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Lauren F. Klein, "An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

August 24, 2020

An Archive of Taste

Lauren F. Klein

There is no eating in the archive. This is not only a practical admonition to any would-be researcher but also a methodological challenge, in that the…

Colin Woodard, "Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood" (Viking, 2020)

August 18, 2020

Union

Colin Woodard

Colin Woodard's new book Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood (Viking, 2020) tells the story of the struggle to create a…

Thomas Bishop, "Every Home a Fortress: Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)

July 24, 2020

Every Home a Fortress

Thomas Bishop

In Every Home a Fortress: Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020), Thomas Bishop details the rema…

Alexandra Minna Stern, "Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination" (Beacon Press, 2019)

September 11, 2019

Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate

Alexandra Minna Stern

In this episode, Dr. Alexandra Minna Stern and I discuss her latest book, Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the Americ…

Hidetaka Hirota, "Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy" (Oxford UP, 2018) 

January 23, 2019

​Expelling the Poor

Hidetaka Hirota

Hidetaka Hirota is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Advanced Study at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. Prior to his current position, he …

Zach Sands, "Film Comedy and the American Dream" (Routledge, 2017)

January 25, 2018

Film Comedy and the American Dream

Zach Sands

On this episode Diana DePasquale talks to Zach Sands, author of Film Comedy and the American Dream (Routledge, 2017). Some of the films Zach writes ab…