"People Saw What Happened to Hiroshima and Knew it Could Happen Anywhere"
I've been working on a piece I'm excited to share soon. Here are some striking takeaways from interviews with my sources
I’m not sure exactly when my big piece will be published — sometime in July — but it relates to the Kimye Brand and the Disney conglomerate. This deep dive required some conversations with social historians about the American nuclear family, media representations of black fathers, and the storied history of Walt Disney himself.
Over the next few days I’ll share some highlights from my interviews with four different experts. I couldn’t bear to leave them on the cutting room floor!
Elaine Tyler May is the Regents Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era, and America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation. We actually spoke on the day of the Roe vs. Wade news, and she was a little late to our meeting because she’d been doing interviews with local news stations all day. I felt lucky that she was also sharing her scholarship with me.
On nuclear anxieties in the 1950s: The threat of nuclear war? I mean, we have had nuclear war.