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Aaron McLean Winter

Articles by Aaron McLean Winter

Aaron McLean Winter is currently a Taiwan National Science Council postdoctoral fellow, as well as a visiting lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literature at National Tsing Hua University. This article derives from his research project, “The Laughing Dove: Satire in 19th-Century U.S. Anti-War Rhetoric.” Learn more about Aaron’s work by visiting his website at laughingdove.net.
 

Readers of the Washington, D.C. newspaper The Daily National Intelligencer witnessed a strange and disturbing transformation in 1847, when the nation’s most popular literary character freely admitted that he had become a greedy, cynical killer. Soon enough this beloved American hero, whose name was synonymous with Yankee Doodle, would threaten...
From Mascot to Militant: The Many Campaigns of Seba Smith's "Major Jack Downing"
September 2010 (Volume 5, Issue 3)

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