Aram Goudsouzian | Chapter 16

A Fragile Juggernaut

Nashville nonfiction author Jefferson Cowie reinterprets the New Deal and its legacy

By Aram Goudsouzian | February 7, 2018

Jefferson Cowie’s The Great Exception challenges our understanding of the New Deal and its implications for today. The Nashville-based nonfiction author will deliver the Belle McWilliams Lecture in American History at the University of Memphis on February 15.

Context Matters

Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts explore the pitfalls when we talk across cultural barriers

By Aram Goudsouzian | January 5, 2018

In Getting Through, Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts illuminate the way we communicate across cultures, with stakes for our everyday interactions.

Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past

By Tore C. Olsson
St. Martin's Press
288 pages
$30

“I recommend Red Dead’s History unreservedly not only to fans of the iconic video game, but also to anyone who wants to understand the riotousness — from Wild West gunslingers to Jim Crow to lynching — that darkened our past, and which continues to influence our culture. Olsson’s prose is graceful, his analysis profound. This is history at its most accessible and exciting.”

~Peter Cozzens, award-winning author of A Brutal Reckoning