New Books in American Studies

Interviews with Scholars of America about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
4076
Maddalena Marinari, "Unwanted: Italian and Jewi...
Marinari examines how, from 1882 to 1965, Italian and Jewish reformers profoundly influenced the country’s immigration policy as they mobilized against the immigration laws that marked them as undesirable...
34 min
4077
K. Aronoff, et al., "A Planet to Win: Why We Ne...
In early 2019, freshman representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Senator Ed Markey proposed a bold new piece of legislation, now very well known as the Green New Deal.,,
102 min
4078
Richard M. Gamble, "A Fiery Gospel: The Battle ...
America’s most famous hymn was created in very unusual circumstances...
38 min
4079
Yaron Weitzman, "Tanking to the Top" (Grand Cen...
In Hinkie's view, the best way to reach first was to embrace becoming the worst -- to sacrifice wins in the present in order to capture championships in the future. And to those dubious, Hinkie had a response: Trust The Process, and the results will follow...
39 min
4080
Miriam J. Abelson, "Men in Place: Trans Masculi...
Abelson and I discuss the various types of masculinity she identified in her study, such as hypermasculine men, regular guys, and men who seek to embody what Abelson calls “Golidlocks masculinity.”
59 min
4081
Max Blumenthal, "The Management of Savagery: Ho...
Blumenthal excavates the real, connected story behind the rise of Donald Trump, international jihad, Western ultra-nationalism and the many extremist forces that threaten peace across the globe: American imperialism...
82 min
4082
Asa McKercher, "Canada and the World since 1867...
McKercher offers a strong rebuttal to the Canadian-history-is-boring thesis...
60 min
4083
Tim Rooney, "John Beilein at Michigan: A Basket...
During his twelve years in Ann Arbor, Beilein became the program's all-time winningest coach, reached two national championship games, won four Big Ten championships and produced eight NBA first-round draft picks...
44 min
4084
Katherine Franke, "Repair: Redeeming the Promis...
Franke’s ambitious new book challenges Americans to face our collective responsibility for ongoing racial inequality...
45 min
4085
Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, "Southern ...
Picken and Dischinger argue in the introduction that the relationship between the US South and alcohol has been overdetermined in popular imagination...
58 min
4086
David G. Garcia, "Strategies of Segregation: Ra...
García makes a substantial contribution to the history of segregation in the US by examining its implementation and preservation in the city of Oxnard, California from 1903 to 1974...
58 min
4087
Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird, "Steadfast ...
White and Laird explore the political behavior of African American voters in the United States...
41 min
4088
Claudio Saunt, "Unworthy Republic: The Disposse...
The Trail of Tears, during which the United States violently expelled thousands of Indigenous peoples from their ancestral homelands in the southeast, was anything but inevitable...
44 min
4089
Jonathan Barnett, "Designing the Megaregion: Me...
Barnett describes how to redesign megaregional growth using mostly private investment,..
60 min
4090
Travis Lupick, "Fighting for Space: How a Group...
Lupick explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of a city’s response to the drug crisis. It tells the story of a grassroots group of addicts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside who waged a political street fight for two decades to transform how the city treats its most marginalized citizens...
50 min
4091
Vincent Brown, "Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an...
Brown expands our understanding of the relationship between European, African, and American history, as it speaks to our understanding of wars of terror today....
61 min
4092
Tom Chaffin, "Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Je...
Of the many thousands who participated in the American and French revolutions in the late 18th century, only a handful played roles in both events...
39 min
4093
J. S. Hirsch and S. Khan, "Sexual Citizens: A L...
"Sexual Citizens" is based on years of research interviewing and observing college life—with students of different races, genders, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds...
58 min
4094
Lane Windham, "Knocking on Labor's Door: Union ...
Windham discusses why the 1970s should be seen as more than a moment of decline for the U.S. labor movement...
41 min
4095
Owen Whooley, "On the Heels of Ignorance: Psych...
Whooley’s book is no anti-psychiatric screed; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving.
59 min
4096
Jeff Forret, "William’s Gang: A Notorious Slave...
Forret explores the career of prominent slave trader William H. Williams, whose operation was based in Washington DC...
47 min
4097
Benjamin E. Park, "Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise ...
Park examines a neglected part of the Mormon past -- the establishment of a thriving Latter-day Saint metropolis in Illinois. In Nauvoo,..
27 min
4098
Kimberly A. Hamlin, "Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrag...
Hamlin offers a fascinating biography of a little-known suffrage leader...
55 min
4099
Paula C. Austin, "Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC:...
Austin's book is not only a history of black youth in Washington D.C. in the 1930s but also a history of social science thought as illustrated in the work of scholars such as sociologists E. Franklin Frazier and William H. Jones...
39 min
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Gerald R. Gems, "Sport and the Shaping of Civic...
Gems provides readers with an extensive overview of how the diverse stakeholders of the metropolis have "used" sport in their neighborhoods (as well as the broader community) to claim their share of athletic life in the Windy City...
52 min