American Studies Program

A panel of staff members from the television show "The Office" talk about the genesis of the show, it's progression over time, and the way they see it changing in the future. (November 12, 2010)

Siva Vaidhyanathan talks about the evolving culture of America and the internet and how Google represents the growing trends in our society. (May 16, 2011)

Elizabeth Alexander, “Dunbar Today: Exploring the Ongoing Influence of Dunbar on Contemporary African-American Poetry;” Donna Akiba Harper, “Dunbar's Influences on Langston Hughes;” Harryette Mullen, "‘When He is Least Himself." (March 11, 2006)

Adrian Gaskins, “From Dayton to Dahomey to Denver: Dunbar's Travels and the Movement of New Negroes in the Early Twentieth Century;” Blair L.M. Kelley." (March 11, 2006)

Jennifer James, “Dunbar's ‘The Fanatics’ and the Post-Civil War Reconciliation Narrative;” Gene Jarrett, “Second-Generation Realist; or, Dunbar the Naturalist;” Thomas Leuchtenmüller, "'Tis thy breath perfumes the air." (March 11, 2006)

James Smethhurst, “Dunbar and African American Dualism;” Jennifer Terry, "’When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers’: Dunbar's Poetic Engagement with the Civil War and Violence." (March 10, 2006)

Joanne Braxton, “Dunbar, the Originator;” Joanne Gabbin, “Intimate Intercessions: The Poetry of Dunbar;” Elizabeth McHenry, “Beyond the Presence of Dunbar;” Greg Robinson and Lillian Robinson, “Dunbar, A Credit to His Race." (March 10, 2006)

Joanne Braxton, “Dunbar, the Originator;” Joanne Gabbin, “Intimate Intercessions: The Poetry of Dunbar;” Elizabeth McHenry, “Beyond the Presence of Dunbar;” Greg Robinson and Lillian Robinson, “Dunbar, A Credit to His Race." (March 10, 2006)

James Smethhurst, “Dunbar and African American Dualism;” Jennifer Terry, "’When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers’: Dunbar's Poetic Engagement with the Civil War and Violence." (March 10, 2006)

Jennifer James, “Dunbar's ‘The Fanatics’ and the Post-Civil War Reconciliation Narrative;” Gene Jarrett, “Second-Generation Realist; or, Dunbar the Naturalist." (March 11, 2006)

Adrian Gaskins, “From Dayton to Dahomey to Denver: Dunbar's Travels and the Movement of New Negroes in the Early Twentieth Century." (March 11, 2006)

Elizabeth Alexander, “Dunbar Today: Exploring the Ongoing Influence of Dunbar on Contemporary African-American Poetry;” Donna Akiba Harper, “Dunbar's Influences on Langston Hughes;” Harryette Mullen, "‘When He is Least Himself." (March 11, 2006)

David Bradley, award-winning author of The Chaneysville Incident, reappraises the way we read and understand America’s first professional African American Writer in a lecture on ““Factoring Out Race." (March 11, 2006) i

David Bradley, award-winning author of The Chaneysville Incident, reappraises the way we read and understand America’s first professional African American Writer in a lecture on ““Factoring Out Race." (March 11, 2006)

William J. Maxwell, “Dunbar's Bohemian Gallery: Foreign Color and International Modernism;” Ray Sapirstein, “Picturing Dunbar's Lyrics: The Poet's Collaboration with the Hampton Camera Club." (March 11, 2006)

William J. Maxwell, “Dunbar's Bohemian Gallery: Foreign Color and International Modernism;” Ray Sapirstein, “Picturing Dunbar's Lyrics: The Poet's Collaboration with the Hampton Camera Club." (March 11, 2006)

Lecture on Dunbar’s writing for and about children by Michele Elam followed by performance by Stanford students of Dunbar’s poems about and for children directed by Harry Elam and assistant director Jo-Issa Diop. (March 10, 2006)

Marcellus Blount, “Slavery Remembered: Dunbar and the African American Elegy;” Michael Cohen, “Dunbar and the Genres of Dialect;” Yolanda Pierce, “That Old Time Religion: An Afro-Christian Faith Tradition in Dunbar's Short Stories." (March 10, 2006)

Jennifer Hughes, “Representing ‘A Ghastly Humor’: The Politics of Incongruity in Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Fanatics;” John Lowe, “Exploding the Laughing Barrel: Dunbar and American Humor." (March 10, 2006)

(March 10, 2006) Marcellus Blount, “Slavery Remembered: Dunbar and the African American Elegy;” Michael Cohen, “Dunbar and the Genres of Dialect;” Yolanda Pierce, “That Old Time Religion: An Afro-Christian Faith Tradition in Dunbar's Short Stories."

(March 10, 2006) Lecture on Dunbar’s writing for and about children by Michele Elam followed by performance by Stanford students of Dunbar’s poems about and for children directed by Harry Elam and assistant director Jo-Issa Diop.

Jennifer Hughes, “Representing ‘A Ghastly Humor’: The Politics of Incongruity in Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Fanatics;” John Lowe, “Exploding the Laughing Barrel: Dunbar and American Humor." (March 10, 2006)