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Memorial Communities and Presidential Legacy: Remembering Theodore Roosevelt

纪念社区和总统遗产：纪念西奥多·罗斯福

基本信息

批准号：
AH/L014874/1
负责人：
Michael Cullinane
金额：
$ 12.27万
依托单位：
Northumbria University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2014 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FL014874%2F1
关键词：
Memorial Communities Presidential Legacy Remembering

项目摘要

Since his death in 1919, Theodore Roosevelt has been recalled as a rugged cowboy-hero, a progressive "trust-buster," and his image has even been preserved in the form of the "Teddy Bear." Advertisers, motion picture studios, and sports teams have used Roosevelt's likeness to sell coffee, to boost TV ratings, and to publicise sporting events. While much has been written on Roosevelt's life, and particularly his tenure as president, his posthumous image and legacy has been almost entirely overlooked. Yet, because Roosevelt has so regularly been invoked, the study of his legacy is critical to understanding the motives of successive generations of commemorators that have summoned him. Focusing on a myriad of cultural representations of Roosevelt in historiography, media, politics, and public memorials, this project aims to analyse the communities and individuals who constructed his legacy. The commemorative communities funded and organised sizeable networks that disseminated a wide variety of portrayals. By examining these representations this study will provide a comprehensive view of Roosevelt's legacy. This scholarship has implications for the broader study of presidential history and memory studies. What impact do monuments, media, historiography, and political invocations have on our memory of the past? This project answers this question by using Theodore Roosevelt's legacy to understand the people, organisations, and historical contexts that shaped his public memory over time.This project builds on my PhD, but takes it in new and significantly expanded directions. Whereas my PhD focused on U.S. foreign policy during Theodore Roosevelt's presidency, this project is driven by new questions about Roosevelt's posthumous legacy and the historical contexts after 1919. I have produced high quality publications on Roosevelt's presidential legacy since 2008 and conceived this project in consultation with historians, library curators, park curators, and even the main Roosevelt memorial association. The project's research questions require an engagement with disciplines beyond history and diverse sources, to understand the cultural setting that produced the many portrayals of Roosevelt. Representations of Roosevelt in movies, TV, popular advertising, visual culture, and public art will be used alongside traditional archival material, political proclamations, and historiographical literature to produce a comprehensive view of his legacy.A wide group of academic and non-academic audiences will benefit from this research, which offers an intellectually innovative approach to presidential history by incorporating memory studies. The output of a monograph will make a major contribution to U.S. history and component disciplines in American studies. Collaborative ventures with the TR Center at Dickinson State University, the Theodore Roosevelt Association, and the U.S. National Parks Service will help make knowledge exchange and stakeholder engagement an intrinsic part of this project. These objectives will be accomplished with engagement activities designed to enable the research to extend to wider public audiences and impact contemporary perceptions of Theodore Roosevelt. Simultaneously these collaborations will provide innovations in research communications.

自 1919 年去世以来，西奥多·罗斯福一直被视为一位粗犷的牛仔英雄、一位进步的“反垄断者”，他的形象甚至以“泰迪熊”的形式被保留下来。广告商、电影制片厂和运动队都利用罗斯福的肖像来销售咖啡、提高电视收视率和宣传体育赛事。尽管人们对罗斯福的一生，特别是他的总统任期有很多记载，但他死后的形象和遗产几乎完全被忽视。然而，由于罗斯福经常被提及，因此研究他的遗产对于理解连续几代纪念者召唤他的动机至关重要。该项目重点关注罗斯福在史学、媒体、政治和公共纪念馆中的无数文化表征，旨在分析构建罗斯福遗产的社区和个人。纪念社区资助并组织了规模较大的网络，传播各种各样的肖像。通过检查这些陈述，本研究将提供对罗斯福遗产的全面看法。这项奖学金对更广泛的总统历史和记忆研究具有影响。纪念碑、媒体、史学和政治祈求对我们过去的记忆有什么影响？该项目通过利用西奥多·罗斯福的遗产来了解随着时间的推移塑造了他的公众记忆的人物、组织和历史背景，从而回答了这个问题。该项目以我的博士学位为基础，但将其带入了新的、显着扩展的方向。虽然我的博士学位研究重点是西奥多·罗斯福总统任期内的美国外交政策，但这个项目是由有关罗斯福死后遗产和 1919 年后历史背景的新问题驱动的。自 2008 年以来，我一直在与历史学家、图书馆馆长、公园馆长甚至主要的罗斯福纪念协会协商后，编写了有关罗斯福总统遗产的高质量出版物，并构思了这个项目。该项目的研究问题需要涉及历史之外的学科和不同的来源，以了解产生罗斯福许多形象的文化背景。罗斯福在电影、电视、流行广告、视觉文化和公共艺术中的表现将与传统档案材料、政治宣言和史学文献一起使用，以全面了解他的遗产。这项研究通过结合记忆研究，为总统历史提供了一种智力创新的方法，让广大学术和非学术受众受益。专着的产出将对美国历史和美国研究的组成学科做出重大贡献。与迪金森州立大学 TR 中心、西奥多·罗斯福协会和美国国家公园管理局的合作将有助于使知识交流和利益相关者参与成为该项目的固有组成部分。这些目标将通过参与活动来实现，这些活动旨在使研究扩展到更广泛的公众受众并影响当代对西奥多·罗斯福的看法。同时，这些合作将为研究交流带来创新。