
Professor Buzzkill’s Bookshelf
Eric Lee, Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge, April–May 1945
Eric Lee explores this fascinating but little known last battle of the Second World War:…
Teri Finneman, Press Portrayals of Women Politicians, 1870s–2000s: From “Lunatic” Woodhull to “Polarizing”
Recent history suggests the United States is within reach of its first woman president. This…
W. Joseph Campbell, Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential Elections
A sweeping look at the messy and contentious past of US presidential pre-election polls and…
Buzzkill Bookshelf – Liza Black, Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film 1941-1960
Standing at the intersection of Native history, labor, and representation, Picturing Indians presents a vivid…
Buzzkill Bookshelf – J.E. Hayes, K. Battles, and W. Hilton-Morrow (eds.), War of the Worlds to Social Media: Mediated Communication in Times of Crisis
Decades after the infamous broadcast, does War of the Worlds still matter? This book answers…
Buzzkill Bookshelf – Joseph Cummins, Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises
Today’s political pundits express shock and disappointment when candidates resort to negative campaigning. But history…
Buzzkill Bookshelf – Claire Bond Potter, Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy
A wide-ranging history of seventy years of change in political media, and how it transformed…
Buzzkill Bookshelf – Alexander Keyssar, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
With every presidential election, Americans puzzle over the peculiar mechanism of the Electoral College. The…
Buzzkill Bookshelf – James W. Cortada and William Aspray, Fake News Nation: The Long History of Lies and Misinterpretations in America
Cortada and Aspray examine how rumors, lies, and misrepresentations shaped American history. After the election…