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African American Studies
August 8, 2022
Riding Jane Crow
African American Women on the American Railroad
Miriam Thaggert
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Deidre Tyler
Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black …
American Studies
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Interviews with scholars of America about their new books.
Critical Theory
August 8, 2022
The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice
Nasar Meer
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Dave O'Brien
Why are societies still not offering racial equality? In The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (Policy Press, 2022), Nasar Meer, a professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship in the School of …
Writ Large
August 8, 2022
On "Black Elk Speaks"
A Discussion with Philip Deloria
Philip Deloria
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Zachary Davis
In many ways, Black Elk and John Neihardt lived very different lives. Black Elk was an Oglala Lakota holy man. Neihartd was a European-American literary critic. Black Elk performed for …
Film
August 8, 2022
Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream
Grant Wiedenfeld
Hosted by
Annie Berke
Through the heart of Hollywood cinema runs a surprising current of progressive politics. Sports movies, a genre that has flourished since the mid-seventies, evoke the American dream and represent the …
Darts & Letters
August 8, 2022
January 6th and the Myth of the Mob
The Pervasive Power of Crowd Theory
Hosted by
Gordon Katic
This week, we’re showcasing some of our favourite past episodes of Darts and Letters themed around “Activism & Academia”. Today’s episode originally aired a little earlier this summer. In the …
American Studies
August 5, 2022
Living the Dream
The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Daniel T. Fleming
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James West
Living the Dream: The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day (UNC Press, 2022) tells the history behind the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the battle …
Literary Studies
August 5, 2022
Spoon River America
Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town
Jason Stacy
Hosted by
Daniel Moran
A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book …
Writ Large
August 5, 2022
On Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"
A Discussion with Elisa New
Elisa New
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Zachary Davis
“These United States are themselves the greatest poem.” When Walt Whitman wrote this line, he was an unknown Brooklyn newspaper man. But his work would transform American poetry and offer …
Darts & Letters
August 5, 2022
American Chernobyl, Part 2
The Most Poisonous Place in the USA
Hosted by
Gordon Katic
Hanford is the most-polluted place in America. In our last episode, you heard about the nuclear plant's largely-forgotten history--how it poisoned the people living downwind. On our season finale: a …
Biography
August 4, 2022
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
Corey Robin
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Caleb Zakarin
Most people can tell you two things about Clarence Thomas: Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment, and he almost never speaks from the bench. Here are some things they …
Recall This Book
August 4, 2022
Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton (JP EF)
Dana Stevens
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Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
Dana Stevens joins Elizabeth and John to discuss Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema and the Invention of the Twentieth Century. Her fantastic new book serves as occasion …
In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
August 4, 2022
Nimitz at War
Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
Craig L. Symonds
Hosted by
Mark Klobas
Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. Nimitz was not the most senior candidate …
Anthropology
August 4, 2022
Academic Outsider
Stories of Exclusion and Hope
Victoria Reyes
Hosted by
Reighan Gillam
In Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope (Stanford University Press, 2022), sociologist Victoria Reyes combines her personal experiences with research findings to examine how academia creates conditional citizenship for its …
Darts & Letters
August 4, 2022
America's Chernobyl, Part 1
Living in a Poison Town
Hosted by
Gordon Katic
In this episode of Cited: What it means to live in a place where your home can give you cancer. Richland, Washington is a company town that sprang up almost …
Latin American Studies
August 3, 2022
The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations
Juan Pablo Scarfi and David M. K. Sheinin
Hosted by
Steven Rodriguez
In The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations (Routledge, 2022), David Sheinin and Juan Pablo Scarfi bring together articles that reconsider many aspects of U.S.-Latin American history. Pan-Americanism …
General History
August 3, 2022
Left in the Center
The Liberal Party of New York and the Rise and Fall of American Social Democracy
Daniel Soyer
Hosted by
Robert Snyder
The history of small political parties and the history of the American left are closely intertwined, especially in the book Left in the Center: The Liberal Party of New York …
Politics & Polemics
August 3, 2022
Goliath
The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
Matt Stoller
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Caleb Zakarin
In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism have returned to American politics for the first time …
Education
August 3, 2022
Other People's Colleges
The Origins of American Higher Education Reform
Ethan W. Ris
Hosted by
Joao Souto-Maior
For well over one hundred years, people have been attempting to make American colleges and universities more efficient and more accountable. Indeed, Ethan Ris argues in Other People's Colleges: The …
Popular Culture
August 3, 2022
Teenage Dreams
Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars
Charlie Jeffries
Hosted by
Rebekah Buchanan
Utilizing a breadth of archival sources from activists, artists, and policymakers, Charlie Jeffries' Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars (Rutgers UP, 2022) examines the race- and class-inflected battles over …
Literary Studies
August 3, 2022
Interwar Itineraries
Authenticity in Anglophone and French Travel Writing
Emily O. Wittman
Hosted by
Nathan Moore
How people traveled, and how people wrote about travel, changed in the interwar years. Novel technologies eased travel conditions, breeding new iterations of the colonizing gaze. The sense that another …
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