American Culture
The Historic Woodstock Art Colony
Explores the remarkable range of artists who have worked in Woodstock, New York for over a century.
The Algonquin Round Table
The facts and legends of New York's famed artistic hub told by one of its key participants.
Folklore Matters
Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America's greatest folklorists.
Pepper Adams
A compelling biography of virtuoso, baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams and how his life intersected with some of the greatest poets, writers, painters, and musicians of his time.
Bronx Epitaph
The first book to comprehensively examine Lou Gehrig's famous "Luckiest Man" speech.
The Hard Sell of Paradise
Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai’i in popular film and television programs from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Whiteness at the End of the World
Examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic films express white racial anxiety.
Signs of Distinction
Fifty-one unique New York towns with great stories to tell, from L. Frank Baum's and Jello's hometowns to the birthplace of the Women's Rights Movement.
Through the Periscope
Offers a wider approach to Italian American culture, one that stresses both its material, urban components and the creativity of its formal literary codes.
Sharkey
The incredible, true story of the twentieth century's greatest performing sea lion and the man who trained him.
Race and the Suburbs in American Film
Explores how suburban space and the body are racialized in American film.
More Than Our Pain
Covering rage and grief, as well as joy and fatigue, examines how Black Lives Matter activists, and the artists inspired by them, have mobilized for social justice.
America in Denial
Examines how race-neutral programs and policies harm, rather than improve, the lives of blacks in the United States.
Higher Education for Democracy
Uses a cross-national comparison of Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Hong Kong to develop strategies universities should employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism.
Letters from Hollywood
Engaging essays on a wide spectrum of Hollywood directors and the films they created.
Funny How?
Uses comedy skits, from Monty Python to Key and Peele, to probe how humor works.
Freedom in Laughter
Analyzes the dynamic period in which Dick Gregory and Bill Cosby moved African American professional stand-up comedy from the chitlin’ circuit to the mainstream.
Reconciling Nature
Reveals how classic American novels embodied the tensions embedded in American views of the natural world from the Centennial until the end of the Second World War.
The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918-1939
Assesses how America's film industry remembered World War I during the interwar period.
From El Dorado to Lost Horizons
Investigates how musicals, war films, sex comedies, and Westerns dealt with contentious issues during a time of change in Hollywood.
College Bound
Argues that first- and second-generation Jewish American writers had an ambivalent relationship with educational success.
Gestures of Love
Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen.
Race Still Matters
Essays debunking the notion that contemporary America is a colorblind society.
Historicizing Post-Discourses
Examines how postfeminism and postracialism intersect to perpetuate systemic injustice in the United States.
From Italy to the North End
Documents the arc of the Italian American immigrant experience on both sides of the Atlantic.