New Books in American Studies
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David A. Bateman, "Disenfranchising Democracy: ...
Why was mass democratization – abolishing property and tax qualifications – accompanied by the mass disenfranchisement of black, male citizens?
52 min
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Ayala Fader, "Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in ...
What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known?
90 min
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Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: T...
As a novelist, short story author, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate, William Faulkner looms large in modern American literature.,.
54 min
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Katie Horowitz, "Drag, Interperformance, and th...
Horowitz argues that the radical (in)difference between kings and queens provides a window into the perennial rift between lesbians and gay men...
61 min
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Lee Vinsel, "Moving Violations: Automobiles, Ex...
Vinsel argues that automobiles have been shaped by government regulation through and through...
45 min
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Adam J. MacLeod, "The Age of Selfies: Reasoning...
Incivility in our public discourse is limiting our ability to get things done as a nation and preventing us from expressing ourselves in workplaces and classrooms for fear of offending those with real or imagined historical grievances or even merely strongly held views...
110 min
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Paul M. Renfro, "Stranger Danger: Family Values...
Renfro narrates how the bereaved parents of missing and slain children turned their grief into a mass movement and, alongside journalists and policymakers from both major political parties, propelled a moral panic...
31 min
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María Cristina García, "The Refugee Challenge i...
García evaluates how the end of the Cold War brought new and unanticipated challenges to upholding this commitment from 1989 to the present...
62 min
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Patrick M. Condon, "Five Rules for Tomorrow’s C...
How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet...
54 min
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James Shapiro, "Shakespeare in a Divided Americ...
Shapiro turns his attention to the reception of Shakespeare in the US from the colonial period to the present...
67 min
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Terry Iverson, "Finding America's Greatest Cham...
Iverson highlights the importance of manufacturing in our economy as well as the ways parents, mentors, and teachers can work together to foster the character traits and critical thinking skills required in the twentieth-century workforce...
38 min
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Martha Ackermann, "These Fevered Days: Ten Pivo...
After a life lived in obscurity, Emily Dickinson emerged after death as one of the greatest poets of her time...
53 min
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
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Le’Trice D. Donaldson, "Duty Beyond the Battlef...
Donaldson investigates how African American soldiers used their military service to challenge white notions of an African American second-class citizenry and forged a new identity as freedom fighters...
71 min
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Abraham Newman and Henry Farrell, "Of Privacy a...
The authors offer a timely and wise analysis of globalization and how it has fundamentally transformed governance....
40 min
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Peter La Chapelle, "I’d Fight the World: A Poli...
La Chapelle traces interactions between country music and politics beginning with two late nineteenth-century politicians who fiddled to their supporters and ending with the 2016 election season...
57 min
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Courtney M. Dorroll, “Teaching Islamic Studies ...
Dorrell covers approaches, strategies, and topics important for the study of Islam today...
54 min
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Jacki Apple, "Performance / Media / Art / Cultu...
These essays trace important developments in performance art both in the Los Angeles and New York scenes, discuss artists including Laurie Anderson, Spalding Gray, Meredith Monk, and Lin Hixson...
101 min
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Adam H. Domby, "The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrica...
Domby has written a rigorous analysis of American political memory as it connects to the Civil War and long shadow of the Confederacy,,,
52 min
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Christopher D. Bader, "Fear Itself: The Causes ...
From moral panics about immigration and gun control to anxiety about terrorism and natural disasters, Americans live in a culture of fear...
51 min
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Robert Elmer, "Piercing Heaven: Prayers of the ...
Elmer's anthology provides access into a world of religious practice that is otherwise lost – many puritans refusing on principle to put their prayers to paper...
30 min
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Christopher Tomlins, "In the Matter of Nat Turn...
In 1831, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than two months in hiding, Turner was captured, and quickly convicted and executed...
65 min
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Charles J. Holden, "Republican Populist: Spiro ...
The authors present Agnew as a progenitor of the conservative populism associated today with America’s 45th president...
59 min
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Pawan Dhingra, "Hyper Education: Why Good Schoo...
Dhingra offers up-close evaluation of the competitive nature of the United States education system and the extra-curricular and co-curricular activities associated with them...
43 min
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David Swift, "A Left for Itself: Left-Wing Hobb...
wift argues that the left is dominated by what he terms hobbyists and performative radicals...
52 min