New Books in American Studies
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Claudio Saunt, "Unworthy Republic: The Disposse...
The Trail of Tears, during which the United States violently expelled thousands of Indigenous peoples from their ancestral homelands in the southeast, was anything but inevitable...
44 min
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Vincent Brown, "Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an...
Brown expands our understanding of the relationship between European, African, and American history, as it speaks to our understanding of wars of terror today....
61 min
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Tom Chaffin, "Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Je...
Of the many thousands who participated in the American and French revolutions in the late 18th century, only a handful played roles in both events...
39 min
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J. S. Hirsch and S. Khan, "Sexual Citizens: A L...
"Sexual Citizens" is based on years of research interviewing and observing college life—with students of different races, genders, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds...
58 min
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Lane Windham, "Knocking on Labor's Door: Union ...
Windham discusses why the 1970s should be seen as more than a moment of decline for the U.S. labor movement...
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Owen Whooley, "On the Heels of Ignorance: Psych...
Whooley’s book is no anti-psychiatric screed; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving.
59 min
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Jeff Forret, "William’s Gang: A Notorious Slave...
Forret explores the career of prominent slave trader William H. Williams, whose operation was based in Washington DC...
47 min
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Benjamin E. Park, "Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise ...
Park examines a neglected part of the Mormon past -- the establishment of a thriving Latter-day Saint metropolis in Illinois. In Nauvoo,..
27 min
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Paula C. Austin, "Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC:...
Austin's book is not only a history of black youth in Washington D.C. in the 1930s but also a history of social science thought as illustrated in the work of scholars such as sociologists E. Franklin Frazier and William H. Jones...
39 min
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Kimberly A. Hamlin, "Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrag...
Hamlin offers a fascinating biography of a little-known suffrage leader...
55 min
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Sir John Redwood, "We Don't Believe You: Why Po...
Redwood gives us fresh insights into why the populist movements and parties have been winning elections...
56 min
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C. Wolbrecht and J. K. Corder, "A Century of Vo...
Wolbrecht and Corder weave together a variety of methodological frameworks to guide the reader through an understanding of both women and men as voters during the past hundred years...
44 min
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Gerald R. Gems, "Sport and the Shaping of Civic...
Gems provides readers with an extensive overview of how the diverse stakeholders of the metropolis have "used" sport in their neighborhoods (as well as the broader community) to claim their share of athletic life in the Windy City...
52 min
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
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Michael Fischbach, "The Movement and the Middle...
Fischbach examines the way that a host of groups on the American found themselves divided over which country they ought to support and how to fit that support into campaigns against imperialism or U.S. foreign policy...
45 min
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Jessica Wilkerson, "To Live Here, You Have to F...
Wilkerson discusses the recent history of feminist social justice activism in Appalachia...
35 min
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Tobie Stein, "Racial and Ethnic Diversity in th...
Stein analyses the longstanding failure of America’s theatre industry to address issues of diversity...
30 min
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Edward E. Curtis IV, "Muslim American Politics ...
Curtis argues that the place of Muslim Americans in the narrative and praxis of American law, politics, rights discourse, and much are, must be questioned...
46 min
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Joseph E. Taylor III, "Persistent Callings: Sea...
Focusing on the Nestucca river valley, Taylor shows how nature, culture, markets, and technology affected the "callings," or identities, of residents from pre-colonial times to the very recent past....
48 min
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Sara Hughes, "Repowering Cities: Governing Clim...
Hughes creatively combines the literature on cities with a comparative case study of three American cities to explore how New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto moved from making commitments to fulfilling them...
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Erin Hatton, "Coerced: Work Under Threat of Pun...
What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common?
49 min
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Joana Cook, "A Woman's Place: US Counterterrori...
Cook investigates how and why women have developed the roles they have, and interrogates US counterterrorism practices in key countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen...
44 min
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Kristen Hoerl, "Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories...
Hoerl explores the construction of “the sixties” in Hollywood media, from Family Ties and The Wonder Years to Law and Order, arguing that these texts have proved dismissive, if not adversarial, to the role of dissent in fostering progressive social change...
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Tevi Troy, "Fight House: Rivalries in the White...
Troy examines some of the juiciest, nastiest, and most consequential internecine administration struggles in modern American history...
50 min
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Joseph S. Nye, Jr., "In Do Morals Matter?: Pres...
Americans since the beginning of their history, have constantly made moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through and assessed...
42 min