New Books in American Studies

Interviews with Scholars of America about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
3726
Rachel M. Gillum, "Muslims in a Post-9/11 Ameri...
Gillum examines how public fears about Muslims in the United States compare with the reality of American Muslims’ attitudes on a range of relevant issues...
33 min
3727
Diana Greene Foster, "The Turnaway Study: Ten Y...
What happens when a woman seeking an abortion is turned away?
63 min
3728
Justin Q. Olmstead, "The United States' Entry i...
Why did America enter the First World War? The author presents a new theory...
38 min
3729
Maurice S. Crandall, "These People Have Always ...
Crandall demonstrates how Indigenous communities implemented, subverted, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of democracy, both to accommodate and to oppose colonial power...
60 min
3730
Carla Yanni, "Living on Campus: An Architectura...
Every fall on move-in day, parents tearfully bid farewell to their beloved sons and daughters at college dormitories: it is an age-old ritual...
27 min
3731
Robert Kolker, "Hidden Valley Road: Inside The ...
This is the story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease....
43 min
3732
David Paul Kuhn, "The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New ...
Kuhn cautions Americans to look back to the 1970s with an eye to class to better understand our political tribalism...
64 min
3733
E. Bazzano and M. Hermansen, "Varieties of Amer...
This book captures these complex varieties of Sufism in America...
51 min
3734
Jody A. Forrester, "Guns Under the Bed: Memorie...
It is 1969 and Jody A. Forrester is in her late teens, transitioning from a Sixties love child to pacifist anti-Vietnam War activist to an ardent revolutionary...
67 min
3735
Alexander Keyssar, "Why Do We Still Have the El...
It's a good question....
49 min
3736
Victor McFarland, "Oil Powers: A History of the...
The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia is a critical feature of the modern international system...
61 min
3737
J. Iber and M. Longoria, "Latinos in American F...
Iber and Longoria the origins of Latino American football, the role of World War II and the Civil Rights movement in expanding opportunities for Latino sportsmen, and the ongoing obstacles to Latino participation in the game that many love....
66 min
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Teresa A. Goddu, "Selling Antislavery: Abolitio...
Goddu a richly illustrated history of the American Anti-Slavery Society and its print, material, and visual artifacts...
57 min
3739
Sherry L. Smith, "Bohemians West: Free Love, Fa...
The opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of radicals and reformers fighting for a new America, seeking change not only in labor picket lines and at women’s suffrage rallies but also in homes and bedrooms...
83 min
3740
Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier, "The House on Henry St...
Snyder-Grenier chronicles Henry Street’s sweeping history from 1893 to today...
67 min
3741
M. Ramirez and D. Peterson, "Ignored Racism: Wh...
The authors argues that such accounts fundamentally underestimate the political power of whites' animus toward Latinos and thus miss how conflict extends well beyond immigration to issues such as voting rights, criminal punishment, policing, and which candidates to support....
55 min
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Joseph Clark, "News Parade: The American Newsre...
When weekly newsreels launched in the early twentieth century, they offered the U.S. public the first weekly record of events that symbolized “indisputable evidence” of the news...
67 min
3743
Mariana Mogilevich, "The Invention of Public Sp...
Mogilevich provides a fascinating history of a watershed moment when designers, government administrators, and residents sought to remake the city in the image of a diverse, free, and democratic society...
37 min
3744
Postscript: A Discussion of Race, Anger and Cit...
Race now drives American political feeling. What does this mean for American democracy today?
77 min
3745
Gerald Posner, "Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Po...
Posner explores the fascinating and complex history of pharmaceutical and bio-tech industries. It is an industry like no other and a story like no other...
78 min
3746
Pernille Røge, "Economistes and the Reinvention...
Røge charts the confluence and reciprocal impacts of ideas and policies espoused by political economists, colonial administrators, planters, and entrepreneurs to reform the French empire in the second half of the eighteenth century....
52 min
3747
Hettie V. Williams, "Bury My Heart in a Free La...
Black women intellectuals have traditionally been overlooked in the academic study of American intellectual history...
35 min
3748
Roundtable Discussion of Jennifer Morgan's "Lab...
I enlisted a few #Blktwitterstorians to pull up to the pod and discuss the importance of Dr. Morgan’s Laboring Women to the field of slavery studies,
94 min
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B. Heersink and J. A. Jenkins, "Republican Part...
Heersink and Jenkins describe how Southern Republicans, despite their unpopularity in the South, remained nationally important through their regular participation at the Republican national conventions....
52 min
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Glenda Goodman, "Cultivated by Hand: Amateur Mu...
Through a penetrating examination of music manuscript books, Goodman analyzes the gendered and classed dynamics of the white New England gentry who made these hand-copied music documents...
52 min