New Books in American Studies

Interviews with Scholars of America about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
51
Katherine Fusco, "Hollywood's Others: Love and ...
40 min
52
Molly Worthen, "Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped...
62 min
53
Daniel Horowitz, "Bear With Me: A Cultural Hist...
44 min
54
Flannery Burke, "Back East: How Westerners Inve...
33 min
55
Brendan A. Shanahan, "Disparate Regimes: Nativi...
73 min
56
Wade Davies, "Native Hoops: The Rise of America...
The game, as Davies notes, was not just something imposed upon Natives in locales such as the Indian Industrial Training School in Haskell, Kansas (and elsewhere). The game provided linkages to the Native past...
51 min
57
Donald G. Nieman, "The Path to Paralysis: How A...
52 min
58
Glenn Ligon, "Distinguishing Piss from Rain" (H...
49 min
59
LaShawn Harris, "Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpur...
64 min
60
Daniel Wortel-London, "The Menace of Prosperity...
27 min
61
Andrew Fialka, "Hope Never to See It: A Graphic...
52 min
62
Patrice D. Douglass, "Engendering Blackness: Sl...
75 min
63
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
64
John Lisle, "Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottl...
71 min
65
Peter Conti-Brown and Sean H. Vanatta, "Private...
49 min
66
Kathleen B. Casey, "The Things She Carried: A C...
34 min
67
Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-T...
54 min
68
Tracy Slater, "Together in Manzanar: The True S...
39 min
69
Tom Arnold-Forster, "Walter Lippmann: An Intell...
40 min
70
Timothy Messer-Kruse, "Slavery’s Fugitives and ...
56 min
71
Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr., "Empty ...
54 min
72
Elaine Weiss, "Spell Freedom: The Underground S...
62 min
73
K. Ian Shin, "Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art an...
63 min
74
Gregory A. Daddis, "Faith and Fear: America's R...
57 min
75
Susan C. Boyd, "Heroin: An Illustrated History"...
An interview with Susan C. Boyd
42 min