New Books in American Studies

Interviews with Scholars of America about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
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Robert G. Boatright and Valerie Sperling, "Trum...
How did the Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns affect other elections in 2016? How did the use of gender stereotypes and insulting references to women in the presidential campaign influence the way House and Senate candidates campaigned?
61 min
3777
Steven C. Smith, "Music by Max Steiner: The Epi...
During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winner Max Steiner did more than any other composer to introduce and establish the language of film music....
65 min
3778
Joy Knoblauch, "The Architecture of Good Behavi...
Knoblauch argues, architects gained new roles as researchers, organizers, and writers while theories of confinement, territory, and surveillance proliferated...
36 min
3779
David Moon, "The American Steppes: The Unexpect...
Beginning in the 1870s, migrant groups from Russia's steppes settled in the similar environment of the Great Plains. Many were Mennonites. They brought plants...
54 min
3780
Uzma Quraishi, "Redefining the Immigrant South"...
Quaraishi follows the Cold War-era journeys of South Asian international students from U.S. Information Service reading rooms in India and Pakistan, to the halls of the University of Houston, to the suburban subdivisions of Alief and Sugar Land....
67 min
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Kerri Arsenault, "Mill Town: Reckoning with Wha...
The mill, while providing livelihoods for nearly everyone, also contributed to the destruction of the environment and the decline of the town’s economic, physical, and emotional health in a slow-moving catastrophe...
57 min
3782
L. D'Amour and K. Pearl, "Milton: A Performance...
In 2012, Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl--known collectively as PearlDamour--began visiting five small American towns named Milton....
60 min
3783
Waleed Mahdi, "Arab Americans in Film: From Hol...
Mahdi offers a comparative analysis of the portrayals of Arab Americans in film and interrogates how such representations have been, and continue to be, disrupted and challenged...
44 min
3784
Elspeth H. Brown, "Work! A Queer History of Mod...
Brown traces the history of modeling from the advent of photographic modeling in the early twentieth century to the rise of the supermodel in the 1980s....
43 min
3785
John R. Hibbing, "The Securitarian Personality:...
What are the policy implications due to a fundamental distrust and dislike of “outsiders”?
43 min
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Lauren Michele Jackson, "White Negroes: When Co...
Jackson demonstrates that cultural appropriation (especially of Black culture by white artists) is prevalent and deeply rooted in America’s history of inequality...
59 min
3787
David R. B. Beck, "Unfair Labor?: American Indi...
The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition was in many ways the crowning event of the nineteenth century United States....
76 min
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Khary O. Polk, "Contagions of Empire: Scientifi...
Polk examines how the shifting views of Black military through the first half of the 20th century, as the U.S. increased its global empire and warfare...
54 min
3789
Colin Woodard, "Union: The Struggle to Forge th...
It was not a foregone conclusion that the USA would be U. Woodard explains why and how it became U....
40 min
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Ryan Hall, "Beneath the Backbone of the World: ...
Hall tells the story of the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people who lived and controlled a large region of what is today the U.S. and Canadian Great Plains...
46 min
3791
Lucas E. Morel, "Lincoln and the American Found...
Morel tells us which of the founders Lincoln particularly admired, why the Declaration was of greater import to Lincoln’s political thinking than the Constitution and how Lincoln turned to the Declaration again and again throughout his adult life....
99 min
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Lauren R. Kerby, "Saving History: How White Eva...
Kerby examines how white evangelicals perceive themselves and their role in American life through an analysis of the narratives told by Christian heritage tours...
57 min
3793
Laura Gómez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of...
Gomez illuminates the fascinating race-making, unmaking, and re-making of Latino identity that has spanned centuries, leaving a permanent imprint on how race operates in the United States today...
59 min
3794
Kimberly Brown Pellum, "Black Beauties: African...
Pellum explores the glamorous history of African American beauty queens by using the stories of former contestants to address colorism and racism still prevalent in the industry.
31 min
3795
Julia Rose Kraut, "Threat of Dissent: A History...
How does the United States use immigration to suppress free speech?
53 min
3796
Aaron Carico, "Black Market: The Slave's Value ...
On the eve of the Civil War, the estimated value of the U.S. enslaved population exceeded $3 billion...
54 min
3797
Katie Day Good, "Bring the World to the Child: ...
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, boosters of digital educational technologies emphasized that these platforms are vital tools for cultivating global citizenship...
36 min
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Duane Tananbaum, "Herbert H. Lehman: A Politica...
Over the course of three decades of public service, Herbert Lehman dedicated himself tirelessly to advances the causes in which he believed...
71 min
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John W. Compton, "The End of Empathy: Why White...
81% of white evangelical voters supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election....
32 min
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S. Daulatzai and J. Rana, “With Stones in Our H...
The book focuses on the intersection of racecraft around Muslims and imperial projects of domination by gathering committed scholars and activists to reflect on how we’ve gotten here and how we can move forward...
76 min