New Books in American Studies
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Daniel Skinner, "Medical Necessity: Health Care...
Skinner constructs a comprehensive understanding of the politics of defining medical necessity...
29 min
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L. Benjamin Rolsky, "The Rise and Fall of the R...
Rolsky makes the case for understanding Norman Lear as a key protagonist in the culture wars of the late 20th century...
59 min
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Amy Shira Teitel, "Breaking the Chains of Gravi...
Amy Shira Teitel talks about Apollo and the community of people who are deeply attached to space history.
27 min
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Steve Suitts, "Overturning Brown: The Segregati...
Suitts examines the parallels between de facto segregationist practices and the modern school choice movement...
28 min
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Bryant Simon, "The Hamlet Fire: A Story of Chea...
Simon discusses the tragic consequences of the ethos of "cheap" for workers, communities, and the nation...
33 min
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Randal Schnoor, "Jewish Family: Identity and Se...
Pomson and Schnoor examine the impact of the family on Jewish identity.
57 min
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Ryan Weber, "Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic ...
Musicologists have long tried to understand how cosmopolitanism and nationalism affected classical music...
57 min
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Donald L. Miller, "Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign ...
Miller explains in great detail how Grant ultimately succeeded in taking the city and turning the tide of the war in favor of the Union...
82 min
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Kristen Millares Young, "Subduction" (Red Hen P...
Young provides a lyrical exploration of cultural encounters in the Pacific Northwest...
53 min
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Eddie Michel, "The White House and White Africa...
Michel examines the complicated relationship between the United States and Rhodesia...
37 min
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Peter Cole, "Dockworker Power: Race and Activis...
Dockworker Power is a refreshing mixture of two methodological approaches that situates the study of black internationalism among workers...
66 min
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Eric Lomazoff, "Reconstructing the National Ban...
Lomazoff has written a kind of detective novel about the national bank controversy during the early years of the new republic
41 min
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Great Books: Emily Bernard on Larsen's "Passing"
Larsen examines the American mythology of race, and its real-world effects,..
62 min
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Lee Drutman, "Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop:...
Drutman dives into both the problems with the current political dynamic and the possible solutions...
36 min
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Iyko Day, "Alien Capital: Asian Racialization a...
Day explores how the historical alignment of Asian bodies and labor with capital's abstract and negative dimensions became one of settler colonialism's foundational and defining features....
55 min
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Juliane Hammer, "Peaceful Families: American Mu...
How do Muslim Americans respond to domestic violence?
47 min
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Blain Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle, "Denmark Vese...
38 min
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Rupert Lewis, "Marcus Garvey" (UP of West Indie...
Lewis documents the forging of Garvey’s remarkable vision of pan-Africanism and highlights his organizational skills in framing a response to the radical global popular upsurge following the First World War (1914–1918)...
78 min
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James K. Wellman, Jr., "High on God: How Megach...
In the United States, the number of megachurches increased from 350 in 1990 to over 1,600 in 2011 with that number continuing to grow exponentially in subsequent years...
46 min
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A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, "Barrio America: How La...
Sandoval-Strausz ties together a magnificent story of Latinos migrating to Chicago and Dallas, and the positive effect immigration and cultural heritage has on urban America...
61 min
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Kimberly Meltzer, “From News to Talk: The Expan...
From talking heads on cable news to hot takes online, there seems to be more opinion than ever in journalism these days...
54 min
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Mario T. García, "Father Luis Olivares, A Biogr...
García traces Olivares’ humble beginnings as a poor boy growing up in San Antonio’s west side barrio to his improbable rise as the “Gucci priest” of the Claretian order...
65 min
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Roger Gilles, "Women on the Move: The Forgotten...
Gilles recovers the history of women’s cycle racing in the 1890s...
58 min
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Jay Wexler, "Our Non-Christian Nation" (Redwood...
Less and less Christian demographically, America is now home to an ever-larger number of people who say they identify with no religion at all...
60 min
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Great Books: Benjamin Reiss on Thoreau's "Walden"
Thoreau, set out for a simpler, more mindful, and more deeply lived life on Walden Pond on July 4th, 1845...
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