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4701
Rob Ruck, "Tropic of Football: The Long and Per...
Ruck addresses the paradox of Samoan accomplishment in American football.
55 min
4702
Miroslava Chávez-García, "Migrant Longing: Lett...
"Migrant Longing" is a history of migration, courtship, and identity across the U.S.-Mexican border...
53 min
4703
Lawrence Glickman, "Free Enterprise: An America...
“Free enterprise” is an everyday phrase that connotes an American common sense...
57 min
4704
Mark Winne, "Food Town USA: Seven Unlikely Citi...
Winne shares there is a synergistic interaction between food and community...
46 min
4705
Tammy R. Vigil, "Moms in Chief: The Rhetoric of...
Vigil’s analysis is particularly interesting and informative in how we think about the role of public women in our country, especially in relation to the White House and their unelected roles within the political sphere...
43 min
4706
Jeffrey Ostler, "Surviving Genocide: Native Nat...
Ostler’s book documents the resilience of Native people, showing how they survived genocide in the face of serious and diverse threats to their existence...
51 min
4707
Travis Rieder, "In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Person...
On a spring day in 2015, Dr. Travis Rieder’s life changed. A motorcycle accident, a shattered foot...
56 min
4708
Amanda L. Tyler, "Habeas Corpus in Wartime: Fro...
"Habeas Corpus in Wartime" is a comprehensive history of the writ of habeas corpus in Anglo-America...
62 min
4709
Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste:...
Environmental racism is visible not only as cancer clusters or the location of grocery stores...
45 min
4710
Christine M. DeLucia, "Memory Lands: King Phili...
Memory Lands provides a much needed new account of King Philip’s War which centers the Natives of the Northeast,
52 min
4711
Anne M. Kornhauser, "Debating the American Stat...
The New Deal left a host of political, institutional, and economic legacies...
48 min
4712
Patrick Andelic, "Donkey Work: Congressional De...
What happened to the Democratic Party after the 1960s?
36 min
4713
Hendrik Hartog, "The Trouble with Minna: A Case...
Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century...
23 min
4714
Matthew Crow, "Thomas Jefferson, Legal History,...
Crow studies how Jefferson’s association with legal history was born out of America’s long history as part of an early modern empire and the political thought which preceded him...
60 min
4715
Kevin M. Levin, "Searching for Black Confederat...
Levin investigates the claims that numerous African Americans willingly fought for the Confederacy....
41 min
4716
Vincent DiGirolamo, "Crying the News: A History...
DiGirolamo looks at the legion of children and teenagers who sold newspapers on city streets, moving trains, and even Civil War battlefields in the 19th and early 20th centuries...
27 min
4717
Keir Giles, "Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia t...
From Moscow, the world looks different...
31 min
4718
Jay Sexton, "A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New A...
A popular myth in the American nationalist imaginary is that the country has been on a continued path of progress...
54 min
4719
David Doddington, "Contesting Slave Masculinity...
Doddington demonstrates the significance of internal divisions, comparison, and conflict in shaping gender and status in slave communities of the American South...
36 min
4720
Erik Loomis, "Empire of Timber: Labor Unions an...
Loomis examines the relationship between workers and their environments in this century-long history of timber workers in the Pacific Northwest...
38 min
4721
Emily Dufton, "Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall a...
Dufton visits the podcast to talk about the ups and downs and highs and lows of cannabis in the United State...
33 min
4722
Jennifer C. Lena, "Entitled: Discriminating Tas...
Lena charts the history of American arts and cultural policy, interrogating the institutions, practices, and technologies underpinning the development of American Art...
33 min
4723
Andrew Newman, "Allegories of Encounter: Coloni...
Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives...
94 min
4724
Cecilia Caballero et al. "The Chicana M(other)w...
The editors bring together a diverse collective of Women of Color Mother-Scholars to end the silence experienced by Mothers of Color in academia....
63 min
4725
Niambi Michele Carter, "American While Black: A...
In American While Black, Carter argues that immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment,
31 min