-658: The conservative Weekly Standard . Kristol wrote of Before the Storm , "It's an amazing story, and Perlstein, a man of the left, does it justice." Perlstein won the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History. Soon after, Perlstein moved from New York to Chicago . Perlstein was the national political correspondent for The Village Voice from 2003 to 2005, and contributed articles to publications that included The New York Times , The New Republic and The American Prospect . Beginning in spring 2007 through 2009 Perlstein
1334-428: The conservative columnist George Will credited Perlstein having "a novelist's, or perhaps an anthropologist's, eye for illuminating details" and called Nixonland "compulsively readable." At the end of 2008, The New York Times included Nixonland among its notable books. In 2009, The A.V. Club included it among the best books of the decade. In August 2014, Simon & Schuster published The Invisible Bridge:
1380-422: The criticism as a partisan attack. Responding to numerous complaints, Times public editor Margaret Sullivan dismissed the plagiarism allegations as a "smear" and criticized the reporting for "conferr[ing] a legitimacy on the accusation it would not otherwise have had." Responding to letters from Shirley and his attorneys, Perlstein's publisher, Simon & Schuster, stated that the claims of plagiarism "ignored
1426-420: The domain of inquiry we construct, the range of questions we entertain, the kind of evidence we take as significant. The very professionalism of the field rests on the integrity and the legitimacy of this founding concept." In 2002, Heinz Ickstadt argued that American studies "should accept its name as its limitation and its boundary." In 2006, Dimmock affirmed that the field "does stand to be classified apart, as
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1472-605: The emerging chasm between older and younger historians. The essay also aroused the attention of a literary agent and soon after earned him a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities . In December 2023, Perlstein was hired by The American Prospect to contribute a weekly column/email newsletter on media criticism, history and the 2024 United States elections , titled The Infernal Triangle . As of 2020 , Perlstein had published four notable books on
1518-586: The exceptionalist nature of the transnational turn. "The transnational turn has positioned American Studies in a nationalist rut", observes Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, in After American Studies: Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism : In these transnational turns ... the unhyphenated-American phenomenon tends to have colonial characteristics: English-language texts and their authors are promoted as representative;
1564-564: The form and scope of our characteristic ideals and institutions. In pursuing such a task, I have chosen to follow the broad path of our political, economic, and social development, rather than the narrower belletristic . The "broad path" that Parrington describes formed a scholastic course of study for Henry Nash Smith , who received a PhD from Harvard 's interdisciplinary program in history and American civilization in 1940, setting an academic precedent for present-day American studies programs. The first signature methodology of American studies
1610-427: The mainstream of American studies scholarship. A major theme of the field in recent years has been internationalization —the recognition that much vital scholarship about the US and its relations to the wider global community has been and is being produced outside the United States. Until the mid-2000s, the use of American for this multidisciplinary field was widely defended. In 1998, Janice Radway argued, "Does
1656-624: The metropolitan may exploit resources; establish "Fort" cities, e.g., Fort Lauderdale, Fort Worth etc. that facilitate metropolitan settlement . Socialize the space into a new province of the metropolitan Acculturize the space into a region of the metropolitan through saturation of symbol, legend, and myth. Establish laws and norms that promote the metropolitan (invading system) as dominant culture and prohibit or criminalize other systems; offer citizenship to conquered peoples in exchange for submission to metropolitan cultural norms and abandonment of original or other (in
1702-436: The most basic principle of copyright law." Those same letters from Shirley's attorneys demanded that Simon & Schuster pay Shirley $ 25 million in damages, pull all copies of The Invisible Bridge and take out ads of apology in various publications. If these demands weren't met, the letters promised that a lawsuit would be filed on July 30, 2014, nearly a week before the book was to be released on August 5. On August 9, 2014, it
1748-530: The myth and symbol approach in light of multicultural studies. Beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, these earlier approaches were criticized for continuing to promote the idea of American exceptionalism —the notion that the US has had a special mission and virtue that makes it unique among nations. Several generations of American studies scholars moved away from purely ethnocentric views, emphasizing transnational issues surrounding race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, among other topics. But recent studies critique
1794-790: The new symbols. "The broader intended outcome of these interventions might be described as a common recognition of possession of the land itself." European centers for American studies include the British Association for American Studies , the Center for American Studies in Brussels , Belgium, and most notably the John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies in Berlin , Germany. Other centers for American studies in Germany include
1840-458: The perpetuation of the particular name, American , in the title of the field ... support the notion that such a whole exists even in the face of powerful work that tends to question its presumed coherence? Does the field need to be reconfigured conceptually?" She concluded, "the name American studies will have to be retained." In 2001, Wai Chee Dimmock argued that the field "is largely founded on this fateful adjective. [ American ] governs
1886-400: The regions, critical artifacts, communities, and individuals in question, one that is less charged with the ambiguities and colonial ties that weigh down the traditional disciplinary nomenclatures." In "the interests of justice and along the lines most suitable to our emergent age," argued Markha Valenta in 2017, scholars should consider "abandoning America as the field identifier." "One of
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1932-603: The requirement of the curriculum setup of the China Department of Education, these centers only have graduate programs. In addition, there are also scholarly journals, such as American Studies Quarterly and Fudan American Review . In the Republic of Korea , Sogang University (Seoul, Korea) is the sole institution that offers regular degree program both in bachelor (BA) and master (MA) degree in American studies, named American culture. The American culture division
1978-473: The subject of modern American conservatism. In 1997, Perlstein began work on a history of the rise of Barry Goldwater , a transformative event for the conservative movement. Perlstein's book, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus , was released in 2001 to widespread acclaim, including a laudatory review in The New York Times by William Kristol , editor of
2024-581: Was a Senior Fellow at the Campaign for America's Future where he wrote for its blog The Big Con about the failures of conservative governance. A co-director at the Campaign for America's Future once noted, "Rick was unique. … I don't know when he sleeps." In May 2008, Perlstein's Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America was published to rave reviews. In his review,
2070-561: Was reported that there was no evidence a lawsuit had ever been filed. For his part, Perlstein said, "Mr. Shirley has sued me for $ 25 million and tried to keep people from reading my book; I've told everyone to read his book." American studies American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship that examines American literature , history , society , and culture . It traditionally incorporates literary criticism , historiography and critical theory . Scholarship in American studies focuses on
2116-568: Was the " myth and symbol " approach, developed in such foundational texts as Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land in 1950, John William Ward's Andrew Jackson: Symbol for an Age in 1955 and Leo Marx 's The Machine in the Garden in 1964. Myth and symbol scholars claimed to find certain recurring themes throughout American texts that served to illuminate a unique American culture. Later scholars such as Annette Kolodny and Alan Trachtenberg re-imagined
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