New Books in American Studies

Interviews with Scholars of America about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
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Peter Conti-Brown and Sean H. Vanatta, "Private...
49 min
27
John Lisle, "Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottl...
71 min
28
Patrice D. Douglass, "Engendering Blackness: Sl...
75 min
29
Steve Luxenberg, "Separate: The Story of Plessy...
Steve Luxenberg has created an unusual history of the famous Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson and the 19th century’s segregationist practices...
45 min
30
Kathleen B. Casey, "The Things She Carried: A C...
34 min
31
Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-T...
54 min
32
Tracy Slater, "Together in Manzanar: The True S...
39 min
33
Timothy Messer-Kruse, "Slavery’s Fugitives and ...
56 min
34
Tom Arnold-Forster, "Walter Lippmann: An Intell...
40 min
35
Elaine Weiss, "Spell Freedom: The Underground S...
62 min
36
Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr., "Empty ...
54 min
37
Gregory A. Daddis, "Faith and Fear: America's R...
57 min
38
K. Ian Shin, "Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art an...
63 min
39
Susan C. Boyd, "Heroin: An Illustrated History"...
An interview with Susan C. Boyd
42 min
40
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "Scorched Earth: A Glob...
61 min
41
Marlee S. Bunch, "Unlearning the Hush: Oral His...
60 min
42
Ben A. Vagle and Stephen G. Brooks, "Command of...
45 min
43
Kathleen Wilson, "Strolling Players of Empire: ...
51 min
44
Citizenship Stripping: You Are Not American
50 min
45
Darren W. Davis and David C. Wilson, "Racial Re...
53 min
46
Mary Bridges on US Bankers Abroad and the Makin...
64 min
47
Shennette Garrett-Scott, "Banking on Freedom: B...
Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard?  Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South...
39 min
48
Bench Ansfield, "Born in Flames: The Business o...
44 min
49
Michael Hiltzik, "Golden State: The Making of C...
36 min
50
Edward Berenson, "Perfect Communities: Levitt, ...
59 min