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Robert Mann, "Becoming Ronald Reagan: The Rise ...
Throughout much of his career as an actor in Hollywood, Ronald Reagan identified as a passionate New Deal Democrat...
50 min
4602
William P. Hustwit, "Integration Now: Alexander...
"Integration Now" explores how studying the case Alexander v. Holmes (1969) enhances understandings of the history underlying school desegregation...
42 min
4603
Robert Talisse, "Overdoing Democracy: Why We Mu...
Talisse argues that contrary to what many democratic theorists have argued, democracy is something we can do too much of...
68 min
4604
Bert A. Rockman and Andrew Rudalevige, "The Oba...
"The Obama Legacy" covers the domestic and foreign policy attempts, failures, and achievements...
42 min
4605
S. Deborah Kang, "The INS on the Line: Making I...
Kang explores the history behind Immigration and Naturalization Service throughout the 20th Century,..
47 min
4606
Noelle Giuffrida, "Separating Sheep from Goats:...
Guiffrida tells the history of collecting and exhibiting Chinese art through the story of renowned curator and museum director Sherman E. Lee (1918-2008)...
81 min
4607
Kenneth Fones-Wolf, "Struggle for the Soul of t...
Fones-Wolf discusses the role of religion in the CIO's Operation Dixie, and provides perspective on the participation of faith communities in the modern labor movement...
30 min
4608
AfroAm Studies Roundtable: Ashley Farmer on "Ar...
What happens when particular groups of historians do not feel like they have full access to archival material?
32 min
4609
Karen Routledge, "Do You See Ice?: Inuit and Am...
In the 1800s, explorers and whalers returning home from the Arctic described a cold, desolate world,..
29 min
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Iain MacGregor, "Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold W...
There is perhaps no more iconic symbol of the Cold War than the Berlin Wall...
68 min
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Steven Moore, "The Longer We Were There: A Memo...
The reality of war is much more nuanced than the typical narratives might have you believe...
45 min
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Anne Nelson, "Shadow Network: Media, Money, and...
What is the most important organization you’ve never heard of?
21 min
4613
Sara Lorenzini, "Global Development: A Cold War...
The idea of economic development was a relatively novel one even as late as the 1940s...
48 min
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John Shelton Reed, "Dixie Bohemia: A French Qua...
In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful street life...
47 min
4615
Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "Stuck on Communism: Memoi...
This memoir by one of the foremost scholars of the Soviet period spans three continents and more than half a century...
58 min
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Carlton F. W. Larson, "The Trials of Allegiance...
"The Trials of Allegiance" looks at the law of treason during the American Revolution, showing just how central treason is to understanding the course of the Revolution...
38 min
4617
Serin D. Houston, "Imagining Seattle: Social Va...
Houston’s finds three major social values--social justice, sustainability, and creativity—pervade policy creation in the city and condition privileges and oppressions...
42 min
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Stuart Schrader, "Badges Without Borders: How ...
Stuart Schrader makes the compelling case that the growth of carceral state is just one front of a “discretionary empire” that persists today...
71 min
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Erica Armstrong Dunbar, "She Came to Slay: The ...
Harriet Tubman is best known as one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad...
35 min
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Aurélie Basha i Novosejt, "I Made Mistakes: Rob...
Robert S. McNamara confessed: 'We've made mistakes in Vietnam … I've made mistakes. But the mistakes I made are not the ones they say I made'...
52 min
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L. A. Kauffman, "How to Read a Protest: The Art...
When millions of people took to the streets for the 2017 Women’s Marches, there was an unmistakable air of uprising...
27 min
4622
Nina Sun Eidsheim, "The Race of Sound: Listenin...
Eidsheim contents that vocal timbre is an even stronger marker for race and gender than physical appearance...
66 min
4623
Jonathan Rosa, "Looking like a Language, Soundi...
Rosa examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad..
61 min
4624
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
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Eileen Boris, "Making the Woman Worker: Precari...
Eileen Boris illuminates the ILO's transformation in the context of the long fight for social justice...
41 min