New Books in American Studies
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Joshua Foa Dienstag, "Cinema Pessimism: A Polit...
Dienstag considers the interaction between our experiences in watching films and our positions as citizens in a representative democracy...
55 min
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Elizabeth A. Wheeler, "HandiLand: The Crippest ...
Wheeler uses a fictional place called HandiLand as a yardstick for measuring how far American society has progressed toward social justice and how much remains to be done...
56 min
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Marcus P. Nevius, "City of Refuge: Slavery and ...
Nevius tells the interrelated histories of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina...
107 min
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Spencer Dew, "The Aliites: Race and Law in the ...
Dew treats his readers to a riveting and often counterintuitive account of the interaction of law, race, and citizenship in the discourses of the Moorish Science Temple and other movements inspired by Noble Drew Ali...
76 min
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John Weber, "From South Texas to the Nation: Th...
Weber discusses migrant agricultural labor, immigration policy, and the long-term impacts of the labor relations model that developed in South Texas during the early twentieth century...
37 min
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Jonathan Scott, "How the Old World Ended: The A...
This book is about movement, water, the interchange of ideas, peoples, and cultures. At its centre is the Anglo-Dutch relationship and, at its many peripheries, Scott reveals the transformative effects of this unique republican pulse...
25 min
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Sukey Fontelieu, "The Archetypal Pan in America...
Fontelieu seeks to examine a collection of social and political traumas, both personal and collective...
60 min
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Jay Weiner, "Professor Berman: The Last Lecture...
In his latest book, journalist Jay Weiner details the extraordinary life of Professor Hy Berman...
49 min
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Diane Jones Allen, "Lost in the Transit Desert:...
Jones Allen investigates how housing and transport policy have played their role in creating these "Transit Deserts," and what impact race has upon those likely to be affected...
44 min
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Great Books: John Callahan on Ellison's "Invisi...
Ellison tells the story of an African-American man who insists on his visibility, agency, and humanity in a country dead-set on not seeing him...
50 min
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Nancy Sinkoff, "From Left to Right: Lucy S. Daw...
Sinkoff offers s the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field that is now called "Holocaust Studies"..
56 min
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Travis Bell et al., "CTE, Media, and the NFL: F...
In "CTE, Media, and the NFL," Bell, Applequist and Dotson-Pierson use media theory to unpack reporting on CTE.
56 min
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Alan Taylor, "Thomas Jefferson’s Education" (W....
Taylor tells the story of how Jefferson’s vision for educating the next generations of American came to be...
32 min
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Benjamin Wittes, "Unmaking the Presidency: Dona...
According to Hennessey and Wittes, the "traditional" presidency is being replaced by the "expressive" presidency.
43 min
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Tania Jenkins, "Doctors’ Orders: The Making of ...
Jenkins engages readers in readers in a ethnography where she spent years observing and interviewing American, international, and osteopathic medical residents in two hospitals...
48 min
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Josh Seim, "Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulanc...
What is the role of the ambulance in the American city?
58 min
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B. J. Hollars, "Midwestern Strange: Hunting Mon...
Hollars examines aliens who share pancakes with a plumber, Mothman, Hodag, and other strange creatures and experiences in small town America...
42 min
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Ann Coulter, "Resistance Is Futile!: How the Tr...
According to Coulter, the Left's response to Trump was a kind of collective madness...
49 min
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Melissa Walker and Giselle Roberts, "Women’s Di...
Walker and Roberts discuss the field of documentary editing and how the personal writings of southern women reveal the broader history of life in the U.S. South during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
40 min
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Paul J. Polgar, "Standard-Bearers of Equality: ...
Polgar tells the story of a racially inclusive abolition movement which followed in the wake of the American Revolution...
59 min
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Sophie White, "Voices of the Enslaved: Love, La...
In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved...
40 min
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Theda Skocpol, "Upending American Politics" (Ox...
Since 2008, the Tea Party and the Resistance have caused some major shake-ups for the Republican and Democratic parties...
42 min
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Steve Vogel, "Betrayal in Berlin: The True Stor...
Vogel tells the astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage operations of the Cold War—and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it...
59 min
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Megan T. Neely and Ken Hou-Lin, "Divested: Ineq...
Neely and Hou-Lin explore the rise of finance in American life over the last forty years and its implications for American workers, families, and economies...
47 min
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Jamie L. H. Goodall, "Pirates of the Chesapeake...
The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy...
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