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4051
J. A. Ball and T. Burroughs, "A Lie of Reinvent...
An interview with Jared Bell
93 min
4052
Edwin Wilson, "Magic Time, a Memoir: Notes on T...
An interview with Edwin Wilson
36 min
4053
Ashon T. Crawley, "The Lonely Letters" (Duke UP...
An interview with Ashon T. Crawley
61 min
4054
Pete Croatto, "From Hang Time to Prime Time: Bu...
An interview with Pete Croatto
55 min
4055
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
4056
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
4057
Steven W. Webster, "American Rage: How Anger Sh...
An interview with Steven W. Webster
32 min
4058
Nick Haddad, "The Last Butterflies: A Scientist...
An interview with Nick Haddad
53 min
4059
Martha S. Jones, "Vanguard: How Black Women Bro...
An interview with Martha S. Jones
60 min
4060
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
4061
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
4062
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
4063
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
4064
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
4065
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
4066
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
4067
Nazita Lajevardi, "Outsiders at Home: The Polit...
An interview with Nazita Lajevardi
50 min
4068
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
4069
Justin Gifford, "Revolution Or Death: The Life ...
Charismatic, brilliant, and courageous, Eldridge Cleaver built a base of power and influence that struck fear deep in the heart of White America...
72 min
4070
Erica Fretwell, "Sensory Experiments: Psychophy...
Fretwell allows us to reconsider the history of psychophysics and psychology through the lens of sensory studies and to rethinking science in the context of racial capitalism....
69 min
4071
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
4072
Timothy Hampton, "Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work...
Hampton offers a fascinating and meticulous study of Bob Dylan's songwriting craft...
58 min
4073
Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow, "Suffrage at...
An interview with Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow
53 min
4074
Matthew Spady, "The Neighborhood Manhattan Forg...
Spady traces the complex path by which woodlands became a multi-ethnic big-city neighborhood...
45 min
4075
Timothy P. Storhoff, "Harmony and Normalization...
Storhoff explores the channels of musical exchange between Cuba and the United States during the eight-year presidency of Barack Obama...
55 min