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American Studies February 16, 2015

The Cause of All Nations

An International History of the American Civil War

Don H. Doyle

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
Many Americans know about the military side of the Civil War, and the private, official diplomacy of the Civil War is also well documented. The Cause of All Nations: An …
American Studies February 9, 2015

By the Rivers of Water

A Nineteenth Century Atlantic Odyssey

Erskine Clarke

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
Jane Bayard Wilson and John Leighton Wilson were unlikely African missionaries, coming as they did from privileged slaveholding families in Georgia and South Carolina, respectively. Yet in 1834 they embarked …
American Studies January 1, 2015

Where the Negroes Are Masters

An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade

Randy J. Sparks

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
A kind of biography of the town of Annamaboe, a major slave trading port on Africa's Gold Coast, Randy J. Sparks's book Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port …
American Studies December 17, 2014

All Eyes Are Upon Us

Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn

Jason Sokol

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
When it came to race relations, the post-World War Two North was different -- better -- than the South. Or so white people in the northeast told themselves. While Jason …
American Studies September 8, 2014

The Half Has Never Been Told

Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Edward E. Baptist

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
An unflinching examination of the trauma, violence, opportunism, and vision that combined to create the empire for slavery that was the Old South, Ed Baptist's new book The Half Has …
American Studies May 20, 2014

Let Us Fight as Free Men

Black Soldiers and Civil Rights

Christine Knauer

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
Recent controversies over integrating the military have focused on issues of gender and sexuality. In the 1940s and 50s, however, the issue was racial integration. As Christine Knauer shows in …
American Studies March 19, 2014

Ditch of Dreams

The Cross-Florida Barge Canal and the Struggle for Florida's Future

Steven Noll and David Tegeder

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
The environmental movement is such an integral part of our culture -- and especially the culture of the Democratic Party -- that we take its presence for granted. But as …
American Studies February 5, 2014

The Letters of C. Vann Woodward

Michael O'Brien

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
Few historians have influenced their field the way that C. Vann Woodward (1908-99) changed the writing of southern history. First at Johns Hopkins and then at Yale, Woodward's books, reviews …
American Studies February 1, 2014

Upton Sinclair

California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual

Lauren Coodley

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
Everybody knows the author of The Jungle was Upton Sinclair (or, if they're a little confused, they might say Sinclair Lewis). As Lauren Coodley shows in her new biography Upton …
American Studies December 20, 2013

The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World

Nathaniel Millett

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
This is a very timely book, coming as it does in the midst of the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 -- the war that gave birth to the …
American Studies November 16, 2013

Andrew Jackson, Southerner

Mark R. Cheathem

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
What do most Americans know about Andrew Jackson, apart from that he's on the $20 bill and that he apparently had great hair? Probably not much. Maybe that he was …
American Studies October 23, 2013

Women Writers and Journalists in the Nineteenth-Century South

Jonathan D. Wells

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
It's getting harder and harder to trailblaze in the field of American Studies. More and more, writers have to follow paths created by others, imposing new interpretations on old ones …
American Studies October 19, 2013

Investing in Life

Insurance in Antebellum America

Sharon Ann Murphy

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
Life insurance! The very word sends shivers of excitement down the spine. OK, maybe not . . . but Sharon Murphy's book on the development of the life insurance industry …
American Studies October 10, 2013

A New World of Labor

The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic

Simon P. Newman

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
Ask most educated people about the development of American slavery, and you're likely to hear something about Virginia or, just maybe, South Carolina. In his far-reaching but concise and elegantly …
American Studies September 20, 2013

The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery

Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform

W. Caleb McDaniel

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
How could members of a movement committed to cosmopolitanism accommodate nationalism? How could men and women committed to non-resistance reconcile themselves to politics when the authority of even democratic polities …
American Studies September 12, 2013

A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820

John K. Thornton

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
Thanks in no small part to John K. Thornton, professor of history at Boston University, the field of Atlantic history has emerged as one of the most exciting fields of …
American Studies September 6, 2013

Vaccine

The Debate in Modern America

Mark A. Largent

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
Children born in the 1970s and 1980s received just a handful of vaccinations: measles, rubella, and a few others. Beginning the 1990s, the numbers of mandated vaccines exploded, so that …
American Studies August 27, 2013

Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth

The Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865

A. Glenn Crothers

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
Deservedly or not, the members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) are often portrayed as one of history's Good Guys. The Society was the first organized religious group to condemn …
American Studies August 10, 2013

Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte

An American Aristocrat in the Early Republic

Charlene M. Boyer Lewis

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
What is a celebrity? And how has the definition of celebrity changed over the course of American history? Those questions are central to Charlene M. Boyer Lewis's book Elizabeth Patterson …
American Studies July 26, 2013

The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal

Marian Moser Jones

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
Is there an institution in the United States that enjoys a better reputation than the American Red Cross? In her thorough, accessible new book The American Red Cross from Clara …
American Studies June 22, 2013

The Farmer's Game

Baseball in Rural America

David Vaught

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
Contemporary baseball seems like a big city game. Major League Baseball does not have a Green Bay Packers, a small-market team that can contend with the big shots. As David …
American Studies June 12, 2013

Abraham Lincoln

A Life

Michael Burlingame

Hosted by Daniel Kilbride
What can be gained from another biography of Abraham Lincoln? A lot, it turns out. Michael Burlingame has been researching the life and times of Abraham Lincoln during his entire …