New Books in American Studies
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Ann Tucker, "Newest Born of Nations: European N...
From the earliest stirrings of southern nationalism to the defeat of the Confederacy, analysis of European nationalist movements played a critical role in how southerners thought about their new southern nation...
28 min
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Amity Shlaes, "Great Society: A New History" (H...
Shlaes’ book is exquisitely well-timed. Now is the time to revisit the Great Society era and consider what worked and what ended up destroying poor neighborhoods and the lives of those in them...
56 min
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Theresa Kaminski, "Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War:...
Among the tens of thousands of Americans who volunteered their services during the Civil War was Mary Walker, a daring young woman who was one of the handful of female doctors in the nation at that time...
48 min
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JoAnna Poblete, "Balancing the Tides: Marine Pr...
Poblete demonstrates how western-style economics, policy-making, and knowledge building imposed by the U.S. federal government have been infused into the daily lives of American Samoans...
64 min
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Jan Doering, "Us versus Them: Race, Crime, and ...
In Chicago, "public safety" and "social justice" do not alway go hand in hand...
50 min
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Kathleen Bachynski, "No Game for Boys to Play: ...
Bachynski examines American football from its origins from the perspective of a public health specialist and an historian...
60 min
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R. K. Jefferson and H. B. Johnson, "Shortlisted...
Before Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court in 1981, nine highly qualified women were on the shortlist. What do the stories of these women tell us about the judiciary? Gender? Feminism? Race?
57 min
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Verónica Martínez-Matsuda, "Migrant Citizenship...
Martinez-Matsuda exams the Farm Security Administration’s Migratory Labor Camp Program, and its role in the daily lives of a diverse number of farmworker families...
53 min
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Thomas Bishop, "Every Home a Fortress: Cold War...
Bishop details the remarkable cultural history and personal stories behind an iconic figure of Cold War masculinity—the fallout shelter father...
25 min
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Emily Wallace, "Road Sides: An Illustrated Comp...
Road Sides pays homage to popular travel guides with its short chapters, one for each letter of the alphabet containing a brief contextualizing essay followed by a feature of a specific location, business, or product...
47 min
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Justin Gomer, "White Balance: How Hollywood Sha...
Gomer illustrates the myriad of ways that Hollywood relied on and helped solidify an emerging ideology of colorblindness in the wake of the civil rights movement...
67 min
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Katherine Zien, "Sovereign Acts: Performing Rac...
Zien examines the ways politicians, activists, artists, and residents performed and interpreted sovereignty in the Canal Zone...
62 min
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Manuel Betancourt, "Judy Garland's Judy at Carn...
Betancourt explores what makes Judy Garland’s landmark album great, and why it holds such a central place in queer culture...
60 min
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John B. Holbein, "Making Young Voters: Converti...
In the United States, each election cycle reminds us that younger voters vote at much lower rates than their older counterparts...
44 min
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Andrew S. Baer, "Beyond the Usual Beating" (U C...
In the 1970s and 1980s, a group of Chicago police officers routinely tortured criminal suspects in their custody, while fellow cops, state attorneys and elected officials looked the other way...
77 min
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Raymond Winbush, "The Osiris Papers: Reflection...
"The Osiris Papers" Is intended to be the first of many treatises written to examine the life, theories, and contributions of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing...
44 min
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God, The Founders, and Natural Law: A Conversat...
33 min
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Kevin Escudero, "Organizing While Undocumented:...
Undocumented youth activists are at the forefront of the present-day immigrant rights movement....
67 min
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God, The Founders, and Natural Law: A Conversat...
33 min
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Christina Dunbar-Hester, "Hacking Diversity: Th...
Dunbar-Hester investigates how open-technology communities are considering the question of diversity and inclusion.
34 min
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Walter Johnson, "The Broken Heart of America" (...
The book tracks how anti-Blackness in America has long had everything to do with imperialism, working as much by removal as by predation...
58 min
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Leslie Dorrough Smith, "Compromising Positions:...
Sex scandals are ubiquitous in American politics...
59 min
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Xueli Wang, "On My Own: The Challenge and Promi...
For decades, the shortage of STEM talents has been a national concern in the United States...
49 min
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Mark Anderson, "From Boas to Black Power: Racis...
By interrogating the Boasian intervention into the idea of biological race, Anderson shows how, despite their progressive and anti-racist intentions, Boas and ‘the Boasians’ naturalised the idea of the United States as a white nation...
49 min
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Brian F. Harrison, "A Change is Gonna Come: How...
Harrison critiques many of the current methods of communicating and explores the growing divide within political discourse...
51 min