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About Tom Cryer

Thomas Cryer is a PhD Student in American History at University College London, where he studies race, nationhood, and memory through the life, scholarship, and activism of the historian John Hope Franklin. @ThomasOCryer

Thomas Cryer is a PhD Student in American History at University College London, where he studies race, nationhood, and memory through the life, scholarship, and activism of the historian John Hope Franklin. @ThomasOCryer

NBN Episodes hosted by Tom:

American Studies November 21, 2023

Making Schools American

Nationalism and the Origin of Modern Educational Politics

Cody D. Ewert

Hosted by Tom Cryer
In recent years, public schools have become one of the central battlegrounds of American politics. Making Schools American: Nationalism and the Origin of Modern Educational Politics (Johns Hopkins University Press …
American Studies November 5, 2023

The Floating University

Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge

Tamson Pietsch

Hosted by Tom Cryer
A globe-trotting and scandal-ridden story of American empire and higher education, The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge (University of Chicago Press, 2023) tells the story of …
American Studies October 26, 2023

Radical Roots

Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism

Denise D. Meringolo

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Uncovering a radical tradition at the heart of public history within the United States, Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism (Amherst College Press, 2021) redefines …
American Studies October 25, 2023

From Union Halls to the Suburbs

Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism

Scott Kamen

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For decades, Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) was perhaps the most influential multi-issue organization in American liberalism. The first book-length study of the ADA since 1986, Scott Kamen’s From Union …