New Books in American Studies
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Andra Gillespie, "Race and the Obama Administra...
Scholars and pundits have been busy trying to assess the legacy of President Barack Obama...
23 min
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Naomi Pullin, "Female Friends and the Making of...
Pullin reconstructs the Meetings that monitored the lives of Quaker women...
32 min
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Anand Prahlad, "The Secret Life of a Black Aspi...
Anand Prahlad was born on a former plantation in Virginia in 1954. This memoir, vividly internal, powerfully lyric, and brilliantly impressionistic, is his story...
56 min
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Michael R. Cohen, "Cotton Capitalists: American...
Michael R. Cohen is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University, where he holds a Sizeler Professorship...
44 min
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Robert Matzen, "Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and ...
Audrey Hepburn was justly known for her long acting career, yet her early life is largely unknown...
55 min
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Pamela S. Nadell, "America’s Jewish Women: A Hi...
Jewish women have consistently played a vital and significant role in American history more broadly, and American Jewish history specifically...
51 min
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Kelly J. Beard, "An Imperfect Rapture" (Zone 3 ...
In a new book, Beard describes growing up in a community that required its members to participate in excessive tithing, among other practices designed to prey on those who had the least to give...
51 min
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Christian Philip Peterson, "The Routledge Histo...
The collection of essays examines the varied and multifaceted scholarship surrounding the topic of peace and engages in a fruitful dialogue about the global history of peace since 1750...
51 min
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Lincoln A. Mitchell, "Baseball Goes West: The D...
Ask a Brooklynite over the age of fifty and they’ll likely tell you that baseball’s golden age ended the day the Dodgers and Giants packed up and headed for the West Coast...
76 min
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Randall Stephens, "The Devil’s Music: How Chris...
When rock n’roll emerged in the 1950’s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music’s demonic origins....
51 min
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Mickey and Dick Flacks, "Making History/Making ...
As active members of the Civil Rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement in the 1960s, and leaders in today’s social movements, the Flacks' stories are a first-hand account of progressive American activism from the 1960s to the present.
78 min
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Max Felker-Kantor, "Policing Los Angeles: Race,...
In recent years, the treatment of African Americans by police departments around the country has come under increased public scrutiny...
75 min
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Allison Schrager, "An Economist Walks Into A Br...
Alison Schrager is not a typical economist...
36 min
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Anthony Nownes, "Organizing for Transgender Rig...
Hard won transgender rights have been under attack by the Trump administration...
21 min
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Sigrid Lien, "Pictures of Longing: Photography ...
In what has been called history’s largest population migration, hundreds of thousands of Norwegians immigrated to North American during the 1800s and early 1900s...
61 min
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Patrick Sharma, "Robert McNamara’s Other War: T...
Robert McNamara is best remembered today for his momentous term as Secretary of Defense in the 1960s. Often overlooked because of this is his even longer tenure as president of the World Bank...
55 min
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Su'ad Abdul Khabeer, “Muslim Cool: Race, Religi...
Islam in American has been profoundly shaped by the Black Muslim experience...
65 min
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Sarah Reckhow, "Outside Money in School Board E...
Who funds local school board elections?
24 min
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Christopher Herbert, "Gold Rush Manliness: Race...
Not all gold rushes are created equal, argues Christopher Herbert...
65 min
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Rósa Magnúsdóttir, "Enemy Number One: The Unite...
Magnusdottir explores depictions of America in post-war Soviet propaganda. While the 1945 “meeting on the Elbe” marked a high point in United States/Soviet friendship, official relations deteriorated quickly thereafter...
61 min
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Michael A. Schoeppner, "Moral Contagion: Black ...
Between 1822 and 1857, eight Southern states barred the ingress of all free black maritime workers...
51 min
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Racquel J. Gates, "Double Negative: The Black I...
Gates interrogates understandings of African-American representations on screen...
43 min
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LaTanya McQueen, "And It Begins Like This" (Bla...
Today, I spoke with LaTanya McQueen, whose new collection of essays reckons with intriguing and timely questions about history, race, family, place, and self...
47 min
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Nancy Yunhwa Rao, "Chinatown Opera Theater in N...
The story of popular entertainment in American immigrant communities is only just beginning to be told...
55 min
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Kathleen Burk, "The Lion and the Eagle: The Int...
Throughout modern history, British and American rivalry has gone hand in hand with common interests...
70 min