• Andrew Huebner
  Associate Professor
  Ph.D., Brown University, 2004
  
  
  ahuebner@ua.edu
  
  Research Interests:
  
  
• Modern U.S. Cultural History
• War and American Culture
• 20th Century Social and Political History

Courses Currently Taught:

• American Civilization since 1865 (HY 204)
• Honors American Civilization since 1865 (HY 206)
• US History since 1945 (HY 318)
• Undergraduate Honors Colloquium (HY 399)
• Literature of American History since 1865 (HY 602)
• Proseminar in US History since 1877 (HY 607)

Publications:

• “Lost in Space: Technology and Turbulence in Futuristic Cinema of the 1950s,” Film and History 40.2 (Fall 2010): 6-27.
• “The Conditional Optimist: Walt Disney’s Postwar Futurism,” The Sixties 2 (December 2009): 227-44
• The Warrior Image: Soldiers in American Culture from the Second World War to the Vietnam Era (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008).
• “Rethinking American Press Coverage of the Vietnam War, 1965-1968,” Journalism History 31 (Fall 2005): 150-61.
• “Kilroy is Back: Images of American Soldiers in Korea, 1950-1953,” American Studies 45 (Spring 2004): 103-29.
• “Support Unseen: Rhode Island and the Vietnam War, 1965-1973,” Rhode Island History 60 (Winter 2002): 3-25.

Current Projects:

• Love and Death in the Great War (manuscript in preparation)
• Moon Age America: Apollo 11 and the Sixties (manuscript in preparation)