New Books in American Studies

Interviews with Scholars of America about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
4401
Michael Romano and Todd Curry, "Creating the La...
Romano and Curry examine whether judges tailor their language in order to avoid retribution during their retention elections...
18 min
4402
Daniel Schwartz, "Ghetto: The History of a Word...
The word “ghetto” has taken on different meanings since its coinage in the 16th century...
52 min
4403
Ruha Benjamin, "Race After Technology: Abolitio...
Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination...
53 min
4404
David McCraw, "Truth in Our Times: Inside the F...
The First Amendment and a strong Fourth Estate are essential to a healthy democracy...
33 min
4405
Pierre Asselin, "Vietnam’s American War: A Hist...
"Vietnam’s American War" is an iconoclastic revision of the history of the war...
69 min
4406
Wendy Gonaver, "The Peculiar Institution and th...
Gonaver discusses the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Virginia, and the roles that race, the institution of slavery, and slave labor played in the development of psychiatric diagnosis and care through the nineteenth century and beyond...
53 min
4407
Dana Fisher, "American Resistance: From the Wom...
"American Resistance" follows activists from the streets back to their congressional districts around the country...
25 min
4408
Jonathan Rees, "Before the Refrigerator: How We...
Frederic Tudor was the “Ice King” of early nineteenth-century America..
51 min
4409
Dave Tell, "Remembering Emmett Till" (U Chicago...
Tell analyses acts of remembering Emmett following his brutal murder in the 1960s until the present day...
52 min
4410
Eyal Mayroz, "Reluctant Interveners: America's ...
Why don’t governments do more to prevent genocide?
58 min
4411
Wendy Wickwire, "At The Bridge: James Teit and ...
The history of anthropology remembers James Teit as a field assistant and man-on-the spot for Franz Boas...
61 min
4412
Mary Anne Franks, “The Cult of the Constitution...
Franks asks whether our country's faith and belief in the Constitution amounts to something like a cult,..
55 min
4413
Johanna Taylor, "The Art Museum Redefined: Powe...
What is the future of the museum?
31 min
4414
Robert Mann, "Becoming Ronald Reagan: The Rise ...
Throughout much of his career as an actor in Hollywood, Ronald Reagan identified as a passionate New Deal Democrat...
50 min
4415
William P. Hustwit, "Integration Now: Alexander...
"Integration Now" explores how studying the case Alexander v. Holmes (1969) enhances understandings of the history underlying school desegregation...
42 min
4416
Douglas R. Egerton, "Heirs of an Honored Name: ...
John and Abigail Adams founded a famous political family, but they would not witness its calamitous fall from grace...
100 min
4417
Bert A. Rockman and Andrew Rudalevige, "The Oba...
"The Obama Legacy" covers the domestic and foreign policy attempts, failures, and achievements...
42 min
4418
Robert Talisse, "Overdoing Democracy: Why We Mu...
Talisse argues that contrary to what many democratic theorists have argued, democracy is something we can do too much of...
68 min
4419
S. Deborah Kang, "The INS on the Line: Making I...
Kang explores the history behind Immigration and Naturalization Service throughout the 20th Century,..
47 min
4420
Noelle Giuffrida, "Separating Sheep from Goats:...
Guiffrida tells the history of collecting and exhibiting Chinese art through the story of renowned curator and museum director Sherman E. Lee (1918-2008)...
81 min
4421
Iain MacGregor, "Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold W...
There is perhaps no more iconic symbol of the Cold War than the Berlin Wall...
68 min
4422
AfroAm Studies Roundtable: Ashley Farmer on "Ar...
What happens when particular groups of historians do not feel like they have full access to archival material?
32 min
4423
Kenneth Fones-Wolf, "Struggle for the Soul of t...
Fones-Wolf discusses the role of religion in the CIO's Operation Dixie, and provides perspective on the participation of faith communities in the modern labor movement...
30 min
4424
Karen Routledge, "Do You See Ice?: Inuit and Am...
In the 1800s, explorers and whalers returning home from the Arctic described a cold, desolate world,..
29 min
4425
John Shelton Reed, "Dixie Bohemia: A French Qua...
In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful street life...
47 min