New Books in American Studies
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4901
Erika Milam, "Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for H...
Milam talks about the scientific search for human nature, a project that captured the attention of paleontologists, anthropologists, and primatologists in the years after World War II...
38 min
4902
Marisol LeBrón and Yarimar Bonilla, "Aftershock...
Aftershocks of Disaster offers poetry, theater, discussions about technology, photography, and other mediums as ways through which to produce and access knowledge about the multiple disasters before and after Hurricane María...
58 min
4903
Evan Bennett, "When Tobacco Was King: Families,...
Bennett discusses the development and demise of family tobacco farms, tobacco farming culture, and the New Deal's Federal Tobacco Program...
43 min
4904
Nancy Langston, "Sustaining Lake Superior: An E...
Lake Superior has experienced substantial environmental change—including today’s impressive but incomplete ecological recovery—in its existence, especially over the last 150 year...
57 min
4905
Andrew Sidman, "Pork Barrel Politics: How Gover...
Sidman offers a systematic explanation for how political polarization relates to the electoral influence of federal spending...
20 min
4906
Candy Gunther Brown, "Debating Yoga and Mindful...
An expert witness in four legal challenges, Brown scrutinized unpublished trial records, informant interviews, and legal precedents, as well as insider documents, some revealing promoters of “Vedic victory” or “stealth Buddhism” for public-school children...
30 min
4907
Christopher E. Mauriello, "Forced Confrontation...
Mauriello attempts to recreate the emotional and traumatic reactions these men had when confronted with the worst of Nazi Germany...
38 min
4908
Jonathan Sarna, "American Judaism: A History" (...
Sarna chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America...
53 min
4909
Robert M. Alexander, "Representation and the El...
Alexander frames the book with the theoretical conundrum of representation...
48 min
4910
Elizabeth Herbin-Triant, "Race, Class, and Camp...
Threatening Property examines the campaigns for residential segregation in early-20th century North Carolina...
35 min
4911
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
4912
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
4913
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
4914
Anastasia Denisova, "Internet Memes and Society...
How have memes changed politics?
32 min
4915
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
4916
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
4917
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
4918
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
4919
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
4920
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
4921
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
4922
Gregg L. Frazer, "God against the Revolution: T...
Not everyone was convinced by the arguments of patriots during the American revolution...
34 min
4923
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
4924
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
4925
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