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Pepper Glass, "Misplacing Ogden, Utah" (U Utah ...
Glass evaluates the widely held assumption that divisions between urban areas are reflections of varying amounts of crime, deprivation, and other social, cultural, and economic problems....
31 min
4202
James M. Lundberg, "Horace Greeley: Print, Poli...
Lundberg finds within his seemingly contradictory positions a consistent belief in the power of print to forge American nationalism...
42 min
4203
Zerlina Maxwell, "The End of White Politics: Ho...
Maxwell shows exactly how and why progressives can lean into identity politics, empowering marginalized groups, and uniting under a common vision that will benefit us all...
72 min
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Adam Goodman, "The Deportation Machine: America...
Goodman offers an expansive history of deportation from the United States that threads the late-nineteenth century through to the present...
63 min
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Pavlina Tcherneva, "The Case for a Job Guarante...
Tcherneva challenges us to imagine a world where the phantom of unemployment is banished and anyone who seeks decent, living-wage work can find it - guaranteed....
30 min
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R. P. Saldin and S. M. Teles, "Never Trump: The...
Should we understand the conservative elites of #Never Trump as homogeneous and united? Failed renegades? Moral guardians of republicanism and values?
83 min
4207
Nancy MacLean, "Democracy in Chains: The Deep H...
MacLean tracks the development of a secretive political establishment—the capitalist radical right or “property supremacists”—working to alter the rules of democratic governance...
67 min
4208
Alanna O’Malley, "The Diplomacy of Decolonisati...
In the summer of 1960, the Republic of the Congo won its independence from Belgium...
59 min
4209
Gerarldo Cadava, "The Hispanic Republican: The ...
Cadava illuminates the history of the millions of Hispanic Republicans who, since the 1960s, have had a significant impact on national politics...
59 min
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François Clemmons, "Officer Clemmons: A Memoir"...
Clemmons offers a touching coming of age story that reveals what it felt like to be young, gifted, black, and gay during a time of intense racism and homophobia....
78 min
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Josh Cerretti, "Abuses of the Erotic: Militariz...
Cerretti argue that a project of militarizing sexuality succeeded in the 1990s United States...
58 min
4212
Thomas C. Rust, "Watching over Yellowstone: The...
When, in 1883, Congress charged the US Army with managing Yellowstone National Park, soldiers encountered a new sort of hostility...
62 min
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Anya Jabour, "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Champion...
Jabour's rediscovers this groundbreaking American figure...
63 min
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Greg Garrett, "A Long, Long Way: Hollywood’s Un...
Garrett brings his signature brand of theologically motivated cultural criticism to bear on this history...
62 min
4215
Michael Goldfield, "The Southern Key: Class, Ra...
Goldfield charts the rise of labor activism in each and then examines how and why labor organizers struggled so mightily in the region...
27 min
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Sam Roberts, "A History of New York in 27 Build...
Roberts tells the story of the city through bricks, glass, wood, and mortar, revealing why and how it evolved into the nation's biggest and most influential....
40 min
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Robert T. Chase, "We Are Not Slaves: State Viol...
Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within...
64 min
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A. de la Fuente and A. J. Gross, "Becoming Free...
How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas?
49 min
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Shana Redmond, "Everything Man: The Form and Fu...
Redmond explores the ways in which Paul Robeson, silenced by state repression in his lifetime, still speaks to us today....
61 min
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Derek R. Sainsbury, "Storming the Nation: The U...
Sainsbury uncovers the significant but previously unknown contributions of the electioneers who advocated for Joseph Smith’s 1844 presidential campaign....
41 min
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Monika Gosin, "The Racial Politics of Division:...
Gosin reveals how differing notions of “worthy citizenship” encouraged interethnic conflict...
57 min
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Clifford Mason, "Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theat...
Mason offers a sweeping history of Black theatre from the early nineteenth century through 1959...
59 min
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Leticia Bode et al., "Words That Matter: How th...
How does social media impact presidential campaigns?
58 min
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Scott Laderman, "Empire in Waves: A Political H...
Laderman tells us “surfing is not a mindless entertainment, but a cultural force born of empire (at least in its modern phase), reliant on Western power, and invested in neoliberal capitalism.”
74 min
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Marcia Chatelain, "Franchise: The Golden Arches...
Chatelain examines the relationship between the fast-food industry, Black business owners, and the communities where they set up franchises after the Holy Week Uprisings of 1968...
67 min