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Interviews with scholars of America about their new books.
July 26, 2024
Millennial Jewish Stars
Jewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences. But unexpectedly, since the 2000s, many mi…
July 26, 2024
Pop Islam
As Muslim American representation becomes more prominent in popular culture, how are they continued to be portrayed? Rosemary Pennington's new book …
July 25, 2024
Changing Dynamics in the Presidential Race, 2024
The Republican Party held its nominating convention a week ago in Milwaukee, formally nominating former President Donald Trump as the standard-bearer …
July 25, 2024
40 Years of Purple Rain
It’s the UConn Popcast, and Purple Rain, Prince’s semi-autobiographical, semi-concert film, hit cinemas 40 years ago this week. The movie followed the…
July 25, 2024
Love Me Fierce In Danger
Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy (Bloomsbury, 2023) is the story of James Ellroy, one of the most provocative and singular figures i…
July 24, 2024
Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling
Early pollsters thought they had the psychological tools to quantify American mind, thereby enabling a truly democratic polity that would be governed …
July 24, 2024
Pipeline to the Pros
Today I talked to Ben Kaplan about his new book (co-authored with Danny Parkins) Pipeline to the Pros: How D3 Small-College Nobodies Rose to Rule the …
July 23, 2024
Target Hong Kong
In January 1945, the final year of the Pacific War, Japanese-held Hong Kong became the site of coordinated attacks by the U.S. Navy on Japanese warshi…
July 23, 2024
Disability Works
In 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the Deaf, a groundbreaking rehabilitation initiative employing deaf actors. This project ali…
July 22, 2024
The Road to Dallas
There are some topics that historians know not to touch. They are just too hot (or too cold). The assassination of JFK is one of them. Most scholars w…
July 22, 2024
We're Not Here to Entertain
In his new book, We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America (Oxford UP, 2020), Kevin Mattson doc…
July 22, 2024
Sugar, Cigars and Revolution
A new book reveals an incredible slice of Cuban-American history that’s been all but forgotten until now. Lisandro Perez's Sugar, Cigars and Revolutio…
July 22, 2024
Fascism in America
Has fascism arrived in America? In Fascism in America: Past and Present (Cambridge UP, 2023), Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered expe…
July 21, 2024
Burn It Down
Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution (Verso, 2020), Breanne Fahs has curated a comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos from th…
July 21, 2024
To Turn the Whole World Over
Black women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement with internationalism from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. In many cases, th…
July 21, 2024
Beyond Complicity
Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Francine Banner is a fascinating cultural …
July 21, 2024
Vicksburg
In Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign that Broke the Confederacy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Donald L. Miller explains in great detail how Grant ultimately suc…
July 21, 2024
American Zealots
In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks ori…
July 21, 2024
The Kennedy Assassination
You could fill a large library with books about JFK's assassination. We've even touched on the subject here. The topic of the transfer of power from J…
July 20, 2024
Unsettling Choice
What do universal rights to public goods like education mean when codified as individual, private choices? Is the “problem” of school choice actually …