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Joshua Simon, "The Ideology of the Creole Revol...
Simon compares the political thought of three Creole revolutionary leaders: Alexander Hamilton, Simón Bolívar and Lucas Alamán...
65 min
4552
Hunter Vaughan, "Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: T...
Vaughan offers a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective...
61 min
4553
A. R. Ruis, "Learning to Eat: The Origins of Sc...
Ruis narrates the development of school lunch programs from the late 19th century to the present,..
69 min
4554
Simone Knox and Kai Hanno Schwind, "Friends: A ...
What does Friends mean to us now?
39 min
4555
E. Jones-Imhotep and T. Adcock, "Made Modern: S...
"Made Modern" explores the complex interconnections between science, technology, and modernity in Canada...
58 min
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Wilson Jeremiah Moses, "Thomas Jefferson: A Mod...
Moses dissects the corpus of Jefferson’s writings and examines the span of his activities...
63 min
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R. Muirhead and N. L. Rosenblum, "A Lot of Peop...
From Pizzagate to Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracies seem to be more prominent than ever in American political discourse...
37 min
4558
Philip M. Napoli, "Social Media and the Public ...
"Social Media and the Public Interest" approaches this complex and multi-layered issue from a host of perspectives, leading the reader into the broader discussion through a history of social media,..
44 min
4559
William D. Lopez, "Separated: Family & Communit...
What happens to families and communities after immigration raids?
25 min
4560
Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt, "Reconside...
Hild and Merritt discuss the nexus of race, class and power in the history of labor in the South, and how a new generation of southern labor scholars are changing our understanding of labor's past, present and future in the region...
23 min
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Jason Smith, "To Master the Boundless Sea: The ...
Smith discusses the US Navy’s role in exploring and charting the ocean world...
34 min
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Daniel T. Kirsch, "Sold My Soul for a Student L...
American colleges and universities boasts an impressive legacy, but the price of admission for many is now endless debt....
27 min
4563
Sarah Handley-Cousins, "Bodies in Blue: Disabil...
Handley-Cousins shows how disability was a necessary by-product of the U.S. Civil War...
45 min
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David H. McIntyre, "How to Think about Homeland...
The next evolution in improving homeland security is to analyze and evaluate various theories of bureaucratic change against the national-level catastrophic threats,,,
74 min
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Lundy Braun, "Breathing Race into the Machine" ...
Braun documents the history and present-day use of an everyday medical instrument, the spirometer, which measures a person’s lung capacity...
42 min
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Asher Price, "Earl Campbell: Yards After Contac...
Earl Campbell was a force in American football...
41 min
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
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John L. Brooke, "'There Is a North': Fugitive S...
Inspired by brave fugitives who escaped slavery and the cultural craze that was "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," the North rose up to battle slavery, ultimately waging the bloody Civil War.
64 min
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Kathryn Holliday, "The Open-Ended City: David D...
It may only be a slight exaggeration to say that one of David Dillon's career accomplishments was to put the words "Dallas" and "architecture" in the same sentence again...
36 min
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Kerry Driscoll, "Mark Twain among the Indians a...
Driscoll charts the development of the writer’s ethnocentric attitudes about Indians and savagery in relation to the various geographic and social milieus of communities he inhabited at key periods in his life...
94 min
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Philipp Stelzel, "History after Hitler: A Trans...
The decades following the end of World War II witnessed the establishment of a large and diverse German-American scholarly community studying modern German history...
57 min
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Cindy Hahamovitch, "The Fruits of Their Labor: ...
Hahamovitch discusses her research connecting the global histories of 19th-century indentured servants and today's guestworkers...
39 min
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Stephen R. Taaffe, "Washington’s Revolutionary ...
Taaffe describes the roles Washington's commanders played and their contributions to the war effort...
41 min
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Paul Reville, "Broader, Bolder, Better: How Sch...
If we want children from poor families and communities to succeed in school, then we must pay attention to more than merely what happens in school..
23 min
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Richard F. Thomas, "Why Bob Dylan Matters" (Dey...
When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged...
64 min