New Books in American Studies

Interviews with Scholars of America about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
4976
Noah Coburn, "Under Contract: The Invisible Wor...
Noah Coburn's book is about the hidden workers of American’s foreign wars: third country nationals who while not serving in their country’s militaries, still work to support the American war effort...
57 min
4977
Hidetaka Hirota, "Expelling the Poor: Atlantic ...
Dr. Hirota’s book focuses on state legislation policies of immigration control in New York and Massachusetts...
32 min
4978
Dave Chase, "The Opioid Crisis Wake Up Call: He...
The opioid crisis in America is considered by many to be the worst national public health crisis in the last 100 years....
46 min
4979
William Kelso, "Jamestown: The Truth Revealed" ...
Unpersuaded by the common assumption that James Fort had long ago been washed away by the James River, William Kelso and his collaborators...
69 min
4980
Clarence Taylor, "Fight the Power: African Amer...
Clarence Taylor looks at black resistance to police brutality in the city, and institutional efforts to hold the NYPD accountable, since the late 1930s and '40s.
40 min
4981
Mark T. Calhoun, "General Lesley J. McNair: Uns...
In this pioneering study of one of the World War Two era US Army’s primary architects of victory, Calhoun presents a portrait of a deeply intellectual and loyal commander who took on responsibility for many unpopular doctrinal and ToE choices.
82 min
4982
Alexander S. Dawson, "The Peyote Effect: From t...
Peyote occupies a curious place in the United States and Mexico...
56 min
4983
Ellen Moore, "Grateful Nation: Student Veterans...
I don’t know about the colleges and universities you’re familiar with, but the U.S. military has a pretty visible presence on my campus....
62 min
4984
Van Jackson, "On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and The...
Jackson argues that the 2017 nuclear crisis was a product of a gradual hardening of U.S. policy towards North Korea...
52 min
4985
David Dayen, "Fat Cat: The Steve Mnuchin Story"...
How did a Wall Street executive and “foreclosure king” like Steve Mnuchin become the Treasury Secretary for a populist like Donald Trump?
35 min
4986
Andrew R. Murphy, "William Penn: A Life" (Oxfor...
While William Penn’s name is one familiar to many Americans thanks to his founding of the Pennsylvania colony...
59 min
4987
Nicholas Bauch, "Geography of Digestion: Biotec...
While most people in the US are familiar with the ubiquitous Kellogg cereal brand, few know how it relates to US geography, science and technology around the turn of the 20th century...
59 min
4988
Ashley D. Farmer, "New Perspectives of the Blac...
The field of African American intellectual history is enjoying a kind of renaissance at the moment...
48 min
4989
Joe Jackson, "Black Elk: The Life of an America...
Black Elk witnessed some of the most monumental moments in the history of the Lakota and the Northern Great Plains....
68 min
4990
Kathleen Day, "Broken Bargain: Bankers, Bailout...
Think that today's debates about the role of the Federal Reserve Bank, financial regulation, "too big to fail", etc. are new?  Think again...
53 min
4991
Harry Franqui-Rivera, "Soldiers of the Nation: ...
As the island of Puerto Rico transitioned from Spanish to U.S. imperial rule, the military and political mobilization of popular sectors of its society played important roles in the evolution of its national identities and subsequent political choices...
89 min
4992
Robin Marie Averbeck, "Liberalism is not Enough...
Through ideological laden invocation of pluralism, the “culture of poverty,” and faith in the workings of democratic institutions, liberals shared with conservatives support for an individualistic and racist social order...
55 min
4993
Pamela Herd and Donald Moynihan, "Administrativ...
In Administrative Burden, Herd and Moynihan show that the administrative burdens citizens regularly encounter in their interactions with government are not accidental, but the result of deliberate policy choices...
21 min
4994
Julian Gill-Peterson, "Histories of the Transge...
With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media, and culture, the pervasive myth still exists that today’s transgender children are a brand new generation...
61 min
4995
Megan Finn, "Documenting Aftermath: Information...
Documenting Aftermath is a very timely book, for as global warming promises more frequent catastrophes, large-scale social media and government information systems increasingly dictate how information moves...
53 min
4996
William D. Green, "The Children of Lincoln: Whi...
Dr. William Green investigates this statement in a case-study of four whites from Minnesota who fought hard and won rights for black Americans during and after the Civil War...
56 min
4997
Robert Chiles, "The Revolution of ’28: Al Smith...
Traditionally Al Smith’s 1928 presidential campaign is remembered mainly for being the first time a Catholic was nominated as the candidate for a major political party....
55 min
4998
Lindsey Fitzharris, "The Butchering Art: Joseph...
45 min
4999
Joe Street, "Dirty Harry’s America: Clint Eastw...
When "Dirty Harry" first premiered in 1971, it was both praised and condemned for its portrayal of a rogue policeman fighting crime by ignoring many of the rules and procedures of the profession...
63 min
5000
Michael Cotey Morgan, "The Final Act: The Helsi...
Just when you thought that you knew everything and anything pertaining to the Cold War and the ending of it...
92 min