New Books in American Studies
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Joseph Clark, "News Parade: The American Newsre...
When weekly newsreels launched in the early twentieth century, they offered the U.S. public the first weekly record of events that symbolized “indisputable evidence” of the news...
67 min
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Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier, "The House on Henry St...
Snyder-Grenier chronicles Henry Street’s sweeping history from 1893 to today...
67 min
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M. Ramirez and D. Peterson, "Ignored Racism: Wh...
The authors argues that such accounts fundamentally underestimate the political power of whites' animus toward Latinos and thus miss how conflict extends well beyond immigration to issues such as voting rights, criminal punishment, policing, and which candidates to support....
55 min
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Sherry L. Smith, "Bohemians West: Free Love, Fa...
The opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of radicals and reformers fighting for a new America, seeking change not only in labor picket lines and at women’s suffrage rallies but also in homes and bedrooms...
83 min
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Postscript: A Discussion of Race, Anger and Cit...
Race now drives American political feeling. What does this mean for American democracy today?
77 min
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Gerald Posner, "Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Po...
Posner explores the fascinating and complex history of pharmaceutical and bio-tech industries. It is an industry like no other and a story like no other...
78 min
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Mariana Mogilevich, "The Invention of Public Sp...
Mogilevich provides a fascinating history of a watershed moment when designers, government administrators, and residents sought to remake the city in the image of a diverse, free, and democratic society...
37 min
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Pernille Røge, "Economistes and the Reinvention...
Røge charts the confluence and reciprocal impacts of ideas and policies espoused by political economists, colonial administrators, planters, and entrepreneurs to reform the French empire in the second half of the eighteenth century....
52 min
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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
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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
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B. Heersink and J. A. Jenkins, "Republican Part...
Heersink and Jenkins describe how Southern Republicans, despite their unpopularity in the South, remained nationally important through their regular participation at the Republican national conventions....
52 min
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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
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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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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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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