New Books in American Studies

Interviews with Scholars of America about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
4601
Jonathan Sarna, "American Judaism: A History" (...
Sarna chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America...
53 min
4602
Elizabeth Herbin-Triant, "Race, Class, and Camp...
Threatening Property examines the campaigns for residential segregation in early-20th century North Carolina...
35 min
4603
Emily Skidmore, "True Sex: The Lives of Trans M...
Skidmore weaves in a vibrant discussion on how trans men created community and crafted their lives in rural America at the turn of the twentieth century...
60 min
4604
Ashanté M. Reese, "Black Food Geographies: Race...
Reese examines the ways in which residents of the Deanwood neighborhood navigate the surrounding area to acquire food...
50 min
4605
Anastasia Denisova, "Internet Memes and Society...
How have memes changed politics?
32 min
4606
Seth J. Frantzman, "After Isis: America, Iran a...
Frantzman spent months traveling throughout the Middle East to get a first-hand view of the region, its people and politics in war’s aftermath...
57 min
4607
Thomas Aiello, "The Grapevine of the Black Sout...
In the summer of 1928, William Alexander Scott began a small four-page weekly with the help of his brother Cornelius...
60 min
4608
Scott Heerman, "The Alchemy of Slavery: Human B...
Heerman examines how slavery and emancipation developed in the Illinois Country from the 18th Century through the 19th Century...
52 min
4609
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
4610
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
4611
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
4612
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
4613
Milton Gaither, "Homeschool: An American Histor...
With around two million children currently enrolled in home schools in the USA, no-one can doubt that the subject of Milton Gaither’s new book is timely...
27 min
4614
Gregg L. Frazer, "God against the Revolution: T...
Not everyone was convinced by the arguments of patriots during the American revolution...
34 min
4615
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
4616
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
4617
Miroslava Chávez-García, "Migrant Longing: Lett...
"Migrant Longing" is a history of migration, courtship, and identity across the U.S.-Mexican border...
53 min
4618
Rob Ruck, "Tropic of Football: The Long and Per...
Ruck addresses the paradox of Samoan accomplishment in American football.
55 min
4619
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
4620
Lawrence Glickman, "Free Enterprise: An America...
“Free enterprise” is an everyday phrase that connotes an American common sense...
57 min
4621
Mark Winne, "Food Town USA: Seven Unlikely Citi...
Winne shares there is a synergistic interaction between food and community...
46 min
4622
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
4623
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
4624
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
4625
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