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Peter Kerasotis, "Alou: My Baseball Journey" (U...
Alou started playing organized baseball late in life (early teens), endured poverty and hardship in his native Dominican Republic, and then helped to break down barriers of language and perception throughout his long career on the field and in the dugout...
55 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
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Brianna Theobald, "Reproduction on the Reservat...
Theobald delivers a long-overdue, comprehensive history of Native women’s reproductive health, rights, and practices...
41 min
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Olga Zilberbourg, "Like Water and Other Stories...
To this generation that includes writers as disparate as Gary Shteyngart and Irina Reyn comes Olga Zilberbourg...
54 min
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Michelle Haberland, "Striking Beauties: Women A...
Haberland discusses the dynamics of gender, class, race and globalization in the southern apparel industry from the 1930s to today...
43 min
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Amy Offner, "Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The...
Offner shows how strategies such as self-help housing, for-profit privatized state-functions, and austere social programs were well-trodded decades earlier in the mid-century “mixed economy"...
58 min
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Pekka Hämäläinen, "Lakota America: A New Histor...
Hämäläinen provides a comprehensive history of Lakota migration, expansion, resistance, survival, and resilience...
35 min
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Roland De Wolk, "American Disruptor: The Scanda...
With a name associated with the famous university in Palo Alto, Leland Stanford is among the best-known of the famous “robber barons” of the 19th century...
69 min
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Jonathan Rothwell, "A Republic of Equals: A Man...
What are the true sources of inequality?
36 min
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Serhii Plokhy, "Forgotten Bastards of the Easte...
Using a wealth of memoirs and recently declassified secret police files, Plokhy captures the intimate detail of a culture clash that chilled relations before Nazism was even defeated...
55 min
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Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne, "Holding Onto Nothi...
Lucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing...
23 min
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Daniel Schwartz, "Ghetto: The History of a Word...
The word “ghetto” has taken on different meanings since its coinage in the 16th century...
52 min
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Michael Romano and Todd Curry, "Creating the La...
Romano and Curry examine whether judges tailor their language in order to avoid retribution during their retention elections...
18 min
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Ruha Benjamin, "Race After Technology: Abolitio...
Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination...
53 min
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David McCraw, "Truth in Our Times: Inside the F...
The First Amendment and a strong Fourth Estate are essential to a healthy democracy...
33 min
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Pierre Asselin, "Vietnam’s American War: A Hist...
"Vietnam’s American War" is an iconoclastic revision of the history of the war...
69 min
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Wendy Gonaver, "The Peculiar Institution and th...
Gonaver discusses the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Virginia, and the roles that race, the institution of slavery, and slave labor played in the development of psychiatric diagnosis and care through the nineteenth century and beyond...
53 min
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Dana Fisher, "American Resistance: From the Wom...
"American Resistance" follows activists from the streets back to their congressional districts around the country...
25 min
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Jonathan Rees, "Before the Refrigerator: How We...
Frederic Tudor was the “Ice King” of early nineteenth-century America..
51 min
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Dave Tell, "Remembering Emmett Till" (U Chicago...
Tell analyses acts of remembering Emmett following his brutal murder in the 1960s until the present day...
52 min
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Eyal Mayroz, "Reluctant Interveners: America's ...
Why don’t governments do more to prevent genocide?
58 min
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Johanna Taylor, "The Art Museum Redefined: Powe...
What is the future of the museum?
31 min
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Wendy Wickwire, "At The Bridge: James Teit and ...
The history of anthropology remembers James Teit as a field assistant and man-on-the spot for Franz Boas...
61 min
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Mary Anne Franks, “The Cult of the Constitution...
Franks asks whether our country's faith and belief in the Constitution amounts to something like a cult,..
55 min
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Douglas R. Egerton, "Heirs of an Honored Name: ...
John and Abigail Adams founded a famous political family, but they would not witness its calamitous fall from grace...
100 min