Author Sarah Thelen

Sarah Thelen

Sarah Thelen is an historian and instructional designer at University College Cork. She has published articles and chapters on Nixon, the Silent Majority, and domestic debates over the Vietnam War in the Journal of American Studies, 49th Parallel, Beyond the Quagmire (2019) and How the United States Ends Wars (2020). She holds a PhD from American University in Washington, DC, and is writing a monograph on White House efforts to rally support for the US war in Vietnam. Her research also explores the changing nature of patriotism, nationalism, and American identity in the Twentieth Century.

Undecided: Nixon, Trump, and the Risks of Counting on the Silent Majority

Sarah Thelen

Articles, Issue 9 2020

In the midst of what might well be the most significant election in US history, it’s more than a little surreal to be (a) an American abroad, (b) an historian, and (c) a Nixon scholar. I know I’m not the only o... Read More...

“a settled place”: Reproductive Performance in the Liberties and The Liberties

Cold Reality: Revisions of War in John Knowles’ ‘Phineas’ and A Separate Peace

The State Department’s Northern Ireland Special Envoys and the redemption of the Good Friday Agreement

‘The Ethics of Quantum Colonialism’: Navigating American Racial Anxiety in N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became

“‘Normal People’ Indeed!”: Anne Tyler, Sally Rooney, and the Narrative of Youthful Quirk

Depictions of Shame: White Identity and Cultural Blackness in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner

Satire, Symbolism, and the “Working Through” of Historical Ghosts in The Confidence-Man

Review: Katherine Manthorne, Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex.

Review: Baumgartner, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

Review: Austenfeld, ed., Robert Lowell in a New Century

Review: Wills, Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture

Review: Sawires-Masseli, Arab American Novels Post-9/11: Classical Storytelling Motifs against Outsidership

Review: Christian Schmidt, Postblack Aesthetics: The Freedom to be Black in Contemporary African American Fiction.

Review: Wickham Clayton, ed, Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film

The IAAS's Americanista: An Interview with Catherine Gander (IAAS Chair)

From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years

Undecided: Nixon, Trump, and the Risks of Counting on the Silent Majority