New Books in American Studies
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Great Books: Hillary Chute on Art Spiegelman's ...
Art Spiegelman's Maus is the story of an American cartoonist's efforts to uncover and record his father's story of survival of the Holocaust...
57 min
4402
Berry Grass, "Hall of Waters" (Operating System...
Grass’s aim is nothing less than to demythologize the American Midwest.
47 min
4403
Walter Nugent, "Color Coded: Party Politics in ...
Nugent provides a detailed analysis of each Western state’s modern political history...
49 min
4404
Sarah Burns, "The Politics of War Powers: The T...
Burns pulls together distinct threads in analyzing the theoretical framing of presidential power in the American constitutional system and then tracing that power through forty-five presidents...
48 min
4405
Jonathan Hopkin, "Anti-System Politics: The Cri...
Should we understand the rise of Trump or the success of Brexit in terms of populism? Culture? Xenophobia? Do the same political forces produce Sanders and Trump?
50 min
4406
Jennifer E. Gaddis, "The Labor of Lunch: Why We...
Gaddis aims to spark a progressive movement that will transform food in American schools, and with it the lives of thousands of low-paid cafeteria workers and the millions of children they feed...
57 min
4407
Larry Wolff, "Woodrow Wilson and the Reimaginin...
Wolff traces how Wilson's emerging definition of national self-determination and his practical application of the principle changed over time as negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference unfolded...
55 min
4408
Rebecca E. Zietlow, "The Forgotten Emancipator:...
Though the story of emancipation is well known in American history, the roles of many of the key figures involved in it are often overlooked. Among them is James Mitchell Ashley...
50 min
4409
Justin Nystrom, "Creole Italian: Sicilian Immig...
Nystrom argues that the discourse about New Orleans has been narrowed to a single story and controlled by something vaguely defined as “Creole” which has “long robbed the city of the potential for a richer cultural self-image.”
56 min
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Mort Zachter, "Red Holzman: The Life and Legacy...
From humble beginnings as the son of immigrant parents growing up in Brooklyn, Holzman paved a path of excellence at every level...
38 min
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Kathy Peiss, "The Information Hunters" (Oxford ...
While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause...
31 min
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Lynn Neal, "Religion in Vogue: Christianity and...
Christian imagery, symbols, and motifs have long been used and incorporated in fashion.,,
51 min
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Lana Dee Povitz, "Stirrings: How Activist New ...
Povitz demonstrates how grassroots activism continued to thrive, even as it was transformed by unrelenting erosion of the country's already fragile social safety net...
35 min
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Erika Engstrom, "Feminism, Gender, and Politics...
Engstrom analyzes the various ways the series presented feminism as a positive force, such as the satirical portrayal of patriarchy...
49 min
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Maria Ryan, "Full Spectrum Dominance: Irregular...
Ryan offers the first sustained historical examination of the secondary fronts in the war on terror...
38 min
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Michael Rechtenwald, "Google Archipelago: The D...
Rechtenwald argues that Big Digital technologies and their principals represent not only economic powerhouses but also new forms of governmental power...
97 min
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Ellen Griffith Spears, "Baptized in PCBs: Race,...
Griffen Spears discusses the decades long struggle for environmental and civil rights justice in Anniston, Alabama...
29 min
4418
Diana Lemberg, "Barriers Down: How American Pow...
Since the 1940s, America’s relations with the rest of the world have been guided by the idea of promoting the free flow of information...
46 min
4419
Graham R. G. Hodges, "Black New Jersey 1664 to ...
Hodges emphasizes the history of slavery, religion, the rise of the Black middle class, and the quest for social equality through the Jim Crow era...
39 min
4420
Kimberly Dark, "Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old...
Dark's essays take on self-improvement, self-acceptance, sexual attraction, language, aging, queer visibility, fashion, family, femininity, feminism, yoga culture, airplane seats, and the vilifying of fatness in the name of good health, among other compelling topics...
55 min
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Emily E. LB. Twarog, "Politics of the Pantry: H...
Twarog examines how working- and middle-class American housewives used their identity as housewives to protest the high cost of food. In doing so, housewives' relationships with the state evolved over the course of the century...
37 min
4422
Great Books: Deborah Plant on Hurston's "Their ...
"It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”
71 min
4423
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
4424
Orly Clergé, "The New Noir: Race, Identity and ...
How has the expansion of the Black American middle class and the increase in the number of Black immigrants among them since the Civil Rights period transformed the cultural landscape of New York City?
35 min
4425
Phil Christman, "Midwest Futures" (Belt Publish...
What does the future hold for the Midwest?
61 min