Chapter 2: The Country

The land and the landscape:

US Geological Survey: www.usgs.gov

National Park Services: www.nps.gov/index.htm

The Department of the Interior: www.doi.gov/

The Environmental Protection Agency: www.epa.gov/

US Climate Regions: www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-references/maps/us-climate-

Cultural Maps in American Studies, Xroads, University of Virginina www.xroads.virginia.edu/~MAP/map_hp.html

Environmentalist groups:

Sierra Club: www.sierraclub.org/

Conservation Fund: www.conservationfund.org/

Cultural Regions:

The South:

The Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi: www.southernstudies.olemiss.edu/

The Southern Foodways Alliance: www.southernfoodways.org/

Documenting the South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: www.docsouth.unc.edu/

The West:

The Bill Lance Center for the Study of the American West, Stanford University: www.west.stanford.edu/

History Colorado, www.historycolorado.org/blogs/ Center of the American West, www.centerwest.org/

The Northeast:

Colonial Williamsburg: www.history.org/index.cfm

New England Historical Society: www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/

Maine Memory Network: www.mainememory.net/

The Midwest:

Heartland History, the podcast of the Midwestern History Association: www.midwesternhistory.com/podcast

South Dakota State Historial Society: www.history.sd.gov

Iowa Pathways, Iowa Public Television: www.site.iptv.org/iowapathways/mypath/arts-culture

The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, Ohio State University: www.huminst.osu.edu/encyclopedia

Chapter 3: Settlement and immigration

Immigration data and polls:

Migration Information: www.migrationinformation.org/datahub/

Pew Research Center: www.pewsocialtrends.org (or other)

Gallup: www.gallup.com/poll/1660/immigration.aspx

Government websites:

US Citizenship and Immigration Services: www.uscis.gov

US Census Bureau: www.census.gov

Current Population Reports: www.census.gov/main/www/cprs.html

Newspapers and magazines:

The New York Times: Immigration and emigration section www.topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/immigration_and_refu

Online exhibits and primary sources:

Aspiration, Acculturation, and Impact: Immigration to the United States 1786-1930, Harvard University Open Collections Program: www.ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/

The Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation, searchable databases, timeline, online exhibits: www.libertyellisfoundation.org/

Library of Congress’ online exhibit on Chinese immigration to the US 1851-1900: www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/ti

Jane Addams, “Chapter XI Immigrants and Their Children” from Twenty Years at the Hull House (1912). Addams was a progressive social reformer working among immigrant groups in Chicago. Available at: www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women/addams/hullhouse/hullhouse.html#231

Non-fiction books:

Roger Daniels, (1990) Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life

Ronald Takaki, (1998) Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Matthew Frye Jacobson, (1999)

Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race

Films:

The Immigrant (1917)

In Old Chicago (1937)

West Side Story (1961)

Avalon (1990)

My Family (1993)

The Godfather, Part II (1972)

Gangs of New York (2002)

The Namesake (Mira Nair, 2006)

Brooklyn (2015)

Chapter 4: The people: Women and minorities

Women

National Organization of Women www.now.org (feminist organization established in 1966)

The National Women’s History Museum: www.nwhm.org/

Sara Evans, Born for Liberty: A History Of Women In America (book, 1997)

MS Magazine www.msmagazine.com/

Films:

9 to 5 (1980)

North Country (2005)

Joy (2015)

The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)

A League of Their Own (1992)

Hidden Figures (2016)

Native Americans

National Museum of the American Indian: www.nmai.si.edu/

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (book, 2015) “Native American Poetry and Culture,” a collection from the Poetry Foundation, www.poetryfoundation.org/features/articles/detail/69984

Films:

Smoke Signals (1998)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)

Dance Me Outside (2008)

The Last of the Mohicans (1993)

LGBT

Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution (2012)

LGBT Historical Society: www.glbthistory.org/museum/

Lamda Legal: www.lambdalegal.org/

GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD): www.glad.org

The Advocate (magazine): www.advocate.com/

Films:

Boys Don’t Cry (1999)

Milk (2008)

The Kids are Alright (2010)

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

A Single Man (2009)

Stonewall (2015)

Moonlight (2016)

African Americans:

The National Museum of African American History and Culture: www.nmaahc.si.edu/

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute www.kinginstitute.stanford.edu/

Stanford University, primary sources from the civil rights movement: www.kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/about-papers-project

Films:

Glory (1989)

Malcolm X (1992)

12 Years a Slave (2013)

Selma (2014)

Loving (2016)

Asian Americans

The Chinese American Museum LA: www.camla.org/

Japanese American National Museum: www.janm.org/

Chinese Historical Society of America: www.chsa.org/

Films:

The Namesake (Mira Nair, 2006)

The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)

Searching for General Tso (2014, documentary).

Latino Americans

Smithsonian Latino Center: www.latino.si.edu/

National Museum of Mexican Art: www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/

Numbers, data from Pew Research Group: www.pewhispanic.org/

Latino USA, podcast NPR: www.npr.org/podcasts/510016/latino-usa

Films:

César Chávez (2014)

Frida (Julie Taymor, 2002)

Chicano! (1996)

Chapter 5: Religious cultures

Blogs and online magazines:

Religion in American History: www.usreligion.blogspot.co.uk/

Religion and Politics: www.religionandpolitics.org/

Religion Dispatches: www.religiondispatches.org/

Immanent Frame: www.blogs.ssrc.org/tif/

Religious magazines and newspapers:

Christianity Today (evangelical Protestant)

Christian Century (mainline Protestant)

The Forward (Jewish)

Ensign (Mormon)

America: The Jesuit Review (Catholic)

First Things (conservative Catholic)

Research groups:

The Pluralism Project, Harvard University www.pluralism.org/

Hartford Institute for Religion Research: www.hirr.hartsem.edu/index.html

Pew Forum www.religions.pewforum.org/

The Association for Religion Data: www.thearda.com/

Church-state issues:

Liberal, secular groups:

Freedom from Religion Foundation, www.ffrf.org/

American Civil Liberty Union: www.aclu.org/

Conservative Christian group

Alliance Defending Freedom, www.adflegal.org/

Liberty Counsel: www.lc.org/

Key Supreme Court cases:

You may study rulings mentioned in the book at Justia: www. supreme.justia.com/

Other important cases are listed by The Bill of Rights Institute: www.billofrightsinstitute.org/cases/

Civil Religion:

Robert Bellah, “Civil Religion in America,” first published in Dædalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from the issue entitled, “Religion in America,”

Winter 1967, Vol. 96, No. 1, pp. 1-21: www.robertbellah.com/articles_5.htm

“Civil Religion,” Encyclopedia on Religion and Society, Hartford Institute for Religion Research, on Bellah’s article and its context: www.hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/civilrel.htm

Monbiot, George. “America is a Religion,” The Guardian, 29 July 2003, www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jul/29/usa.comment

Documentaries:

God in America (2010), a history of religion in American public life

The Mormons (2007), a history of the Mormon tradition

Friends of God (Alexandra Pelosi, 2006), on contemporary evangelical Christianity The Muslims are Coming! (Negin Farsad & Dean Obeidallah, 2013), a story of Muslim comedians touring America

Films:

The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)

Sister Act (Emile Ardolino, 1992)

The Apostle (Robert Duvall, 1997)

Bruce Almighty (Tom Shadyac, 2003)

Saved! (Brian Dannelly 2004)

Doubt (John Patrick Shanley, 2008)

Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2015)

On religion in films:

Tom Shone, “A movie miracle: how Hollywood found religion” The Guardian, July 31, 2014 www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jul/31/-sp-faith-films-hollywood-religion-christian-noah-heaven-is-real-bible

Alissa Wilkinson, “How 2016's movies and TV reflected Americans’ changing relationship with religion,” Vox Dec. 28, 2016 www.vox.com/culture/2016/12/14/13899722/religion-tv-movies-2016-sausage-party-silence-innocents-americans-rectify

Fiction and memoirs:

Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin (novel)

“The Scarlet Letter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne (short story)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou (memoir)

“Defender of the Faith,” Philip Roth (short story)

Franny and Zooey, JD Salinger (novel)

The Abstinence Teacher, Tom Perrotta (novel)

Podcasts:

NPR's list of religion and spirituality podcasts: www.npr.org/podcasts/2039/religion-spirituality

On Being with Krista Tippett, www.onbeing.org/

Chapter 6: Political institutions: the Federal Government

The White House: www.whitehouse.gov/

The House of Representatives: www.house.gov/

The Senate: www.senate.gov/

Federal agencies and offices: www.usa.gov/federal-agencies/a

The US Supreme Court: www.supremecourt.gov/

Research centers and primary source collections:

Presidential Libraries: www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries

The Miller Center, University of Virginia: www.millercenter.org/

The American Presidency Project, University of California at Santa Barbara: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/

Archived Presidential White House websites at the National Archives: www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/archived-websites

History, Art, and Archives: United States House of Representatives: www.history.house.gov/

Podcasts, blogs and news:

History News Network, www.historynewsnetwork.org

538, blog founded by statistician Nate Silver: www.fivethirtyeight.com

538 Elections, the 538 podcast: www.fivethirtyeight.com/tag/politics-podcast/

NPR Politics Podcast: www.npr.org/podcasts/510310/npr-politics-podcast

Presidential, podcast on US presidents and their lives and legacies during the 2016 presidential election by Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/presidential-podcast

The Guardian’s coverage of the US Congress: www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-congress

Non-fiction books:

Doug Rossinow, The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s. Columbia University Press, 2015. Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. Scribner, 2008.

H. W. Brands, Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Anchor Books, 2009.

For information books that shape the current political debate, see e.g. the New York Times bestsellers list: www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/

Films

All the President’s Men (1976)

Primary Colors (1998)

Frost/Nixon (2008)

Wag the Dog (1997)

Election (1999)

W. (2008)

Game Change (2012)

Lincoln (2012)

The Campaign (2012)

Southside with You (2016)

TV-series:

John Adams (2008)

The West Wing (NBC, 1999-2006)

Veep (HBO, 2012-)

Designated Survivor (ABC, 2016-)

House of Cards (2013-)

Chapter 7: Political institutions: state and local government

Links to charters and constitutions of the states form American Legal History Online Sources, University of Chicago: www.guides.lib.uchicago.edu/amerleghistonline

Local and regional newspapers cover state and local politics. Some good starting points include:

Kansas City Star

Los Angeles Times

The Seattle Times

The Columbus Dispatch

Omaha World-Herald

Contemporary state-federal issues:

Dan Levine, “In Trump era, Democrats and Republicans switch sides on states' rights,” Reuters, Jan. 26, 2017: www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-legal-analysis-idUSKBN15A1H1

Victoria Davis Hanson, “Commentary: California goes Confederate,” Chicago Tribune, Feb. 9, 2017: www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-california-secession-calexit-trump-20170209-story.html

Films

Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

All the King’s Men (1949)

Blaze (1989)

The Last Hurrah (1958)

The Candidate (1972)

City Hall (1996)

Milk (2008)

TV

Spin City (1996-2002)

Parks and Recreation (2009-2015)

The Wire (esp. season 4) (2002-2008)

Chapter 8: Foreign policy

US State Department: www.state.gov/

Central Intelligence Agency: www.cia.gov/library/

Nafta: http://www.naftanow.org/">

Summits of the Americas: www.summit-americas.org

United Nations: www.un.org/en/

NATO: www.nato.int/nato-welcome/

Historical documents:

The Avalon Project of the William Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School: www.avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp

Key collections and documents include:

British-American diplomacy: www.avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/brtreaty.asp

Franco-American diplomacy: www.valon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/frtreaty.asp

Treaties Between the United States and Native Americans: www.avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/ntreaty.asp

Cold War Diplomacy, Defense Treaties of the United States: www.avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/mutdef.asp

September 11, 2001 : Attack on America www.avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/sept_11.asp

Monroe Doctrine: www.avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/monroe.asp

Truman Doctrine: www.avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/trudoc.asp

Journals and magazines:

Foreign Affairs: www.foreignaffairs.com/

em>Foreign Policy: www.foreignpolicy.com/

The National Interest: www.nationalinterest.org/

Think tanks and organizations:

Hoover Institution: www.hoover.org/

Wilson Center: www.wilsoncenter.org/

Brookings Institution: www.brookings.edu/topic/international-affairs/

For a comprehensive guide over foreign policy think tanks and organizations at the University of Southern California: www.libguides.usc.edu/c.php?g=234935&p=1559225

TV

Madam Secretary (CBS, 2014-)

Homeland (Showtime, 2011-)

The Americans (FX, 2013-)

Narcos (2015-)

Films:

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Thirteen Days (2000)

The Quiet American (2002)

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)

Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)

Sicario (2015)

Chapter 9: The legal system

Links to federal legal institutions:

US Department of Justice: www.justice.gov

Federal Bureau of Investigation: www.fbi.gov

Primary sources and historical documents:

Legal History Guide, University of Texas: www.tarlton.law.utexas.edu/friendly.php?s=legal-history

Women and the Law, Harvard Business School, www.library.hbs.edu/hc/wes/collections/women_law/

Activist groups:

The Innocence Project: www.innocenceproject.org/

The Sentencing Project: www.sentencingproject.org/

Blogs and podcasts:

The Scotus Blog: www.scotusblog.com/

Bloomberg Law: www.bloomberg.com/podcasts/law

The Law Blog, Wall Street Journal: www.blogs.wsj.com/law

Books (fiction and non-fiction):

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

Truman Capote, In Cold Blood (1966)

Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (2003)

Lauri Lebo, The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma V. Darwin in Small-town America

(2009)

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

(2012)

Leigh Ann Wheeler, How Sex Became a Civil Liberty (2012)

Some key Supreme Court cases:

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Korematsu v. United States (1944)

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

Loving v. Virginia (1967)

Furman v. Georgia (1972)

Roe v. Wade (1973)

Gregg v. Georgia (1976)

District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)

You may find information about the cases at Justia: www.supreme.justia.com

Films:

Counsellor at Law (1933)

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

Adam’s Rib (1949)

The Caine Mutiny (1954)

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

Twelve Angry Men (1957)

Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

A Few Good Men (1992)

My Cousin Vinny (1992)

Philadelphia (1993)

The Firm (1993)

Dead Man Walking (1995)

Erin Brockovich (1999)

Legally Blonde (2001)

Bowling for Columbine (2002), documentary

Runaway Jury (2003)

Monster (2003)

Public Enemies (2009)

13th (2016), documentary

TV:

Breaking Bad (2008-2013)

The Good Wife (2009-2013)

Orange Is the New Black (2013-)

Better Call Saul (2015-)

Making a Murderer (2015)

The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016)

The Night Of (2016)

Chapter 10: The economy

Magazines and newspapers:

Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com/news/business

Business Insider (choose US edition): www.businessinsider.com

Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/

Black Enterprise: www.blackenterprise.com/

Forbes (choose US edition): www.forbes.com/

Books, non-fiction:

Jacqueline Jones, American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor, 1999

Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2003.

Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and Walmart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise, 2010

J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, 2016

Key legislation on business and labor

Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) National Labor Relations Act (1935) Social Security Act (1935)

Taft–Hartley Act (1947)

The National Environmental Policy Act (1970)

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009)

You may find information about them through the National Archives: www.catalog.archives.gov/

Films:

Trading Places (1983)

Wall Street (1987)

Trader (1987), documentary

Working Girl (1988)

Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) Barbarians at the Gate (1993) Boiler Room (2000)

American Psycho (2000)

The Bank (2001)

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005), documentary

Wall Street Warriors (2006)

Sunshine Cleaning (2008)

The Last Days of Lehmann Brothers (2009)

The Usual Suspect: Capitalism: A Love Story (2009), documentary

We All Fall Down: The American Mortgage Crisis (2009), documentary

Plunder: The Crime of Our Time (2009), documentary

Frontline: The Warming (2009), documentary

American Casino (2009), documentary

Inside Job (2010), documentary

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)

Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street (2010), documentary

Cedar Rapids (2011)

The Flaw (2011), documentary

Margin Call (2011)

Cosmopolis (2012)

Arbitrage (2012)

Too Big to Fail (2012)

The Option Arm (2013)

Inequality for All (2013), documentary

The Big Short (2015)

War Dogs (2016)

The Founder (2016)

Chapter 11: Social services

Government offices:

US Department of Health & Human Services, What We Do - www.hhs.gov/about/index.html/

US Social Security Service Administration: www.ssa.gov

Medicaid: www.medicaid.gov/index.html

Medicare: www.medicare.gov/

Books:

Skocpol, T., Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective, Princeton University Press, 1995

Regina Kunzel, Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945, Yale University Press, 2009

John A. Andrew III, Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society, Rowman and Littlefield, 1999

Key legislation on healthcare and social welfare:

Social Security Act (1935) Economic Opportunity Act (1964)

Appalachian Regional Development Act (1965) Social Security Act (1965)

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (1996) Affordable Care Act (2010)

You may find information about them through the National Archives: www.catalog.archives.gov/

As of this writing, the House of Representatives just passed the American Health Care Act of 2017 (AHCA), which will be passed on to the Senate. What is the situation when you read this? Visit two quality newspapers for updates.

Films:

Intolerance (1916)

Modern Times (1936) Grapes of Wrath (1940) On the Waterfront (1954)

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969)

Hoffa (1992)

The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

Winter's Bone (2010)

Rich Hill (2014), documentary

Chapter 12: Education

Departments of Education:

US Department of Education: www.ed.gov/

For links to individual state departments, see: www.ed.gov/about/contacts/state/index.html

Magazines and rankings:

Chronicle of Higher Education: www.chronicle.com/

US News Best Colleges Rankings: www.usnews.com/best-colleges

Education organizations:

American Federation of Teachers: www.aft.org

National Education Association: www.nea.org/

National Association of Independent Schools: www.nais.org/Pages/default.aspx

National Association for Public Charter Schools: www.publiccharters.org/

Home School Legal Defense Association: www.hslda.org/

Common Core Standards Initiative: www.corestandards.org/

National Association for Multicultural Education: www.nameorg.org/

Magnet Schools of America: www.magnet.edu/

American Association of Community Colleges: www.aacc.nche.edu/

Council for Christian Colleges & Universities: www.cccu.org/

Key Supreme Court cases:

Brown v. Board of Education

Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke:

You may find information about the rulings at Justia: www.supreme.justia.com/

Key education acts:

Land-Grant College Act (1862) National Defense Education Act (1958)

Elementary and Secondary Educational Act (1965) Higher Education Act (1965)

No Child Left Behind Act (2001)

You may find information about them through the National Archives:www.catalog.archives.gov/>

Stories on conflicts over education:

“Learing the Fact of Life,” Life, 19 Sep. 1969. Available from Google books: “The Great Textbook War,” Us and Them podcast: www.usandthempodcast.com/podcast/the-great-textbook-war/

J. Weston Phippen, “How One Law Banning Ethnic Studies Led to Its Rise,” The Atlantic, June 19, 2015

Books:

Allan Bloom, (1987) The Closing of the American Mind

Eric Donald Hirsch, (1987) Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

Amy Chua, (2012) Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Andrew Hartman, (2015) A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars

Films:

Blackboard Jungle (1955)

Inherit the Wind (1960)

High School (1968), documentary

The Paper Chase (1973)

High Schools ( (1984), documentary

The Breakfast Club (1985)

Stand and Deliver (1988)

Dead Poet’s Society (1989)

Dangerous Minds (1995)

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Music of the Heart (1999)

Wonder Boys (2000)

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

The School of Rock (2003)

The Hobart Shakespeareans (2005), documentary

Freedom Writers (2007)

American Teen (2008), documentary

Precious (2009)

The Social Network (2010)

Won’t Back Down (2012)

Liberal Arts (2012)

The publication of Allan Bloom’s seminal work The Closing of the American Mind, (1987) spurred a major debate on American education. The following articles provide some idea of Bloom’s central theses and some reactions to them:

Kimball, R. (1987) “The Groves of Ignorance: A Review of Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind,” New York Times, April 5 www.query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE4DC1131F936A35757C0A961948

Sleeper, J. (2005) “Allan Bloom and the Conservative Mind,” New York Times, September 4 www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/books/review/04SLEEPER.html

Kimball, R. (2005) “The New York Times Revises Allan Bloom,” New Criterion, September 2 - www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2193

Kimball, R. (2007) “‘Openness’ and The Closing of the American Mind,” New Criterion, November 2007 www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/-ldquo-Openness-rdquo-ldquo-The-Closing-of-the-American-Mind-rdquo--3674

Piereson, J. (2007) “The Closing of the American Mind at 20,” New Criterion, November 2007 - www.newcriterion.com:81/articles.cfm/the-closing-of-the-american-mind-at-20-3673

Sleeper, J. (2007) “Allan Bloom, 20 Years Later,” the Guardian, 17 September - www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/sep/17/allanbloom20yearslater

Finn, C.E. Jr. (2010) “The End of the Education Debate,” National Affairs, Issue No. 2, Winter - www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-end-of-the-education-debate

Chapter 13: The media

Awards and journalism organizations:

The Pulitzer Prize /www.pulitzer.org/

Freedom House https://freedomhouse.org/

Nieman Journalism Lab www.niemanlab.org/

Freedom of the Press Foundation www.freedom.press/

Newspapers:

The New York Times www.nytimes.com/

The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/

The Los Angeles Times www.latimes.com/

The Chicago Tribune www.chicagotribune.com/

Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com

Houston Chronicle www.chron.com

Atlanta Journal Constitution www.ajc.com/

Kansas City Star www.kansascity.com/

Radio and TV news:

NPR News www.npr.org/sections/news/

PBS Newshour www.pbs.org/newshour/

Fox News www.foxnews.com/

ABC News www.abcnews.go.com/

CBS News www.cbsnews.com/

CNN www.edition.cnn.com/

News aggregators:

Huffington Post (US) www.huffingtonpost.com/?country=US

Buzzfeed News www.buzzfeed.com/news

Historical magazines:

Puck: www.catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008886840

Jet (see Google books) - no link

Ebony (see Google books) - no link

LIFE (see Google books) - no link

Films:

The Front Page (1931)

His Girl Friday (1940)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Ace in the Hole (1951)

The Dark Page (1952)

Deadline (1952)

A Face in the Crowd (1957)

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

The Front Page (1974)

All the President’s Men (1976)

Network (1976)

Absence of Malice (1981)

The Paper (1994)

The Insider (1999)

Shattered Glass (2003)

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

Frost/Nixon (2008)

Nothing But the Truth (2008)

The Social Network (2010)

Spotlight (2015)

Chapter 14: Arts, sports, and leisure cultures

Museums:

The Museum of Modern Art, New York: www.moma.org/

Art Institute of Chicago: www.artic.edu/

National Jazz Museum, Harlem: www.jazzmuseuminharlem.org/

National Blues Museum, St Louis: www.nationalbluesmuseum.org/

Country Music Hall of Fame Museum, Nashville: www.countrymusichalloffame.org/

Graceland: The Home of Elvis Presley, Memphis www.graceland.com/

The National Gallery of Art: www.nga.gov

The National Endowment for the Arts: www.arts.gov/

Music chart:

Billboard: www.billboard.com/

Popculture festivals:

The Sundance Film Festival: www.sundance.org/festivals/sundance-film-festival

South by South-West (SXSW): www.sxsw.com/

San Diego Comic-Con International: www.comic-con.org/

Sports:

Sports Illustrated: www.si.com/

ESPN: www.espn.com/

The National Football League: www.nfl.com

Sport and recreation: www.outdoorfoundation.org

Literature associations and magazines:

American Library Association: www.ala.org/

American Academy of Arts and Letters: www.artsandletters.org/

Poets & Writers: www.pw.org/

The Paris Review: www.theparisreview.org/

Virginia Quarterly Review: www.vqronline.org/

Libraries and archives

Library of Congress: www.loc.gov

Harvard Library: www.lib.harvard.edu

The National Archives: www.nara.gov/education

Boston Public Library: www.bpl.org/

New York Public Library: www.nypl.org/

Films:

Gone With the Wind (1939)

Heaven Can Wait (1943)

Singing in the Rain (1952)

Some Like it Hot (1959)

Deliverance (1972)

The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

American Graffiti (1973)

The Sting (1973)

A Star is Born (1954)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

The Hustler (1961)

Last Picture Show (1971)

The Last Tycoon (1976)

Raging Bull (1980)

Field of Dreams (1989)

The Big Picture (1989)

Chaplin (1992)

The Player (1992)

Jerry Maguire (1996)

Howard Hawks: American Artist(1997)

Frida (2002)

Friday Night Lights (2004)

The Fighter (2010)

Black Swan (2010)

Moneyball (2011)

Concussion (2015)

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