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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 on American Campus Podcast
• Laura Field’s website
• Follow Laura on Bluesky @lkatfeld
• LK Field Notes Substack

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1920s style!

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• 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_hampton

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High school organizers have much to teach us about young peoples' political priorities.

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• 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 Legacy. Vintage.
• Elizabeth Hinton. 2022. America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s. Liveright.
• R. F. Kuang. 2023. Yellowface: A Novel. William Morrow.
• Deborah Taffa. 2024. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir. Harper Perennial.
• Follow Aaron Fountain on Bluesky, Instagram, and his website

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ft. John Dewey.

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• 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.edu
• Check out upcoming AAUP events
• Higher Education Labor United (HELU) 

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Remember your old school yearbook photos? Where are they now?

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• 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

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Trad wives make great teachers.

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• 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 Tebaldi on Bluesky @cat-tebaldi 

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On (corporate) foundation investments in knowledge production.

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• 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 statistics
• ACP episodes on funding and knowledge production: the academic-military-industrial complex and Gunnar Myrdal’s American Dilemma
• Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn. 2023. The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule Within America's Universities. Duke University Press.
• Samantha Rose Hill, ed. 2024. What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt. Liveright.
• Emily Hauptmann’s faculty page and ResearchGate page

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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 American Progress.” The Atlantic.
• Hannah Kaner’s Fallen Gods Trilogy: Faithbreaker (2025); Sunbringer (2024); Godkiller (2023)
• Ellen Schrecker. 2025. The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s. University of Chicago Press.
• adventuresincensorship.com 

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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 page

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