New Books in American Studies
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4001
Richard L. Hasen, "Election Meltdown: Dirty Tri...
As the 2020 presidential campaign begins to take shape, there is widespread distrust of the fairness and accuracy of American elections....
41 min
4002
Valerie Olson, "Into the Extreme: U.S. Environm...
What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it?
64 min
4003
Eric San Juan, "The Films of Martin Scorsese: G...
Few mainstream filmmakers have as pronounced a disregard for the supposed rules of filmmaking as Martin Scorsese...
58 min
4004
Michael Walzer, "A Foreign Policy for the Left"...
What is "Left" foreign policy? Michael Walzer explains...
69 min
4005
K. Grenier and A. Mushal, "Cultures of Memory i...
The essays in this volume explore commemorative practices as they developed in the nineteenth century...
47 min
4006
Janet Jakobsen, "The Sex Obsession: Perversity ...
Why are Americans, and American politicians more specifically, obsessed with sex? Why, in the words of Janet Jakobsen, are gender and sexuality such riveting public policy concerns the United States?
54 min
4007
Spencer Critchley, "Patriots of Two Nations: Wh...
America is in a Cold Civil War, between people who see each other as threats to the country — but themselves as patriots. How can that be? They are patriots of two nations...
58 min
4008
Alexandra J. Finley, "An Intimate Economy: Ensl...
Finley examines the history of American slavery and capitalism by foregrounding women’s labor in the Antebellum slave trade...
42 min
4009
Jessica Zychowicz, "Superfluous Women: Art, Fem...
Zychowicz tells the unique story of a generation of artists, feminists, and queer activists who emerged in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union...
54 min
4010
Tahseen Shams, "Here, There, and Elsewhere: The...
Drawing from the experiences of diasporic South Asian Muslim community in America, namely Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, and Indians, Shams introduces an innovative conceptual notion of “elsewhere” which informs her new multicentered approach to the study of globalized immigrant identities...
57 min
4011
Paul Howe, "Teen Spirit: How Adolescence Transf...
Howe offers a novel and provocative perspective on how we came to be living in an age of political immaturity and social turmoil...
70 min
4012
Why are Blacks Democrats?: An Interview with Is...
Black Americans are by far the most unified racial group in American electoral politics, with 80 to 90 percent identifying as Democrats—a surprising figure given that nearly a third now also identify as ideologically conservative, up from less than 10 percent in the 1970s.
51 min
4013
Seth Masket, "Learning from Loss: The Democrats...
What happened to the Democratic Party after 2016?
60 min
4014
Ian Haney López, "Merge Left: Fusing Race and C...
Greedy elites are purposefully stoking racial division and laughing all the way to the bank.
71 min
4015
A. B. Cox and C. M. Rodríguez, "The President a...
Who truly controls immigration law in the United States?
44 min
4016
Rhodri Jeffreys Jones, "The Nazi Spy Ring in Am...
Rhodri Jeffreys Jones tells the dramatic story of the Nazi spy ring in America. In the mid-1930s just as the United States was embarking on a policy of neutrality,..
54 min
4017
Ernest Freeberg, "A Traitor to His Species: Hen...
In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and animal alike...
59 min
4018
Farzaneh Hemmasi, "Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intima...
Farzaneh discusses the history of popular music in Iran, the correlation between notions of morality and music in general, and women's voices in particular,
60 min
4019
R. Rosenberg and R. Rubinstein, "Teaching Jewis...
In this interview, Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein (editors), engage our listeners in a conversation about different approaches to teaching Jewish American Literature, complicating what it means to be “American”.
61 min
4020
Chris Lombardi, "I Ain’t Marching Anymore: Diss...
Before the U.S. Constitution had even been signed, soldiers and new veterans protested...
27 min
4021
Hannah L. Walker, "Mobilized by Injustice: Crim...
Walker brings together the political science and criminal justice disciplines in exploring how individuals are mobilized to engage in political participation by their connection to the criminal justice system in the United States...
44 min
4022
Daniel Macfarlane, "Fixing Niagara Falls: Envir...
The first people to record their reactions to the falls in North America were fascinated by its beauty and power...
59 min
4023
Jerry Gershenhorn, "Louis Austin and the Caroli...
Gershenshorn offers a history of the struggle for Black equality in North Carolina from 1927 to 1971 as told through the life and activism of Black newspaperman Louis Austin...
54 min
4024
Christopher Capozzola, "Bound By War: How the U...
Christopher Capozzola reveals this forgotten history, showing how war and military service forged an enduring, yet fraught, alliance between Americans and Filipinos...
66 min
4025
Jennifer Lisa Koslow, "Exhibiting Health: Publi...
In the early twentieth century, public health reformers approached the task of ameliorating unsanitary conditions and preventing epidemic diseases with optimism...
45 min