Nearly one year ago last may, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. battled 12 rounds in what was […]
Category Archive: American Studies
Some call it a Jack & Coke. I like to think of it as a “Chattanooga.” Chattanooga sits at […]
Every summer, ToM contributors revisit works that influenced them and meditate on how they’ve held up over the years […]
Occasionally, when I’m speaking to a class of 100 18-year-olds, I make the mistake of referring to them […]
Panels at conferences often feel like a hastily assembled mishmash of different things, like a fruit salad made […]
In addition to taking over America’s public imagination – isn’t everyone a “foodie” these days? – Food Studies […]
History versus heritage? Memory versus history? Whose history and why? These questions are currently brewing a controversy at […]
The past, it seems, keeps getting farther away—or, rather, what passes for a legitimate past does. In the […]