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Articoli di riviste sul tema "Cultural history of the United States":
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Green, Craig. "United/States: A Revolutionary History of American Statehood". Michigan Law Review, n. 119.1 (2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.36644/mlr.119.1.united/states.
Where did states come from? Almost everyone thinks that states descended immediately, originally, and directly from British colonies, while only afterward joining together as the United States. As a matter of legal history, that is incorrect. States and the United States were created by revolutionary independence, and they developed simultaneously in that context as improvised entities that were profoundly interdependent and mutually constitutive, rather than separate or sequential. “States-first” histories have provided foundational support for past and present arguments favoring states’ rights and state sovereignty. This Article gathers preconstitutional evidence about state constitutions, American independence, and territorial boundaries to challenge that historical premise. The Article also chronicles how states-first histories became a dominant cultural narrative, emerging from factually misleading political debates during the Constitution’s ratification. Accurate history matters. Dispelling myths about American statehood can change how modern lawyers think about federalism and constitutional law. This Article’s research weakens current support for “New Federalism” jurisprudence, associates states-rights arguments with periods of conspicuous racism, and exposes statehood’s functionality as an issue for political actors instead of constitutional adjudication. Flawed histories of statehood have been used for many doctrinal, political, and institutional purposes in the past. This Article hopes that modern readers might find their own use for accurate histories of statehood in the future.
Mugleston, William. "Jenkins, A History Of The United States". Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 23, n. 1 (1 aprile 1998): 39–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/th.23.1.39-40.
This is a difficult book to review, because I am uncertain for whom it is intended. In 297 pages Philip Jenkins, Professor of History and Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University, deftly and succinctly surveys the major bases of U.S. history--political, economic, social, and cultural developments. It is a small masterpiece of compression, and this, unfortunately, might be its weakness as far as high school and college classroom use is concerned. For students largely unfamiliar with this nation's history, the sweeping generalities encountered here will come across as just that, generalizations with no human flesh and blood attached.
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Cortes, Carlos E., L. H. Gann e Peter J. Duignan. "The Hispanics in the United States: A History." Hispanic American Historical Review 68, n. 4 (novembre 1988): 852. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2515726.
Cortes, Carlos E. "The Hispanics in the United States: A History". Hispanic American Historical Review 68, n. 4 (1 novembre 1988): 852–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-68.4.852.
Grieb, Kenneth J., Josefina Zoraida Vazquez e Lorenzo Meyer. "The United States and Mexico." Hispanic American Historical Review 67, n. 2 (maggio 1987): 362. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2515056.
Grieb, Kenneth J. "The United States and Mexico". Hispanic American Historical Review 67, n. 2 (1 maggio 1987): 362–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-67.2.362.
Ruiz, Ramon Eduardo, Josefina Zoraida Vazquez e Lorenzo Meyer. "The United States and Mexico." Hispanic American Historical Review 69, n. 1 (febbraio 1989): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2516172.
Ruiz, Ramón Eduardo. "The United States and Mexico". Hispanic American Historical Review 69, n. 1 (1 febbraio 1989): 129–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-69.1.129.
Fu, Poshek. "Trans-Pacific Cultural Connections". Journal of American-East Asian Relations 24, n. 1 (8 aprile 2017): 27–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18765610-02401008.
The University of Illinois has one of the largest international student populations from China in the United States. An u.s.-based journalist recently headlined it as the “University of China at Illinois” and the sobriquet has caught fire in China. Actually, the university has a long history of connection and engagement with China that stretches back to 1908–1909, at a time when the United States was not yet a significant global power in the Pacific. This essay looks at the dreams, hopes, and problems in this long history in the changing context of u.s.-China relations, which involved using American education to shape the hearts and minds of young Chinese before the idea of “soft power” became popular.
Tesi sul tema "Cultural history of the United States":
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Van, Arragon William. "Cotton Mather in American cultural memory, 1728-1892". [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3204284.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2006. Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0312. Adviser: Stephen J. Stein. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Dec. 12, 2006)."
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Brudvig, Jon Larsen. "Bridging the cultural divide: American Indians at Hampton Institute, 1878-1923". W&M ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1593092093.
Crutchfield, Lisa Laurel. ""Indispensably necessary": Cultural brokers on the Georgia frontier, 1733--1765". W&M ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623518.
This dissertation examines the people who brokered cultural exchange among the various groups in and around Georgia from 1733--1765. Populating the territory were Europeans, Indians, and Africans who interacted frequently with one another despite disparate cultural traits. Cultural brokers not only brought members of each society together but did so in a manner that allowed the groups to achieve a level of understanding that would have been otherwise impossible.;The project concentrates on four categories of cultural brokers: Indian traders, military personnel, missionaries, and the Indians themselves. Members of each of these groups played critical roles as intermediaries between the natives and the newcomers. In addition to directing the material exchange between the two groups, they conveyed ideological values and diplomatic information as well. Cultural brokers served as interpreters, escorts, and emissaries. They relayed messages, invitations, and military intelligence. They explained one side to the other, interpreting language, protocol, and meanings. They consequently had an invaluable effect on maintaining positive relations between the Indians and the colonists during Georgia's first thirty years.;All of these mediators lived and worked on the frontier, but that does not mean that they were on the fringe of society. In fact, Georgia's cultural brokers enjoyed a favored position, respected for their abilities to move between Indian and colonial worlds. They were equally comfortable in each society and were fully accepted by both.
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Hauser, Mark. "Vaudeville, Popular Entertainment and Cultural Division in the Inland Empire, 1880-1914". Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/78.
This paper discusses the emergence of vaudeville in California’s Inland Empire region of San Bernardino and Riverside counties. It will consider the social changes underway in late nineteenth-century America and their impact on attitudes towards popular entertainment. This paper will draw on Lawrence Levine’s observations of cultural hierarchies that emerged during the late nineteenth century and shaped American understandings of culture. Entertainment of the nineteenth century will be examined for the ways it was unable to match urban trends, and contrasted with vaudeville’s appeal to a diverse urban populace. The cities of San Bernardino, Redlands and Riverside were home to a number of opera houses and theaters to serve rapidly growing communities, and a review of the performances offered in these communities and at these venues will demonstrate these shifts in popular entertainment.
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McKevitt, Andrew C. "Consuming Japan: Cultural Relations and the Globalizing of America, 1973-1993". Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/37645.
History Ph.D. This dissertation explores the U.S. encounter with Japanese goods in the 1970s and 1980s. It argues that this encounter transformed social and cultural life in the United States by ideologically and materially introducing Americans to their first intense, sustained engagement with the processes of contemporary globalization. The dissertation proceeds thematically, first outlining the ideological transformation of American life. While some groups in the United States interpreted Japan's ascendency to economic supremacy as a threat to U.S. national power, others imagined Japan as the harbinger of of globalized future of economic prosperity and cultural homogeneity. Popular cultural representations of Japan reflected such understandings but also addressed the postmodern nature of the Japanese future, framing it as a borderless future in which Japanese corporations limited American political and economic freedoms. The second half of the dissertation examines the material globalizing of America--the U.S. consumption of Japanese goods like automobiles, VCRs, and Japanese animation (anime). The author argues that the popular image of the U.S.-Japan trade conflict during the 1980s obscures the nuances in the relationship that developed at the local level, where Americans consumed goods that transformed their lives, introducing them to new ways of thinking about the world and interacting with other societies engaged in global economic and cultural exchange. Temple University--Theses
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Sanders, Kimberly L. "Coalescence in confinement| Cultural synthesis and identity in Michi Tanaka's "Community Life"". Thesis, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1548147.
Community Life by Michi Tanaka was one of eight government commissioned murals created by students at Rohwer Relocation Center in 1944 illustrating the Japanese American evacuation and relocation. The final versions of these works no longer exist. The preparatory drafts, however, remain intact and provide valuable information regarding the artists' experiences at Rohwer. Through an iconographic analysis of Tanaka's mural draft and an exploration of themes and principal elements in her life at camp such as religion, fashion and socialization, this thesis suggests that Community Life illustrates a cultural synthesis between two disparate cultures. This synthesis influenced the development of a bicultural identity, specifically among Nisei (or the American-born children of Japanese immigrants) such as Tanaka. The mural can be viewed as an introspective consideration of Tanaka's incarceration in which the cultural conflict of her Japanese heritage and American citizenry seems to have been resolved artistically.
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Masur, Laura Elizabeth. "Virginia Indians, NAGPRA, and Cultural Affiliation: Revisiting Identities and Boundaries in the Chesapeake". W&M ScholarWorks, 2013. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626712.
Kawaiaea-Harris, Diane Kanoelani. "Ka nohona ma Kaupo ma waena o ka makahiki 1930-1950". Thesis, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1550184.
This thesis examines the lifestyle of the people who lived in Kaupō between 1930- 1950. A number of those who lived in Kaupō during that time were interviewed and their stories have been compiled under various topics relating to their life, the nature of the land, the community, religion, food getting, and life at home. This thesis examines their traditional Hawaiian knowledge, behavior and spirituality. Place names were also researched in order to verify names documented previously and to document additional names.
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Bohnlein, Ivy Briana 1974. "Wounded Knee in 1891 and 1973: Prophets, protest, and a century of Sioux resistance". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278658.
Wounded Knee has been the site of two significant encounters between the United States and the Sioux nation: the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1891, and the takeover of Wounded Knee Village in 1973. These encounters are related to each other by more than location: both were the result of Sioux participation in a national movement. In the 1880s, that movement was the Ghost Dance, though Sioux involvement was characterized by a uniquely hostile approach. A century later, the Sioux of Pine Ridge reservation formed an alliance with the national American Indian Movement that resulted in a seventy-one day armed siege at Wounded Knee. During both time periods, similar historical factors, external forces, and internal conflicts resulted in the Sioux taking part in these movements, but the unique character of their resistance was shaped by internalized values and a cultural model which favored an aggressive response to perceived threats.
Libri sul tema "Cultural history of the United States":
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1966-, Cook James W., Glickman Lawrence B. 1963- e O'Malley Michael, a cura di. The cultural turn in U.S. history. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Capitoli di libri sul tema "Cultural history of the United States":
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Miville, Marie L., Cassandra Z. Calle, Narolyn Mendez e Jack Borenstein. "Colombians in the United States: History, Values, and Challenges". In International and Cultural Psychology, 53–73. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95738-8_4.
Hewitt, Kim. "History and Cultural Context of Marijuana in the United States". In Understanding Medical Cannabis, 40–55. New York, NY: Routledge, 2021.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429343803-4.
Brewer, Stewart. "Latino Culture in the United States". In Latin American History Goes to the Movies, 241–54. 2a ed. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003285526-16.
Laija-Rodriguez, Wilda, e Alberto Restori. "The History of Cross-Cultural School Psychology in the United States". In Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology, 3–20. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71799-9_460.
Al-Kuwari, Shaikha H. "History and Culture of Muslims in America". In Arab Americans in the United States, 25–42. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7417-7_3.
AbstractThis chapter offers a comprehensive review of the history of Muslims in America. The chapter will be divided into three sections. The first section reviews the history of Muslims in America, including African American Muslims, Arab American Muslims, and South Asian American Muslims, and their immigration history, as well as Islamic movements and the groups’ relationships. The second section of the chapter will discuss the significance of mosques in the lives of American Muslim immigrants. This section will include ethnographic observations related to the experience of visiting mosques and the dynamic political and religious roles of mosques in Dearborn, MI. The third section of the chapter addresses the culture and identity of American Muslim immigrants as they relate to family and marriage, gender roles, and identity formation.
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Henderson, Timothy J. "Mexican Immigration to the United States". In A Companion to Mexican History and Culture, 604–15. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444340600.ch36.
Rosenstein, Carole. "A (Very) Brief History of the Development of National Cultural Policy in the United States". In Understanding Cultural Policy, 27–68. 2a ed. New York: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003356066-2.
Hunt, Yvonne, Erik Augustson, Lila Rutten, Richard Moser e Amy Yaroch. "History and Culture of Tanning in the United States". In Shedding Light on Indoor Tanning, 5–31. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2048-0_2.
Rand, George. "Some Arguments for a Comparative Developmental Environmental Psychology. with a Long-Term View of History and Cultural Psychology". In Handbook of Japan-United States Environment-Behavior Research, 365–75. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0286-3_25.
Faden, Lisa Y. "Globalization and History Education: The United States and Canada". In Nation-Building and History Education in a Global Culture, 51–65. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9729-0_4.
Atti di convegni sul tema "Cultural history of the United States":
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Konev, Kirill. "Constructing the Image of the Entente and the United States in the Bolshevik and Anti-Bolshevik Periodicals (1918–1920): A Comparative Analysis". In Communication and Cultural Studies: History and Modernity. Novosibirsk State University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/978-5-4437-1280-2-82-88.
Needham, Susan, e Karen Quintiliani. "Prolung Khmer (ព្រល ឹងខ្មែរ) in Sociohistorical Perspective". In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.3-1.
In this article we selectively review Cambodia’s history through the lens of Prolung Khmer (ព្រលឹងខ្មែរ, meaning “Khmer Spirit” or “Khmer Soul”), a complex, multivalent ideological discourse that links symbols and social practices, such as Angkor, Buddhism, Khmer language (written and spoken), and classical dance, in an essentialized Khmer identity. When Cambodians began arriving in the United States in 1975, they immediately and self-consciously deployed Prolung Khmer as a means for asserting a unique cultural identity within the larger society. Through diachronic and ethnographic analyses of Prolung Khmer, we gain a holistic understanding of how it serves as an ideological metaphor for Khmer culture.
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Hajizadeh, Fatima. "OPTIONS FOR STUDYING AMERICAN ENGLISH BY STUDENTS USING MODERN TEACHING METHODS". In PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONALTURKISH WORLD TOURISM, ECONOMICS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE SYMPOSIUM. Türkiye Milli Komisyonu, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36962/itwtechs24062022-361.
The article deals with the problem of the options of studying American English by students using modern teaching methods. Particular attention is given to that English is the most popular language, namely the American version of English is the predominant language in the world. The analysis of the research highlighted the importance of distinctive features of grammar, context, pronunciation and the specifics of regional variants of American English. Versions of the subtleties of studying American English were put forward, which included humor, online resources and entertainment. In conclusion, the emphasis is placed on the fact that the use of modern teaching methods gives students the opportunity to be better acquainted with the culture and history of the United States. Furthermore, such methods also helps students to meet American reality and pronunciation. Keywords: American English, language, options fo r learning a foreign language.
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Bergman, Christopher A., Steven Law, Crista Haag, John Hein e Donald Brice. "Some Strategies for Effective Cultural Resources Management in Pipeline Permitting". In 2008 7th International Pipeline Conference. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2008-64102.
The inventory, evaluation and treatment of cultural resources represent a significant challenge for siting and permitting natural gas pipelines. Project sponsors assist the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Energy Projects with meeting its obligations under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. The increasing sophistication of compliance with Section 106 is reflected in the Office of Energy Project’s 2002 Guidelines for Reporting on Cultural Resources Investigations for Pipeline Projects. Recent pipeline projects in the United States have involved environmental study corridors that are both wide and extensive, a combination that results in the identification of large numbers of cultural properties. The process of cultural resources management begins in the project planning stage with the development of site location modeling, analysis of previous investigations within or near Areas of Potential Effect, and consideration of the likelihood for encountering potentially eligible National Register of Historic Places properties. Using this information, site detection survey strategies can be developed that intensively target only sensitive portions of the Area of Potential Effect. During the survey, identification of archaeological sites, historic structures, or cultural landscapes requires prompt evaluation of National Register eligibility status for the purposes of avoidance or development of treatment plans. This presentation considers the Section 106 compliance process and how project sponsors can effectively manage cultural resources to ensure cost effectiveness and maintenance of restricted project schedules, while meeting the objectives of the National Historic Preservation Act.
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Hampshire Santos, S., C. Giarlelis, J. Jara, A. Lampropoulos, D. Lo Presti, S. Montens, F. Sutcu et al. "Comparative Study of International Major Codes for the Seismic Design of Buildings". In IABSE Symposium, Wroclaw 2020: Synergy of Culture and Civil Engineering – History and Challenges. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/wroclaw.2020.0844.
<p>The Task Group 1.1 of IABSE has proposed studies of comparisons among seismic codes, in order to find out discrepancies and similarities among them. The idea of the study is to select major international seismic design codes to be analyzed and compared among them. A comparative study of codes from seismically active regions of various countries is presented herein covering European, United States, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Canadian, French, Italian, Greek, Japanese, Mexican, New Zealander, Portuguese and Turkish codes and National Annexes of Eurocode 8. The study is focused in the criteria for the design of conventional (residential and commercial) buildings, analyzing some critical topics. A prototype reinforced concrete building is analyzed, considering all the codes under analyses and main results derived form the seismic design are compared.</p>
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Davis, Lawrence. "Mixing Metabolisms: New People in Aging Sprawl". In 110th ACSA Annual Meeting Paper Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.110.86.
The historically white postwar suburbs of the United States and Canada are now the first destination for new residents from abroad. Because they are relatively safe, affordable, and, as they became ethnic enclaves, culturally familiar, these peripheral communities, have gradually replaced the center city as the desired landing place for new arrivals. Using scholarly and popular literature with empirical field observation, this paper examines a set of aging postwar suburbs in California and one in Arizona to illustrate the largely positive effects of such immigration. In addition to an injection of diverse and energized cultures, the changes can point towards a set of materially strategic options for renewing all aging low density-built environments. Such cultural shifts are an opportunity to imagine a socially healthy, though repurposed, and spatially altered, future for all aging urban peripheries. Finally, regarding the development of a productive architectural and urban discourse on the subject, it is vital to note that the current nascent transformation in aging postwar environments is common to that of many cities and settlements throughout history. More specific to the case of renewal of postwar sprawl with its’ increase in the density of social interaction, the current ethnic changes to the settlement pattern often make the largely private built environments of Anglo-American suburbs more “urban” and in the process reveal a more nuanced definition of this term.
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Mira Rico, Juan Antonio. "Defensive architecture and heritage education: analysis of the National Park Service and Parks Canada actions". In HERITAGE2022 International Conference on Vernacular Heritage: Culture, People and Sustainability. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/heritage2022.2022.15263.
Defensive architecture is a heritage typology of great interest for society due to various reasons, such as its monumentality, history, beauty or ability to fascinate thanks to cinema, literature or television. Like other cultural assets, its management is based on research, preservation, restoration, didactics, dissemination and participation following current approaches. In this sense, heritage education plays a fundamental role since it is a tool that connects cultural heritage with people. This fact becomes a key aspect to guarantee its knowledge, preservation, use and enjoyment over time. This paper will analyse the actions on heritage education of the National Park Service (United States of America) and Parks Canada which are focused on defensive architecture. Both offices have been chosen because they manage examples of defensive architecture and are world leaders in heritage education. Therefore, the main purpose is to know their actions and make proposals for the Spanish context. This is an interesting fact because Spain has a rich and varied defensive architecture but heritage education still has little presence, which is surprising because heritage education favours society commitment when preserving cultural heritage. To this end, the qualitative work methodology will be used, specifically the analysis technique applied to the contents of the National Park Service and Parks Canada web pages.
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Jones, J. E., J. R. Dydo e V. L. Rhoades. "Development of Nacelle Assembly Lifting System for Self-Erecting and on-site Fabricated Wind Tower". In IABSE Symposium, Wroclaw 2020: Synergy of Culture and Civil Engineering – History and Challenges. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/wroclaw.2020.0666.
<p>Wind towers on land are subject to the limitations of transportation and crane height. Tower sections are fabricated in a factory and then transported by road or rail in segments – which are then erected using a crane and bolted together to form the tower. Typically these towers can only support relatively low power turbines of limited generating capacity. Large off-shore towers are fabricated on the shore and moved by barge – thus, are not limited in diameter or height. A new self-erecting tower design can eliminate the crane height limitation for on-land towers, and seven new fabrication technologies enable the on-site fabrication of the tower which eliminates the tower diameter restrictions imposed by road and rail transport. A meteorilogical phenomenon, called the “low level jet” (llj) could produce significant wind energy, but is at too high of an altitude for standard on-land towers to reach. This new “ultratall” tower will provide the basis for very significant increases in the generating capacity of wind energy in the united states – with the potential to supply several times the total energy use of the country. While the llj in the u.s. Is the largest and most powerful, other areas of the earth also have llj phenomena that can be utilized by this new wind tower.</p>
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Hernandez, Susan D., e Mary E. Clark. "Building Capacity and Public Involvement Among Native American Communities". In ASME 2001 8th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2001-1251.
Abstract The United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) supports a number of local community initiatives to encourage public involvement in decisions regarding environmental waste management and remediation. Native American tribal communities, in most cases, operate as sovereign nations, and thus have jurisdiction over environmental management on their lands. This paper provides examples of initiatives addressing Native American concerns about past radioactive waste management practices — one addresses uranium mining wastes in the Western United States and the other, environmental contamination in Alaska. These two projects involve the community in radioactive waste management decision-making by encouraging them to articulate their concerns and observations; soliciting their recommended solutions; and facilitating leadership within the community by involving local tribal governments, individuals, scientists and educators in the project. Frequently, a community organization, such as a local college or Native American organization, is selected to manage the project due to their cultural knowledge and acceptance within the community. It should be noted that U.S. EPA, consistent with Federal requirements, respects Indian tribal self-government and supports tribal sovereignty and self-determination. For this reason, in the projects and initiatives described in the presentation, the U.S. EPA is involved at the behest and approval of Native American tribal governments and community organizations. Objectives of the activities described in this presentation are to equip Native American communities with the skills and resources to assess and resolve environmental problems on their lands. Some of the key outcomes of these projects include: • Training teachers of Navajo Indian students to provide lessons about radiation and uranium mining in their communities. Teachers will use problem-based education, which allows students to connect the subject of learning with real-world issues and concerns of their community. Teachers are encouraged to utilize members of the community and to conduct field trips to make the material as relevant to the students. • Creating an interactive database that combines scientific and technical data from peer-reviewed literature along with complementary Native American community environmental observations. • Developing educational materials that meet the national science standards for education and also incorporate Native American culture, language, and history. The use of both Native American and Western (Euro-American) educational concepts serve to reinforce learning and support cultural identity. The two projects adopt approaches that are tailored to encourage the participation of, and leadership from, Native American communities to guide environmental waste management and remediation on their lands. These initiatives are consistent with the government-to-government relationship between Native American tribes and the U.S. government and support the principle that tribes are empowered to exercise their own decision-making authority with respect to their lands.
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Munsell, William P. "Current Efforts to Rewrite the History of the Safety Hierarchy and Obviate its Purpose". In ASME 2023 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2023-113870.
Abstract The duty on the part of manufacturers to incorporate features in equipment for the sole purpose of protecting workers and bystanders from injury grew out of the advent of worker’s compensation legislation in the second decade of the twentieth century. The new legal landscape suddenly made safe design an issue that impacted the bottom line of industrial employers through reduced insurance premiums. This was the impetus for the newly formed National Safety Council in 1913, which drew its members primarily from industry. The real sea change, however, can be traced to a paper published in the ASME Journal two years later by Carl Hansen, titled “Standardization of Safety Principles”[1]. In it, Hansen proposed the novel idea that it was the responsibility of design engineers to address the hazards their machines presented. His proposal was not made in a vacuum. The responses of leading figures in engineering, the insurance industry, and worker safety were published in the Journal as well, and the unanimous consensus was agreement with Hansen’s new ethic. In Hansen’s proposal can be found almost all of the basic concepts of the Safety Hierarchy as it was presented in the 1955 edition of the National Safety Council’s Accident Prevention Manual for Industrial Operations [2]. This states that a manufacturer has a duty to evaluate and address foreseeable hazards, including those related to human error, by design first and foremost. Only if no feasible design solutions can be found may the manufacturer rely on methods that control exposure of the hazard to users and bystanders, such as guarding. Only if no feasible design or exposure-control solutions can be found may the manufacturer rely on personal protective equipment. Since that time the hierarchy, only slightly modified, has penetrated every industry and has come to define the modern basis of safe design in the United States. In 2000, a lobbying group called the Association for Manufacturing Technology sponsored a technical paper which resulted in the promulgation of ANSI B11.0-2020 Safety of Machinery – General Requirements and Risk Assessment [3]. This standard represents a radical departure from established safety principles in that it inserts an undefined process by which manufacturers or purchasers can unilaterally decide the risk associated with any given piece of machinery is acceptable, and thereby opt out of the requirements of the safety hierarchy. The threshold of ‘acceptable risk’ is left uncodified and can be calculated based on a host of factors as vague as ‘culture’ and the ‘context of their own circumstances’. The effect of this approach on the stakeholders who would suffer the most dire consequences, the injured workers, is not considered. I argue that ANSI B11.0-2020 and its related standards are retrograde in their effect on safety in the workplace, and cannot be reconciled with the last 108 years of safe design principles as developed in the United States. This paper will provide a historical review of safe engineering design principles and analyze the provisions and implications of ANSI B11.0-2020. The basis for a revised ANSI B11.0 will be presented.
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Adams, Sunny, Madison Story e Adam Smith. Evaluation of 11 buildings in the Fort McCoy cantonment. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), settembre 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/45350.
The United States Congress codified the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA), the nation’s most effective cultural resources legislation to date, mostly through establishing the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The NHPA requires federal agencies to address their cultural resources, which are defined as any prehistoric or historic district, site, building, structure, or object. Section 110 of the NHPA requires federal agencies to inventory and evaluate their cultural resources, and Section 106 requires them to determine the effect of federal undertakings on those potentially eligible for the NRHP. Fort McCoy is in west-central Wisconsin, entirely within Monroe County. It was first established as the Sparta Maneuver Tract in 1909. The post was renamed Camp McCoy in 1926. Since 1974, it has been known as Fort McCoy. This report provides historic context and determinations of eligibility for buildings in the cantonment constructed between 1946 and 1975 and concludes that none are eligible for the NRHP. In consultation with the Wisconsin State Historic Preservation Officer (WISHPO), this work fulfills Section 110 requirements for these buildings.
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Johnson, Fred. Assessing Cultural Change in the United States Army Recruiting Command. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, novembre 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada494715.
Bertrand, Marianne, e Emir Kamenica. Coming Apart? Cultural Distances in the United States over Time. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, giugno 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w24771.
Moore, N. L., R. J. Chidester, K. R. Hughes e R. A. Fowler. United States -- Mexican joint ventures: A case history approach. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), marzo 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/10140898.
Goldin, Claudia. A Brief History of Education in the United States. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, agosto 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/h0119.
Millers, Imants, David S. Shriner e David Rizzo. History of hardwood decline in the Eastern United States. Broomall, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experimental Station, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/ne-gtr-126.
Moore, N. L., R. J. Chidester, K. R. Hughes e R. A. Fowler. United States -- Mexican joint ventures: A case history approach. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), marzo 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/6645479.
Bazzi, Samuel, Abel Brodeur, Martin Fiszbein e Joanne Haddad. Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, marzo 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w31079.
Schuster, Steven Sprick, Matthew Jaremski e Elisabeth Ruth Perlman. An Empirical History of the United States Postal Savings System. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, maggio 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w25812.
