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Lucas A. Dietrich, "Writing Across the Color Li...
Dietrich investigates how ethnic literatures took shape in the U.S. context and how writers of color intervened in the “mainstream” writing...
55 min
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Kevin O'Leary, "Madison's Sorrow: Today's War o...
Arguing that the contemporary Republican Party is waging a counterrevolution against the core beliefs of the nation, journalist and scholar Kevin C. O’Leary cracks open American history to reveal the essence of America’s liberal heritage...
79 min
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Mark Glancy, "Cary Grant: The Making of a Holly...
Glancy tells the incredible story of how a sad, neglected boy became the suave, glamorous star many know and idolize...
65 min
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Kevin Mattson, "We're Not Here to Entertain: Pu...
Mattson documents punk rock in the early 1980s through a comprehensive look into the music, zines, films, bands, and punk Do-It-Yourself (DIY) tactics...
63 min
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Kevin Leo Nadal, "Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ...
Nadal examines the state of LGBTQ people within the criminal justice system. Intertwining legal cases, academic research, and popular media,..
33 min
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Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcit...
Robert Vitalis returns to disenchant us once again—this time from "oilcraft," a line of magical thinking closer to witchcraft than statecraft....
62 min
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Christine Hong, "A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Mi...
Christine Hong attempts to debunk the idea of good war and warfare-welfare state that allowed women and racial minorities to participate in national politics by showing how the US government was able to launch total war that blurred the boundaries of home and abroad through the “principle of indistinction.”
56 min
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Julia S. Charles, "That Middle World: Race, Per...
Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves—a place she terms that middle world...
47 min
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Chas Smith, "Cocaine and Surfing: A Sordid Hist...
Irreverent, cynical, and surprisingly erudite, Chas Smith tells us time and time again that he hates being a surf journalist and despise the surfing industry....
63 min
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Billy Coleman, "Harnessing Harmony: Music, Powe...
Billy Coleman reveals an influential strand of conservative music-making that exerted influence on public life from the beginning of Washington’s government until the Civil War.
66 min
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John Garrison Marks, "Black Freedom in the Age ...
Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom...
69 min
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Tera W. Hunter, "Bound In Wedlock: Slave and Fr...
Hunter offers the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century....
65 min
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Walker Robins, "Between Dixie and Zion: Souther...
Walker Robins explores how Southern Baptists engaged what was called the “Palestine question”: whether Jews or Arabs would, or should, control the Holy Land after World War I....
53 min
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Eric Rutkow, "The Longest Line on the Map The U...
Rutkow retraces the fascinating, decades-long history of the attempt to build the world’s longest highway...
49 min
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Agnès Delahaye, "Settling the Good Land: Govern...
Delahaye tells the story of John Winthrop’s tenure as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630’s...
53 min
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Connor Towne O’Neill, "Down Along with That Dev...
O’Neill takes a deep dive into American history, exposing the still-raging battles over monuments dedicated to one of the most notorious Confederate generals, Nathan Bedford Forrest...
59 min
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Jennifer S. Light, "States of Childhood: From t...
A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults...
60 min
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David S. Nasca, "The Emergence of American Amph...
Nasca offers a novel examination of the relationship between amphibious warfare, American strategic interests, and the United States’s rise to prominence in the first half of the twentieth century...
62 min
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Kathryn A. Mariner, "Contingent Kinship: The Fl...
Mariner offers an ethnography of adoption processes in the United States through the inner workings of a private adoption agency in Chicago, IL...
34 min
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J. A. Delton, "The Industrialists: How the Nati...
Delton focuses on the conservative policy goals of the organization but also its surprisingly progressive tactics...
54 min
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss, "Hate in the Homeland: T...
A startling look at the unexpected places where violent hate groups recruit young people.
71 min
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Ian Buruma, "The Churchill Complex" (Penguin Pr...
Buruma offers a brilliant, witty journey through the "Special Relationship" between Britain and America that has done so much to shape the world, from World War II to Brexit...
54 min
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Eddie Cole, "The Campus Color Line: College Pre...
Cole sheds light on the important place of college presidents in the struggle for racial parity.,,
26 min
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Emily J. Lordi, "The Meaning of Soul: Black Mus...
Lordi takes on the challenge of explaining “soul,” through a book that zooms in and out between sweeping ideas about suffering and resilience in Black culture and fine-grained, close readings of individual performances by soul musicians...
51 min
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Robert Fieseler, "Tinderbox: The Untold Story o...
Fieseler mesmerizingly reconstructs the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans’ subterranean gay community...
55 min