Request a future episode topic here We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here References and suggested readings: Martin J. Murray. 2025. Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973. University of North Texas Press.Beverly Gage. 2023. G-man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Penguin.Gregg L. Michel. 2024. Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 19...

On all our favorite topics: imperialism, homosociality, liberalism, hazing! Make a request for future episodes here We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here References and suggested readings: John F. Morris. 2025. Students to Soldiers: Secret Military Education at Elite Schools, 1815–1945. University of Virginia Press.Max Egremont. 2012. Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Follow John Morris on Instagram @jfm_e...

On the academy’s decline since 2045. References and suggested readings: Bryan Alexander. 2026. Peak Higher Ed: How to Survive the Looming Academic Crisis. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2023. Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2022. Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education. Johns Hopkins University Press. Tressie McMillan Cottom. 2017. Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy. The Ne...

Make a request for future episodes here We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here Cheers! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at shephell@iu.edu

Make a request for future episodes here We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here References and suggested readings: Laura K. Field. 2025. Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right. Princeton University Press. Publius Decius Mus (Michael Anton). September 5, 2016. “The Flight 93 Election.” Claremont Review of Books.Sam Tanenhaus. 2025. Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. Penguin Random House.Tanenhaus’s God and Man at Yale episode o...

1920s style! Make a request for future episodes here We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here References and suggested readings: Hunter M. Hampton. 2025. The Gridiron Gospel: Faith and College Football in Twentieth-Century America. University of Illinois Press. John Eisenberg. 2017. Ten-Gallon War: The NFL's Cowboys, the AFL's Texans, and the Feud for Dallas's Pro Football Future. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. huntermhampton.com Instagram @hunter_m_hamp...

High school organizers have much to teach us about young peoples' political priorities. Make a request for future episodes here! We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here! References and suggested readings: Aaron G. Fountain Jr. 2025. High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America. University of North Carolina Press. Heather Ann Thompson. 2017. Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its L...

References and suggested readings: Andrew Feffer. 2019. Bad Faith: Teachers, Liberalism, and the Origins of McCarthyism. Fordham University Press. Daniel Immerwahr. 2018. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Édouard Louis. 2024. Monique s'évade. Seuil.Édouard Louis. 2023. Who Killed My Father? Translated by Lorin Stein. New Directions. Andrew Feffer on academia.eduCheck out upcoming AAUP eventsHigher Education Labor United (HELU)&n...

Remember your old school yearbook photos? Where are they now? Make a request for future episodes here! We're prepping for a future mailbag episode, ask us anything here! References and suggested readings: Kate Eichhorn. 2025. School Yearbook: The Untold Story of a Cringey Tradition and Its Digital Afterlife. University of Chicago Press. Michael A. Messner. 2025. The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024. Rutgers University Press. Kate Eichhorn’s faculty page Support ...

References and suggested readings: Catherine Tebaldi. 2025. Alt-Education: Gender, Knowledge and Far-right Metapolitics. Routledge. Janet MacIntosh. 2024. Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics. Oxford University Press.Chelsea Ebin. 2024. Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building. University Press of Kansas.Carl Neville. 2020. Eminent Domain. Repeater.Alexandra Kollontai. 2011. Red Love. Createspace Independent Publishing.Follow Cat Tebald...

References and suggested readings: Emily Hauptmann. 2022. Foundations and American Political Science: The Transformation of a Discipline, 1945-1970. University Press of Kansas. ACP episode on eugenics and the origins of statisticsACP episodes on funding and knowledge production: the academic-military-industrial complex and Gunnar Myrdal’s American DilemmaTimothy V. Kaufman-Osborn. 2023. The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule Within America's Universities. Duke University Press.S...

The straight college strikes back! References and suggested readings: Richard S. Price. October 6, 2025. The straight college strikes back: 1990s backlash against inclusive campuses. Politics, Groups, and Identities.Megan Brenan. May 29, 2025. “Record Party Divide 10 Years After Same-Sex Marriage Ruling.” Gallup.David A. Reichard. 2024. Here Are My People: LGBT College Student Organizing in California. University of Georgia Press.Lawrence Glickman. May 21, 2020. “How White Backlash Controls A...

References and suggested readings: Alison Bashford. 2025. Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic. University of Chicago Press. Naomi Oreskes. 2003. Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History Of The Modern Theory Of The Earth. CRC Books.Alison Bashford faculty pageSupport the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topi...

grift, edtech, enshittification References and suggested readings: Justin Raden. October 23, 2025. Higher Ed’s Rush to Adopt AI is About So Much More Than AI. Defector. American Vandal podcast and SubstackMoira Weigel. “Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School.” b2oMolly White [citation needed]Gil Durán. 2026. The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy. Simon & Schuster.Edward Zitron Where’s Your Ed At? Melinda Cooper. 2024. Counterrevolution: Extravagance and ...

References and suggested readings: Celene Reynolds. 2025. Unlawful Advances: How Feminists Transformed Title IX. Princeton University Press. “What colleges (don’t) do about sexual violence with Nicole Bedera.” American Campus Podcast. May 28, 2025.Susan Faludi. 2006. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. Crown.Juliet Hooker. 2025. Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss. Princeton University Press.Celene Reynolds’ faculty pageSupport the show Browse the American ...

“The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than any other university. I have always wanted to go there, as I have felt that it is not just another college, but is a university with something definite to offer. Then too, I would like to go to the same college as my father. To be a "Harvard man" is an enviable distinction, and one that I sincerely hope I shall attain.” -John F. Kennedy, Ap...

Oh my! References and suggested readings: Naomi Oreskes. 2025. Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean. University of Chicago Press. Naomi Oreskes. 2021. Why Trust Science? Princeton University Press.Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. 2011. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change. Bloomsbury.Naomi Oreskes. 2025. The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loat...

References and suggested readings: Andy Hines, ed. 2025. University Keywords. Johns Hopkins University Press. Alyssa Battistoni. 2025. Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. Princeton University Press.Emily Callaci. 2020. “On Acknowledgments.” American Historical Review 125 (1): 126–31.Justin Raden. October 23, 2025. Higher Ed's Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI. Defector.Bluesky @andyhines.bsky.social aydelotte.swarthmore.edu@AydelotteFoundation on Instagra...

As a student, she was a proud "Goldwater girl, right down to my cowgirl outfit and straw cowboy hat emblazoned with the slogan 'AuH20." -Hillary Clinton, Living History, 2003. References and suggested readings: Nicholas Buccola. 2025. One Man's Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal. Princeton University Press. Hajar Yazdiha. 2023. The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement. Princeton University Press.Dan...

The money behind truth. References and suggested readings: Maribel Morey. 2021. White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation's An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order. University of North Carolina Press. miamisocialsciences.org virtual forumsGunnar Myrdal, American Dilemma volume IGunnar Myrdal, American Dilemma volume IIJohn Fabian Witt. 2025. The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America. Simon & Schuster.William H. Tucker...