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Megan Kate Nelson, "The Three-Cornered War: The...
What did the American Civil War look like from Diné Bikéyah and Apacheria?
69 min
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Saladin Ambar, "Reconsidering American Politica...
Ambar has written a masterful examination and analysis of American political thought in this new book which does, in fact, reconsider our thinking about this particular branch of political theory...
39 min
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Jodie Adams Kirshner, "Broke: Hardship and Resi...
Kirshner tells the story of the people of Detroit before, during, and after its bankruptcy, offering lessons about urban governance, post-industrial economics, development, and the usefulness of bankruptcy itself as a tool to aid U.S. cities...
25 min
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Michael F. Robinson, "The Coldest Crucible: Arc...
The disappearance of the Franklin Expedition in 1845 turned the Arctic into an object of fascination...
36 min
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Howard Jones, "My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the D...
On March 16th, 1968, several units of American soldiers descended upon a collection of small villages in Central Vietnam, now collectively known as My Lai. In the space of a few short hours, they committed one of America’s most infamous war crimes...
76 min
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Blain Roberts, "Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty W...
Roberts talks about intersections of race, identity, and memory in the South in a wide-ranging discussion that starts in the segregated beauty parlors of the Jim Crow era...
35 min
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Christian J. Koot, "A Biography of a Map in Mot...
This is a map that proclaims empire: from the prominent royal arms, to the ships riding at anchor out in what is labelled the ‘North Sea’...
22 min
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Brad Balukjian, "The Wax Pack: On the Open Road...
A combination of Charles Kuralt and Lawrence Ritter, Balukjian’s work examines 14 baseball players pulled from a pack of 1986 Topps baseball cards...
35 min
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Kate Lockwood Harris, "Beyond the Rapist: Title...
"Beyond the Rapists" asks how and to what end scholars of communication and the public at large might look “beyond the rapist”--beyond the individuals who perpetuate violence and toward the organizations through whom violence is authorized and distributed
60 min
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R. Scott Huffard, Jr., "Redemption: Railroads a...
Huffard offers a fascinating history of capitalism in the South, which tells the story of how railroads revitalized the region following the Civil War...
34 min
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David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe, "Obstacle Cour...
It seems unthinkable that citizens of one of the most powerful nations in the world must risk their lives and livelihoods in the search for access to necessary health care...
34 min
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Matthew Goodman, "The City Game: Triumph, Scand...
The 1949-50 CCNY Beavers basketball team were one of the unlikeliest of champions in sports history...
46 min
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Michael Bobelian, "Battle for the Marble Palace...
Bobelian reminds us of the intense political battle over Lyndon Johnson’s legacy nomination of then-associate justice Abe Fortas to the chief justiceship.,,
56 min
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Great Books: Glenn Wallis on Gibran's "The Prop...
Kahlil Gibran’s 1923 The Prophet is book that’s changed people’s lives...
63 min
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Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New...
In the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City...
61 min
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Catherine Newell, "Destined for the Stars: Fait...
Catherine Newell talks about the religious roots of the final frontier, focusing on the collaboration of artist Chesley Bonestell, science writer Willy Ley, and the NASA rocket engineer Wernher von Braun...
35 min
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Jacob Remes, "Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, ...
Remes challenges prevailing assumptions about how ordinary people, governments, and institutions act in the wake of natural disasters...
38 min
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SpearIt, “American Prisons: A Critical Primer o...
In the books, SpearIt brings the subject of incarcerated Muslims into focus...
75 min
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
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Catherine A. Stewart, "Long Past Slavery: Repre...
Stewart examines the history behind the collection of more than 2,300 narratives from formerly enslaved people, as part of the New Deal’s Federal Writers’ Project...
70 min
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Andrea Boyles, "You Can’t Stop the Revolution: ...
Boyles provides vivid ethnographic work and in-depth interviews from the Ferguson protests...
59 min
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Christopher J. Phillips, "Scouting and Scoring:...
Phillips crafts a compelling narrative sure to delight baseball fans and historians of the human sciences alike...
43 min
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Gregory P. Downs, "The Second American Revoluti...
Downs argues that we can see the Civil War anew by understanding it as a revolution...
69 min
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Mark Katz, "Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diploma...
In April 2014, a cohort of twenty-five hip hop artists assembled in Washington, D.C. for the first orientation meeting of a new cultural diplomacy program sponsored by the United States State Department,,,
57 min
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Leah Stokes, "Short Circuiting Policy: Interest...
44 min