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 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 ...

The selective Luce/ACLS grant provides for expanded research and travel opportunities for the study of American visual art.

Asian Americans have been in the United States for hundreds of years, and are the fastest growing demographic in the country. Despite that, they've historically been marginalized and often erased from ...

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 ...

Richard D. Kahlenberg and Lief Lin, the PPI report’s authors, published a summary of their findings in the Wall Street Journal claiming that American Quarterly “can’t stand its subject.” Douglas ...

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, ...