- Entertaining race, performing blackness in America, Michael Eric Dyson
- Back to our future, how the 1980s explains the world we live in now--our culture, our politics, our everything, David Sirota
- Bad or, the dumbing of America, Paul Fussell
- What the dog saw, and other adventures, Malcolm Gladwell
- Empire of illusion, the end of literacy and the triumph of spectacle, Chris Hedges
- Dispatches from the culture wars, how the left lost teen spirit, Danny Goldberg
- George Washington slept here, colonial revivals and American culture, 1876-1986, Karal Ann Marling
- The adventures of Amos 'n' Andy, a social history of an American phenomenon, Melvin Patrick Ely
- Myth-informed, legends, credos, and wrongheaded "facts" we all believe, Paul Dickson and Joseph C. Goulden
- Impersonating Elvis, Leslie Rubinkowski
- Now, let me tell you what I really think, Chris Matthews
- Everyday icon, Michelle Obama and the power of style, Kate Betts
- The TV guide TV book, 40 years of the all-time greatest : television facts, fads, hits, and history, by Ed Weiner and editors of TV guide
- Minstrels of the dawn, the folk-protest singer as a cultural hero, Jerome L. Rodnitzky
- Dead Elvis, a chronicle of a cultural obsession, by Greil Marcus
- American vaudeville as ritual, [by] Albert F. McLean, Jr. --
- Black nerd problems, William Evans and Omar Holmon
- Roadside religion, in search of the sacred, the strange, and the substance of faith, Timothy K. Beal
- Steal this dream, Abbie Hoffman and the counterculture revolution in America, Larry Sloman
- Red, white, and spooked, the supernatural in American culture, M. Keith Booker
- Listening in, radio and the American imagination, from Amos 'n' Andy and Edward R. Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard Stern, Susan J. Douglas
- Why we hate us, American discontent in the new millennium, Dick Meyer
- Weapons of mass distraction, soft power and American empire, Matthew Fraser
- In our time, Tom Wolfe. --
- Scandalous, the untold story of the National Enquirer., director, Mark Landsman, DVD/Widescreen
- The snarling citizen, essays, Barbara Ehrenreich
- Sissy nation, how America became a culture of wimps & stoopits, John Strausbaugh
- Wannabe, reckonings with the pop culture that raised me, Aisha Harris
- Brainiac, adventures in the curious, competitive, compulsive world of trivia buffs, Ken Jennings
- Eating the dinosaur, Chuck Klosterman
- Elvis culture, fans, faith, & image, Erika Doss
- Two-bit culture, the paperbacking of America, Kenneth C. Davis. --
- The witches are coming, Lindy West
- Abbie Hoffman, American rebel, Marty Jezer