The Forties

"The Anti-Nazi ‘Swing Youth’, 1942—1945", Beck, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 19, No.3, Winter 85.

"‘America’s Boy Friend Who Can’t Get a Date’:Gender, Race, and the Cultural Work of the Jack Benny Program, 1932 - 1946", McFadden, Journal of American History, Vol. 80, No.1, June 1993.

"Zoot-Suit Culture and the Black Press", Tyler, Journal of American Culture, Vol.17, No.2, Summer 1994.

"Borrowing Regionalism: Advertising~ s Use of American Art in the 1930’s and 40’s", Doss, Journal of American Culture, Vol.5, No.4, Winter 1982.

"Crabgrass—Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction against Liberalism in the Urban North, 1940 - 1964", Sugrue, Journal of American History, Vol.82, No.2, September 1995.

"Oral History and the Story of America and World War II", Horowitz, Journal of American History, Vol.82, No.2, September 1995.

"Proust, Ava Gardner, and the Last Frontier" (the author reminisces about a trip to Las Vegas in 1943), Douglas, The Southern Review, Vol.32, No.2, Spring 1996.

"Getting in the Scrap: The Mobilization of American Children in World War II",Kirk, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.29, No.1, Summer 1995.

"‘Feel Like a Million!’: The Propitious Epoch in Men’s Underwear Imagery, 1939-1952", Martin, Journal of American Culture, Vol.18, No.4, Winter 1995.

"‘How About Some Meat?’: The Office of Price Administration, Consumption Politics, and State Building from the Bottom Up, 1941-1946", Jacobs, Journal of American History, Vol.84, No.3, December 1997.

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