New Books in American Studies
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Nancy Beck Young, "Two Suns of the Southwest" (...
What does the 1964 presidential election have to teach us about party dynamics, civil rights and polarization?
66 min
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Christopher Bonanos, "Flash: The Making of Weeg...
In the middle of the twentieth century, a newspaper photographer who went by the name of Weegee took memorable pictures of New York City’s street life...
39 min
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Peniel E. Joseph, "The Sword and the Shield: Th...
Joseph unpacks the false binaries to reveal the many ways they influenced and persuaded one another. For Joseph, they shared a revolutionary path in search of black dignity, citizenship, and human rights...
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Richard Gergel, "Unexampled Courage" (Sarah Cri...
Gergel connects the stories of Isaac Woodard, Harry Truman, and J. Waties Waring to illustrate how one incident fits into the larger history of civil rights...
88 min
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Mia Fischer, "Terrorizing Gender: Transgender V...
Mia Fischer traces how media and state actors collude in the violent disciplining of trans women...
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Greg Mitchell, "The Beginning or the End: How H...
A movie that began as a cautionary tale inspired by atomic scientists aiming to warn the world against a nuclear arms race would be drained of all impact due to revisions and retakes ordered by President Truman and the military..,.
59 min
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Nicole Myers Turner, "Soul Liberty: The Evoluti...
Turner challenges assumptions regarding the intersection between black religion and politics in this “signal moment of political and cultural transformation in the African-American experience.”
54 min
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David Shimer, "Rigged: America, Russia, and One...
Shimer narrates in meticulous but page-turning detail a century of covert electoral interference, by both the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and continuing to this day...
52 min
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Creshema R. Murray, "Leadership Through the Len...
The book examines how TV impacts our expectations of leadership, organizational life, and pedagogy.
45 min
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Grace Elizabeth Hale, "Cool Town: How Athens, G...
Grace Elizabeth Hale tells the epic story of the Athens, Georgia music scene...
80 min
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M. A. Weitekamp and M. Delaney, "Smithsonian Am...
"Smithsonian American Women" is an inspiring and surprising celebration of U.S. women's history told through Smithsonian artifacts...
76 min
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Nicole Maurantonio, "Confederate Exceptionalism...
Maurantonio’s interdisciplinary book treats the state of Virginia as a confederate museum to be analyzed....
51 min
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Joshua C. Myers, "We Are Worth Fighting For: A ...
Myers explores how black student activists—young men and women— helped shape and resist the rightward shift and neoliberal foundations of American politics....
40 min
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A. P. Carnevale, "The Merit Myth: How Our Colle...
Colleges fiercely defend America’s higher education system, arguing that it rewards bright kids who have worked hard. But it doesn’t actually work this way...
24 min
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Edward J. Robinson, "Hard-Fighting Soldiers: A ...
Robinson provides a comprehensive look at the church’s improbable development against a backdrop of African American oppression...
29 min
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Kennan Ferguson, "Cookbooks Politics" (U Penn P...
Ferguson argues that there is more going on in cookbooks than just recipes...
49 min
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Archie Brown, "The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Rea...
What brought about an end to the Cold War has long been a subject of speculation and mythology...
49 min
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Katherine Stewart, "The Power Worshippers: Insi...
For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage....
58 min
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Vincent Bevins, "The Jakarta Method" (Public Af...
The Jakarta Method joins a growing body of scholarly work on what some call a “political genocide” and what a 1968 CIA report deemed “one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century”.
82 min
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James M. Lundberg, "Horace Greeley: Print, Poli...
Lundberg finds within his seemingly contradictory positions a consistent belief in the power of print to forge American nationalism...
42 min
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Pepper Glass, "Misplacing Ogden, Utah" (U Utah ...
Glass evaluates the widely held assumption that divisions between urban areas are reflections of varying amounts of crime, deprivation, and other social, cultural, and economic problems....
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R. P. Saldin and S. M. Teles, "Never Trump: The...
Should we understand the conservative elites of #Never Trump as homogeneous and united? Failed renegades? Moral guardians of republicanism and values?
83 min
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Zerlina Maxwell, "The End of White Politics: Ho...
Maxwell shows exactly how and why progressives can lean into identity politics, empowering marginalized groups, and uniting under a common vision that will benefit us all...
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Pavlina Tcherneva, "The Case for a Job Guarante...
Tcherneva challenges us to imagine a world where the phantom of unemployment is banished and anyone who seeks decent, living-wage work can find it - guaranteed....
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Nancy MacLean, "Democracy in Chains: The Deep H...
MacLean tracks the development of a secretive political establishment—the capitalist radical right or “property supremacists”—working to alter the rules of democratic governance...
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