New Books in American Studies

Interviews with Scholars of America about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
3576
Mark Wild, "Renewal: Liberal Protestants and th...
Wild traces the achievements and losses of American mainline Protestant Christians as they attempted to renew their churches and their cities in the twentieth century...
50 min
3577
Trevor Pearce, "Pragmatism's Evolution: Organis...
Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s...
48 min
3578
Waleed F. Mahdi, "Arab Americans in Film: From ...
How are Arab Americans portrayed in Arab films, and just as importantly, how are they portrayed in the works of Arab American filmmakers themselves?
64 min
3579
Tony Bolden, "Groove Theory: The Blues Foundati...
Bolden offers a history of funk artists such as George Clinton who developed a new aesthetic style through the Black Arts Era of the 1960s and 1970s....
58 min
3580
Brandon Mills, "The World Colonization Made: Th...
Mills explores the beginnings and ends of the colonization movement from the late-18th century to the coming of the Civil War...
44 min
3581
Nazita Lajevardi, "Outsiders at Home: The Polit...
An interview with Nazita Lajevardi
50 min
3582
Susan M. Reverby, "Co-Conspirator for Justice: ...
Reverby sheds fascinating light on questions of political violence and revolutionary zeal in her account of Berkman's extraordinary career...
56 min
3583
Timothy Hampton, "Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work...
Hampton offers a fascinating and meticulous study of Bob Dylan's songwriting craft...
58 min
3584
Justin Gifford, "Revolution Or Death: The Life ...
Charismatic, brilliant, and courageous, Eldridge Cleaver built a base of power and influence that struck fear deep in the heart of White America...
72 min
3585
Erica Fretwell, "Sensory Experiments: Psychophy...
Fretwell allows us to reconsider the history of psychophysics and psychology through the lens of sensory studies and to rethinking science in the context of racial capitalism....
69 min
3586
Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow, "Suffrage at...
An interview with Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow
53 min
3587
Matthew Spady, "The Neighborhood Manhattan Forg...
Spady traces the complex path by which woodlands became a multi-ethnic big-city neighborhood...
45 min
3588
Timothy P. Storhoff, "Harmony and Normalization...
Storhoff explores the channels of musical exchange between Cuba and the United States during the eight-year presidency of Barack Obama...
55 min
3589
Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, "Voices from the ...
Weigel and Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels,,,
46 min
3590
Carl R. Trueman, "The Rise and Triumph of the M...
“My aim is to explain how and why a certain notion of the self has come to dominate the culture of the West,..."
122 min
3591
E. Chemerinsky and H. Gillman, "The Religion Cl...
Throughout American history, views on the proper relationship between the state and religion have been deeply divided...
35 min
3592
Caroline H. Yang, "The Peculiar Afterlife of Sl...
Yang explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation...
48 min
3593
D. T. Lawrence and E. J. Lawless, "When They Bl...
64 min
3594
Michael Brenes, "For Might and Right: Cold War ...
Brenes argues that after the beginning of the Cold War, defense spending became an important part of the federal social safety net...
61 min
3595
Mark Somos, "American States of Nature: The Ori...
When we think of early American political thought, we tend to overlook the powerful influence of the natural environment on the formation of settlement in both theory and practice...
24 min
3596
Nancy D. Campbell, "OD: Naloxone and the Politi...
Campbell explores how a therapy that can stop an accidental drug overdose, called Naloxone, emerged in the American mainstream in the early years of the new millennium...
44 min
3597
M. T. Mulder and G. Marti, "The Glass Church: R...
Mulder and Marti offer a compelling look at the rise and fall of one of the most popular and influential Christian evangelists of the twentieth century,..
53 min
3598
Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: T...
By 1935 William Faulkner was well established as an author of critically praised novels, yet the low volume of his sales forced him to seek work in Hollywood....
50 min
3599
College Presidents and the Struggle for Black F...
Focusing on the period between 1948 and 1968, Eddie Cole shows how college presidents, during a time of violence and unrest, strategically, yet often silently, initiated and shaped racial policies and practices inside and outside of the educational sphere...
52 min
3600
Anjali Vats, "The Color of Creatorship: Intelle...
Vats offers an intricate and meticulously researched text on intellectual property history, race, and citizenship from the 1790s to the present...
49 min