New Books in American Studies
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Ryan Hall, "Beneath the Backbone of the World: ...
Hall tells the story of the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people who lived and controlled a large region of what is today the U.S. and Canadian Great Plains...
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Lucas E. Morel, "Lincoln and the American Found...
Morel tells us which of the founders Lincoln particularly admired, why the Declaration was of greater import to Lincoln’s political thinking than the Constitution and how Lincoln turned to the Declaration again and again throughout his adult life....
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Colin Woodard, "Union: The Struggle to Forge th...
It was not a foregone conclusion that the USA would be U. Woodard explains why and how it became U....
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Katie Day Good, "Bring the World to the Child: ...
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, boosters of digital educational technologies emphasized that these platforms are vital tools for cultivating global citizenship...
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Julia Rose Kraut, "Threat of Dissent: A History...
How does the United States use immigration to suppress free speech?
53 min
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Kimberly Brown Pellum, "Black Beauties: African...
Pellum explores the glamorous history of African American beauty queens by using the stories of former contestants to address colorism and racism still prevalent in the industry.
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Aaron Carico, "Black Market: The Slave's Value ...
On the eve of the Civil War, the estimated value of the U.S. enslaved population exceeded $3 billion...
54 min
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Lauren R. Kerby, "Saving History: How White Eva...
Kerby examines how white evangelicals perceive themselves and their role in American life through an analysis of the narratives told by Christian heritage tours...
57 min
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Laura Gómez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of...
Gomez illuminates the fascinating race-making, unmaking, and re-making of Latino identity that has spanned centuries, leaving a permanent imprint on how race operates in the United States today...
59 min
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S. Daulatzai and J. Rana, “With Stones in Our H...
The book focuses on the intersection of racecraft around Muslims and imperial projects of domination by gathering committed scholars and activists to reflect on how we’ve gotten here and how we can move forward...
76 min
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Duane Tananbaum, "Herbert H. Lehman: A Politica...
Over the course of three decades of public service, Herbert Lehman dedicated himself tirelessly to advances the causes in which he believed...
71 min
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John W. Compton, "The End of Empathy: Why White...
81% of white evangelical voters supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election....
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Post Script: Kamala Harris as Vice President
Today’s podcast – recorded on Wednesday, August 12th (less than 24 hours after Democratic candidate Joe Biden announced Senator Kamala Harris as his Vice Presidential pick) – cuts through the hype of “veep stakes” by providing a deep dive....
57 min
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Erik Gellman, "Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom S...
What does democracy look like? And when should we cause trouble to pursue it?
47 min
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Kyle Barnett, "Record Cultures: The Transformat...
Barnett also engages the early recording industry as entertainment media, considering the ways in which sound recording, radio, and film converge in the late 1920s...
64 min
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Andrea Benjamin, "Racial Coalition Building in ...
What explains voting behavior in local elections? More specifically, what explains how ethnic and racial blocs vote in local elections, especially when the candidate may be of a different race or ethnicity?
44 min
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Christopher Newfield, "The Great Mistake: How W...
Have we destroyed the public university? Christopher Newfield thinks so...
52 min
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Jill A. Fisher, "Adverse Events: Race, Inequali...
Fischer explores the hidden world of pharmaceutical testing on healthy volunteers...
44 min
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Deborah E. Kanter, "Chicago Católico: Making Ca...
What happens when a new group of migrants enters not just the social and economic life of a city, but also its religious institutions?
42 min
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Emily Pawley, "The Nature of the Future: Agricu...
Pawley examines a place and period of enormous agricultural vitality—antebellum New York State—and follows thousands of “improving agriculturists,..
61 min
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Amy Von Lintel, "Georgia O'Keeffe's Wartime Tex...
In 1912, at age 24, Georgia O’Keeffe boarded a train in Virginia and headed west, to the prairies of the Texas Panhandle...
39 min
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LaDale Winling, "Building the Ivory Tower: Univ...
Winling casts higher education as the beneficiary and catalyst of the century's monumental state building projects--receiving millions in New Deal construction funds, even more from WWII-era military research, and directing the bulldozer's path during urban renewal schemes around the country...
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Thomas Borstelmann, "Just Like Us: The American...
The American attitude towards outsiders has always been ambivalent....
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Joshua Nall, "News from Mars: Mass Media and th...
Nall shows us that a blurry boundary between science and journalism was a key feature—not a bug—of the emergence of modern astronomy....
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J. Browning and T. Silver, "An Environmental Hi...
This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans' relationship to the natural world....
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