Columbia Records released Greetings from Asbury Park on January 5, 1973. Jim Cullen, the dean of Springsteen scholars, reflects at The Washington Post: Fifty years ago this week, a scruffy young artist from New Jersey released his first album. In...
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New Springsteen Book is Coming
It is entitled Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen. Historian Jonathan Cohen and Springsteen scholar June Skinner Sawyers are the editors and Rutgers University Press will publish it in September, 2019. Contributors include Eric Alterman, Gina Barreca, Peter Carlin, Jim...
More American History Lessons for Kanye West
Yesterday we posted a link to Princeton University historian Kevin Kruse’s history lesson for rapper Kanye West. Today it is Jim Cullen‘s turn to provide a lesson. Cullen teaches history at Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York. Here is...