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American Studies
Interviews with scholars of America about their new books.
August 31, 2026
American Laughter, American Fury
A joke is never just a joke—not even in the eighteenth century. In American Laughter, American Fury: Humor and the Making of a White Man's Democracy, …
August 30, 2026
Steven Herman
Steven Herman spent 1990-2006 in Japan, most of those years with Voice of America. He served as South East Asia Bureau Chief as well as North East Asi…
August 29, 2026
Lessons for a Warming Planet
The relationship between humans and the environment in the United States reflects tales of countless contrasting and overlapping trends, movements, an…
August 28, 2026
Foul Play in the Nonprofit Sector
It is quite easy to find corruption within nonprofits. This is particularly the case in the subsector of not-for-profits that are incorporated as trad…
August 27, 2026
Greek To Us
Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us 'hypocrite'; sometimes beautif…
August 27, 2026
Protestant Relics in Early America
Edward Blum interviews Dr. Jamie L. Brummitt on how new book Protestant Relics in Early America. In Protestant Relics in Early America (Oxford UP, 20…
August 26, 2026
Eden's Alternative to Appeasement
As Foreign Secretary in Neville Chamberlain's Cabinet in 1937, Eden didn't believe in appeasing the German and Italian dictatorships or the milita…
August 24, 2026
The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy
The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West (Verso Books, 2026) is the definitive history o…
August 24, 2026
The Star-Spangled Republic
Why does the American flag use stars to represent the states? In The Star-Spangled Republic: Political Astronomy and the Rise of the American Constell…
August 23, 2026
American Metropolis
Mexico City was America's largest city in the seventeenth century – a genuine metropolis. In American Metropolis: The Making of Mexico City (Cambridge…
August 22, 2026
Democracy in Power
In Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2024), Sandeep Vaheesan recounts the rather ove…
August 22, 2026
Surviving Chaos
"Expansive visions. Universal institutions. Ideas of progress. It was on the back of these that the West surged ahead and built a global order. I was …
August 21, 2026
Pentagon Capitalism
The strategic landscape of the Cold War generated political support for a permanent US military force of unprecedented scale. Faced with the problem o…
August 21, 2026
Scattered Steel
Scattered Steel: The Afterlife of the World Trade Center (Cornell UP, 2026) traces the extraordinary journey of the twisted remnants of the World Trad…
August 21, 2026
China Comes to Town:
Chinese investment in the United States has become an increasingly contentious issue that is much more complicated than headlines suggest. In this epi…
August 21, 2026
Gather
Food justice is defined as the understanding that our food system is unequal and that something needs to be done about it. But how can we create a wor…
August 20, 2026
The Elephants in the Room
Political Scientist Seth Masket’s new book, The Elephants in the Room: How Trump Voters Seized the Party from Republican Leaders (Cambridge UP, 2026) …
August 20, 2026
A New World of Revolutions
In A New World of Revolutions: Popular Imaginations and Movements Across the Americas (Princeton UP, 2026), Arturo Chang reconstructs the histories, p…
August 20, 2026
Hot Type
Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad (Bloomsbury, 2026) is the epic story of the magnificent 19th-…