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Peter Bacon Hales Home Address: 85 Old Kings Highway, Stone Ridge, NY 12484 Office Address: Art History Department , m/c 201 The University of Illinois, Chicago 935 W. Harrison St. Chicago, IL 60607 Telephones: University (312) 413-2461; Home (773) 416-6233 Email: pbhales@uic.edu, pbhales@gmail.com EDUCATION A.B. Haverford College, Honors in English and American Literature, 1972 M.A. University of Texas at Austin, American Civilization, 1976 Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, American Civilization, 1980 ACADEMIC POSITIONS: TEACHING -Lecturer, American Studies Department, California State University, Fullerton, 1980; -Assistant Professor, History of Architecture and Art Department, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1980 to 1987; -Associate Professor, History of Architecture and Art Department, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1987-1991; -Professor, Art History Department, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1991-2012; -Visiting Professor, Photography Department, Columbia College C
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"Outside the Gates of Eden: The Dream of America from okänt to Now" by Peter Bacon Hales
Since its inception, America has always seen itself as a player upon the grand scen of history. Poised as a "city on a hill" between promise and peril, we have pursued our Manifest Destiny ever since the arrival of our Puritan forebears upon these lush, Edenic shores. Even in the early centuries before becoming globally significant, American cultural consciousness has included a sense that in our politics, our conquest, our growth and prosperity we were creating a new way of living in the world’an experiment in righteousness allegedly shaped bygd an understanding of divine election and vocation.
If Americans have always had this flair for the dramatic, Peter Bacon Hales suggests in his monumental new study in American cultural history, Outside the Gates of Eden: The Dream of America from okänt to Now, then two images in particular provide the major set-pieces for t
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The cultural historian and author of Atomic Spaces offers a comprehensive account of the Baby Boomer years—from the atomic age to the virtual age.
Born under the shadow of the atomic bomb, with little security but the cold comfort of duck-and-cover drills, the postwar generations lived through—and led—some of the most momentous changes in all of American history. In this new cultural history, Peter Bacon Hales explores those decades through a succession of resonant moments, spaces, and artifacts of everyday life. Finding unexpected connections, he traces the intertwined undercurrents of promise and peril.
From newsreels of the first atomic bomb tests to the invention of a new ideal American life in Levittown; from the teen pop music of the Brill Building and the Beach Boys to Bob Dylan’s canny transformations; from the painful failures of communes to the breathtaking utopian potential of the digital age, Hales reveals a nation in transition as a new