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- J. R. Roberto

FEATURED ARTICLES                                                                                                      

• The Toho Legacy: 1963 - 1964

THE FREDERICK C. BLANCHARD SCRAPBOOK PROJECT                                    

• Introduction

WORLD TIMELINE                                                                                

• An Overview on the Life of Flavius Josephus
• Flavius Josephus and the Jewish Wars
• How Byzantium and Mongolia Fed Russian Glory
• The Haitian Revolution and Its Impact on the Spanish Caribbean
• The Birth of the American Skyscraper: The Flatiron Building
• Japan, Godzilla and the Atomic Bomb
• Racism, Terrorism and the F.B.I.
• A Short History of the History of the Civil War
• A Brief Examination of the Legality of Secession in the United States

MODERN CULTURE                                                                            

• Culture and Imperialism
• Freudian Psychology of the Late Nineteenth Century
• Please Don't Call Me A Hyphenated-American
• Questions Concerning the Implications of Modernization in 19th Century Latin America
• Social Foundations of Education
• What Is An American?

THE ARCHIVES                                                                                   

• The Stephen R. Mallory Letters
• The Emerson Letters
• Letter from Lord Grey on Behalf of Prince Albert - Consort to Queen Victoria

BOOK REVIEWS                                                                               

• Afro-Latin America: 1800 - 2000
• The Black Death and the Transformation of the West
• Diaspora: Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans
• Open Veins of Latin America
• Understanding Imperial Russia

JAPANESE POP-CULTURE                                                             

• Daiei: A History of the Greater Japan Motion Picture Company
• Films of Ishiro Honda
• Godzilla and Post War Japan
• Godzilla and the Second World War
• Japanese Nationalism in the Tohoverse

• Kaiju Conversations:
• Robert Axelrod
• Akira Ifukube
• Yoshio Irie
• Koichi Kawakita
• Akira Kubo
• Wataru Mimura
• Haruo Nakajima
• Minoru Nakano
• Teruyoshi Nakano
• Henry G. Saperstein
• Kenji Sahara
• Kenpachiro Satsuma
• Yuko Moriyama

• The Other Side of Toho
• Symbolism in Gojira
• The Toho Legacy
• 2002: The Challenge of Defeat

BRITISH POP-CULTURE                                                                    

• Jennifer Adams Kelley Interview
• Jason Haigh-Ellery Interview
• Sarah Mowat Interview

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John Rocco Roberto holds a Bachelors in History, and a Masters in Liberal Studies from the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York (CUNY).  He is currently working on a Doctorate in History.  An active member of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) and several historical societies including the Staten Island Historical Society, the Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT), and the Organization of American Historians (OAH), he has lectured (along with Robert Biondi), on Japanese pop-culture and the Atomic Bombings at several academic sites, as well as being featured on several Japanese Pop-culture related television programs including the Fox Network morning program Personal FX, and the Fuji Television documentary 2002: The Challenge of Defeat.  

Roberto currently holds the position of Chair of the History Department at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Academy.

Email: historyvortex@earthlink.net

Robert Biondi holds a Master in Science Education from Bernard M. Baruch College of the City University of New York.  He has written countless articles for Action Figure News and Toy Review and in 1993, co-created G-Fan Magazine with John Rocco Roberto, where he continues to be a contributing writer to KaijuFan OnLine. His many articles include a novelization of the 1954 Godzilla film and interviews with Toho actors Kenji Sahara and Yoshio Tsuchiya. Strongly interested in history, he is also a member of the Green-Wood Historic Fund, the Civil War Preservation Trust, and the Napoleonic Alliance.  In 2002 he appeared with John Roberto in the Fuji Television documentary 2002: The Challenge of Defeat.  

Biondi currently holds the position of Associate Program Officer of the Clinical Doctoral Programs at The Graduate Center of CUNY.

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