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Jonathan Rothwell, "A Republic of Equals: A Man...
What are the true sources of inequality?
36 min
4752
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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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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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
4755
Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne, "Holding Onto Nothi...
Lucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing...
23 min
4756
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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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
4763
Eyal Mayroz, "Reluctant Interveners: America's ...
Why don’t governments do more to prevent genocide?
58 min
4764
Johanna Taylor, "The Art Museum Redefined: Powe...
What is the future of the museum?
31 min
4765
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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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
4767
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
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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
4769
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
4770
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
4771
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
4772
Bert A. Rockman and Andrew Rudalevige, "The Oba...
"The Obama Legacy" covers the domestic and foreign policy attempts, failures, and achievements...
42 min
4773
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
4774
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
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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