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Laura J. Arata, "Race and the Wild West" (U Okl...
Arata provides a compelling biography of Sarah Bickford and the larger story of black life in the rural West....
42 min
4202
Rogers M. Smith, "That Is Not Who We Are!: Popu...
Smith discusses connection between our understanding of peoplehood and community, and the contemporary growth of populism around the world...
55 min
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Andrew C. Isenberg, "The Destruction of the Bis...
In 1800, tens of millions of bison roamed the North American Great Plains...
37 min
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Glenn Kenny, "Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas...
In the first ever behind-the-scenes story of Goodfellas, film critic Glenn Kenny chronicles the making and afterlife of the film that introduced America to the real modern gangster—brutal, ruthless...
58 min
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Michele Goodwin, "Policing the Womb: Invisible ...
Goodwin offers a brilliant but shocking account of the criminalization of all aspects of reproduction, pregnancy, abortion, birth, and motherhood in the United States...
60 min
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Ariella Rotramel, "Pushing Back: Women of Color...
Rotramel explores women of color’s grassroots leadership in organizations that are not singularly identified with feminism....
94 min
4207
Gene Ludwig, "The Vanishing American Dream" (Di...
Gene Ludwig cares. The former banker, government regulator, and serial entrepreneur cares deeply about the hollowing out of the American middle class over the past several decades, not least of all in his hometown of York, PA....
49 min
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Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gende...
Daddis explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam...
54 min
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Giorgio Bertellini, "The Divo and the Duce: Pro...
In 1927, the Hollywood stars (and spouses), Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr stood outside their California home, arms raised in fascist salute...
55 min
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William L. Patterson, "We Charge Genocide: The ...
It has been nearly 70 years since William Patterson and Paul Roberson when before the UN and charged the US government with genocide...
37 min
4211
Jennifer Cobbina, "Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: Why t...
An interview with Jennifer Cobbina
53 min
4212
James L. Nolan, Jr., "Atomic Doctors: Conscienc...
After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather’s role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project...
38 min
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Rachel M. Gillum, "Muslims in a Post-9/11 Ameri...
Gillum examines how public fears about Muslims in the United States compare with the reality of American Muslims’ attitudes on a range of relevant issues...
33 min
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Diana Greene Foster, "The Turnaway Study: Ten Y...
What happens when a woman seeking an abortion is turned away?
63 min
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Justin Q. Olmstead, "The United States' Entry i...
Why did America enter the First World War? The author presents a new theory...
38 min
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Maurice S. Crandall, "These People Have Always ...
Crandall demonstrates how Indigenous communities implemented, subverted, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of democracy, both to accommodate and to oppose colonial power...
60 min
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Carla Yanni, "Living on Campus: An Architectura...
Every fall on move-in day, parents tearfully bid farewell to their beloved sons and daughters at college dormitories: it is an age-old ritual...
27 min
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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
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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
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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
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E. Bazzano and M. Hermansen, "Varieties of Amer...
This book captures these complex varieties of Sufism in America...
51 min
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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
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Alexander Keyssar, "Why Do We Still Have the El...
It's a good question....
49 min
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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
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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