New Books in American Studies

Interviews with Scholars of America about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
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C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A Hi...
Alvarez offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of a border wall in 1990...
57 min
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Keri Leigh Merritt, "Masterless Men: Poor White...
Merritt discusses the intersections of race, class, politics, and slavery in the pre-Civil War South....
29 min
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Susan Schulten, "A History of America in 100 Ma...
Schulten uses maps to explore five centuries of America history, from the voyages of European discovery to the digital age...
83 min
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Maria Veri and Rita Liberti, "Gridiron Gourmet:...
Veri and Liberti the origins of tailgating in the United States, the way that tailgate gender roles changed throughout the 20th century; the interplay between the gender of tailgaters, cooking technologies, and food ways of tailgating; and the future possibilities and current limitations of the tailgating community...
53 min
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H. Suzanne Woods and L. A. Hahner, "Make Americ...
Woods and Hahner explore memes as a communication phenomenon with cultural effects with a specific focus on how memes circulated toward the end of the Trump campaign...
58 min
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Benjamin Francis-Fallon, "The Rise of the Latin...
Francis-Fallon historicizes how Latinos were imagined into a national electoral constituency...
50 min
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Great Books: Ava Chin on Kingston's "The Woman ...
What stories should we remember, and which ones are we forced to forget?
43 min
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David Head, "A Crisis of Peace: George Washingt...
In March 1783, George Washington confronted a meeting of disgruntled Continental Army officers at their encampment at Newburgh, New York...
54 min
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Stanley Fish, "The First: How to Think About Ha...
Fish discusses the popular and legal meanings of the First Amendment’s speech and religion clauses...
58 min
4335
Christopher A. Preble, "Fuel to the Fire: How T...
President Trump has shown little interest in maintaining the traditional form of American leadership of the liberal international order...
45 min
4336
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, "Banned: Immigration E...
Immigration is one of the most complex issues of our time in the United States...
40 min
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Charlotte Brooks, "American Exodus: Second-Gene...
Between 1901 and World War II, up to half of all U.S.-born Chinese Americans relocated to China in search of better lives due to the discrimination they faced in the United States...
65 min
4338
Matt Grossmann, "Red State Blues: How the Conse...
Grossmann finds that, overall, the size of state governments was not reduced under conservative leadership...
32 min
4339
The Treaty of Versailles One Hundred Years On
The Versailles Treaty of 1919, celebrates its one-hundred anniversary this year...
37 min
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Alex Lichtenstein, "Margaret Bourke-White and t...
"Life" published two photo-essays highlighting Bourke-White’s photographs, but much of her South African work remained unpublished until now...
35 min
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Angelina Callahan, "NASA in the World: Fifty Ye...
Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory’s Vanguard Project...
31 min
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Evan Friss, "On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of...
Friss historicizes the bicycle’s place in New York City’s social, economic, infrastructural and cultural politics...
46 min
4343
David Pettinicchio, "Politics of Empowerment: D...
Pettinicchio offers a history of the political development of disability rights in the United States...
22 min
4344
Darius Sollohub, "Millennials in Architecture: ...
Much has been written about Millennials, but until now their growing presence in the field of architecture has not been examined in depth...
48 min
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Jim Rossi, "Cleantech Con Artists: A True Vegas...
Rossi tells the real life story of his effort to get to the bottom of confidence men in the modern American West...
34 min
4346
Brandon R. Byrd, "The Black Republic: African A...
Byrd examines the multitude of responses by African American leaders towards Haiti following the Civil War and going into the 20th Century...
56 min
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Beth Fischer, "The Myth of Triumphalism: Rethin...
Fischer argues that the military buildup was actually deeply counterproductive, frightening the Soviet leadership and delaying meaningful negotiations for several years...
40 min
4348
Matthew Lockwood, "To Begin The World Over Agai...
Lockwood shows that the war, whatever its debatable effects for the residents of the thirteen colonies, unleashed a whole host of catastrophes for people elsewhere...
64 min
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Talitha LeFlouria, "Chained in Silence: Black W...
LeFlouria discusses the lives, labors, and legacies of incarcerated black women and the convict lease system in the early 20th century South...
34 min
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Darnella Davis, "Untangling a Red, White, and B...
Davis combines the personal with the national in telling the story of allotment in Indian Territory/Oklahoma...
55 min