New Books in American Studies
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Christopher Cameron, "Black Freethinkers: A His...
Cameron offers a precise and nuanced history of African American secularism from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century...
45 min
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Nick Yablon, "Remembrance of Things Present: Th...
Starting with the Gilded Age, Yablon explores the way Americans from diverse backgrounds constructed memories of their present through the creation of time capsules...
57 min
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Joseph Blocher and Darrell A.H. Miller, "The Po...
Blocher and Miller insist that the Second Amendment is widely recognized but fundamentally misunderstood by the public and public officials. Misconceptions about what the amendment allows, forbids, and how it function as law distort American debates and public policy.
46 min
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John N. Singer, "Race, Sports, and Education: I...
Given that the majority of the athletes in the major sports (read that to be football and men’s basketball) are African American, what type of recompense are they getting for their toil and sweat on the gridiron and the hardcourt?
56 min
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Chad Pearson, "Reform or Repression: Organizing...
Pearson traces the roots of modern anti-unionism in the U.S. to the early 20th century open shop movement and a push by business interests nationwide to break unions and stall the momentum of organized labor...
33 min
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Lori Cox Han, "Advising Nixon: The White House ...
Cox Han lays out the role that Buchanan played in the Nixon White House as a strategic thinker in terms of the shifting political dimensions, especially in the Republican Party at the time and the growing conservative movement...
33 min
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Robert Rozehnal, "Cyber Sufis: Virtual Expressi...
What happens when the digital world meets Sufism?
60 min
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Great Books: Jared Stark on Virginia Woolf's "T...
“On or around December 1910, human character changed.”
40 min
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Joe Miller, "US of AA: How the Twelve Steps Hij...
In the aftermath of Prohibition, America’s top scientists joined forces with members of a new group, called Alcoholics Anonymous, and put their clout behind a campaign to convince the nation that alcoholism was a disease rather than a moral failing...
48 min
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Hillary Reinsberg, "Zagat 2020 New York City Re...
The red Zagat guide to restaurants was a fixture to a generation of New York diners before Google bought the brand and stopped publishing copies of the book...
62 min
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David Frum, "Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the...
The gradual shift away from those habits of democracy is one of the things that paved the way for the Trumpocracy that David writes about in his book...
41 min
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Keri Leigh Merritt, "Masterless Men: Poor White...
Merritt discusses the intersections of race, class, politics, and slavery in the pre-Civil War South....
29 min
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Susan Schulten, "A History of America in 100 Ma...
Schulten uses maps to explore five centuries of America history, from the voyages of European discovery to the digital age...
83 min
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C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A Hi...
Alvarez offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of a border wall in 1990...
57 min
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Maria Veri and Rita Liberti, "Gridiron Gourmet:...
Veri and Liberti the origins of tailgating in the United States, the way that tailgate gender roles changed throughout the 20th century; the interplay between the gender of tailgaters, cooking technologies, and food ways of tailgating; and the future possibilities and current limitations of the tailgating community...
53 min
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H. Suzanne Woods and L. A. Hahner, "Make Americ...
Woods and Hahner explore memes as a communication phenomenon with cultural effects with a specific focus on how memes circulated toward the end of the Trump campaign...
58 min
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Benjamin Francis-Fallon, "The Rise of the Latin...
Francis-Fallon historicizes how Latinos were imagined into a national electoral constituency...
50 min
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Great Books: Ava Chin on Kingston's "The Woman ...
What stories should we remember, and which ones are we forced to forget?
43 min
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Stanley Fish, "The First: How to Think About Ha...
Fish discusses the popular and legal meanings of the First Amendment’s speech and religion clauses...
58 min
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Christopher A. Preble, "Fuel to the Fire: How T...
President Trump has shown little interest in maintaining the traditional form of American leadership of the liberal international order...
45 min
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Charlotte Brooks, "American Exodus: Second-Gene...
Between 1901 and World War II, up to half of all U.S.-born Chinese Americans relocated to China in search of better lives due to the discrimination they faced in the United States...
65 min
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Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, "Banned: Immigration E...
Immigration is one of the most complex issues of our time in the United States...
40 min
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David Head, "A Crisis of Peace: George Washingt...
In March 1783, George Washington confronted a meeting of disgruntled Continental Army officers at their encampment at Newburgh, New York...
54 min
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Angelina Callahan, "NASA in the World: Fifty Ye...
Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory’s Vanguard Project...
31 min
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The Treaty of Versailles One Hundred Years On
The Versailles Treaty of 1919, celebrates its one-hundred anniversary this year...
37 min