New Books in American Studies
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5101
Susan Lepselter, "The Resonance of Unseen Thing...
Susan Lepselter asks what happens when we listen to “UFO talk” ethnographically, understanding it as a form of vernacular American poetics that must be made sense of within specific cultural and political contexts...
53 min
5102
Peter Daou, "Digital Civil War: Confronting the...
Daou analyzes the daily political skirmishing that rages online, urges progressives to engage on the “digital battlefield.”
41 min
5103
Ernest McGowen III, "African Americans in White...
Relative wealth has given suburban African Americans employment opportunities and political resources--but not necessarily neighbors, coworkers, or elected officials who share their concerns....
21 min
5104
Erin M. Kempker, "Big Sister: Feminism, Conserv...
The author examines how 1970s right-wing women activists in the state of Indiana combined earlier political conspiracy theories, Cold War anti-communism and anti-ERA sentiment to cast feminism as threat to American democracy, free enterprise, and the family.
51 min
5105
William Poole, "Milton and the Making of Paradi...
John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) is widely recognised as the greatest epic poem in the English language...
45 min
5106
Michael A. Cohen, "Clear and Present Safety: Th...
We are fed a steady stream of doom and gloom—terrorist attacks, erosion of democracy, robots taking our jobs...
35 min
5107
Joan Watts, "The Collected Letters of Alan Watt...
The second in a two-part interview about Alan Watts
55 min
5108
Michael J. Mazarr, "Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negl...
Michael J. Mazarr has written a history of the policy planning process leading up to the Iraq War in 2003...
82 min
5109
Eric T. Kasper and Quentin D. Vieregge, "The Un...
The U.S. Constitution is often depicted in popular films, teaching lessons about what this founding document means and what it requires...
64 min
5110
Jeffrey S. McDonald, "John Gerstner and the Ren...
One of the most important trends within evangelicalism over the last half-century has been a renewal of Reformed theology...
34 min
5111
Pang Yang Huei, "Strait Rituals: China, Taiwan,...
The Taiwan Strait Crises of 1954-55 and 1958 occurred at the height of the Cold War...
54 min
5112
Ann Gleig, "American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Mo...
Gleig focuses on meditation-based convert Buddhist lineages in North America, and in particular she is interested in the generational changes underway in these groups...
86 min
5113
Anne Watts, "The Collected Letters of Alan Watt...
The first in a two part interview about Alan Watts.
66 min
5114
Nancy Tomes, "Remaking the American Patient" (U...
Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it...
48 min
5115
Matthew Fox-Amato, "Exposing Slavery: Photograp...
In the mid-19th century, photographs became key tools in debates surrounding slavery...
49 min
5116
Tricia Bruce, "Parish and Place: Making Room fo...
What does a typical American Catholic parish look like?
38 min
5117
William Gale, "Fiscal Therapy: Curing America's...
The US government is laboring under an enormous debt burden, one that will impact the living standards of future generations of Americans by limiting investment in people and infrastructure...
42 min
5118
Kenneth I. Helphand, "Lawrence Halprin" (Librar...
49 min
5119
Patrick S. McKay, "Healing the Breach: Mormonis...
58 min
5120
Jacob Lee, "Masters of the Middle Waters: India...
Lee traces the Native kinship ties that determined which nations rose and fell in the period before the Illinois became dominant.
88 min
5121
Kristin L. Hoganson, "The Heartland: An America...
The Heartland makes a strong case for the Midwest not as a provincial, isolated, region but rather as a place defined by global connections, diasporas, and a wide array of cultures...
91 min
5122
E. MacDonald et al., "Time and a Place: An Envi...
With its long and well-documented history, Prince Edward Island makes a compelling case study for thousands of years of human interaction with a specific ecosystem...
109 min
5123
Christof Spieler, "Trains, Buses, People: An Op...
"Trains, Buses, People' is a fascinating book about “How To” develop better transportation modes for US cities and urban...
46 min
5124
Harold Holzer, "Monument Man: The Life and Art ...
Holzer chronicles the career of French, who became best known for his sculpture of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
64 min
5125
Chip Colwell, "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spir...
Five decades ago, Native American leaders launched a crusade to force museums to return their sacred objects and allow them to rebury their kin...
64 min