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American Studies
Interviews with scholars of America about their new books.
November 13, 2026
On the Election Returns
How can the 2026 midterm elections in the U.S. be interpreted, from a public-opinion standpoint? I talk about this with Bruce Stokes, a visiting senio…
November 12, 2026
How Settlers Get Away With Murder
Since the arrival of Columbus, thousands of perpetrators have gotten away with murder, burying evidence of their crimes in police reports and court te…
November 11, 2026
Laboring in the Shadows
Youth workers are essential to the fabric of society. Schools, families, and many of our social institutions rely heavily on their work, yet their con…
November 11, 2026
Beer Ghosts
Water, malt, yeast, and hops: these are essential ingredients of beer. Hops, specifically, play an outsized role in determining its flavor and aroma. …
November 10, 2026
Digging Beneath Bones
Digging Beneath Bones, teri elam’s debut poetry collection, travels through memory, lineage, rupture, and return, illuminating the body that navigates…
November 10, 2026
Seeing Red
Have you ever had one of those days when you’ve had to explain to a leading Senator that the woman approaching his table is actually a Soviet spy hopi…
November 9, 2026
The Political Supreme Court
In this episode, Matthew Mason (Professor of History at Brigham Young University) interviews Rachel Shelden (Associate Professor of History and Direct…
November 9, 2026
Murder on the Mississippi
Saladin Ambar, a political scientist and senior scholar at the Center on the American Governor at Rutgers University Eagleton Institute of Politics, h…
November 9, 2026
Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity
Writing in a time of heightened political anxiety–and when accusations of nationalism, authoritarianism, and proto-fascism have increasingly divided A…
November 7, 2026
Black Evidence
From Reconstruction to Redemption, from the enactment of landmark civil rights legislation to the execution of the Southern strategy, from 2020’s mult…
November 6, 2026
Save a Seat For Me
From the preeminent scholar on Black masculinity in America, Save a Seat for Me: Notes on American Fatherhood (Simon & Schuster, 2026) is Mark Ant…
November 6, 2026
Assembling Religion
How Henry Ford institutionalized a social gospel Henry Ford did not just mass produce cars. As a member of the Episcopal Church, reader of New Thought…
November 5, 2026
Applied History in the US Department of State
I sat down with Lydia Sizer to chat about her experience developing applied history initiatives at the US Department of State’s Office of the Historia…
November 5, 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-winning…
November 4, 2026
Black Market Intimacies
Black Market Intimacies: The Transpacific Sexual Economy of the Korean War (Stanford UP, 2026) reveals how illicit exchanges of money and commodities …
November 3, 2026
The Rediscovery of George "Nash" Walker
The Rediscovery of George "Nash" Walker: : The Price of Black Stardom in Jim Crow America (SUNY Press, 2025) is the first biography dedicated to the l…
November 3, 2026
Jim Crow from the Harbor
How do poor Black communities co-exist with downtown revitalization? How do Black social movements respond to urban renewal to ensure access to better…
November 3, 2026
Alive in the Sound
From the inside flap:In Alive in the Sound: Black Music as Counterhistory (Duke UP, 2025), Ronald Radano proposes a new understanding of US Black musi…
November 3, 2026
Anne Fernald on Her Own Voice
Be the main character in the story that is your life – that is the ambition of eight remarkable women featured in Anne Fernald’s collective biography,…
November 2, 2026
Guantanamo Bay and the Enduring Struggle for Human Rights
In this episode of International Horizons, John Torpey speaks with Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, special counsel at Human Rights First and author of Through…