JimZwick.net
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JimZwick.net
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About Jim Zwick
Jim Zwick is an American Studies scholar whose specialties include Mark Twain, U.S. social and political history, and educational uses of the Internet. He is the author of Militarism and Repression in the Philippines (Centre for Developing-Area Studies, McGill Univ., 1982), the editor of Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire: Anti-Imperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War (Syracuse Univ. Press, 1992; Philippine edition, Popular Book Store, 1994), and has published numerous book chapters and journal and magazine articles about the Anti-Imperialist League and Mark Twain's anti-imperialist writings. From 1989 to 1994 he also edited the FFP Bulletin published by Friends of the Filipino People. Jim is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of American Studies Asia journal, the Executive Commitee of the Mark Twain Circle of America, and was a consultant on the Ken Burns documentary about Mark Twain.
Jim began creating educational Web sites in 1994. His sites on Mark Twain and Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935 have been online since January 1995. From 1997 to 2001, he also ran the Mark Twain site at About.com. Materials from that site are now in the Mark Twain site at BoondocksNet.com. He has presented workshops on educational uses of the Internet in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and currently serves on the Advisory Board of H-Amstdy, a member list of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine that provides a forum for research and teaching in the field of American Studies.
"Mark Twain’s Anti-Imperialism, Then and Now." Reframing the Issues: Contemporary Essays in Peace Studies, ed. Caroline Higgins (Richmond, Ind.: Earlham College Press, 2004), 47-53.
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