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Amerikastudien / American Studies

One scholar argues that Judy Garland's role in A Star is Born was so pivotal because it involved both gender impersonation and “racial drag."

The American use of torture, then called the "water cure," in the Philippines during the war of 1899-1902 shocked some Americans of the day.

For more than a century, Hollywood has been offering Americans lifestyle advice on how to live better, and the public has been gobbling it up.

Were Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp films also subtle critiques of the social inequities of American capitalism?

For 30 years we have assumed that no life would return to Chernobyl after the nuclear disaster there. We may be wrong.

On Earth Day, one mom argues for “green time” over “screen time.”

Poems by African-American poets, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Kwame Dawes, Rita Dove, Langston Hughes, Tyehimba Jess, Kevin Young, and more.

Diamonds are sparkly. Diamonds are expensive. But diamonds are more than bling—they tell us a lot about the earth, itself.

A few miles off the coast of the Bronx is Hart Island, a potter's field where New York City's poor and unclaimed dead are buried.