New Books in American Studies

Interviews with Scholars of America about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
4126
Travis Bell et al., "CTE, Media, and the NFL: F...
In "CTE, Media, and the NFL," Bell, Applequist and Dotson-Pierson use media theory to unpack reporting on CTE.
56 min
4127
Alan Taylor, "Thomas Jefferson’s Education" (W....
Taylor tells the story of how Jefferson’s vision for educating the next generations of American came to be...
32 min
4128
Tania Jenkins, "Doctors’ Orders: The Making of ...
Jenkins engages readers in readers in a ethnography where she spent years observing and interviewing American, international, and osteopathic medical residents in two hospitals...
48 min
4129
Benjamin Wittes, "Unmaking the Presidency: Dona...
According to Hennessey and Wittes, the "traditional" presidency is being replaced by the "expressive" presidency.
43 min
4130
Josh Seim, "Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulanc...
What is the role of the ambulance in the American city?
58 min
4131
B. J. Hollars, "Midwestern Strange: Hunting Mon...
Hollars examines aliens who share pancakes with a plumber, Mothman, Hodag, and other strange creatures and experiences in small town America...
42 min
4132
Ann Coulter, "Resistance Is Futile!: How the Tr...
According to Coulter, the Left's response to Trump was a kind of collective madness...
49 min
4133
Melissa Walker and Giselle Roberts, "Women’s Di...
Walker and Roberts discuss the field of documentary editing and how the personal writings of southern women reveal the broader history of life in the U.S. South during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
40 min
4134
Paul J. Polgar, "Standard-Bearers of Equality: ...
Polgar tells the story of a racially inclusive abolition movement which followed in the wake of the American Revolution...
59 min
4135
Sophie White, "Voices of the Enslaved: Love, La...
In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved...
40 min
4136
Jamie L. H. Goodall, "Pirates of the Chesapeake...
The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy...
44 min
4137
Theda Skocpol, "Upending American Politics" (Ox...
Since 2008, the Tea Party and the Resistance have caused some major shake-ups for the Republican and Democratic parties...
42 min
4138
Megan T. Neely and Ken Hou-Lin, "Divested: Ineq...
Neely and Hou-Lin explore the rise of finance in American life over the last forty years and its implications for American workers, families, and economies...
47 min
4139
Steve Vogel, "Betrayal in Berlin: The True Stor...
Vogel tells the astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage operations of the Cold War—and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it...
59 min
4140
Berry Grass, "Hall of Waters" (Operating System...
Grass’s aim is nothing less than to demythologize the American Midwest.
47 min
4141
Great Books: Hillary Chute on Art Spiegelman's ...
Art Spiegelman's Maus is the story of an American cartoonist's efforts to uncover and record his father's story of survival of the Holocaust...
57 min
4142
Walter Nugent, "Color Coded: Party Politics in ...
Nugent provides a detailed analysis of each Western state’s modern political history...
49 min
4143
Sarah Burns, "The Politics of War Powers: The T...
Burns pulls together distinct threads in analyzing the theoretical framing of presidential power in the American constitutional system and then tracing that power through forty-five presidents...
48 min
4144
Jennifer E. Gaddis, "The Labor of Lunch: Why We...
Gaddis aims to spark a progressive movement that will transform food in American schools, and with it the lives of thousands of low-paid cafeteria workers and the millions of children they feed...
57 min
4145
Jonathan Hopkin, "Anti-System Politics: The Cri...
Should we understand the rise of Trump or the success of Brexit in terms of populism? Culture? Xenophobia? Do the same political forces produce Sanders and Trump?
50 min
4146
Larry Wolff, "Woodrow Wilson and the Reimaginin...
Wolff traces how Wilson's emerging definition of national self-determination and his practical application of the principle changed over time as negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference unfolded...
55 min
4147
Justin Nystrom, "Creole Italian: Sicilian Immig...
Nystrom argues that the discourse about New Orleans has been narrowed to a single story and controlled by something vaguely defined as “Creole” which has “long robbed the city of the potential for a richer cultural self-image.”
56 min
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Rebecca E. Zietlow, "The Forgotten Emancipator:...
Though the story of emancipation is well known in American history, the roles of many of the key figures involved in it are often overlooked. Among them is James Mitchell Ashley...
50 min
4149
Mort Zachter, "Red Holzman: The Life and Legacy...
From humble beginnings as the son of immigrant parents growing up in Brooklyn, Holzman paved a path of excellence at every level...
38 min
4150
Kathy Peiss, "The Information Hunters" (Oxford ...
While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause...
31 min