New Books in American Studies
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4301
Randy E. Barnett, "An Introduction to Constitut...
Want to know under what pretexts a local government can seize your house?
75 min
4302
Sonali Chakravarti, "Radical Enfranchisement in...
Chakravarti a thoughtful analysis of the role of the jury in American democracy, with specific attention to the way that the jury experience can provide the structure for more substantive civic engagement....
47 min
4303
Matthew McManus, "The Rise of Post-Modern Conse...
Manus argues that Trump and other similar figures and movements represent a new form of conservatism, one with a long history of development, and formed as a response to various social dynamics...
46 min
4304
Rebecca J. Kissane and Sarah Winslow, "Whose Ga...
63 min
4305
Abram Van Engen, "City on a Hill: A History of ...
Van Engen examines early American literature, the history of emotions, Puritanism, collective memory, and American Exceptionalism...
32 min
4306
Christian Wright, "Carbon County, USA: Miners f...
During the early 1970s, a movement of rank-and-file coal miners rose up in Appalachia to challenge mine bosses and stodgy union officials...
55 min
4307
Danny Haiphong, "American Exceptionalism and Am...
According to Robert Sirvent and Danny Haiphong, Americans have been exposed to fake news throughout our history...
76 min
4308
Tyler Bickford, "Tween Pop: Children’s Music an...
Bickford addresses the ways in which the music industry seized only childishness as a key element in legitimizing children's participation in public culture...
73 min
4309
David A. Bateman, "Disenfranchising Democracy: ...
Why was mass democratization – abolishing property and tax qualifications – accompanied by the mass disenfranchisement of black, male citizens?
52 min
4310
Ayala Fader, "Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in ...
What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known?
90 min
4311
Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: T...
As a novelist, short story author, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate, William Faulkner looms large in modern American literature.,.
54 min
4312
Katie Horowitz, "Drag, Interperformance, and th...
Horowitz argues that the radical (in)difference between kings and queens provides a window into the perennial rift between lesbians and gay men...
61 min
4313
María Cristina García, "The Refugee Challenge i...
García evaluates how the end of the Cold War brought new and unanticipated challenges to upholding this commitment from 1989 to the present...
62 min
4314
Adam J. MacLeod, "The Age of Selfies: Reasoning...
Incivility in our public discourse is limiting our ability to get things done as a nation and preventing us from expressing ourselves in workplaces and classrooms for fear of offending those with real or imagined historical grievances or even merely strongly held views...
110 min
4315
Lee Vinsel, "Moving Violations: Automobiles, Ex...
Vinsel argues that automobiles have been shaped by government regulation through and through...
45 min
4316
Paul M. Renfro, "Stranger Danger: Family Values...
Renfro narrates how the bereaved parents of missing and slain children turned their grief into a mass movement and, alongside journalists and policymakers from both major political parties, propelled a moral panic...
31 min
4317
James Shapiro, "Shakespeare in a Divided Americ...
Shapiro turns his attention to the reception of Shakespeare in the US from the colonial period to the present...
67 min
4318
Patrick M. Condon, "Five Rules for Tomorrow’s C...
How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet...
54 min
4319
Martha Ackermann, "These Fevered Days: Ten Pivo...
After a life lived in obscurity, Emily Dickinson emerged after death as one of the greatest poets of her time...
53 min
4320
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
4321
Le’Trice D. Donaldson, "Duty Beyond the Battlef...
Donaldson investigates how African American soldiers used their military service to challenge white notions of an African American second-class citizenry and forged a new identity as freedom fighters...
71 min
4322
Terry Iverson, "Finding America's Greatest Cham...
Iverson highlights the importance of manufacturing in our economy as well as the ways parents, mentors, and teachers can work together to foster the character traits and critical thinking skills required in the twentieth-century workforce...
38 min
4323
Abraham Newman and Henry Farrell, "Of Privacy a...
The authors offer a timely and wise analysis of globalization and how it has fundamentally transformed governance....
40 min
4324
Peter La Chapelle, "I’d Fight the World: A Poli...
La Chapelle traces interactions between country music and politics beginning with two late nineteenth-century politicians who fiddled to their supporters and ending with the 2016 election season...
57 min
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Courtney M. Dorroll, “Teaching Islamic Studies ...
Dorrell covers approaches, strategies, and topics important for the study of Islam today...
54 min