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Jonathan Zimmerman, "The Amateur Hour: A Histor...
An interview with Jonathan Zimmerman
35 min
3877
Matt Christman, "The Chapo Guide to Revolution:...
An interview with Matt Christman
65 min
3878
Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith, "After Trump: Rec...
An interview with Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith
57 min
3879
Miriam Kalman Friedman, "Rivers of Light: The L...
An interview with Miriam Kalman Friedman.
56 min
3880
Isar P. Godreau, "Scripts of Blackness: Race, C...
An interview with Isar Godreau
71 min
3881
Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter, "Thai Stick: Sur...
An interview with Peter Maguire
58 min
3882
J. A. Ball and T. Burroughs, "A Lie of Reinvent...
An interview with Jared Bell
93 min
3883
Ashon T. Crawley, "The Lonely Letters" (Duke UP...
An interview with Ashon T. Crawley
61 min
3884
Edwin Wilson, "Magic Time, a Memoir: Notes on T...
An interview with Edwin Wilson
36 min
3885
Pete Croatto, "From Hang Time to Prime Time: Bu...
An interview with Pete Croatto
55 min
3886
Alicia Puglionesi, "Common Phantoms: An America...
Séances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century...
53 min
3887
Steven W. Webster, "American Rage: How Anger Sh...
An interview with Steven W. Webster
32 min
3888
Michael E. Sawyer, "Black Minded: The Political...
Sawyer examines Malcolm X's philosophical system, restoring his thinking to the pantheon of Black Radical Thought....
94 min
3889
Ian Ayres and Fredrick E. Vars, "Weapon of Choi...
Ayres and Vars put forward creative and practical solutions, proposing legislative reform which will reduce gun deaths....
59 min
3890
Martha S. Jones, "Vanguard: How Black Women Bro...
An interview with Martha S. Jones
60 min
3891
Daniel S. Lucks, "Reconsidering Reagan: Racism,...
Daniel Lucks looks at Reagan’s approach to racial issues over the course of his political career...
39 min
3892
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, "Never Caught: The Wash...
Dunbar offers a powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave who risked everything to escape the nation’s capital and reach freedom...,
59 min
3893
Mark Wild, "Renewal: Liberal Protestants and th...
Wild traces the achievements and losses of American mainline Protestant Christians as they attempted to renew their churches and their cities in the twentieth century...
50 min
3894
Nick Haddad, "The Last Butterflies: A Scientist...
An interview with Nick Haddad
53 min
3895
Trevor Pearce, "Pragmatism's Evolution: Organis...
Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s...
48 min
3896
Waleed F. Mahdi, "Arab Americans in Film: From ...
How are Arab Americans portrayed in Arab films, and just as importantly, how are they portrayed in the works of Arab American filmmakers themselves?
64 min
3897
Nazita Lajevardi, "Outsiders at Home: The Polit...
An interview with Nazita Lajevardi
50 min
3898
Tony Bolden, "Groove Theory: The Blues Foundati...
Bolden offers a history of funk artists such as George Clinton who developed a new aesthetic style through the Black Arts Era of the 1960s and 1970s....
58 min
3899
Brandon Mills, "The World Colonization Made: Th...
Mills explores the beginnings and ends of the colonization movement from the late-18th century to the coming of the Civil War...
44 min
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Susan M. Reverby, "Co-Conspirator for Justice: ...
Reverby sheds fascinating light on questions of political violence and revolutionary zeal in her account of Berkman's extraordinary career...
56 min