Affected departments include those that focus on African and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican American Studies, Women and ...

FAMU's decision to fuse some of its low-productivity degree programs – including Black studies – has led to frustration from ...

HISTORY AT THE STATE CAPITOL TODAY. THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS GATHERING TODAY TO EMPHASIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF AP AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND POLICY MAKERS JOINING ...

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When English Professor Emeritus Carl Smith founded the American Studies program in 1974, he envisioned an interdisciplinary honors program hinged on field-based learning and a senior thesis. The ...

The American Studies M.A. is an interdisciplinary professional development degree in a committed learning community that builds on students’ research interests, accomplishments, experiences, and ...

More than five decades ago, Morgan Chu was taught a version of American history that all but ignored the experiences of Asian Americans like him. Chu, an attorney who grew up in New York and moved to ...

The Mellema Program in Western American Studies was endowed by Dirk and JoAnn Mellema in 1993. Calvin University hired William Katerberg as its director in 1999. The program is housed in the ...

A report by a left-of-center think tank sees negative bias in the field’s flagship journal, American Quarterly. The journal counters that its mission isn’t national boosterism.

The object of inquiry in American studies is culture—usefully defined as a society’s “whole way of life”—the sum of the ways a society and its subjects at once understand and remake the world. Taking ...

In a grotesquely unfair 1981 review of TJ Jackson Lears’s No Place of Grace, the Rutgers intellectual and cultural historian’s classic analysis of anti-modernism in American thought and the arts, ...