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American Studies
Interviews with scholars of America about their new books.
October 13, 2026
American Bread
There is no humbler food than bread, none easier to take for granted. So ancient that it shows up in prehistoric sites, bread is still full of surpris…
October 13, 2026
Chicana Spiritual Activism
Chicana Spiritual Activism: Making Change, Making Soul (U Arizona Press, 2026) explores the profound impact of spiritual activism within the Chicana f…
October 13, 2026
Inquisition for Blood
For three years in the early 1900s, a serial killer zigzagged across the rice belt region of the United States, using an everyday ax to slaughter Blac…
October 12, 2026
Realism After the Individual
The realist novel, so the story goes, isn’t really an American genre but a European and British one. And what the realist novel does—again, according …
October 12, 2026
Seniorland
Despite the abundance of retirement communities in the US, none compare to The Villages in Central Florida. Home to nearly 150,000 residents and spann…
October 11, 2026
Creating an Informed Citizenry
When the founding fathers of the United States inaugurated a system of government that was unprecedented in the modern world, they knew that a functio…
October 11, 2026
Crime and No Punishment
The United States is an exceptionally violent country, increasingly unable or unwilling to stem violence in its many forms. A growing corporate crime …
October 10, 2026
God, Guns, and Sedition
In this episode, I spoke with Jacob Ware, co-author, with Bruce Hoffman, of God, Guns and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America, published in 2024 …
October 10, 2026
Painting Paranoia
The Soviet Union’s rise as a totalitarian state and economic rival to the United States sparked a cultural cold war. The conflict was colored by paran…
October 9, 2026
Yiddish Scholarship Comes to America
This comprehensive history of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research—a groundbreaking American Jewish cultural organization, library, and research cen…
October 8, 2026
The Centrality of Slavery
The Centrality of Slavery: Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025) examines how French and American colo…
October 8, 2026
The Biggest Lie
When American fascists suddenly goose-stepped down Main Street in the 1930s, fascism was seen by the rest of the country as a terrifying and radical n…
October 7, 2026
A Healthy Union
In the absence of adequate federal safeguards against pollution and toxic chemicals, state policies are the strongest tools available to create safe, …
October 6, 2026
Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves
In the nineteenth century, global systems of capitalism and empire knit the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds into international networks in cont…
October 6, 2026
Strung Up
A powerful, unsettling, and unflinching exploration that forces readers to confront lynching as a devastating legacy of white childhood conditioning, …
October 5, 2026
Soviet Blocks
A geopolitical and legal history of the bestselling videogame Tetris—the stunningly successful game that began in a Soviet research lab monitored by t…
October 4, 2026
Bernardo de Gálvez
Although Spain was never a formal ally of the United States during the American Revolution, its entry into the war definitively tipped the balance aga…
October 4, 2026
Our Common Life
Our Common Life: Folk Song from the Front Porch to the Concert Hall (U Illinois Press, 2026) by Stephen Wade is part memoir, part meditation on Americ…
October 3, 2026
Racist by Design
Kelly Lytle Hernández joins Michael Stauch to discuss how the US immigration system has always been “racist by design.” Many Americans’ understanding …
October 3, 2026
The Real Pain of Punishment
The Real Pain of Punishment: Prison, Belonging, and the Quest for Humanized Justice (Cambridge UP, 2026) highlights the concept of 'belonging' as an u…