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How Socialism Became Un-American

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It was the Ad Council. Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy of Miami University explains at The Conversation: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4FmHsniTGg&w=560&h=315]  ...

The Author’s Corner with Lawrence Kreiser

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Lawrence Kreiser is Associate Professor of History at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This interview is based on his book Marketing the Blue and Gray: Newspaper Advertising and the American Civil War (LSU Press, 2019). JF: What led you to write Marketing...

Did Men Invent “Likability?”

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Check out historian Claire Potter‘s piece at The New York Times: “Men Invented ‘Likability.’ Guess Who Benefits.”  She reflects on the origins of the idea of “likability”  advertising culture and, eventually presidential politics. As Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and...

Super Bowl Commercials and the American Revolution

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Andy Schocket, a history professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio and the author of Fighting Over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution, is a true historical thinker.  He even thinks historically when watching the Super Bowl! Over...

Do You Know About the Adverts 250 Project?

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Carl Robert Keyes of Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts is running a very impressive project on advertising in eighteenth-century America called The Adverts 250 Project. Here is what it is all about: The Adverts 250 Project explores the history of...