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African American Studies
October 30, 2020
The Campus Color Line
College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom
Eddie Cole
Hosted by Matthew Johnson
Some of America’s most pressing civil rights issues—desegregation, equal educational and employment opportunities, housing discrimination, and free speech—have been closely intertwined with higher education institutions. Although it is commonly known …
American Studies
October 16, 2019
Crack
Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed
David Farber
Hosted by Matthew Johnson
A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed (Cambridge University Press, 2019) tells the …
African American Studies
December 24, 2018
Postwar
Waging Peace in Chicago
Laura McEnaney
Hosted by Matthew Johnson
When World War II ended, Americans celebrated a military victory abroad, but the meaning of peace at home was yet to be defined. From roughly 1943 onward, building a postwar …
African American Studies
November 21, 2018
The Mismeasure of Minds
Debating Race and Intelligence Between Brown and The Bell Curve
Michael E. Staub
Hosted by Matthew Johnson
The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision required desegregation of America’s schools, but it also set in motion an agonizing multi-decade debate over race, class, and IQ. In The …
African American Studies
October 26, 2018
Upending the Ivory Tower
Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League
Stefan M. Bradley
Hosted by Matthew Johnson
The eight elite institutions that comprise the Ivy League, sometimes known as the Ancient Eight—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell—are American stalwarts that have profoundly influenced history …
American Studies
October 9, 2018
The Road to Disaster
A New History of America’s Descent Into Vietnam
Brian VanDeMark
Hosted by Matthew Johnson
Many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the young stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Yet despite millions of words of analysis and …
American Studies
September 4, 2018
Cuban Revolution in America
Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968–1992
Teishan A. Latner
Hosted by Matthew Johnson
Cuba’s grassroots revolution prevailed on America's doorstep in 1959, fueling intense interest within the multiracial American Left even as it provoked a backlash from the U.S. political establishment. In this …
American Studies
August 23, 2018
Land of the Fee
Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class
Devin Fergus
Hosted by Matthew Johnson
Politicians, economists, and the media have put forth no shortage of explanations for the mounting problem of wealth inequality - a loss of working class jobs, a rise in finance-driven …
American Studies
May 28, 2018
Indians in the Family
Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
Dawn Peterson
Hosted by Matthew Johnson
During his invasion of Creek Indian territory in 1813, future U.S. president Andrew Jackson discovered a Creek infant orphaned by his troops. Moved by an “unusual sympathy,” Jackson sent the …
African American Studies
May 22, 2018
Denmark Vesey’s Garden
Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts
Hosted by Matthew Johnson
A book that strikes at the source of the recent flare-ups over Confederate symbols in Charlottesville, New Orleans, and elsewhere, Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts' Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery …
Popular Culture
January 8, 2018
Consuming Japan
Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America
Andrew McKevitt
Hosted by Matthew Johnson
In Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America (UNC Press, 2017), Andrew McKevitt explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked …
American Studies
December 13, 2017
From Oligarchy to Republicanism
The Great Task of Reconstruction
Forrest Nabors
Hosted by Matthew Johnson
In From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of Reconstruction (University of Missouri Press, 2017) , Forrest Nabors sets out to show that congressional Republicans regarded the work of Reconstruction …