New Books in American Studies

Interviews with Scholars of America about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
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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
3877
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
3878
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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Federico R. Waitoller, "Excluded by Choice: Urb...
Waitoller highlights the challenges faced by students of color who have special needs and their parents who evaluate their educational options...
40 min
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Jennifer L. Morgan, "Laboring Women: Reproducti...
"Laboring Women" was the first historical text to focus on Black women’s reproductive labor under New World slavery in the early modern period...
75 min
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Muhammed Fraser-Rahim, "America’s Other Muslims...
Fraser-Rahim explores the oldest and perhaps the most important Muslim community in America, whose story has received little attention in the contemporary context...
65 min
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Joshua Greenberg, "Bank Notes and Shinplasters:...
What is money? No, really, what is money? It turns out the answer is not so simple.
35 min
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Matthew Yglesias, "One Billion Americans: The C...
What would actually make America great? More people.
58 min
3884
Stooges Brass Band, "Can’t Be Faded: Twenty Yea...
"Can't Be Faded" is a collaboration between musician and ethnomusicologist Kyle DeCoste and more than a dozen members of the Stooges Brass Band, past and present...
80 min
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Postscript: Shirley Chisholm as Principled Poli...
What is the political and intellectual legacy of Shirley Chisholm?
54 min
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Charles Allan McCoy, "Diseased States: Epidemic...
McCoy provides a blueprint for managing pandemics in the twenty-first century...
47 min
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Kristin Kobez Du Mez, "Jesus and John Wayne: Ho...
One of the most perplexing elements of Donald Trumps’s 2016 electoral victory was the overwhelming support he received from white Evangelicals...
86 min
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Nathan J. Kelly, "America's Inequality Trap" (U...
Kelly argues that the increasing concentration of economic power effects political power, thus allowing the gap between the rich and everyone else to become more acute and more rigid...
38 min
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John F. Marszalek III, "Coming Out of the Magno...
Marszalek shares conversations with same-sex couples living in small-town and rural Mississippi...
28 min
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Sara Mayeux, "Free Justice: A History of the Pu...
Mayeux explores the rise, both in the idea and practice, of the public defender throughout the 20th century...
52 min
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Philip Nash, "Breaking Protocol: America's Firs...
Nash examines the history of the "Big Six" and how they carved out their rightful place in history..
64 min
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Richard G. Moore, "The Writings of Oliver Olney...
Oliver H. Olney, an early convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, fled to Nauvoo, Illinois, following persecution in Missouri...
32 min
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Rafael Medoff, "The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Fra...
Roosevelt could have bombed the camps and saved Jews. Why didn't he? It's a hard question....
58 min
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João Costa Vargas, "The Denial of Antiblackness...
An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society.
70 min
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Paul Moyer, "Detestable and Wicked Arts: New En...
Witch hunts. Not the metaphorical kind. Real witch hunts. Learn all about it here...
43 min
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Dan Edelstein, "On the Spirit of Rights" (U Chi...
By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did “rights” come to justify such measures?
82 min
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Chris Yogerst, "Hollywood Hates Hitler!: Jew-ba...
In September 1941, a handful of isolationist senators set out to tarnish Hollywood for warmongering...
64 min
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J. E. Zelizer, "Burning Down the House: Newt Gi...
Trump is not the first Republican to rise to power by pushing incendiary policies and destroying opponents...
44 min
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Ellyn Lem, "Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in th...
Lem draws upon diverse cultural representation from movies, films, books, and art, and juxtaposes these narratives of aging with surveys from over 200 seniors aged 65 and over from around the United States to explore questions of meaning in older life...
49 min
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Lou Hernandez, "Bobby Maduro and the Cuban Suga...
Maduro was greatly responsible for the Cuban League’s recognition by professional baseball (in the US)....
50 min