New Books in American Studies
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John C. McManus, "Fire and Fortitude: The US Ar...
The men and women of the US Army were among the first to confront the Japanese military onslaught, most notably in the Philippines...
69 min
4302
Thomas Richards Jr., "Breakaway Americas: The U...
Richards argues that the map of North America was not preordained...
61 min
4303
Alex Sayf Cummings, "Brain Magnet: Research Tri...
Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina’s low-wage economy...
35 min
4304
Samuel Morris Brown, "Joseph Smith's Translatio...
Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith, claimed to have translated ancient scriptures. He dictated an American Bible from metal plates reportedly buried by ancient Jews in a nearby hill,...
53 min
4305
Michael Rectenwald, "Beyond Woke" (New English ...
Rectenwald returns with his characteristic sharp wit and incisive analysis and continues to fine tune his critique of modern leftism...
61 min
4306
Anne Lindsay, "Reconsidering Interpretation of ...
Lindsay explores a number of tourist attractions that play a crucial role in teaching Americans about their past...
64 min
4307
Michael A. Olivas, "Perchance to DREAM: A Legal...
Olivas provides a much needed legal and political history of the DREAM Act that spans over two decades from its introduction in Congress (2001) to the Trump Administration challenge of legality in the Supreme Court (2017)....
60 min
4308
Melissa J. Wilde, "Birth Control Battles: How R...
Wilde shows that support for contraception among some of America’s most prominent religious groups was tied to white supremacist views of race, immigration, and manifest destiny....
62 min
4309
Caridad Svich, "Mitchell and Trask’s Hedwig and...
This book is Caridad Svich’s love letter to the 1998 musical that introduced the world to its favorite East German ex-pat genderqueer rock star, Hedwig...
48 min
4310
Lesly-Marie Buer, "RX Appalachia: Stories of Tr...
Buer explores the gendered inequalities that situate women’s encounters with substance abuse treatment as well as additional state interventions targeted at women who use drugs in one of the most impoverished regions in the US....
42 min
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Sunny Stalter-Pace, "Imitation Artist: Gertrude...
Gertrude Hoffman is one of many entertainers who were big stars in vaudeville before World War I, but whose celebrity faded as the American public was seduced by radio and film after the Great War.
54 min
4312
Aya Gruber, "The Feminist War on Crime: The Une...
Gruber explains how the women’s movement in America has shaped the law on domestic violence and sexual assault...
63 min
4313
David A. Harris, "A City Divided: Race, Fear an...
How do we move police forces from a warrior culture to connecting better with communities they serve?
42 min
4314
Brett Dakin, "American Daredevil: Comics, Commu...
Gleason’s experiences with the House Un-American Activities Committee and Dr. Frederic Wertham and other Anti-Comic activists give a glimpse into important political and social activism of the 1940s and 50s in American history...
45 min
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Sarah B. Rodriguez, "The Love Surgeon: A Story ...
Dr. James Burt believed women’s bodies were broken, and only he could fix them....
41 min
4316
Lindsay M. Chervinsky, "The Cabinet: George Was...
Chervinsky traces the origins of the President’s cabinet in American government...
49 min
4317
Amity Shlaes, "Great Society: A New History" (H...
Shlaes’ book is exquisitely well-timed. Now is the time to revisit the Great Society era and consider what worked and what ended up destroying poor neighborhoods and the lives of those in them...
56 min
4318
Sophie White, "Voices of the Enslaved: Love, La...
White beautifully brings to life the lives and experiences of a number of enslaved women and men whose individual stories have heretofore never been told..,
73 min
4319
Ann Tucker, "Newest Born of Nations: European N...
From the earliest stirrings of southern nationalism to the defeat of the Confederacy, analysis of European nationalist movements played a critical role in how southerners thought about their new southern nation...
28 min
4320
Theresa Kaminski, "Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War:...
Among the tens of thousands of Americans who volunteered their services during the Civil War was Mary Walker, a daring young woman who was one of the handful of female doctors in the nation at that time...
48 min
4321
Jan Doering, "Us versus Them: Race, Crime, and ...
In Chicago, "public safety" and "social justice" do not alway go hand in hand...
50 min
4322
JoAnna Poblete, "Balancing the Tides: Marine Pr...
Poblete demonstrates how western-style economics, policy-making, and knowledge building imposed by the U.S. federal government have been infused into the daily lives of American Samoans...
64 min
4323
Kathleen Bachynski, "No Game for Boys to Play: ...
Bachynski examines American football from its origins from the perspective of a public health specialist and an historian...
60 min
4324
Verónica Martínez-Matsuda, "Migrant Citizenship...
Martinez-Matsuda exams the Farm Security Administration’s Migratory Labor Camp Program, and its role in the daily lives of a diverse number of farmworker families...
53 min
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R. K. Jefferson and H. B. Johnson, "Shortlisted...
Before Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court in 1981, nine highly qualified women were on the shortlist. What do the stories of these women tell us about the judiciary? Gender? Feminism? Race?
57 min