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New Books in American Studies
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- New Books in American Studies
The Role of Community Colleges in Higher Education: A Discussion with Penny Wills
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you…
- New Books in American Studies
Arlin C. Migliazzo, "Mother of American Evangelicalism: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Mears" (Eerdmans, 2020)
Arlin Migliazzo’s Mother of Modern Evangelicalism: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Mears (Eerdmans, 2020) documents the life and ministry of one of the most…
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Frank L. Jones, "Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age" (UP Kansas, 2020)
In a 2012 opinion piece bemoaning the state of the US Senate, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank cited a “leading theory: There are no giants in the…
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Sheldon George, "Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity" (Baylor UP, 2016)
In his book, Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity (Baylor UP, 2016), Sheldon George treats an old idea--that African Americans…
- New Books in American Studies
Tim Cresswell, "Maxwell Street: Writing and Thinking Place" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
What is the nature of place, and how does one undertake to write about it? To answer these questions, geographer and poet Tim Cresswell looks to Chicago’s…
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Tony Tekaroniake Evans, "Teaching Native Pride: Upward Bound and the Legacy of Isabel Bond" (Washington State UP, 2020)
In 1877, Eloosykasit was on his way Tolo Lake, a gathering place frequented by the Nez Perce, when he heard news of the Wallowa band's flight from the U.S…
- New Books in American Studies
Joshua Mendelsohn, "The Cap: How Larry Fleisher and David Stern Built the Modern NBA" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
Today the salary cap is an NBA institution, something fans take for granted as part of the fabric of the league or an obstacle to their favorite team’s chances…
- New Books in American Studies
Francis J. Bremer, "One Small Candle: The Plymouth Puritans and the Beginning of English New England" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Frank Bremer's outstanding new book, One Small Candle: The Plymouth Puritans and the Beginning of English New England (Oxford UP, 2020), describes the fortunes…
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Holly Jackson, "American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation" (Crown, 2019)
Should we understand radical protest as central to American culture? Dr. Holly Jackson, associate professor of English at the University of…
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Roundtable on W. E. B. Du Bois' "Black Reconstruction in America" (1935)
I am delighted to have y’all listen to the conversation I had with three of my favorite historians in all the dad-gum world. January 2021 has been a wild one…
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Thomas P. Crocker, "Overcoming Necessity: Emergency, Constraint, and the Meanings of American Constitutionalism" (Yale UP, 2020)
A core duty of government is keeping those it governs safe. However, in modern democratic states, government is structured by a Constitution, which establishes…
- New Books in American Studies
Tyler Stovall, "White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2021)
The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade…
- New Books in American Studies
Alisa Perkins, "Muslim American City: Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit" (NYU Press, 2020)
The call to prayer breaks the hustle and bustle of an urban sonic landscape in unique ways. For Muslims living in Hamtramck, Michigan broadcasting the adhān…
- New Books in American Studies
Thomas C. Field, "From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era" (Cornell UP, 2014)
How do ideologies of development shape the perceptions of security threats of US foreign policymakers and the political and military leaders of developing…
- New Books in American Studies
Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer, "Electoral Capitalism: The Party System in New York's Gilded Age" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
Jeff Broxmeyer has written a fascinating and insightful book about the party system in New York during the Gilded Age, but this is really only the foundation…
- New Books in American Studies
Cedric Burrows, "The Construction of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X in Composition Textbooks: Rereading Readers" (2011)
This is part of our Special Series on Malcolm X and Black Nationalism. In this series, we delve into the background of Malcolm X's action and thought in the…
- New Books in American Studies
Maya Stovall, "Liquor Store Theatre" (Duke UP, 2020)
For six years, anthropologist and artist Maya Stovall enacted a series of dance performances outside of liquor stores in the McDougall-Hunt neighborhood on…
- New Books in American Studies
Lara M. Brown, "Amateur Hour: Presidential Character and the Question of Leadership" (Routledge, 2020)
Political scientist Lara Brown’s new book, Amateur Hour, is a complex and important multi-method study of the presidency, starting from the original conception…
- New Books in American Studies
Matthew Rowley, "Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again" (Routledge, 2020)
The relationship between American Protestant Evangelicals and the candidacy, presidency, and legacy of Donald Trump arrests the attention of journalists and…
- New Books in American Studies
Michael Gorra, "The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War" (Liveright, 2020)
Today I talked to Michael Gorra about his new book The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War (Liveright, 2020). This episode touches on two of William…
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Andrew Jewett, "Science Under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Americans today are often skeptical of scientific authority. Many conservatives dismiss climate change and Darwinism as liberal fictions, arguing that "tenured…
- New Books in American Studies
Brad Vermurlen, "Reformed Resurgence: The New Calvinist Movement and the Battle Over American Evangelicalism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Since the turn of the millennium, American Evangelical Protestantism has seen a swell of interest in Calvinist theology. Variously described as the New…
- New Books in American Studies
Daniel T. Rodgers, "As a City on a Hill: The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, John Winthrop's famous phrase, "We shall be as a city upon a hill," has become political creed and rallying cry for…
- New Books in American Studies
David C. Lane, "Other End of the Needle: Continuity and Change Among Tattoo Workers" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
In The Other End of the Needle (Rutgers University Press, 2020), David C. Lane, Ph.D. investigates the intricacies of the tattoo industry. Particularly, Lane…
- New Books in American Studies
Jason Berry, "City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300" (UNC Press, 2018)
In City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300 (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), Jason Berry delivers a history of New Orleans at…
- New Books in American Studies
Richard J. Boles, "Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North" (NYU Press, 2020)
In Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North (NYU Press, 2020), Richard J. Boles argues that, contrary to traditional…
- New Books in American Studies
Anne Goldman, "Stargazing in the Atomic Age" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
During World War II, with apocalypse imminent, a group of well-known Jewish artists and scientists sidestepped despair by challenging themselves to solve some…
- New Books in American Studies
Jeffrey B. Perry, "Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 (Columbia University 2020) by Jeffrey B. Perry, independent scholar and archivist, is an extensive…
- New Books in American Studies
Bruce Haynes, "Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family (Columbia UP, 2019) tells the story of one Harlem family across three generations, connecting its…
- New Books in American Studies
Dora Zhang, "Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
In this interview, I talk with Dora Zhang, associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, about her book…
- New Books in American Studies
Chris Hamby, "Soul Full of Coal Dust: The True Story of an Epic Battle for Justice" (Little Brown, 2020)
Today I talked to Chris Hamby about his book Soul Full of Coal Dust: The True Story of an Epic Battle for Justice (Little Brown, 2020). Hamby looks into why…
- New Books in American Studies
K. Mistry and H. Gurman, "Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy" (Columbia UP, 2020)
In the past decade, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden became household names. They were celebrated by many as truth-tellers who blew the whistle on…
- New Books in American Studies
Mike Anthony, "Life at Hamilton: Sometimes You Throw Away Your Shot, Only to Find Your Story" (Waterside, 2020)
When Mike Anthony moved to New York City to become an actor, he’d imagined being under the bright lights of Broadway, living a life full of fame and fortune…
- New Books in American Studies
T. Maschi and K. Morgen, "Aging Behind Prison Walls: Studies in Trauma and Resilience" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Today, more than 200,000 men and women over age fifty are languishing in prisons around the United States. It is projected that by 2030, one-third of all…
- New Books in American Studies
Barbara Dennis, "Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise" (Peter Lang, 2020)
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Barbara Dennis of Indiana University on her new ethnography, Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educational…
- New Books in American Studies
K. M. Broton and C. L. Cady, "Food Insecurity on Campus: Action and Intervention" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
The new essay collection Food Insecurity on College Campuses edited by Katharine M. Broton and Clare L. Cady explores the widespread problem of food insecurity…
- New Books in American Studies
Thomas Doherty, "Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century" (Columbia UP, 2020)
In Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century (Columbia University Press, 2020), Thomas Doherty offers a lively and…
- New Books in American Studies
Daniel Horowitz, "Entertaining Entrepreneurs: Reality TV's Shark Tank and the American Dream in Uncertain Times" (UNC Press, 2020)
The Great Recession threatened the well-being of tens of millions of Americans, dramatically weakened the working class, hollowed out the middle class, and…
- New Books in American Studies
David A. Varel, "The Scholar and the Struggle: Lawrence Reddick's Crusade for Black History and Black Power" (UNC Press, 2020)
One of the most notable African American intellectuals of his generation, Lawrence Reddick helped to spearhead the early Black history movement, served as the…
- New Books in American Studies
Michael J. Sandel, "The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?" (FSG, 2020)
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favor of the already fortunate. Stalled social…
- New Books in American Studies
Mike Miley, "Truth and Consequences: Game Shows in Fiction and Film" (UP Mississippi, 2020)
Although nearly every other television form or genre has undergone a massive critical and popular reassessment or resurgence in the past twenty years, the game…
- New Books in American Studies
Ari Y. Kelman, "Shout to the Lord: Making Worship Music in Evangelical America" (NYU Press, 2018)
How do songwriters, worship leaders, and music industry professionals collaborate to make music that can become prayer? Ari Y. Kelman explores this question in…
- New Books in American Studies
Arie Perliger, "American Zealots: Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism" (Columbia UP, 2020)
In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks originating…
- New Books in American Studies
Courtenay Stallings, "Laura's Ghost: Women Speak about Twin Peaks" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2020)
In this episode Miranda Corcoran speaks to Courtenay Stallings about her new book, Laura’s Ghost: Women Speak about Twin Peaks (Fayetteville Mafia Press…
- New Books in American Studies
Ilya Shapiro, "Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court" (Gateway, 2020)
High drama at the high court. Grandstanding at Senate hearings. Distrust on all sides. Nominations made by presidents and ignored or voted down by the Senate…
- New Books in American Studies
Andrew A. Robichaud, "Animal City: The Domestication of Urban America" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Americans once lived alongside animals. They raised them, worked them, ate them, and lived off their products. This was true not just in rural areas but also…
- New Books in American Studies
Claire M. Wolnisty, "A Different Manifest Destiny: U. S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
The story of Manifest Destiny and the role of expansion in American slavery is dominated by the history of Western migration. In A Different Manifest Destiny…
- New Books in American Studies
Jodi Rios, "Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis" (Cornell UP, 2020)
In Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis (Cornell University Press, 2020), Dr. Jodi Rios examines…
- New Books in American Studies
Anthony Valerio, "Before the Sidewalk Ended: A Walk with Shel Silverstein" (Daisy H. Productions, 2020)
Anthony Valerio's Before the Sidewalk Ended: A Walk with Shel Silverstein (Daisy H. Productions, 2020) is a startling portrait of the great writer of…
- New Books in American Studies
Jen Manion, "Female Husbands: A Trans History" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who…
- New Books in American Studies
Lauren Jae Gutterman, "Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Through interviews, diaries, memoirs, and letters, Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)…
- New Books in American Studies
Michael Kagan, "The Battle to Stay in America: Immigration's Hidden Front Line" (U of Nevada Press, 2020)
The debate over American immigration policy has obsessed politicians and disrupted the lives of millions of people for decades. In The Battle To Stay in…
- New Books in American Studies
Erin Mayo-Adam, "Queer Alliances: How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Queer Alliances: How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation (Stanford UP, 2020) examines not only the policies that political movements advocate for, and…
- New Books in American Studies
K. A. Young and M. Schwartz, "Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It" (Verso, 2020)
It is often assumed that American politics is dominated by financial elites and the 1%, who use their massive wealth to gain power and influence, pushing for…
- New Books in American Studies
Charles R. Acland, "American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder" (Duke UP, 2020)
Ben-Hur (1959), Jaws (1975), Avatar (2009), Wonder Woman (2017): the blockbuster movie has held a dominant position in American popular culture for decades. In…
- New Books in American Studies
Elizabeth Catte, "Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia" (Belt, 2021)
Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact…
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Kyle Riismandel, "Neighborhood of Fear: The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975–2001" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
One of the lures that drew Americans to the suburbs in the years after World War II was the promise of a secure life. By the mid-1970s, however, it seemed that…
- New Books in American Studies
Samuel Zipp, "The Idealist: Wendell Willkie's Wartime Quest to Build One World" (Harvard UP, 2020)
During the 1940s, many Americans began to rethink America’s place in the world, and they did so with the help of Wendell Wilkie. Wilikie, the 1940 Republican…
- New Books in American Studies
Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, "War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-right Circle of Global Power Brokers" (Dey Street Books, 2020)
An explosive and unprecedented inside look at Steve Bannon's entourage of global powerbrokers and the hidden alliances shaping today's geopolitical upheaval…
- New Books in American Studies
Donald F. Johnson, "Occupied America: British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
When we read the Declaration of Independence, what tends to jump off the page are the lofty propositions concerning natural rights. Yet over a third of the…