New Books in American Studies

Interviews with Scholars of America about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
4501
Sara Georgini, "Household Gods: The Religious L...
Household Gods is a family biography that explores the Christian republicanism of John and Abigail Adams...
52 min
4502
Jennifer Jensen Wallach, "What We Need Ourselve...
The history of black food traditions can be most accurately conceptualized as a web of ongoing conversations, debates, and reinventions...
54 min
4503
Bryan Jones, "The Great Broadening: How the Vas...
The authors argue that there are dimensions to the broadening of the US federal government into new areas of public life largely overlooked by previous scholars...
22 min
4504
Charlie Laderman, "Sharing the Burden: The Arme...
Laderman exposes the way that imperial ambitions suffused the ideas and practices of turn-of-century humanitarian intervention...
69 min
4505
Gregg L. Frazer, "God against the Revolution: T...
Not everyone was convinced by the arguments of patriots during the American revolution...
34 min
4506
Michael F. Conlin, "The Constitutional Origins ...
Colins demonstrates that many more constitutional provisions and practices played a crucial role in the bloody conflict that claimed the lives of over 750,000 Americans...
69 min
4507
Larry E. Morris, "A Documentary History of the ...
The story of the creation of the Book of Mormon has been told many times, and often ridiculed...
48 min
4508
Mark Burford, "Mahalia Jackson and the Black Go...
Mahalia Jackson, the great mid-twentieth century gospel singer, thought of herself as an embodiment of the history of African Americans in the United States...
57 min
4509
Rob Ruck, "Tropic of Football: The Long and Per...
Ruck addresses the paradox of Samoan accomplishment in American football.
55 min
4510
Miroslava Chávez-García, "Migrant Longing: Lett...
"Migrant Longing" is a history of migration, courtship, and identity across the U.S.-Mexican border...
53 min
4511
Lawrence Glickman, "Free Enterprise: An America...
“Free enterprise” is an everyday phrase that connotes an American common sense...
57 min
4512
Mark Winne, "Food Town USA: Seven Unlikely Citi...
Winne shares there is a synergistic interaction between food and community...
46 min
4513
Tammy R. Vigil, "Moms in Chief: The Rhetoric of...
Vigil’s analysis is particularly interesting and informative in how we think about the role of public women in our country, especially in relation to the White House and their unelected roles within the political sphere...
43 min
4514
Travis Rieder, "In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Person...
On a spring day in 2015, Dr. Travis Rieder’s life changed. A motorcycle accident, a shattered foot...
56 min
4515
Jeffrey Ostler, "Surviving Genocide: Native Nat...
Ostler’s book documents the resilience of Native people, showing how they survived genocide in the face of serious and diverse threats to their existence...
51 min
4516
Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste:...
Environmental racism is visible not only as cancer clusters or the location of grocery stores...
45 min
4517
Amanda L. Tyler, "Habeas Corpus in Wartime: Fro...
"Habeas Corpus in Wartime" is a comprehensive history of the writ of habeas corpus in Anglo-America...
62 min
4518
Christine M. DeLucia, "Memory Lands: King Phili...
Memory Lands provides a much needed new account of King Philip’s War which centers the Natives of the Northeast,
52 min
4519
Hendrik Hartog, "The Trouble with Minna: A Case...
Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century...
23 min
4520
Patrick Andelic, "Donkey Work: Congressional De...
What happened to the Democratic Party after the 1960s?
36 min
4521
Anne M. Kornhauser, "Debating the American Stat...
The New Deal left a host of political, institutional, and economic legacies...
48 min
4522
Matthew Crow, "Thomas Jefferson, Legal History,...
Crow studies how Jefferson’s association with legal history was born out of America’s long history as part of an early modern empire and the political thought which preceded him...
60 min
4523
Vincent DiGirolamo, "Crying the News: A History...
DiGirolamo looks at the legion of children and teenagers who sold newspapers on city streets, moving trains, and even Civil War battlefields in the 19th and early 20th centuries...
27 min
4524
Kevin M. Levin, "Searching for Black Confederat...
Levin investigates the claims that numerous African Americans willingly fought for the Confederacy....
41 min
4525
Keir Giles, "Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia t...
From Moscow, the world looks different...
31 min