New Books in American Studies

Interviews with Scholars of America about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
4526
Jay Sexton, "A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New A...
A popular myth in the American nationalist imaginary is that the country has been on a continued path of progress...
54 min
4527
David Doddington, "Contesting Slave Masculinity...
Doddington demonstrates the significance of internal divisions, comparison, and conflict in shaping gender and status in slave communities of the American South...
36 min
4528
Erik Loomis, "Empire of Timber: Labor Unions an...
Loomis examines the relationship between workers and their environments in this century-long history of timber workers in the Pacific Northwest...
38 min
4529
Emily Dufton, "Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall a...
Dufton visits the podcast to talk about the ups and downs and highs and lows of cannabis in the United State...
33 min
4530
Jennifer C. Lena, "Entitled: Discriminating Tas...
Lena charts the history of American arts and cultural policy, interrogating the institutions, practices, and technologies underpinning the development of American Art...
33 min
4531
Andrew Newman, "Allegories of Encounter: Coloni...
Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives...
94 min
4532
Niambi Michele Carter, "American While Black: A...
In American While Black, Carter argues that immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment,
31 min
4533
Cecilia Caballero et al. "The Chicana M(other)w...
The editors bring together a diverse collective of Women of Color Mother-Scholars to end the silence experienced by Mothers of Color in academia....
63 min
4534
Brett Krutzsch, "Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyr...
Krutzsch argues that gay activists memorialized people like Shepard as part of a political strategy to present gays as similar to the country's dominant class of white, straight Christians...
43 min
4535
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New...
Hoffnung-Garskof seamlessly ties together various scholarly subfields into a truly transnational history of anticolonial politics and the Afro-Latino diaspora in the United States...
86 min
4536
Graham Thompson, "Herman Melville: Among the Ma...
Thompson examines the Melville's magazine work in its original publication...
50 min
4537
Kevin Dawson, "Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic ...
Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers, canoe makers, and canoeists...
50 min
4538
David M. Wrobel, "America's West: A History, 18...
Wrobel describes a sixty year period of remarkable change for the vast region...
77 min
4539
Joseph M. Adelman, "Revolutionary Networks: The...
Adelman argues that printers—artisans who mingled with the elite but labored in a manual trade—used their commercial and political connections to directly shape Revolutionary political ideology and mass mobilization...
56 min
4540
Patricia A. Banks, "Diversity and Philanthropy ...
Banks explores the rise of the African American museum and its patrons and philanthropists...
34 min
4541
Simon Balto, "Occupied Territory: Policing Blac...
Balto argues that local police department policies and procedures left black Chicagoans “overpoliced and underprotected” far before mass incarceration began...
72 min
4542
Darren E. Tromblay, "Spying: Assessing US Domes...
Initiated in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, have the reforms of the US intelligence enterprise served their purpose?
45 min
4543
Douglas Irwin, "Clashing over Commerce: A Histo...
Scholars of US history have treated trade policy in less than enthusiastic ways...
55 min
4544
Paul Finkelman, "Supreme Injustice: Slavery in ...
Finkelman is a specialist on the history of slavery and the law...
41 min
4545
Joshua D. Farrington, "Black Republicans and th...
Reflecting on his fifty-year effort to steer the Grand Old Party toward black voters, Memphis power broker George W. Lee declared, "Somebody had to stay in the Republican Party and fight."
74 min
4546
Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, "For Black Trans Girl...
Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi is an African, Cuban, Indigenous, American Trans performance artist, author, and playwright among many different titles...
54 min
4547
Matthew James, "Collecting Evolution: The Galap...
James talks about the 1905 Galapagos Expedition organized by the California Academy of Sciences...
30 min
4548
Mary-Elizabeth Murphy, "Jim Crow Capital: Women...
Though women’s roles in the black freedom struggle remain under-acknowledged, scholars continue to make their importance clear...
50 min
4549
Douglas K. Miller, "Indians on the Move: Native...
In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100,000 Native American people from rural to urban areas...
97 min
4550
Kent Gramm, "Gettysburg: The Living and the Dea...
In the book, Gramm shares the experiences of the people at Gettysburg...
53 min