American Studies

More than half of young mothers give birth out of wedlock (The Kansas City Star)

7 Sep 2008

Think of it as a new “normal” in American family life. After creeping slowly and steadily upward most of the last 50 years, the number of babies born to young unmarried women quietly crossed a troubling threshold in 2006.

Van Raalte Institute publishes Dutch papers featured during conference (The Holland Sentinel)

6 Sep 2008

The Van Raalte Institute at Hope College has published papers featured during the biennial conference of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch-American Studies held on campus last summer. The book is the first volume published through the new Van Raalte Press. Titled “Dutch-American Arts and Letters in Historical Perspective,� the 234-page softcover book features 17 papers from ...

Nasty Boys (New York Times)

6 Sep 2008

The sociologist Michael Kimmel provides a look at the young American male as a crude, aggressive jerk.