New Books in American Studies
Episodes
J. L. Anderson, "Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this this interview, Dr. Carrie Tippen talks with J. L. Anderson about the 2019 book Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America published by...
Andrew Marble, "Boy on the Bridge: The Story of John Shalikashvili’s Remarkable Success" (UP of Kentucky, 2019)
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When President Bill Clinton nominated John Shalikashvili to be the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1993, it represented the climax of a long ...
Great Books: Rich Blint on James Baldwin's "Another Country"
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"If we - and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks [...] do not falter in our duty now, we may be able [...] ...
Brian Cervantez, "Amon Carter: A Lone Star Life" (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Raised in a one-room log cabin in a small North Texas town, Amon G. Carter (1879–1955) rose to become the founder and publisher of the Fort Worth St...
Catherine Besteman, "Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine" (Duke UP, 2016)
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine L. Besteman's book Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine (Duke University Press, 2016) is an important contribution to ou...
Josh Reno, "Military Waste: The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness" (U California Press, 2019)
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Seven decades of military spending during the cold war and war on terror have created a vast excess of military hardware – what happens to all of th...
Jane H. Hong, "Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion" (UNC Press, 2019)
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receives ...
Magnus Nordenman, "The New Battle for the Atlantic: Emerging Naval Competition with Russia in the Far North" (Naval Institute Press, 2019)
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In The New Battle for the Atlantic: Emerging Naval Competition with Russia in the Far North (Naval Institute Press, 2019), Magnus Nordenman explores t...
Blake Perkins, "Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks" (U Illinois Press, 2017)
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Blake Perkins, assistant professor of history at Williams Baptist College, discusses his new book, Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist D...
Lori Gemeiner-Bihler, "Cities of Refuge: German Jews in London and New York, 1935-1945" (SUNY Press, 2019)
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the years following Hitler’s rise to power, German Jews faced increasingly restrictive antisemitic laws, and many responded by fleeing to more to...
Great Books: Carol Gilligan on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter tells the dramatic story of a woman cast out of society for adultery and condemned to wear a bad...
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, "Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America" (W. W. Norton, 2019)
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Descendants of a prominent slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin grew up in a culture of white supremacy. But while Elizabeth r...
Rachel Louise Moran, "Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique" (U Penn Press, 2018)
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How did the modern, American body come into being? According to Rachel Louise Moran this is a story to be told through the lens of the advisory state....
Nick Yablon, "Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule (University of Chicago Press, 2019), Nick Yablon traces the birth of the time caps...
Christopher Cameron, "Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism" (Northwestern UP, 2019)
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism (Northwestern University Press, 2019) by Christopher Cameron, an Associate Professor of h...
Joseph Blocher and Darrell A.H. Miller, "The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
10 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Joseph Blocher and Darrell A.H. Mil...
John N. Singer, "Race, Sports, and Education: Improving Opportunities and Outcomes for Black Male College Athletes" (Harvard Ed Press, 2019)
10 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
College sport is a multi-billion dollar industry. The men and women who lead the teams in the most important conferences often make millions of dollar...
Chad Pearson, "Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
10 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Chad Pearson of Collin College, author of Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement (University of Pennsylvania Press, ...
Lori Cox Han, "Advising Nixon: The White House Memos of Patrick J. Buchanan" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
09 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Political Scientist and presidential expert Lori Cox Han has written an absorbing analysis of the many, many memos that Pat Buchanan wrote while worki...
Robert Rozehnal, "Cyber Sufis: Virtual Expressions of the American Muslim Experience" (OneWorld, 2019)
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when the digital world meets Sufism? This is the question raised in the exciting new book Cyber Sufis: Virtual Expressions of the America...
Great Books: Jared Stark on Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse"
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“On or around December 1910, human character changed.” Virginia Woolf’s 1927 masterpiece To The Lighthouse teaches us how to take stock of the...
Joe Miller, "US of AA: How the Twelve Steps Hijacked the Science of Alcoholism" (Chicago Review Press, 2019)
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the aftermath of Prohibition, America’s top scientists joined forces with members of a new group, called Alcoholics Anonymous, and put their clou...
Hillary Reinsberg, "Zagat 2020 New York City Restaurants: Special 40th Anniversary Edition" (Zagat, 2019)
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The red Zagat guide to restaurants was a fixture to a generation of New York diners before Google bought the brand and stopped publishing copies of th...
David Frum, "Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic" (Harper, 2018)
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Around the McCourtney Institute, we like to say that we’re “partisans for democracy.” We can think of few people who better embody that notion t...
Susan Schulten, "A History of America in 100 Maps" (U Chicago Press 2018)
03 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book A History of America in 100 Maps (University of Chicago Press 2018), historian Susan Schulten uses maps to explore five centuries of A...
Maria Veri and Rita Liberti, "Gridiron Gourmet: Gender and Food at the Football Tailgate" (U Arkansas Press, 2019)
03 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are joined by Maria Veri, Associate Professor of Kinesiology at San Francisco State University, and Rita Liberti, Professor of Kinesiology at...
Keri Leigh Merritt, "Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
03 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keri Leigh Merritt discusses her book, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and interse...
C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide" (U Texas Press, 2019)
03 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recent debates over the building of a border wall on the U.S.-Mexico divide have raised logistical and ethical issues, leaving the historical record o...
H. Suzanne Woods and L. A. Hahner, "Make America Meme Again: The Rhetoric of the Alt-Right" (Peter Lang, 2019)
02 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Benjamin Francis-Fallon, "The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History" (Harvard UP, 2019)
31 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
While media pundits continually speculate over the future leanings of the so-called “Latino vote,” Benjamin Francis-Fallon historicizes how Latino...
Great Books: Ava Chin on Kingston's "The Woman Warrior"
31 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What stories should we remember, and which ones are we forced to forget? What if we discover a truth from the past that shaped us even though we didn'...
David Head, "A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution" (Pegasus Books, 2019)
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In March 1783, George Washington confronted a meeting of disgruntled Continental Army officers at their encampment at Newburgh, New York. In his book ...
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, "Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump" (NYU Press, 2019)
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Immigration is one of the most complex issues of our time in the United States and around the world. Enforcing immigration law in the U.S. involves a ...
Stanley Fish, "The First: How to Think About Hate Speech" (One Signal, 2019)
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Stanley Fish is a well-known scholar regarding the First Amendment and free speech. In his latest book, The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Cam...
Christopher A. Preble, "Fuel to the Fire: How Trump made America’s Foreign Policy Even Worse" (Cato Institute, 2019)
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump broke not only from the Republican Party consensus but also from the bipartisan consensus on the direction o...
Charlotte Brooks, "American Exodus: Second-Generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901–1949" (U California Press, 2019)
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Between 1901 and World War II, up to half of all U.S.-born Chinese Americans relocated to China in search of better lives due to the discrimination th...
Matt Grossmann, "Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
27 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In his book Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Matt Grossmann examines, first,...
Alex Lichtenstein, "Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid" (Indiana UP, 2016)
27 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Lichtenstein, Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, discusses his new book with co-author Rick Halpern, Margaret Bourke-White and...
Angelina Callahan, "NASA in the World: Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
27 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory’s Vanguard Project. While the launch of Vanguard 1 in 1958 was part of the Cold War “S...
The Treaty of Versailles One Hundred Years On
27 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Versailles Treaty of 1919, celebrates its one-hundred anniversary this year. And, yet unlike the more recent centenaries, such as that of the outb...
Evan Friss, "On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City" (Columbia UP, 2019)
26 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Evan Friss, an associate professor of history at James Madison University, historicizes the bicycle’s place in New York City’s social, economic, i...
David Pettinicchio, "Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform" (Stanford UP, 2019)
26 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David Pettinicchio has written Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform (Stanford University Press, 2019). H...
Brandon R. Byrd, "The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti" (U Penn Press, 2019)
24 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brandon R. Byrd is the author of The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 201...
Jim Rossi, "Cleantech Con Artists: A True Vegas Caper" (2019)
24 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
After Jim Rossi began writing his M.A. thesis in History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the project took an unexpected turn. His research on ...
Darius Sollohub, "Millennials in Architecture: Generations, Disruption, and the Legacy of a Profession" (U Texas Press, 2019)
24 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Much has been written about Millennials, but until now their growing presence in the field of architecture has not been examined in depth. In an era o...
Beth Fischer, "The Myth of Triumphalism: Rethinking President Reagan's Cold War Legacy" (UP of Kentucky, 2019)
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Every time that I teach any portion of a course dealing with Ronald Reagan and the end of the Cold War, I gird myself for the inevitable myth-busting ...
Matthew Lockwood, "To Begin The World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe" (Yale UP, 2019)
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up as an American, you’re bound to be all-but-suffused with triumphalist histories of the American Revolution. Those histories might have a ...
Talitha LeFlouria, "Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South" (UNC Press, 2016)
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Talitha LeFlouria, a fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia, discusses her book, Chained in Silence: Black ...
Davin Phoenix, "The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotion in Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Pol...
Darnella Davis, "Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage: A Personal History of the Allotment Era" (U New Mexico Press, 2018)
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage: A Personal History of the Allotment Era (U New Mexico Press, 2018), Darnella Davis combines the perso...
David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic History" (Princeton UP, 2019)
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role...
Taylor Pendergrass, "Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary" (Haymarket Books, 2018)
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Long-term solitary confinement meets the legal definition of torture, and yet solitary confinement is used in every state in the United States. People...
William Westermeyer, "Back to America: Identity, Political Culture, and the Tea Party Movement" (U Nebraska 2019)
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With his new book Back to America: Identity, Political Culture, and the Tea Party Movement (University of Nebraska, 2019), Professor William Westermey...
David Brooks, "The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life" (Random House, 2019)
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
G. Edward White, "Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000" (Oxford UP, 2019)
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 conclu...
Asma T. Uddin, "When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom" (Pegasus Books, 2019)
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 politi...
Katherine Rye Jewell, "Dollars for Dixie: Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine Rye Jewell, Assistant Professor of History at Fitchburg State University, discusses her book, Dollars for Dixie: Business and the Transforma...
Louis Hyman, "Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream became Temporary" (Viking, 2018)
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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, a...
Stephen F. Knott, "The Lost Soul of the American Presidency" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this latest book, Stephen F. Knott continues his extensive research of the American presidency, from the Founders’ concept of the office to the c...
Alison Rowley, "Putin Kitsch in America" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2019)
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In her book, Putin Kitsch in America (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019), Alison Rowley examines the outsized influence that Vladimir Putin, bot...
Céline Carayon, "Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas" (UNC Press, 2019)
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Taking a fresh look at the first two centuries of French colonialism in the Americas, Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and In...
Gabe Logan, "The Early Years of Chicago Soccer, 1887-1939" (Lexington Books, 2019)
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The thriving metropolis of Chicago was the land of opportunity for a wide variety of ethnic groups. As individuals from nations where soccer reigned ...
Hunter Vaughan, "Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies" (Columbia UP, 2019)
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book, Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies (Columbia University Press, 2019), Hunter Vaughan offers ...
Joshua Simon, "The Ideology of the Creole Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua Simon’s The Ideology of the Creole Revolution: Imperialism and Independence in American and Latin American Political Thought published by Cam...
Amy Aronson, "Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Aronson is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Fordham University and former editor at Working Woman and Ms. magazines. Her ...
Chris Arnade, "Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America" (Sentinel, 2019)
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 spe...
Wilson Jeremiah Moses, "Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In Greek mythology Prometheus is the trickster Titan who gives fire to humanity. As Wilson Jeremiah Moses explains in his book Thomas Jefferson: A Mod...
Simone Knox and Kai Hanno Schwind, "Friends: A Reading of the Sitcom" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What does Friends mean to us now? In Friends: A Reading of the Sitcom (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Simone Knox, an Associate Professor in the Departmen...
A. R. Ruis, "Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
E. Jones-Imhotep and T. Adcock, "Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History" (UBC Press, 2018)
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Science and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of peop...
R. Muirhead and N. L. Rosenblum, "A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2019)
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
From Pizzagate to Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracies seem to be more prominent than ever in American political discourse. What was once confined to the pag...
Philip M. Napoli, "Social Media and the Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age" (Columbia UP, 2019)
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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, Soci...
William D. Lopez, "Separated: Family & Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What happens to families and communities after immigration raids? William D. Lopez answers this question and more in his new book Separated: Family & ...
Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt, "Reconsidering Southern Labor History" (UP of Florida, 2018)
06 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt discuss their new edited volume, Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power (University Press of...
Jason Smith, "To Master the Boundless Sea: The US Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire" (UNC Press, 2018)
06 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Smith discusses the US Navy’s role in exploring and charting the ocean world. Smith is an assistant professor of history at Southern Connectic...
Sarah Handley-Cousins, "Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 G...
Daniel T. Kirsch, "Sold My Soul for a Student Loan" (ABC-CLIO, 2019)
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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: Highe...
Lundy Braun, "Breathing Race into the Machine" (U Minnesota Press, 2014)
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“We cannot get answers to questions that cannot be asked.” Lundy Braun’s influential book, Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Caree...
David H. McIntyre, "How to Think about Homeland Security" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to David H. McIntyre about How to Think about Homeland Security; Volume 1: The Imperfect Intersection of National Security and Public S...
Asher Price, "Earl Campbell: Yards After Contact" (U Texas Press, 2019)
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
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)
03 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How does political change take hold? In the 1850s, politicians and abolitionists despaired, complaining that the “North, the poor timid, mercenary, ...
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
03 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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, i...
Philipp Stelzel, "History after Hitler: A Transatlantic Enterprise" (U Penn Press, 2018)
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The decades following the end of World War II witnessed the establishment of a large and diverse German-American scholarly community studying modern G...
Kathryn Holliday, "The Open-Ended City: David Dillon on Texas Architecture" (U Texas Press, 2019)
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Kerry Driscoll, "Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples" (U California Press, 2018)
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples (University of California Press, 2018; paperback edition, 2019) is the first book-length st...
Cindy Hahamovitch, "The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945" (UNC Press, 2010)
29 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today Professor Cindy Hahamovitch of the University of Georgia discusses her research connecting the global histories of 19th-century indentured serva...
Stephen R. Taaffe, "Washington’s Revolutionary War Generals" (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Paul Reville, "Broader, Bolder, Better: How Schools and Communities Help Students Overcome the Disadvantages of Poverty" (Harvard Ed Press, 2019)
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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. Wi...
Richard F. Thomas, "Why Bob Dylan Matters" (Dey Street, 2017)
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
Peter Kerasotis, "Alou: My Baseball Journey" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Brianna Theobald, "Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2019)
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), ...
Olga Zilberbourg, "Like Water and Other Stories" (WTAW Press, 2019)
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 wri...
Pekka Hämäläinen, "Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power" (Yale UP, 2019)
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Amy Offner, "Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The neoliberal 1980s of austerity and privatization may appear as a break with the past—perhaps a model of government drawn up by libertarian econom...
Michelle Haberland, "Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000" (U Georgia Press, 2015)
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Michelle Haberland of Georgia Southern University, author of Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South (University of Georg...
Roland De Wolk, "American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford" (U California Press, 2019)
21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Jonathan Rothwell, "A Republic of Equals: A Manifesto for a Just Society" (Princeton UP, 2019)
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
Serhii Plokhy, "Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front" (Oxford UP, 2019)
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What happened when Americans and Soviets fought alongside one another against Hitler? How did relations at Poltava airbase reveal cracks in the Grand ...
Daniel Schwartz, "Ghetto: The History of a Word" (Harvard UP, 2019)
19 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Michael Romano and Todd Curry, "Creating the Law: State Supreme Court Opinions and The Effect of Audiences" (Routledge, 2019)
19 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In Creating the Law: State Supreme Court Opinions and The Effect of Audiences (Routledge, 2019), Michael Romano and Todd Curry examine whether judges ...