Darren E. Tromblay, "Spying: Assessing US Domes...
Initiated in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, have the reforms of the US intelligence enterprise served their purpose?
45 min
4652
Douglas Irwin, "Clashing over Commerce: A Histo...
Scholars of US history have treated trade policy in less than enthusiastic ways...
55 min
4653
Joshua D. Farrington, "Black Republicans and th...
Reflecting on his fifty-year effort to steer the Grand Old Party toward black voters, Memphis power broker George W. Lee declared, "Somebody had to stay in the Republican Party and fight."
74 min
4654
Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, "For Black Trans Girl...
Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi is an African, Cuban, Indigenous, American Trans performance artist, author, and playwright among many different titles...
54 min
4655
Paul Finkelman, "Supreme Injustice: Slavery in ...
Finkelman is a specialist on the history of slavery and the law...
Though women’s roles in the black freedom struggle remain under-acknowledged, scholars continue to make their importance clear...
50 min
4657
Douglas K. Miller, "Indians on the Move: Native...
In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100,000 Native American people from rural to urban areas...
97 min
4658
Kent Gramm, "Gettysburg: The Living and the Dea...
In the book, Gramm shares the experiences of the people at Gettysburg...
53 min
4659
Matthew James, "Collecting Evolution: The Galap...
James talks about the 1905 Galapagos Expedition organized by the California Academy of Sciences...
30 min
4660
Shelby Wynn Schwartz, "The Bodies of Others: Dr...
Schwartz covers four decades of drag dances, exploring the politics of gender in motion...
52 min
4661
J. C. D. Clark, "Thomas Paine: Britain, America...
There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark...
28 min
4662
Stephen Alan Bourque, "Beyond the Beach: The Al...
Did the Allied bombing plan for the liberation of France follow a carefully orchestrated plan, or was it executed on an ad-hoc basis with little concern or regard for collateral damage?
63 min
4663
Kevin M. Baron, "Presidential Privilege and the...
Baron dives into the history of information and the role that access to information plays in supporting democracy...
54 min
4664
Meredith Oda, "The Gateway to the Pacific: Japa...
Oda shows how city leaders and local residents in San Francisco fashioned a postwar municipal identity through their promotion of what Oda calls transpacific urbanism...
87 min
4665
Margaret O’Mara, "The Code: Silicon Valley and ...
Seventy years ago, there was no Apple Campus or Googleplex. Silicon Valley itself didn’t even exist!
59 min
4666
James Tharin Bradford, "Poppies, Power, and Pol...
Afghanistan and the United States have a complicated relationship. And poppies have often been at the center of the problem between the two countries...
31 min
4667
Carol J. Adams, "Burger" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
In "Burger," Adams offers a history of the hamburger as a cultural object
64 min
4668
Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, "Vagrants and Vagabo...
O'Brassill-Kulfan focuses on the control over poor migrants’ mobility and how their movement shaped ideas of class, race, and status in the United States...
45 min
4669
Polina Kroik, "Cultural Production and the Poli...
Kroik explores the relationship between work and gender in American culture...
48 min
4670
Claudrena N. Harold, "Charlottesville 2017: The...
When hate groups descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, triggering an eruption of racist violence, the tragic conflict reverberated throughout the world...
56 min
4671
Cyril Ghosh, "De-Moralizing Gay Rights: Some Qu...
Ghosh interrogates three arenas of debate over LGBT+ rights in the contemporary American landscape...
35 min
4672
Nazia Kazi, "Islamophobia, Race, and Global Pol...
Kazi's book is a brilliant and powerful meditation on the intersection and interaction of Islamophobia, racism, and U.S. imperial state power...
43 min
4673
Lenora Warren, "Fire on the Water: Sailors, Sla...
Fire on the Water looks at the history of abolition and slave violence by looking at the representation of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late 18th and early 19th century literature...
47 min
4674
Kaitlin Sidorsky, "All Roads Lead to Power: The...
Sidorsky combines qualitative and quantitative research to examine appointed and elected state positions...
46 min
4675
Michael Zakim, "Accounting for Capitalism: The ...
This is a big story, told through an ostensibly marginal event: the birth of a class of “merchant clerks” in the United States...