Restless Nation: Starting Over in America

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The Degradation of American History

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Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past

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The Sixties: From Memory to History

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Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America

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Falling from Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence

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The Great Brain Suck: And Other American Epiphanies

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America: The Owner's Manual: How Your Country Really Works and How to Keep It Running

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Southern History across the Color Line, Second Edition

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Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America

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Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past

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China and the American Dream: A Moral Inquiry

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What Are the Arts and Sciences?: A Guide for the Curious

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Pioneer Urbanites: A Social and Cultural History of Black San Francisco

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Medieval America: Feudalism and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture

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A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic

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The Lost Promise of Patriotism: Debating American Identity, 1890-1920

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Anasazi America: Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place, Second Edition

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Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream: Shaping America's Immigration Story

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A Renegade History of the United States

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Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880–1920

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We Are All Americans, Pure and Simple: Theodore Roosevelt and the Myth of Americanism

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Black Rednecks & White Liberals

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A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History

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Dos Mundos: Rural Mexican Americans, Another America

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Mad Among Us

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No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980

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Utopian Vistas: The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture

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Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America

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Winter in America: A Cultural History of Neoliberalism, from the Sixties to the Reagan Revolution

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Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860: An Abridged Edition of Conjectures of Order

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The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America

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Getting Out: Your Guide to Leaving America (Updated and Expanded Edition)

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You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

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Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole

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The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit in

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The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs

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Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

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Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir

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the black maria

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After the Romanovs: the extraordinary lives of Russian exiles in Paris between the wars

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We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future

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To Hell or Barbados: The ethnic cleansing of Ireland

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Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians

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Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops: A Memoir

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American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures

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Move: Where People Are Going for a Better Future

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Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History

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Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture

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The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail

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Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America

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The Historical Atlas of the British Isles

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MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

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Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares (A Memoir)

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Dogeaters

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Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

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Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions

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Journeys: An American Story: 72 Essays about Immigration and American Greatness

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The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom

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Solito, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America

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Where the Wind Leads: A Refugee Family's Miraculous Story of Loss, Rescue, and Redemption

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Andrew Woolford, “This Benevolent Experiment” (U of Nebraska Press, 2015): I grew up in Michigan, in the United States, where I was surrounded by places named with Native American names. I drove to Saginaw to play in basketball tournaments and to Pontiac to watch an NBA team play. Now in Kansas,

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Andrew Woolford, “This Benevolent Experiment” (U of Nebraska Press, 2015): I grew up in Michigan, in the United States, where I was surrounded by places named with Native American names. I drove to Saginaw to play in basketball tournaments and to Pontiac to watch an NBA team play. Now in Kansas,

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S03E01- The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery an interview with Robert P. Jones

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Britt Rusert, “Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture” (NYU Press, 2017): Traversing the archives of early African American literature, performance, and visual culture, Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (New York University Press, 2017), uncovers the dynamic experiments of a group of ...

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Britt Rusert, “Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture” (NYU Press, 2017): Traversing the archives of early African American literature, performance, and visual culture, Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (New York University Press, 2017), uncovers the dynamic experiments of a group of ...

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Two Acclaimed Writers on the Art of Revising Your Life: Many of the most contentious debates right now center on whether we, as individuals — and as a country — are willing to revise. To revise our understanding of history. To revise the kind of language we use. To revise the nature of our personal, and national, identities. To revise how we act in our everyday relationships. Revision like this is often necessary, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Making fundamental changes to the way we think, speak and act requires the kind of self-scrutiny, discomfort and sacrifice that many of us would rather avoid. There are few public figures who model revision — of one’s work and one’s life — as openly and honestly as Kiese Laymon. Laymon has written the prizewinning memoir “Heavy” as well as essays for The New York Times, ESPN and the Oxford American. His nonfiction tackles sports, popular culture, the politics of literary publishing and, above all, his home state of Mississippi. On every page

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Michael Eric Dyson: Entertaining Race: Join us as Michael Eric Dyson takes us through his new work, and offers insight into the role of African American culture in American culture.

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Alice Echols, “Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse and a Hidden History of American Banking” (New Press, 2017): Alice Echols is a professor of history and the Barbra Streisand Chair of Contemporary Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. In her book Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse and a Hidden History of American Banking (New Press...

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Jackson Lears, "Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street" (FSG, 2023): An interview with Jackson Lears

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Leigh Eric Schmidt, “Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in A Godly Nation” (Princeton UP, 2016): A much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation’s moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God. Yet,

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America the Restless: This week, we had writer Nick Burns on the podcast. Nick's recent , "Why Live in America?" prompted Shadi to write his for July 4th. We delve into the ways America is different than Europe, for good and for ill. Size, geography, culture,...

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Natalia Molina, “How Race is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts” (University of California Press, 2014): “America is a nation of immigrants.” Either this common refrain, or its cousin the “melting pot” metaphor is repeated daily in conversations at various levels of U.S. society. Be it in the private or public realm,

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J. Samaine Lockwood, “Archives of Desire: The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism” (UNC Press, 2015): J. Samaine Lockwood, Associate Professor in the English Department at George Mason University, specializes in nineteenth-century American literature and gender and sexuality studies. In an hour-long conversation,

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How Do Cults Fashion Themselves? with Sarah C. Byrd: Let’s say you pass a group of people dressed identically. Are they a) following a trend, b) wearing uniforms, or c) in a cult? And who’s to say the answer can’t be all of the above? This week, we’re diving fabric first into the world of American cults, communes, and alternative communities with fashion historian and archivist Sarah C. Byrd. Listen in as she and Jonathan discuss how these groups have historically expressed themselves through style—and why the definition of “cult fashion” might be more expansive than we think. Sarah C. Byrd is a fashion historian, archivist, & educator based in New York. Her independent research focuses on the history of clothing within American “cults” and alternative communities, as well as the role of museums in fashion design education. She is also passionate about creating space to engage in learning outside of institutional programs. You can connect with Sarah via her website: sarahcbyrd.com.

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Joseph Pierce on Why Academics Must Decolonize Queerness: "Decolonial practices are about doing, but they're also about asking how we know the things we know. Under what conditions did whiteness become the norm? Under what conditions did heterosexuality become the norm?"

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In-Person Research and Writing: Visiting Archives and "Selling Anti-Slavery": A Discussion with Teresa Goddu

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The Haudenosaunee Confederacy

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The Freeing of the American Mind: Free minds. Freedom fries. Free speech. The Freedom Caucus. Freedom from. Freedom to. What do Americans really mean when they talk about freedom? Louis Menand’s “The Free World” is a 700-plus-page intellectual history of the Cold War period that traces the opening of the American mind to new ideas in art, literature, politics, music, foreign policy, criticism, higher education and campus activism. John Cage was making silent music, Jackson Pollock was throwing paint on canvases, Pauline Kael was giving us permission to actually enjoy movies. Thinkers like James Baldwin, Isaiah Berlin and Hannah Arendt were arguing over what it meant to be free. Liberatory movements were trying to actually make Americans free. But what did it all get us? Out of all this ferment and conflict, what forms of freedom did Americans secure, and which did we lose? It’s hard to think of a writer better suited to explain the art and intellectual culture of the Cold War than Lo

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#1543 Are We Rome?

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Considering Museum Work? A Conversation with Curators From the Smithsonian

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May Blackburn & The Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven: Since the 1960s California has always been a place associated with alternative beliefs, countercultural movements and alternative lifestyles. The hippy movement, with it’s summer of love, fueled by the west coast psychedelic music scene will always...

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Jamil W. Drake, "To Know the Soul of a People: Religion, Race, and the Making of Southern Folk" (Oxford UP, 2022): An interview with Jamil W. Drake

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The History of the History of the Right (w/ Kim Phillips-Fein): Matt and Sam are joined by historian Kim Phillips-Fein to discuss the "state of the field" of historical studies of American conservatism. How has the study of the right changed since 2016? And how should it orient itself to 2024?

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Kyla Schuller, “The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century” (Duke UP, 2017): Beginning with a discussion about Black Lives Matter may seem like an unlikely place to start a book about nineteenth century science and culture. However, by contrasting Black lives with White feelings, Kyla Schuller sets up the central conflict of he...

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Adam Laats, "Creationism USA: Bridging the Impasse on Teaching Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2020): An interview with Adam Laats

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Adam Laats, "Creationism USA: Bridging the Impasse on Teaching Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2020): An interview with Adam Laats

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A 5th generation New Yorker reveals tales of Asian resistance since the 19th century: Author Ava Chin, a 5th generation New Yorker, traces the roots of today's high rates of anti-Asian violence back to 19th-century U.S. labour and immigration laws.

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Adam Laats, "Creationism USA: Bridging the Impasse on Teaching Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2020): An interview with Adam Laats

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James Kirchick: The Hidden History of Gay Washington: Join us for a talk with author James Kirchick and the story that could transform our understanding of American history.

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Considering Museum Work? A Conversation with Curators From the Smithsonian