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New Books in American Studies
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- New Books in American Studies
Darnella Davis, "Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage: A Personal History of the Allotment Era" (U New Mexico Press, 2018)
In Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage: A Personal History of the Allotment Era (U New Mexico Press, 2018), Darnella Davis combines the personal with…
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David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic History" (Princeton UP, 2019)
This book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the…
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Davin Phoenix, "The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotion in Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
In the race for the best book of 2020, Davin Phoenix has placed himself in the lead. Phoenix has written The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotion in Politics…
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David Brooks, "The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life" (Random House, 2019)
Colleges and universities can play a virtual role in the moral, intellectual and spiritual development of a student’s life. But there is a growing mismatch…
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Taylor Pendergrass, "Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary" (Haymarket Books, 2018)
Long-term solitary confinement meets the legal definition of torture, and yet solitary confinement is used in every state in the United States. People are…
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William Westermeyer, "Back to America: Identity, Political Culture, and the Tea Party Movement" (U Nebraska 2019)
With his new book Back to America: Identity, Political Culture, and the Tea Party Movement (University of Nebraska, 2019), Professor William Westermeyer…
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G. Edward White, "Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000" (Oxford UP, 2019)
For nearly two decades the renowned legal historian G. Edward White has been writing a multi-volume history of law in America. In his third and concluding…
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Asma T. Uddin, "When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom" (Pegasus Books, 2019)
What happens when a religion is demonized to such an extent that it is no longer deemed a religion – but an ideology? What effect does such a political…
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Katherine Rye Jewell, "Dollars for Dixie: Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Katherine Rye Jewell, Assistant Professor of History at Fitchburg State University, discusses her book, Dollars for Dixie: Business and the Transformation of…
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Louis Hyman, "Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream became Temporary" (Viking, 2018)
It has become a truism that work has become less secure and more precarious for a widening swath of American workers. Why and how this has happened, and what…
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Stephen F. Knott, "The Lost Soul of the American Presidency" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
In this latest book, Stephen F. Knott continues his extensive research of the American presidency, from the Founders’ concept of the office to the current…
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Alison Rowley, "Putin Kitsch in America" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2019)
In her book, Putin Kitsch in America (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019), Alison Rowley examines the outsized influence that Vladimir Putin, both the man…
- New Books in American Studies
Céline Carayon, "Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas" (UNC Press, 2019)
Taking a fresh look at the first two centuries of French colonialism in the Americas, Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous…
- New Books in American Studies
Gabe Logan, "The Early Years of Chicago Soccer, 1887-1939" (Lexington Books, 2019)
The thriving metropolis of Chicago was the land of opportunity for a wide variety of ethnic groups. As individuals from nations where soccer reigned began…
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Amy Aronson, "Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Amy Aronson is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Fordham University and former editor at Working Woman and Ms. magazines. Her biography…
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Chris Arnade, "Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America" (Sentinel, 2019)
A lot of politicians like to say that there are “two Americas,” but do any of them know what life is really like for the marginalized poor? We speak with…
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Hunter Vaughan, "Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies" (Columbia UP, 2019)
In his new book, Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies (Columbia University Press, 2019), Hunter Vaughan offers a new…
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Joshua Simon, "The Ideology of the Creole Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Joshua Simon’s The Ideology of the Creole Revolution: Imperialism and Independence in American and Latin American Political Thought published by Cambridge…
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A. R. Ruis, "Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
In this this interview, Dr. Carrie Tippen talks with A.R. Ruis about the 2017 book Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United…
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E. Jones-Imhotep and T. Adcock, "Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History" (UBC Press, 2018)
Science and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of people living…
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Simone Knox and Kai Hanno Schwind, "Friends: A Reading of the Sitcom" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
What does Friends mean to us now? In Friends: A Reading of the Sitcom (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Simone Knox, an Associate Professor in the Department of…
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Wilson Jeremiah Moses, "Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
In Greek mythology Prometheus is the trickster Titan who gives fire to humanity. As Wilson Jeremiah Moses explains in his book Thomas Jefferson: A Modern…
- New Books in American Studies
Philip M. Napoli, "Social Media and the Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Philip M. Napoli has been thinking about algorithmic news and social media feed curation for quite some time, as he acknowledges in his new book, Social Media…
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R. Muirhead and N. L. Rosenblum, "A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2019)
From Pizzagate to Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracies seem to be more prominent than ever in American political discourse. What was once confined to the pages of…
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William D. Lopez, "Separated: Family & Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
What happens to families and communities after immigration raids? William D. Lopez answers this question and more in his new book Separated: Family & Community…
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Jason Smith, "To Master the Boundless Sea: The US Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire" (UNC Press, 2018)
Jason Smith discusses the US Navy’s role in exploring and charting the ocean world. Smith is an assistant professor of history at Southern Connecticut State…
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Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt, "Reconsidering Southern Labor History" (UP of Florida, 2018)
Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt discuss their new edited volume, Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power (University Press of Florida…
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Daniel T. Kirsch, "Sold My Soul for a Student Loan" (ABC-CLIO, 2019)
With free college in the national conversation, there’s been no better time for Daniel T. Kirsch’s new book Sold My Soul for a Student Loan: Higher Education…
- New Books in American Studies
Sarah Handley-Cousins, "Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
All wars, in a practical sense, center on the destruction of the human body, and in Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North (University of Georgia…
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Asher Price, "Earl Campbell: Yards After Contact" (U Texas Press, 2019)
Earl Campbell was a force in American football, winning a state championship in high school, rushing his way to a Heisman trophy for the University of Texas…
- New Books in American Studies
David H. McIntyre, "How to Think about Homeland Security" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
Today I talked to David H. McIntyre about How to Think about Homeland Security; Volume 1: The Imperfect Intersection of National Security and Public Safety and…
- New Books in American Studies
Lundy Braun, "Breathing Race into the Machine" (U Minnesota Press, 2014)
“We cannot get answers to questions that cannot be asked.” Lundy Braun’s influential book, Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the…
- New Books in American Studies
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics…
- New Books in American Studies
John L. Brooke, "'There Is a North': Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War" (U Mass Press, 2019)
How does political change take hold? In the 1850s, politicians and abolitionists despaired, complaining that the “North, the poor timid, mercenary, driveling…
- New Books in American Studies
Kathryn Holliday, "The Open-Ended City: David Dillon on Texas Architecture" (U Texas Press, 2019)
It may only be a slight exaggeration to say that one of David Dillon's career accomplishments was to put the words "Dallas" and "architecture" in the same…
- New Books in American Studies
Kerry Driscoll, "Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples" (U California Press, 2018)
Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples (University of California Press, 2018; paperback edition, 2019) is the first book-length study of the…
- New Books in American Studies
Philipp Stelzel, "History after Hitler: A Transatlantic Enterprise" (U Penn Press, 2018)
The decades following the end of World War II witnessed the establishment of a large and diverse German-American scholarly community studying modern German…
- New Books in American Studies
Cindy Hahamovitch, "The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945" (UNC Press, 2010)
Today Professor Cindy Hahamovitch of the University of Georgia discusses her research connecting the global histories of 19th-century indentured servants and…
- New Books in American Studies
Paul Reville, "Broader, Bolder, Better: How Schools and Communities Help Students Overcome the Disadvantages of Poverty" (Harvard Ed Press, 2019)
If we want children from poor families and communities to succeed in school, then we must pay attention to more than merely what happens in school. With twelve…
- New Books in American Studies
Stephen R. Taaffe, "Washington’s Revolutionary War Generals" (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)
When George Washington led the United States to victory in the American Revolution, he did so in collaboration with seventy-three other men who served as major…
- New Books in American Studies
Peter Kerasotis, "Alou: My Baseball Journey" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
All aficionados of baseball are familiar with the pathbreaking role of Jackie Robinson in reintegrating the game back in 1947. What many fans are less familiar…
- New Books in American Studies
Richard F. Thomas, "Why Bob Dylan Matters" (Dey Street, 2017)
When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the…
- New Books in American Studies
Brianna Theobald, "Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2019)
In Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), historian…
- New Books in American Studies
Olga Zilberbourg, "Like Water and Other Stories" (WTAW Press, 2019)
The phenomenon of the Russian emigre writer is nothing new. Exile seems almost as necessary a commodity as ink to many of Russia's most celebrated writers…
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Amy Offner, "Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
The neoliberal 1980s of austerity and privatization may appear as a break with the past—perhaps a model of government drawn up by libertarian economists. Not…
- New Books in American Studies
Michelle Haberland, "Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000" (U Georgia Press, 2015)
Professor Michelle Haberland of Georgia Southern University, author of Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South (University of Georgia Press…
- New Books in American Studies
Pekka Hämäläinen, "Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power" (Yale UP, 2019)
The names of Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse are often readily recognized among many Americans. Yet the longer, dynamic history of the Lakota - a…
- New Books in American Studies
Roland De Wolk, "American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford" (U California Press, 2019)
With a name associated with the famous university in Palo Alto, Leland Stanford is among the best-known of the famous “robber barons” of the 19th century. Yet…
- New Books in American Studies
Jonathan Rothwell, "A Republic of Equals: A Manifesto for a Just Society" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Inequality in the U.S. has increased dramatically over the past decades -- on that there is agreement. There is less agreement on the causes of that…
- New Books in American Studies
Serhii Plokhy, "Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front" (Oxford UP, 2019)
What happened when Americans and Soviets fought alongside one another against Hitler? How did relations at Poltava airbase reveal cracks in the Grand Alliance?…
- New Books in American Studies
Daniel Schwartz, "Ghetto: The History of a Word" (Harvard UP, 2019)
The word “ghetto” has taken on different meanings since its coinage in the 16th century. The uses of this term have varied considerably, from its original…
- New Books in American Studies
Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne, "Holding Onto Nothing" (Blair, 2019)
Lucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing, but a drunken mistake forever tethers her to the town and one of its…
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Michael Romano and Todd Curry, "Creating the Law: State Supreme Court Opinions and The Effect of Audiences" (Routledge, 2019)
In Creating the Law: State Supreme Court Opinions and The Effect of Audiences (Routledge, 2019), Michael Romano and Todd Curry examine whether judges tailor…
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Ruha Benjamin, "Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code" (Polity, 2019)
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy…
- New Books in American Studies
David McCraw, "Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts" (All Points Books, 2019)
The First Amendment and a strong Fourth Estate are essential to a healthy democracy. David McCraw spends his days making sure that journalists can do their…
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Pierre Asselin, "Vietnam’s American War: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Do we need another book on the Vietnam War? Pierre Asselin, Dwight E. Stanford Chair in the History of US Foreign Relations at San Diego State University…
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Wendy Gonaver, "The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880" (UNC Press, 2019)
Dr. Wendy Gonaver discusses her book, The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840-1880 (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), the…
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Dana Fisher, "American Resistance: From the Women's March to the Blue Wave" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Dana Fisher has written a big new book on the movement to oppose Donald Trump, titled American Resistance: From the Women's March to the Blue Wave (Columbia…
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Dave Tell, "Remembering Emmett Till" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the State University of New York at…
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Jonathan Rees, "Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
Frederic Tudor was the “Ice King” of early nineteenth-century America. It was Tudor who realized that ice, harvested from New England ponds and rivers could be…