New Books in American Studies
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Jacki Apple, "Performance / Media / Art / Cultu...
These essays trace important developments in performance art both in the Los Angeles and New York scenes, discuss artists including Laurie Anderson, Spalding Gray, Meredith Monk, and Lin Hixson...
101 min
4327
Adam H. Domby, "The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrica...
Domby has written a rigorous analysis of American political memory as it connects to the Civil War and long shadow of the Confederacy,,,
52 min
4328
Christopher D. Bader, "Fear Itself: The Causes ...
From moral panics about immigration and gun control to anxiety about terrorism and natural disasters, Americans live in a culture of fear...
51 min
4329
Robert Elmer, "Piercing Heaven: Prayers of the ...
Elmer's anthology provides access into a world of religious practice that is otherwise lost – many puritans refusing on principle to put their prayers to paper...
30 min
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Christopher Tomlins, "In the Matter of Nat Turn...
In 1831, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than two months in hiding, Turner was captured, and quickly convicted and executed...
65 min
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Charles J. Holden, "Republican Populist: Spiro ...
The authors present Agnew as a progenitor of the conservative populism associated today with America’s 45th president...
59 min
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Pawan Dhingra, "Hyper Education: Why Good Schoo...
Dhingra offers up-close evaluation of the competitive nature of the United States education system and the extra-curricular and co-curricular activities associated with them...
43 min
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David Swift, "A Left for Itself: Left-Wing Hobb...
wift argues that the left is dominated by what he terms hobbyists and performative radicals...
52 min
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Pankaj Jain, "Dharma in America: A Short Histor...
Jain offers a concise history of Hindus and Jains in the Americas over the last two centuries..
71 min
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David Block, "Pastime Lost: The Humble, Origina...
Block painstakingly recovers the origins of baseball games through a close reading of a wide variety of 18th-century sources including newspaper clippings, novels, and diaries...
54 min
4336
Mary Stanton, "Red, Black, White: The Alabama C...
Written from the perspective of the district 17 (CPUSA) Reds who worked primarily in Alabama, the book acquaints a new generation with the impact of the Great Depression on postwar black and white, young and old, urban and rural Americans.
35 min
4337
Maddalena Marinari, "Unwanted: Italian and Jewi...
Marinari examines how, from 1882 to 1965, Italian and Jewish reformers profoundly influenced the country’s immigration policy as they mobilized against the immigration laws that marked them as undesirable...
34 min
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K. Aronoff, et al., "A Planet to Win: Why We Ne...
In early 2019, freshman representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Senator Ed Markey proposed a bold new piece of legislation, now very well known as the Green New Deal.,,
102 min
4339
Miriam J. Abelson, "Men in Place: Trans Masculi...
Abelson and I discuss the various types of masculinity she identified in her study, such as hypermasculine men, regular guys, and men who seek to embody what Abelson calls “Golidlocks masculinity.”
59 min
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Yaron Weitzman, "Tanking to the Top" (Grand Cen...
In Hinkie's view, the best way to reach first was to embrace becoming the worst -- to sacrifice wins in the present in order to capture championships in the future. And to those dubious, Hinkie had a response: Trust The Process, and the results will follow...
39 min
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Richard M. Gamble, "A Fiery Gospel: The Battle ...
America’s most famous hymn was created in very unusual circumstances...
38 min
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Max Blumenthal, "The Management of Savagery: Ho...
Blumenthal excavates the real, connected story behind the rise of Donald Trump, international jihad, Western ultra-nationalism and the many extremist forces that threaten peace across the globe: American imperialism...
82 min
4343
Katherine Franke, "Repair: Redeeming the Promis...
Franke’s ambitious new book challenges Americans to face our collective responsibility for ongoing racial inequality...
45 min
4344
Tim Rooney, "John Beilein at Michigan: A Basket...
During his twelve years in Ann Arbor, Beilein became the program's all-time winningest coach, reached two national championship games, won four Big Ten championships and produced eight NBA first-round draft picks...
44 min
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Asa McKercher, "Canada and the World since 1867...
McKercher offers a strong rebuttal to the Canadian-history-is-boring thesis...
60 min
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Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, "Southern ...
Picken and Dischinger argue in the introduction that the relationship between the US South and alcohol has been overdetermined in popular imagination...
58 min
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David G. Garcia, "Strategies of Segregation: Ra...
García makes a substantial contribution to the history of segregation in the US by examining its implementation and preservation in the city of Oxnard, California from 1903 to 1974...
58 min
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Jonathan Barnett, "Designing the Megaregion: Me...
Barnett describes how to redesign megaregional growth using mostly private investment,..
60 min
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Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird, "Steadfast ...
White and Laird explore the political behavior of African American voters in the United States...
41 min
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Travis Lupick, "Fighting for Space: How a Group...
Lupick explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of a city’s response to the drug crisis. It tells the story of a grassroots group of addicts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside who waged a political street fight for two decades to transform how the city treats its most marginalized citizens...
50 min