In this second interview of two, Richard Slotkin discusses topics including: creating and expanding the American Studies curriculum; the expansion the of Film program; the integration of American Studies with new Social History; the integrations of ethnomusicology and labory history; the creation of the Women's Studies department and work of Sheila Tobias; 20 years of leading the American Studies program and subsequently handing his position off to Tricia Hill and Ann Wightman; the distinctions between programs and departments; his second book Fatal Environment (1985) and his third book Gunfighter Nation (1992)