New Books in American Studies
This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field.
Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com
Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/
Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork
4776
Nolan McCarty, "Polarization: What Everyone Nee...
McCarty synthesizes what scholars know and don't know about the origins, development, and implications of rising political conflicts in the United States...
20 min
4777
Celeste Watkins-Hayes, "Remaking a Life: How Wo...
How do women -- especially poor and low-income women with histories of childhood sexual trauma and drug addiction -- respond to and deal with an HIV/AIDS diagnosis?
25 min
4778
Sarah Halpern-Meekin, "Social Poverty: Low-Inco...
Does a person’s well-being go well beyond how much money they have in their bank account?
41 min
4779
Sam Erman, "Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U...
"Almost Citizens" recounts the story of how Puerto Rico came to be part of the United States empire at the turn of the 20th Century...
53 min
4780
Emrah Şahin, "Faithful Encounters: Authorities ...
The past decade has seen a tremendous production of scholarship on American missionary endeavors in the Middle East...
68 min
4781
Christy Clark-Pujara, "Dark Work: The Business ...
Clark-Pujara draws on the documents of the state, the business, organizational, and personal records of their enslavers, and the few first-hand accounts left by enslaved and free black Rhode Islanders to reconstruct their lived experiences...
45 min
4782
Ashley Robertson, "Mary McLeod Bethune in Flori...
Mary McLeod Bethune was often called the "First Lady of Negro America," but she made significant contributions to the political climate of Florida as well...
37 min
4783
William F. Trimble, "John S. McCain and the Tri...
The carrier task force—the symbolic and physical manifestation of the United States’ ability to project naval and air power across the globe—came of age during the Second World War...
73 min
4784
Andrew Torget, "Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slaver...
The secession of Texas from Mexico was a dry run for the slaveholder’s republic of the Confederate States of America, argues Andrew Torget...
50 min
4785
Jennifer A. Jones, "The Browning of the New Sou...
Jones examines the evolution of race relations in the face of rapid demographic change as Mexican immigrants move into the traditionally biracial American South...
53 min
4786
Vicki Howard, "From Main Street to Mall: The R...
41 min
4787
Anne Twitty, "Before Dred Scott: Slavery and Le...
Twitty looks at numerous freedom suits filed in the St. Louis circuit court in order to examine the legal history of slavery and freedom...
57 min
4788
Rachel B. Herrmann, "No Useless Mouth: Waging W...
When the British explored the Atlantic coast of America in the 1580s, their relations with indigenous peoples were structured by food...
40 min
4789
Thomas A. Foster, "Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Vio...
"Rethinking Rufus" is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men...
39 min
4790
Robert Atkinson and Michael Lind, "Big is Beaut...
Small is beautiful, right? Isn't that what we've all been taught?
43 min
4791
E. Danto and A. Steiner-Strauss, "Freud/Tiffany...
When we imagine Anna Freud, how does she appear to us?
58 min
4792
James W. Pardew, "Peacemakers: American Leaders...
Pardew describes the role of the U.S. involvement in ending the wars and genocide in the Balkans...
41 min
4793
Kimberly Welch, "Black Litigants in the Antebel...
Welch explores the history of free and enslaved black Americans use of local courts in the Cotton South...
45 min
4794
Gregory Borchard, "A Narrative History of the A...
Borchard calls for a better understanding of journalism's past, at a time of acute concern about its future...
51 min
4795
Ann Powers, "Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black an...
Powers explores the rich and, at times, unexpected intersections of love, sex, race, gender, sexuality, and American popular music...
60 min
4796
Brian Haara, "Bourbon Justice: How Whiskey Law ...
Bourbon whiskey has been around since nearly the beginning of the United States...
60 min
4797
Elaine Hampton and Cynthia Ontiveros, "Copper S...
Elaine Hampton tell the story of how a Mexican American community in El Paso have fought back against environmental injustice...
36 min
4798
Maria Cotera, "Chicana Movidas: New Narratives ...
The editors have formulated a landmark anthology illustrating Chicana feminism and activism that spread in the Southwest, Midwest, and Pacific Northwest during the Chicana/o movement era...
57 min
4799
jayy dodd, "The Black Condition Ft. Narcissus" ...
jayy dodd offers her own brilliant reflections on so many things: the contemporary moment, dystopia, her transition, and more...
44 min
4800
Laura Alice Watt, "The Paradox of Preservation:...
Watt precisely narrates a rich case study of the sweeping lands and waters surrounding Point Reyes, an hour north of San Francisco in Marin County,..
74 min