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American Studies
Interviews with scholars of America about their new books.
July 1, 2026
The Once and Future Republic
In preparation for the 250th anniversary of America’s founding, it would be wise to look back at the ancient thinkers and writers who helped inspire …
July 1, 2026
Thomas Paine at the Semiquincentennial
Thomas Paine: Collected Writings (Princeton University Press, 2026) is the first major new edition of Paine’s works, bringing together all his writing…
June 30, 2026
Doom Town, USA
In March 1953 and May 1955, government officials—including the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA), the US Department of Defense, and the Atom…
June 30, 2026
One Day in September
On a crisp September afternoon in 1917, as the country waged war and the national pastime faced questions about its purpose, baseball paused to recons…
June 29, 2026
Dream Road to Pan America
A century after the Pan-American Highway was first conceived, its story remains largely unknown—even to the hundreds of motorists who annually attempt…
June 28, 2026
Slow Violence
A powerful exposé of the American public education system's indifference toward marginalized children and the "slow violence" that fashions schools in…
June 27, 2026
Self-Realization Nation
John Kapusta's Self-Realization Nation: How Artists of the Creative Counterculture Made a New America (U California Press, 2026) is the story of an un…
June 27, 2026
The Trinity
A striking triptych once displayed in countless African American households, the Trinity typically features Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr., and …
June 26, 2026
Saving the American Dream
The American Dream at its best is an ethical ideal and a moral compass. If respected and sustained, it can guide the United States through Trump 2.0. …
June 26, 2026
Sanctuary People
In her latest book, Sanctuary People: Faith Based Organizing in Latina/o Communities (NYU Press, 2024), Dr. Gina Perez explores sanctuary practices in…
June 23, 2026
Where Harlem Rests at the Woodlawn Cemetery
A cemetery as open-air museum? Historian and award-winning author of Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Centra…
June 22, 2026
Detroit's Alternative Press
Can publishing change the world? In Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press Rebecca Kosick (Wayne State UP, 2026), an Associate Profes…
June 21, 2026
The Political Worldviews of American Social Movements
The Political Worldviews of American Social Movements: Partisan Politics and the Future of Democracy (Routledge, 2026) explores the political worldvie…
June 21, 2026
Jim
Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self‑aware, and enormously admirable enslaved man, one of the firs…
June 19, 2026
The Middlebrow Musical
The premiere of Oklahoma! in 1943 is commonly called a “turning point” in the history of the Broadway musical. Often characterized as the first integr…
June 19, 2026
Black Freedom
Black Freedom: A Visual History of Juneteenth and Emancipation Days (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2026) is the first fully illustrated history of Juneteenth…
June 19, 2026
Inside the Mississippi Marathon
In 2008, Rachel Canter founded Mississippi First, an education non-profit with the mission of improving educational outcomes for students across the s…
June 18, 2026
Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship
Anna O. Law, the Herbert Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights in the Department of Political Science at City University of New York-Brooklyn Campus, ha…
June 18, 2026
The Moys of New York and Shanghai
The story of the Moy family—U.S.-born Chinese-American siblings who grow up in the first half of the 20th century—is one that spans the Pacific, cover…
June 17, 2026
Contesting Zion
The modern relationship between the Vatican and the State of Israel is rooted in a long history of hostility between Judaism and Roman Catholicism. Th…