David Paul Kuhn, "The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New ...
Kuhn cautions Americans to look back to the 1970s with an eye to class to better understand our political tribalism...
64 min
3927
Robert Kolker, "Hidden Valley Road: Inside The ...
This is the story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease....
43 min
3928
E. Bazzano and M. Hermansen, "Varieties of Amer...
This book captures these complex varieties of Sufism in America...
51 min
3929
Jody A. Forrester, "Guns Under the Bed: Memorie...
It is 1969 and Jody A. Forrester is in her late teens, transitioning from a Sixties love child to pacifist anti-Vietnam War activist to an ardent revolutionary...
67 min
3930
Alexander Keyssar, "Why Do We Still Have the El...
It's a good question....
49 min
3931
Victor McFarland, "Oil Powers: A History of the...
The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia is a critical feature of the modern international system...
61 min
3932
Teresa A. Goddu, "Selling Antislavery: Abolitio...
Goddu a richly illustrated history of the American Anti-Slavery Society and its print, material, and visual artifacts...
57 min
3933
J. Iber and M. Longoria, "Latinos in American F...
Iber and Longoria the origins of Latino American football, the role of World War II and the Civil Rights movement in expanding opportunities for Latino sportsmen, and the ongoing obstacles to Latino participation in the game that many love....
66 min
3934
Joseph Clark, "News Parade: The American Newsre...
When weekly newsreels launched in the early twentieth century, they offered the U.S. public the first weekly record of events that symbolized “indisputable evidence” of the news...
67 min
3935
M. Ramirez and D. Peterson, "Ignored Racism: Wh...
The authors argues that such accounts fundamentally underestimate the political power of whites' animus toward Latinos and thus miss how conflict extends well beyond immigration to issues such as voting rights, criminal punishment, policing, and which candidates to support....
55 min
3936
Sherry L. Smith, "Bohemians West: Free Love, Fa...
The opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of radicals and reformers fighting for a new America, seeking change not only in labor picket lines and at women’s suffrage rallies but also in homes and bedrooms...
83 min
3937
Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier, "The House on Henry St...
Snyder-Grenier chronicles Henry Street’s sweeping history from 1893 to today...
67 min
3938
Mariana Mogilevich, "The Invention of Public Sp...
Mogilevich provides a fascinating history of a watershed moment when designers, government administrators, and residents sought to remake the city in the image of a diverse, free, and democratic society...
37 min
3939
Postscript: A Discussion of Race, Anger and Cit...
Race now drives American political feeling. What does this mean for American democracy today?
77 min
3940
Gerald Posner, "Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Po...
Posner explores the fascinating and complex history of pharmaceutical and bio-tech industries. It is an industry like no other and a story like no other...
78 min
3941
Pernille Røge, "Economistes and the Reinvention...
Røge charts the confluence and reciprocal impacts of ideas and policies espoused by political economists, colonial administrators, planters, and entrepreneurs to reform the French empire in the second half of the eighteenth century....
52 min
3942
Glenda Goodman, "Cultivated by Hand: Amateur Mu...
Through a penetrating examination of music manuscript books, Goodman analyzes the gendered and classed dynamics of the white New England gentry who made these hand-copied music documents...
52 min
3943
Hettie V. Williams, "Bury My Heart in a Free La...
Black women intellectuals have traditionally been overlooked in the academic study of American intellectual history...
35 min
3944
B. Heersink and J. A. Jenkins, "Republican Part...
Heersink and Jenkins describe how Southern Republicans, despite their unpopularity in the South, remained nationally important through their regular participation at the Republican national conventions....
52 min
3945
Roundtable Discussion of Jennifer Morgan's "Lab...
I enlisted a few #Blktwitterstorians to pull up to the pod and discuss the importance of Dr. Morgan’s Laboring Women to the field of slavery studies,
94 min
3946
Jennifer L. Morgan, "Laboring Women: Reproducti...
"Laboring Women" was the first historical text to focus on Black women’s reproductive labor under New World slavery in the early modern period...
75 min
3947
Muhammed Fraser-Rahim, "America’s Other Muslims...
Fraser-Rahim explores the oldest and perhaps the most important Muslim community in America, whose story has received little attention in the contemporary context...
65 min
3948
Joshua Greenberg, "Bank Notes and Shinplasters:...
What is money? No, really, what is money? It turns out the answer is not so simple.
35 min
3949
Federico R. Waitoller, "Excluded by Choice: Urb...
Waitoller highlights the challenges faced by students of color who have special needs and their parents who evaluate their educational options...
40 min
3950
Matthew Yglesias, "One Billion Americans: The C...
What would actually make America great? More people.