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Interviews with scholars of America about their new books.
November 26, 2024
This Abominable Slavery
On July 22, 1847, a group of about forty refugees entered the Salt Lake Valley. Among them were three enslaved men, two of whom shared the religion, M…
November 26, 2024
A World of Enemies
A sobering account of how the United States trapped itself in endless wars—abroad and at home—and what it might do to break free. Over the past half-…
November 25, 2024
Instrument of War
In his new book, Instrument of War: Music and the Making of the America's Soldiers (University of Chicago Press, 2024), David Suisman shows that the U…
November 25, 2024
Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries
Football is the national game in the United States – and many families and friends bond over their love of the sport. While few people play profession…
November 24, 2024
The Jailer's Reckoning
How does a Black man in Austin get sent to prison on a 70-year sentence for stealing a tuna sandwich, likely costing Texas taxpayers roughly a million…
November 24, 2024
New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization
New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization (UP of Florida, 2017) examines the movement to resettle black Americans in Africa, an e…
November 24, 2024
Analog Superpowers
At the beginning of the twentieth century, two British inventors, Arthur Pollen and Harold Isherwood, became fascinated by a major military question: …
November 24, 2024
The Sentimental State
With The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State (University of Georgia Press, 2024), Dr. Elizabeth Garner Masarik sh…
November 23, 2024
Curricular Injustice
Medical schools have increasingly incorporated the humanities and social sciences into their teaching, seeking to make future physicians more empathet…
November 23, 2024
Herbert Hoover gave us Woody Guthrie (with David Cunningham)
Welcome to the final episode of What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of RTB reacting to the 2024 elect…
November 23, 2024
Health Freaks
In Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness (University of North Carolina Press, 2024), Dr. Travis A. Weisse tells a…
November 23, 2024
Flat-World Fiction
Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America (University of Georgia Press, 2021) Dr. Liliana Naydan analyses representat…
November 22, 2024
Blackdom, New Mexico
By most accounts, Blackdom, New Mexico existed from 1900-1930. However, as historian and artist Dr. Timothy Nelson argues in his new book, the Black c…
November 22, 2024
Ronald Reagan Gave Us Punk Rock (with Vincent Brown)
Welcome to What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of RTB reacting to the 2024 election and discussing th…
November 22, 2024
Speculative Whiteness
Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a hig…
November 21, 2024
Consider the Turkey
A turkey is the centerpiece of countless Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Yet most of us know almost nothing about today’s specially bred, commerci…
November 21, 2024
A Hudson Valley Reckoning
A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family (Cornell University Press, 2024) tells the lo…
November 21, 2024
Reluctant Race Men
Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividing…
November 20, 2024
Walking East Harlem
They call it Spanish Harlem or sometimes just El Barrio. But for over a century, East Harlem has been a melting pot of many ethnic groups, including P…
November 19, 2024
Brassroots Democracy
Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons (Wesleyan UP, 2024) recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orlean…