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Phil Zuckerman, "Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment" (New York University Press, 2010)
It is not uncommon for many Americans to believe that morality and order comes from God and religion. A society without these elements would consequently be immoral and chaotic. When Phil Zuckerman traveled to Scandinavia, however,
Stephanie Coontz, "The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap" (Basic Books, 2000)
"My mother was a saint." " In my time, we pulled ourselves up by our own bootstraps." "A man’s home is his castle." "The home is the foundation of society." These are just some of the romantic catchphrases that are…
Matthew Delmont, “The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia” (University of California Press, 2011)
Matthew Delmontâs The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock ânâ Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia (University of California Press, 2012) weaves a fascinating narrative in which the content of a popular televisi...
Matt Grossmann, "The Not-So-Special Interests: Interest Groups, Public Representation, and American Governance" (Stanford UP, 2012)
Matt Grossmann, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University, has authored the recently released book, The Not-So-Special Interests: Interest Groups, Public Representation, and American Governance (Stanford University Press,
Marshall Poe, "A History of Communications: Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet" (Cambridge UP, 2011)
It is not every historian who would offer readers an attempt to explain human nature. In A History of Communications: Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Marshall Poe does just that.…
Vorris Nunley, "Keepin’ It Hushed: The Barbershop and African American Hush Harbor Rhetoric" (Wayne State UP, 2011)
Vorris Nunley‘s Keepin it Hushed: The Barbershop and African American Hush Harbor Rhetoric (Wayne State University Press, 2011), uses the black barbershop as a trope to discuss black talk within literary, cultural, and political sites.
Erica Prussing, "White Man’s Water: The Politics of Sobriety in a Native American Community" (University of Arizona Press, 2011)
For the past half century, Alcoholics Anonymous and its 12-step recovery program has been the dominant method for treating alcohol abuse in the United States. Reservation communities have been no exception.
Jennifer Frost, "Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism" (NYU Press, 2011)
Any pop culture scholar worth her salt will tell you that discussion of Beyonce’s baby bump or Charlie Sheen’s unique sex life is far from apolitical, but, at times, gossip columnists have engaged more transparently in political debate. Hedda Hopper,…
James Unnever and Shaun L. Gabbidon, "A Theory of African American Offending: Race, Racism, and Crime" (Routledge, 2011)
Is comedian and cultural critic Bill Cosby right–that black youth suffer from a cultural pathology that leads them to commit more crimes than their white counterparts? Is the remedy to the high rate of offending by African American men the…
Robert Thurston, "Lynching: American Mob Murder in Global Perspective" (Ashgate, 2011)
It takes a brave historian to take on the orthodoxy regarding the rise and fall of lynching in the United States. That orthodoxy holds that lynching in the South was a ‘system of social control’ in which whites used organized…