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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
4827
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
4828
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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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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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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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
4839
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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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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Evan Bennett, "When Tobacco Was King: Families,...
Bennett discusses the development and demise of family tobacco farms, tobacco farming culture, and the New Deal's Federal Tobacco Program...
43 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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Kathryn E. O’Rourke, "O’Neil Ford on Architectu...
O'Rourke brings together Ford’s major professional writings and speeches for the first time.,,
47 min
4844
A Conversation with Acquisitions Editor Dawn Du...
For a book to exist, there must be a lot more than a writer...
42 min
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Marisol LeBrón and Yarimar Bonilla, "Aftershock...
Aftershocks of Disaster offers poetry, theater, discussions about technology, photography, and other mediums as ways through which to produce and access knowledge about the multiple disasters before and after Hurricane María...
58 min
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Nancy Langston, "Sustaining Lake Superior: An E...
Lake Superior has experienced substantial environmental change—including today’s impressive but incomplete ecological recovery—in its existence, especially over the last 150 year...
57 min
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Andrew Sidman, "Pork Barrel Politics: How Gover...
Sidman offers a systematic explanation for how political polarization relates to the electoral influence of federal spending...
20 min
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Candy Gunther Brown, "Debating Yoga and Mindful...
An expert witness in four legal challenges, Brown scrutinized unpublished trial records, informant interviews, and legal precedents, as well as insider documents, some revealing promoters of “Vedic victory” or “stealth Buddhism” for public-school children...
30 min
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Jonathan Sarna, "American Judaism: A History" (...
Sarna chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America...
53 min
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Robert M. Alexander, "Representation and the El...
Alexander frames the book with the theoretical conundrum of representation...
48 min