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Society & Culture
History
4101
Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, "War for Eternity: Insi...
An interview with Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
89 min
4102
Simon J. Gilhooley, "The Antebellum Origins of ...
An interview with Simon J. Gilhooley
62 min
4103
Matt Christman, "The Chapo Guide to Revolution:...
An interview with Matt Christman
65 min
4104
Jonathan Zimmerman, "The Amateur Hour: A Histor...
An interview with Jonathan Zimmerman
35 min
4105
Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith, "After Trump: Rec...
An interview with Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith
57 min
4106
Miriam Kalman Friedman, "Rivers of Light: The L...
An interview with Miriam Kalman Friedman.
56 min
4107
Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter, "Thai Stick: Sur...
An interview with Peter Maguire
58 min
4108
Isar P. Godreau, "Scripts of Blackness: Race, C...
An interview with Isar Godreau
71 min
4109
Edwin Wilson, "Magic Time, a Memoir: Notes on T...
An interview with Edwin Wilson
36 min
4110
J. A. Ball and T. Burroughs, "A Lie of Reinvent...
An interview with Jared Bell
93 min
4111
Ashon T. Crawley, "The Lonely Letters" (Duke UP...
An interview with Ashon T. Crawley
61 min
4112
Pete Croatto, "From Hang Time to Prime Time: Bu...
An interview with Pete Croatto
55 min
4113
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
4114
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
4115
Steven W. Webster, "American Rage: How Anger Sh...
An interview with Steven W. Webster
32 min
4116
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
4117
Nick Haddad, "The Last Butterflies: A Scientist...
An interview with Nick Haddad
53 min
4118
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
4119
Martha S. Jones, "Vanguard: How Black Women Bro...
An interview with Martha S. Jones
60 min
4120
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
4121
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
4122
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
4123
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
4124
Nazita Lajevardi, "Outsiders at Home: The Polit...
An interview with Nazita Lajevardi
50 min
4125
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