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Society & Culture
History
2726
Mark T. Johnson, "The Middle Kingdom Under the ...
An interview with Mark T. Johnson
58 min
2727
Fritz Bartel, "The Triumph of Broken Promises: ...
An interview with Fritz Bartel
54 min
2728
Truck Nuts: The Political History of Trucks and...
76 min
2729
Decoteau Irby, "Stuck Improving: Racial Equity ...
An interview with Decoteau Irby
91 min
2730
Peter S. Alagona, "The Accidental Ecosystem: Pe...
An interview with Peter S. Alagona
61 min
2731
Marcus Nevius on Becoming a Historian, Marronag...
An interview with Marcus Nevius
138 min
2732
The Tamiflu Trials: Profit and Public Health
How Do We Choose Which Drugs to Use?
59 min
2733
Adam Abraham, "Attack of the Monster Musical: A...
An interview with Adam Abraham
37 min
2734
William Alexander, "Ten Tomatoes that Changed t...
An interview with William Alexander
54 min
2735
Mark Clague, "O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural B...
An interview with Mark Clague
59 min
2736
88 Underwater Eye: Margaret Cohen explores the ...
An interview with Margaret Cohen
42 min
2737
Meighen McCrae, "Coalition Strategy and the End...
An interview with Meighen McCrae
70 min
2738
Tommi Koivula and Heljä Ossa, "NATO’s Burden-Sh...
An interview with Heljä Ossa
31 min
2739
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, "Social...
An interview with Geoffrey R. Stone
39 min
2740
Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women T...
An interview with Aria S. Halliday
39 min
2741
The Heroin Clinic
Medical Grade Heroin Given Out Legally to Users
49 min
2742
Jillian Peterson and James Densley, "The Violen...
An interview with Jillian Peterson
32 min
2743
Anthony Christian Ocampo, "Brown and Gay in LA:...
An interview with Anthony Christian Ocampo
28 min
2744
John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins, "Service D...
An interview with John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins
122 min
2745
He May Be a Communist!
On Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), and The Way We Were (1973)
57 min
2746
This is Your Brain on Trial
How AI Brain Scans and Junk Science Make their Way into the Courtroom
64 min
2747
Pathological: The Work of Dr. Charles Smith
How Bad Forensics Sent an Innocent Mother to Jail
76 min
2748
Merlin Chowkwanyun, "All Health Politics Is Loc...
An interview with Merlin Chowkwanyun
65 min
2749
Sandra Eder, "How the Clinic Made Gender: The M...
An interview with Sandra Eder
47 min
2750
E. James West, "Our Kind of Historian: The Work...
An interview with E. James West
54 min