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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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Jonathan Rosa, "Looking like a Language, Soundi...
Rosa examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad..
61 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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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
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
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Jay Driskell, "Schooling Jim Crow: The Fight fo...
Driskell traces the roots of black protest politics to early 20th century Atlanta and the fight for equal education...
43 min
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Bruce Rydel, "Beirut 1958: How America's Wars i...
In July 1958, U.S. Marines stormed the beach in Beirut, Lebanon, ready for combat....
33 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
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Timothy Lehman, "Up the Trail: How Texas Cowboy...
In 1866, a sixteen year old cowboy—the name was literal in his case—named J.M. Daugherty bought 1,000 cattle, hired five cowboys, and headed north for Missouri...
60 min
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Perla Guerrero, "Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/o...
Nuevo South explores the history of an ever diversifying U.S. South...
51 min
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Nicholas Buccola, "The Fire Is Upon Us: James B...
Buccola uses the iconic debate between Baldwin and Buckley which took place at the Cambridge Union in February 1965 as an entry point into their own lives and their place within the post black freedom struggle...
61 min
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Zoltan Hajnal, "Dangerously Divided: How Race a...
Hajnal finds that race more than class or any other demographic factor shapes not only how Americans vote but also who wins and who loses...
20 min
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W. Caleb McDaniel, "Sweet Taste of Liberty: A T...
Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848..
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Jamie L. Pietruska, "Looking Forward: Predictio...
Pietruska assesses how different varieties of forecasting created an often-contradictory “culture of prediction” during the rise of modern bureaucracies...
36 min