New Books in American Studies

Interviews with Scholars of America about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
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Great Books: Glenn Wallis on Gibran's "The Prop...
Kahlil Gibran’s 1923 The Prophet is book that’s changed people’s lives...
63 min
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Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New...
In the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City...
61 min
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Jacob Remes, "Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, ...
Remes challenges prevailing assumptions about how ordinary people, governments, and institutions act in the wake of natural disasters...
38 min
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Catherine Newell, "Destined for the Stars: Fait...
Catherine Newell talks about the religious roots of the final frontier, focusing on the collaboration of artist Chesley Bonestell, science writer Willy Ley, and the NASA rocket engineer Wernher von Braun...
35 min
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SpearIt, “American Prisons: A Critical Primer o...
In the books, SpearIt brings the subject of incarcerated Muslims into focus...
75 min
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Andrea Boyles, "You Can’t Stop the Revolution: ...
Boyles provides vivid ethnographic work and in-depth interviews from the Ferguson protests...
59 min
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Catherine A. Stewart, "Long Past Slavery: Repre...
Stewart examines the history behind the collection of more than 2,300 narratives from formerly enslaved people, as part of the New Deal’s Federal Writers’ Project...
70 min
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
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Gregory P. Downs, "The Second American Revoluti...
Downs argues that we can see the Civil War anew by understanding it as a revolution...
69 min
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Christopher J. Phillips, "Scouting and Scoring:...
Phillips crafts a compelling narrative sure to delight baseball fans and historians of the human sciences alike...
43 min
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Mark Katz, "Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diploma...
In April 2014, a cohort of twenty-five hip hop artists assembled in Washington, D.C. for the first orientation meeting of a new cultural diplomacy program sponsored by the United States State Department,,,
57 min
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Leah Stokes, "Short Circuiting Policy: Interest...
44 min
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Andrew R. M. Smith, "No Way But To Fight: Georg...
Smith shows that from his upbringing in Houston’s Fifth Ward to his role as a spokesman for the Foreman Grill, Foreman always fought to redefine himself along with the times...
58 min
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Daniel Denvir, "All-American Nativism: How the ...
The profound forces of all-American nativism have, in fact, been pushing politics so far to the right over the last forty years that, for many people,..
40 min
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Scott C. Esplin, "Return to the City of Joseph:...
In the mid-twentieth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) returned to Nauvoo, Illinois, home to the thriving religious community led by Joseph Smith before his murder in 1844...
60 min
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Keri Holt, "Reading These United States: Federa...
Holt explores how Americans read, saw, and understood the federal structure of the country in its early years...
34 min
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Jodie Jackson, “You Are What You Read: Why Chan...
Jackson argues that a new type of news consumption leads to feelings of anger and helplessness...
37 min
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Neil Maher, "Apollo in the Age of Aquarius" (Ha...
Neil Maher talks about the social forces that shaped NASA in the 1960s and 70s, connecting the space race with the radical upheavals of the counterculture...
30 min
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Adrienne Petty, "Standing Their Ground: Small F...
Petty discusses the black and white farmers in the South who were part of the "small farming class," and their evolving strategies for holding onto their land through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
40 min
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James D. Bratt, "A Christian and a Democrat: A ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when asked at a press conference about the roots of his political philosophy, responded simply, “I am a Christian and a Democrat.”
55 min
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Ian Wray, "No Little Plans: How Government Buil...
Wray’s book goes in search of an America shaped by government, plans and bureaucrats, not by businesses, bankers and shareholders. He demonstrates that government plans did not damage American wealth. On the contrary, they built it, and in the most profound ways...
51 min
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Tad DeLay, ​"Against: What Does the White Evang...
DeLay traces five zones of White Evangelical opposition: future, knowledge, sexuality, reality, and society...
63 min
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Lauren Working, "The Making of an Imperial Poli...
Working examines a complex trans-Atlantic process of the movement of objects, ideas, and cultural mixing...
29 min
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James M. Banner, Jr., "Presidential Misconduct:...
What standard should be used to assess presidential misconduct during the Trump presidency?
49 min
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Andrew Marble, "Boy on the Bridge: The Story of...
When President Bill Clinton nominated John Shalikashvili to be the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1993, it represented the climax of a long journey that began in waning days of the Second World War...
39 min