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Interviews with scholars of America about their new books.
October 22, 2026
Justice Was Her Calling
Before Ruth Bader Ginsburg persuaded the Supreme Court to strike down sex discrimination, Dorothy Kenyon drew the legal blueprint. Justice Was Her Cal…
October 22, 2026
Declarations of Independence
Chris Pearl's Declarations of Independence: Indigenous Resilience, Colonial Rivalries, and the Cost of Revolution (U Virginia Press, 2024) is a fascin…
October 21, 2026
Progress Is A Choice
On this episode of Madison’s Notes, host Ryan Schinkel interviews journalist Charles C. Mann about his New Atlantis essay series “How the System Works…
October 20, 2026
Searching for Jane Crow
In Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block (Beacon Press, 2022), historian Tal…
October 20, 2026
Parties on the Ground
Parties on the Ground: A Study of Nominations for the House of Representatives (U Chicago Press, 2026) is a study of political parties and party nomin…
October 19, 2026
Spanish Louisiana
Sandwiched between the long period of French colonization, and the brief return to the French empire before the Americans enter the scene, the Spanish…
October 18, 2026
Beneath the Wage
Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work (Princeton UP, 2026) retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service eco…
October 18, 2026
Action Bodies
Exploring how digital visual effects have changed the representations of the body and identity in action films. When Harrison Ford appeared digitally …
October 18, 2026
Muddy Ground
Edward Blum interviews John William Nelson, Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent (UNC Press, 2023)In…
October 18, 2026
Fire in the Heart of the City
In American history, few tragedies have been as consequential—and as enduringly misunderstood—as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911. Long re…
October 18, 2026
American Flash Fiction
Wednesday, Oct. 7—Over in the blink of an eye, the best flash fiction lingers long after we finish reading it. The incandescent works collected in Lib…
October 17, 2026
Freedom Round the Globe
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • In a groundbreaking global exploration of the ideas that drove the American Revolution, a prize-winni…
October 17, 2026
An Inconvenient Woman
Born in Florida to a religious family, Lillian Smith (1897-1966) was a white Southern woman living in the Jim Crow South who defied all stereotypes: S…
October 17, 2026
Multiracial Mandarin
Who has the “right” to learn Mandarin Chinese? In Multiracial Mandarin: Asian Americans and Impossible Language (U Minnesota Press, 2026), Dr. David S…
October 17, 2026
Night Hawk
On July 5, 1828, more than a century before Superman arrived on Earth, a superhero took flight in Philadelphia’s night sky. Buried on page three of a …
October 16, 2026
The Warm Hug
Drawing on decades of experience in recovery advocacy, Keith Keller's new book, The Warm Hug: Substance Use and How to Fix the Failure of Treatment an…
October 16, 2026
Presidentess
The first full biography of the controversial and complex First Lady Julia Gardiner Tyler--an unjustly scandalized New Yorker, the second wife to Pres…
October 16, 2026
How Dungeons and Dragons Changed the Way We Play
First released in 1974, Dungeons & Dragons revolutionized game design and interactive media by allowing players to create and perform their own fi…
October 15, 2026
Skipping School
Discover the untold story of why homeschooling moved from the margins to the mainstream of American education. In this groundbreaking study Skipping S…
October 15, 2026
The Lost Founder
David N. Gellman interviews Jesse Wegman on The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People’s Constitution (Celadon Books, 2026).J…