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Society & Culture
History
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Laura Hobson Faure, "Who Will Rescue Us?: The S...
68 min
302
Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl, "Crusading for Glo...
63 min
303
Alfred L. Martin Jr. and Taylor Cole Miller eds...
68 min
304
Andrea Louise Campbell, "Taxation and Resentmen...
53 min
305
Thomas Graham, "Getting Russia Right" (Polity P...
55 min
306
Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the...
31 min
307
Breanne Pleggenkuhle and Joseph A. Schafer, "Cr...
22 min
308
Is the U.S. helping speed up its own decline? w...
65 min
309
Kevin J. Hayes, "Understanding Hunter S. Thomps...
40 min
310
Molly Worthen, "Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped...
62 min
311
Katherine Fusco, "Hollywood's Others: Love and ...
40 min
312
Daniel Horowitz, "Bear With Me: A Cultural Hist...
44 min
313
Brendan A. Shanahan, "Disparate Regimes: Nativi...
73 min
314
Flannery Burke, "Back East: How Westerners Inve...
33 min
315
Wade Davies, "Native Hoops: The Rise of America...
The game, as Davies notes, was not just something imposed upon Natives in locales such as the Indian Industrial Training School in Haskell, Kansas (and elsewhere). The game provided linkages to the Native past...
51 min
316
Donald G. Nieman, "The Path to Paralysis: How A...
52 min
317
Glenn Ligon, "Distinguishing Piss from Rain" (H...
49 min
318
Daniel Wortel-London, "The Menace of Prosperity...
27 min
319
LaShawn Harris, "Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpur...
64 min
320
Andrew Fialka, "Hope Never to See It: A Graphic...
52 min
321
Peter Conti-Brown and Sean H. Vanatta, "Private...
49 min
322
Patrice D. Douglass, "Engendering Blackness: Sl...
75 min
323
Kathleen B. Casey, "The Things She Carried: A C...
34 min
324
Steve Luxenberg, "Separate: The Story of Plessy...
Steve Luxenberg has created an unusual history of the famous Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson and the 19th century’s segregationist practices...
45 min
325
John Lisle, "Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottl...
71 min