Sunday, January 5, 8:30–10:30 a.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

134. Flights of Fancy: Public Constructions of Air and Space Travel in the Twentieth Century

Hilton, Boulevard Room A

Chair: Janet R. Daly Bednarek, University of Dayton

Papers: "Doing Latin America": Advertising, Aviation, and Postwar Tourism
David T. Courtwright, University of North Florida

Tom Swift in Orbit: Cold War Efforts to Enroll the Young as Citizens of the "Rocket State"'
Larry W. Owens, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Perfect Worlds, Perfect Societies: The Persistent Goal of Utopia in Human Spaceflight
Roger D. Launius, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Comment: Jannelle Warren-Findley, Arizona State University

   

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