New Books in American Studies
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Jessica Trounstine, "Segregation by Design: Loc...
Segregation by Design draws on a century of data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments design policies that create race and class segregation...
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Robert C. Trumpbour and Kenneth Womack, "The Ei...
t rose against the Texas sun in all its architectural audacity: a domed stadium big enough to cover a baseball field...
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Chad R. Diehl, "Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstr...
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki both play a central role in any narrative of the end of the East Asia-Pacific War...
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Patricia O'Toole, "The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson...
Whether you love him or hate him, it is indisputable that few, if any, other 20th-century American presidents were as historically consequential as Woodrow Wilson...
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One ...
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...
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Sara Komarnisky, "Mexicans in Alaska: An Ethnog...
“There are Mexicans in Alaska?” This was the response Sara Komarnisky heard repeatedly when describing her research on three generations of transnational migrants....
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Kevin Hamilton and Ned O’Gorman, "Lookout Ameri...
One of the major aspects of the end of the Cold War has been the discovery and release of records related to many government activities from the period...
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Adam Malka, "The Men of Mobtown: Policing Balti...
Criminal justice, policing, and mass incarceration have gained significant political attention recently, and the problems of these systems have drawn increasingly frequent calls for reform from the right and left....
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Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney, "An Unse...
Most people will know that Memphis, Tennessee is where Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968...
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Laszlo Borhi, "Dealing with Dictators: The Unit...
How does a political regime function? What contributes to a regime’s longevity and subversion?
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John Sides, Michael Tesler, Lynn Vavreck, "Iden...
In Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America (Princeton University Press, 2018), co-authors John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck explore the underlying question of American identity as a key component within the political landscape that was used during the 2016 primary and general election...
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John C. Hajduk, "Music Wars: Money, Politics, a...
In his new book Music Wars: Money, Politics, and Race in the Construction of Rock and Roll Culture, 1940–1960 (Lexington Books, 2018)...
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Alec Nevala-Lee, "Astounding" (Dey Street Books...
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Sharon Block, “Colonial Complexions: Race and B...
Today we have a certain idea of “race”; it’s socially constructed, conventional, and not really biological-grounded in any sense. Yet we commonly use the idea of “race” in our everyday lives to identify ourselves and others.
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Sara Egge, “Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in t...
While the campaign to win for women the right to vote in America was waged on a national scale, this often obscures the fact that the most of battles took place at the state level, where local perspectives were key.
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Kathleen Hull and John Douglass, “Forging Commu...
Between 1769 and 1834, an influx of Spanish, Russian, and then American colonists streamed into Alta California seeking new opportunities. Their arrival brought the imposition of foreign beliefs, practices, and constraints on Indigenous peoples.
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David Charles Sloane, “Is the Cemetery Dead?” (...
It is certain that we all will experience death in our life. What is less certain is how and where our bodies will be disposed of. In Is the Cemetery Dead? (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Dr. David Charles Sloane discussed how cemeteries have tran...
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Michael E. Staub, “The Mismeasure of Minds: Deb...
The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision required desegregation of America’s schools, but it also set in motion an agonizing multi-decade debate over race, class, and IQ. In The Mismeasure of Minds: Debating Race and Intelligence Between Brown and...
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Randy Shaw, “Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to...
Why is housing so expensive in so many cities, and what can be done about it? Join us as we speak with long-time San Francisco housing activist Randy Shaw about his book Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America?
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Bryan Caplan, “The Case against Education: Why ...
Pretty much everyone knows that the American healthcare system is, well, very inefficient. We don’t, so critics say, get as much healthcare bang for our buck as we should. According to Bryan Caplan, however,
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James M. Turner and Andrew C. Isenberg, “The Re...
It wasn’t always this way. From the Theodore Roosevelt’s leadership on natural resource conservation to Richard Nixon’s creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and Ronald Reagan’s singing of the Montreal Protocol banning ozone-depleting chemica...
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Jack David Eller, “Inventing American Tradition...
Americans gathering for Thanksgiving this week may assume they are continuing an unbroken chain of tradition that traces directly back to Massachusetts settlers in 1620. In fact, many of our most cherished Thanksgiving traditions are far more recent,
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Brian Frederick, “American Presidential Candida...
Laurel Elder, Brian Frederick, and Barbara Burrell are the authors of American Presidential Candidate Spouses: The Public’s Perspective (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018). Elder is professor of political science at Hartwick College; Frederick is associate prof...
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Alicia Malone, “The Female Gaze: Essential Mov...
Today we will be talking to Alicia Malone, the author of The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women (Mango Publishing Group, 2018). Malone is a film critic and host on Turner Classic Films who has compiled a list of 52 films directed by women,
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Ronald Rael, “Borderwall as Architecture: A Man...
With the passage of the Secure Fence Act in 2006, the U.S. Congress authorized funding for what has become the largest domestic construction project in twenty-first century America. The result? Approximately 700 miles of fencing, barricades,
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