New Books in American Studies
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Eileen Boris, "Making the Woman Worker: Precari...
Eileen Boris illuminates the ILO's transformation in the context of the long fight for social justice...
41 min
4627
Perla Guerrero, "Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/o...
Nuevo South explores the history of an ever diversifying U.S. South...
51 min
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Timothy Lehman, "Up the Trail: How Texas Cowboy...
In 1866, a sixteen year old cowboy—the name was literal in his case—named J.M. Daugherty bought 1,000 cattle, hired five cowboys, and headed north for Missouri...
60 min
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W. Caleb McDaniel, "Sweet Taste of Liberty: A T...
Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848..
41 min
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Zoltan Hajnal, "Dangerously Divided: How Race a...
Hajnal finds that race more than class or any other demographic factor shapes not only how Americans vote but also who wins and who loses...
20 min
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Nicholas Buccola, "The Fire Is Upon Us: James B...
Buccola uses the iconic debate between Baldwin and Buckley which took place at the Cambridge Union in February 1965 as an entry point into their own lives and their place within the post black freedom struggle...
61 min
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Jamie L. Pietruska, "Looking Forward: Predictio...
Pietruska assesses how different varieties of forecasting created an often-contradictory “culture of prediction” during the rise of modern bureaucracies...
36 min
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Gary J. Adler, Jr., "Empathy Beyond US Borders:...
Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so?
54 min
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David J. Silverman, "This Land Is Their Land" (...
Silverman reveals the complex history surrounding the 1621 feast that every November many Americans associate with silver-buckled Pilgrim costumes, Squanto and Massasoit, and miraculous feats of friendship...
43 min
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Jonathan Haidt, "The Coddling of the American M...
We say on this show all the time that democracy is hard work. But what does that really mean?
44 min
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Samuel Goldman, "God’s Country: Christian Zioni...
Goldman has written a powerfully impressive new book on the long history of the political theology that he describes as “Christian Zionism"...
31 min
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Aisha Shillingford and Terry Marshall, "Black F...
"Black Freedom" features the work of writers, artists, and activists, as they imagine gender justice through the framework of Wakanda...
44 min
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Greta de Jong, "You Can’t Eat Freedom: Southern...
Greta de Jong discusses rural organizing, social justice movements, and the connected histories of the Civil Rights Movement and the War on Poverty in the US South...
31 min
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Marc Dollinger, "Black Power, Jewish Politics: ...
Dollinger challenges widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance in American politics...
26 min
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Anthony Kronman, "The Assault on American Excel...
Kronman contends that this is a failure by faculty and administrators to provide students with the intellectual and moral challenges they need in order become a fully-formed human being...
66 min
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Jared Hardesty, "Black Lives, Native Lands, Whi...
Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves...
70 min
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
4643
Brenna Wynn Greer, "Represented: The Black Imag...
Greer provides a fascinating look at a trio of black imagemakers – publisher John H. Johnson, PR executive Moss Kendrix, and photographer Gordon Parks...
64 min
4644
Julia Young, "Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles...
Young reframes the Cristero war as a transnational conflict...
49 min
4645
Saul Cornell, "The Partisan Republic: Democracy...
Cornell and Leonard focus on the decline of the Founding generation's elitist vision of the Constitution and the rise of a more 'democratic' vision...
50 min
4646
Binyamin Appelbaum, "The Economists' Hour: Fals...
Think economics is the "dismal science" with abstract formulas that have no impact on life as it is actually lived? Think again...
37 min
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Lorena Oropeza, "The King of Adobe: Reies López...
Oropeza sheds new light on one of Chicano history’s most notorious figures...
67 min
4648
Francesco Duina, "Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor...
Duina asks why impoverished Americans espouse such great and abiding love for their country even as they suffer and struggle to get by...
59 min
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Larry Diamond, "Ill Winds: Saving Democracy fro...
Larry Diamond joins us this week to talk about the threat China’s model of authoritarian capitalism...
40 min
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Noah Cohan, "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers: F...
In "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers," Cohan investigates “the behavior of American sports fans to understand (its) cultural relevance beyond mere consumerism.”
64 min