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 ...

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 controversy around the College Board’s A.P. African-American Studies Course, which was targeted by Republican politicians in Florida seeking to restrict its contents, resulted in a version that ...

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 ...

When I ducked out of my 8 a.m. class at Morrison Hall because of a scratchy throat, I visited the first floor kitchenette and encountered a bulletin board with the photos of the recent concentrators ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Asian American studies is expanding at Fresno State. For years, Fresno State has had a minor and certificates in Asian American Studies. Associate Professor Jenny Banh, says ...

Students must be currently enrolled in a master's or doctoral level program at CU Boulder and be enrolled in Fall courses. Students must be doing research or creative work in African studies, African ...

Shortly before the end of last school year, my district on California’s Central Coast made the decision to delay adopting a planned Advanced Placement African American Studies course. When a group of ...

Has American studies become anti-American? A report by a left-of-center think tank being released Thursday reviewed three years of articles in the discipline’s flagship journal and characterized the ...

In many U.S. history classes, the poems carved into the wooden barrack walls of Angel Island Immigration Station—the San Francisco Bay facility where hundreds of thousands of newcomers from Asia were ...

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, ...