布洛尔教授获得国家人文基金会公共学者资助
Professor Brooke Blower is a recipient of the 公共学者 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project “American World Wars: Intimate Histories from the Crash of the Yankee Clipper.” 公共学者项目支持为广大公众编写经过深入新濠影汇线上赌场研究的人文学科非虚构类书籍。 Professor Blower’s project is one of 25 awarded 这个循环.
“These challenging times underscore how important the humanities are to making American culture and world history relatable across generations,” said NEH Chairman Jon Parrish Peede of the year’s awards. “NEH很自豪能够授予数百项赠款，以保持我们国家的学者、学生、新濠影汇赌场和公民在追求新知识和新理解的过程中前进。”
Professor Blower’s grant is in support of her work completing 这本书从1943年泛美航空公司扬基快船失事时7名乘客的生活来看第二次世界大战的文化、社会和政治层面。 她写道,
在第二次世界大战期间，战斗大兵主导了海外美国人的新濠影汇线上赌场研究。 但在全球金融危机期间，数以百万计的美国人驻扎在六大洲，有穿制服的，也有不穿制服的，而他们只是其中的一小部分。 “American World Wars” tells a panoramic story of seven worldly noncombatants, their personal histories, their politics, and the paths that led them to all board the same Pan Am boat plane bound for Lisbon in February 1943. When the Yankee Clipper crashed in the Tagus River, it took five of their lives but left a paper trail that leads to a richer, deeper understanding of the cross-cutting political and ideological dimensions of Americans’ war efforts.
这本书是与牛津大学出版社（Oxford University Press）签约出版的，它从美国和国外的十多个档案中汲取了资料。