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Sports
August 16, 2022
Gridiron Capital
How American Football Became a Samoan Game
Lisa Uperesa
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Miranda Melcher
Since the 1970s, a “Polynesian Pipeline” has brought football players from American Sāmoa to Hawaii and the mainland United States to play at the collegiate and professional levels. In Gridiron …
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Interviews with scholars of America about their new books.
General History
August 16, 2022
Road to Nowhere
What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation
Paris Marx
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Michael Vann
In Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation (Verso, 2022), Paris Marx identifies two convergent forces in the 20th century: the growth of the climate …
Darts & Letters
August 16, 2022
Nothing Spreads Like Greed
The Pandemic Profiteers Who Made the Crisis Worse
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Gordon Katic
Has the pandemic taught us anything? As we look forward and imagine what the future might look like, we like to think ‘next time will be different.’ But, if we …
Animal Studies
August 16, 2022
The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife
Failures of Principle and Policy
Max Foran
Hosted by
Kyle Johannsen
Hardly a day goes by without news of the extinction or endangerment of yet another animal species, followed by urgent but largely unheeded calls for action. An eloquent denunciation of …
Writ Large
August 16, 2022
On W. E. B. DuBois' "The Souls of Black Folk"
A Discussion with James Campbell
James Campbell
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Zachary Davis
Nearly 40 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, American writer, sociologist and civil rights activist W. E. B. DuBois shed light on Black life in America and what it …
Political Science
August 15, 2022
Hijacking the Agenda
Economic Power and Political Influence
Christopher Witko, Jana Morgan, Nathan J. Kelly, and Peter K. Enns
Hosted by
Susan Liebell
How do competing interests shape public policy? Why are the economic interests and priorities of lower-, working-, and middle-class Americans often neglected while the interests and priorities of wealthier Americans …
Sports
August 15, 2022
Celebrate Winter
An Olympian's Stories of a Life in Nordic Skiing
John Morton
Hosted by
Robert Sherwood
Celebrate Winter: An Olympian's Stories of a Life in Nordic Skiing (Morton Trails, 2020) by John Morton is a wonderful look back at experiences and lessons learned from over 5 …
Darts & Letters
August 15, 2022
Don’t Look Left
A Discussion with David Sirota, writer of "Don't Look Up"
David Sirota
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Gordon Katic
Why does the democratic establishment always avoid turning left, even when it might mean a political win? Gordon asks David Sirota. Sirota is behind the smash-hit Netflix movie Don’t Look …
Writ Large
August 15, 2022
On Frederick Douglass
A Discussion with John Stauffer
John Stauffer
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Zachary Davis
When Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818, it was illegal for him to learn the alphabet. Slave masters feared the power of a literate slave, so Douglass vowed …
LGBTQ+ Studies
August 15, 2022
Viral Cultures
Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS
Marika Cifor
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Sohini Chatterjee
Serving as a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (U Minnesota Press, 2022) …
Music
August 12, 2022
Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals
Christopher M. Reali
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Emily Ruth Allen
The forceful music that rolled out of Muscle Shoals in the 1960s and 1970s shaped hits by everyone from Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones and Paul …
Film
August 12, 2022
History by HBO
Televising the American Past
Rebecca Weeks
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Joel Tscherne
The television industry is changing, and with it, the small screen's potential to engage in debate and present valuable representations of American history. Founded in 1972, HBO has been at …
Public Policy
August 12, 2022
Single Payer Healthcare Reform
Grassroots Mobilization and the Turn Against Establishment Politics in the Medicare for All Movement
Lindy S. F. Hern
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Gregory Soden
In Single Payer Healthcare Reform: Grassroots Mobilization and the Turn Against Establishment Politics in the Medicare for All Movement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Lindy Hern provides a comprehensive history of the grassroots Movement …
General History
August 12, 2022
A Brief History of the Atlantic
Jeremy Black
Hosted by
Charles Coutinho
The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In A Brief History of the Atlantic (Robinson, 2022), Jeremy …
Military History
August 12, 2022
The Lion of Round Top
The Life and Military Service of Brigadier General Strong Vincent in the American Civil War
Hans G. Myers
Hosted by
Boris Karpa
Hans G. Myers' book The Lion of Round Top: The Life and Military Service of Brigadier General Strong Vincent in the American Civil War (Casemate, 2022) presents the story of the true …
Gender Studies
August 11, 2022
Millennial Feminism at Work
Bridging Theory and Practice
Jane Juffer
Hosted by
Iqra Shagufta Cheema
In Millennial Feminism at Work: Bridging Theory and Practice (Cornell UP, 2021), volume editor Jane Juffer brings together recently graduated students from across the US to reflect on the relevance of …
Political Science
August 11, 2022
Stars and Shadows
The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama
Saladin Ambar
Hosted by
Lilly Goren
Slavery and its lingering remnants remain a plague on the United States, continuing to foster animosity between races that hinders the understanding and connection conducive to dismantling the remains of …
On Religion
August 11, 2022
On Mormon Fundamentalism
A Discussion with Cristina Rosetti
Cristina Rosetti
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Cristina Rosetti completed her Ph.D. in religious studies at the University of California Riverside. She writes about Mormon fundamentalism. …
African American Studies
August 11, 2022
Or, on Being the Other Woman
Simone White
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Brittney Edmonds
In or, on being the other woman (Duke UP, 2022), Simone White considers the dynamics of contemporary black feminist life. Throughout this book-length poem, White writes through a hybrid of …
On Religion
August 11, 2022
Islamophobia
What Christians Should Know (and Do) about Anti-Muslim Discrimination
Jordan Denari Duffner
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Jordan Denari Duffner is an author and scholar of Muslim-Christian relations, interreligious dialogue, and Islamophobia. Jordan is currently pursuing a PhD in Theological and Religious Studies at Georgetown University. A …
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