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Food August 24, 2020

An Archive of Taste

Race and Eating in the Early United States

Lauren F. Klein

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There is no eating in the archive. This is not only a practical admonition to any would-be researcher but also a methodological challenge, in that there is no eating—or, at …
American Studies August 18, 2020

Union

The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood

Colin Woodard

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Colin Woodard's new book Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood (Viking, 2020) tells the story of the struggle to create a national myth for the …
Architecture July 24, 2020

Every Home a Fortress

Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter

Thomas Bishop

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In Every Home a Fortress: Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020), Thomas Bishop details the remarkable cultural history and personal stories behind an …
American Studies September 11, 2019

Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate

How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination

Alexandra Minna Stern

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In this episode, Dr. Alexandra Minna Stern and I discuss her latest book, Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination (Beacon Press, 2019) …
American Studies January 23, 2019

​Expelling the Poor

Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy

Hidetaka Hirota

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Hidetaka Hirota is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Advanced Study at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. Prior to his current position, he was a Mellon Research Fellow in …
Film January 25, 2018

Film Comedy and the American Dream

Zach Sands

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On this episode Diana DePasquale talks to Zach Sands, author of Film Comedy and the American Dream (Routledge, 2017). Some of the films Zach writes about are Harvey, The Graduate …