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Karen Cox, "Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder...
Cox discusses what one murder case in 1930s Mississippi reveals about race relations, criminal justice, and life in the Jim Crow South...
33 min
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Andrew C. Baker, "Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rura...
Baker focuses his gaze on the rural counties that underwent significant social, cultural, political, and environmental change as southern cities expanded after World War II...
53 min
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Noah Cohan, "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers: F...
In "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers," Cohan investigates “the behavior of American sports fans to understand (its) cultural relevance beyond mere consumerism.”
64 min
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Valerie Olson, "Into the Extreme: U.S. Environm...
Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem...
33 min
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Steven White, "World War II and American Racial...
Intriguingly, White shows that the white public's racial policy opinions largely DID NOT liberalize during the war against Nazi Germany
20 min
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Jolyon Baraka Thomas, "Faking Liberties: Religi...
Thomas challenges the commonsensical notion that the Japanese empire granted its subjects no religious freedom...
82 min
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Matthew A. Sutton, "Double Crossed: The Mission...
What makes a good missionary makes a good spy...
25 min
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Jon K. Lauck, "The Lost Region: Toward a Reviva...
We discuss why Midwesterners are diffident about their history, and why they both hope that Warren Buffet is listening to this podcast...
42 min
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David Lindsay Roberts, "Republic of Numbers: Un...
Roberts anchors 20 biographical chapters to a decadal series of events, whose mathematical significance could not often have been anticipated...
71 min
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Lara Saguisag, "Incorrigibles and Innocents: Co...
Saguisag addresses a gap in scholarship, examining the ways childhood was depicted and theorized in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century comic strips...
103 min
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Richard Bell, "Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped...
"Stolen" tells the true story of how five young Black boys were kidnapped from Philadelphia in 1825...
45 min
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David D. Vail, "Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aer...
Over fifty years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) scolded the agricultural industry for its profligate spread of “poison” and pesticides “indiscriminately from the skies"...
36 min
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Wendy Brown, "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: Th...
Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...
40 min
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T. L. Bunyasi and C. W. Smith, "Stay Woke: A Pe...
Bunyasi and Smith compile social science research and data to explain the current situation for white citizens, African-American citizens, Latinx citizens, and citizens of other races in the United States...
58 min
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Lucas Richert, “Strange Trips: Science, Culture...
Richert investigates the myths, meanings, and boundaries of recreational drugs, palliative care drugs, and pharmaceuticals, as well as struggles over product innovation, consumer protection, and freedom of choice in the medical marketplace...
48 min
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Rafia Zafar, "Recipes for Respect: African Amer...
Zafar discusses the earliest formally-published African-American-authored hospitality books from the 1820s to Edna Lewis’s Taste of Country Cooking from the 1970s...
60 min
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Nicole C. Kirk, "Wanamaker’s Temple: The Busine...
This is a conversation about a Philadelphian and his store, told by guest Nicole C. Kirk...
82 min
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Matthew Hitt, "Inconsistency and Indecision in ...
Hitt demonstrates that over time, institutional changes have substantially reduced unreasoned judgments in the Court’s output,..
22 min
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C. Strachan and L. Poloni-Staudinger, "Why Don′...
"Why Don′t Women Rule the World?" is a comprehensive and useful addition to the established literature on women and politics...
37 min
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Gregory P. Downs, "After Appomattox: Military O...
This groundbreaking study of the post-surrender occupation makes clear that its purpose was to crush slavery and to create meaningful civil and political rights for freed people in the face of rebels’ bold resistance...
80 min
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Cécile Vidal, "Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, R...
Vidal offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery in New Orleans...
55 min
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Paul Musselwhite, "Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwe...
Musselwhite challenges the conventional view of the Chesapeake as a rural society of tobacco and slavery that prevented the development of towns and cities...
30 min
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Perin Gürel, "The Limits of Westernization: A C...
In a 2001 poll, Turks ranked the United States highest when asked: "Which country is Turkey's best friend in international relations?"
34 min
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Erika Milam, "Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for H...
Milam talks about the scientific search for human nature, a project that captured the attention of paleontologists, anthropologists, and primatologists in the years after World War II...
38 min
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A Conversation with Acquisitions Editor Dawn Du...
For a book to exist, there must be a lot more than a writer...
42 min