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Stephen R. Duncan, "The Rebel Café: Sex, Race, ...
This book is a collective biography of the places that harbored beatniks, blabbermouths, hipsters, playboys, and partisans who altered the shape of postwar liberal politics and culture...
44 min
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Rebecca Janzen, "Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonite...
Janzen examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture...
51 min
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Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Ornamentalism offers arguably the first sustained theory of the yellow woman...
65 min
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David Karol, "Red, Green, and Blue: The Partisa...
Karol examines the history of environmental policy within American political parties...
32 min
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Heather Mayer, "Beyond the Rebel Girl: Women an...
Mayer finds women played a crucial role in the politics of the union...
27 min
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Alexandra M. Nickliss, "Phoebe Apperson Hearst:...
Nickliss shows how Hearst came to exercise such power and the ways she uses it to advance the causes in which she believed...
50 min
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Carolyn J. Dean, "The Moral Witness: Trials and...
Dean examines the cultural history of the idea of the “witness to genocide” in Western Europe and the United States...
35 min
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Stacy Fahrenthold, "Between the Ottomans and th...
Fahrenthold sheds a timely light on Syrian and Lebanese immigrants who established vibrant diaspora communities in the Americas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
51 min
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Shennette Garrett-Scott, "Banking on Freedom: B...
Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard? Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South...
39 min
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David Milne, "Worldmaking: The Art and Science ...
An examination of the lives of foreign policy thinkers can therefore help explain why U.S. foreign policy took particular paths...
72 min
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Marisol LeBrón, "Policing Life and Death: Race,...
LeBrón examines the rise of and resistance to punitive governance (tough on crime policing policies) in Puerto Rico from the 1990s to the present...
61 min
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Chris Donnelly, "Doc, Donnie, The Kid and Billy...
Donnelly focuses on the 1985 New York baseball season, a season like no other since the Mets came to town in 1962...
45 min
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Rachel Augustine Potter, "Bending the Rules: Pr...
Rule-making may rarely make headlines, but the significance of this largely hidden process cannot be underestimated...
21 min
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Brett Grainger, "Church in the Wild: Evangelica...
Grainger argues that it was not the Transcendentalists but evangelical revivalists who transformed the everyday religious life of Americans and spiritualized the natural environment..
44 min
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Ryan Grim, "We've Got People: From Jesse Jackso...
The modern progressive movement is rising in influence, intensity and numbers. Just where did it come from and where is it going?
46 min
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Jeannette Eileen Jones, "Search of Brightest Af...
Jones talks about the many different groups, from naturalists and conservationists to African American artists and intellectuals, who begin to recast Africa in the America imagination in the early 20th century...
27 min
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Ben Merriman, "Conservative Innovators: How Sta...
Merriman's book new book explores what he calls uncooperative federalism. He finds a deliberate conservative strategy to use the courts and state executive power to resist federal influence in state affairs...
21 min
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Sara K. Eskridge, "Rube Tube: CBS and Rural Com...
The television comedies of the 1960s set in the American South epitomize American innocence...
49 min
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Mark Peterson, "The City-State of Boston: The R...
Peterson discusses how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britain’s Stuart monarchs and how—through its bargain with slavery and ratification of the Constitution—it would tragically lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States...
136 min
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Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "The Cold War's Killing...
Chamberlin reminds us that the Cold War was not at all Cold for hundreds of millions of people...
61 min
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E. Douglas Bomberger, "Making Music American: 1...
Rather than primarily trace historical events while touching on cultural matters as many of these books do, Bomberger follows the events in jazz and classical music during this crucial year while framing them within America’s entry into World War One....
59 min
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Marc Gallicchio and Waldo Heinrich, "Implacable...
The two authors, both masters in the field, take on the monumental task of offering a civil-military synthesis of the war against Japan that covers both the home front and the campaigns in exacting detail...
69 min
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Matilda Rabinowitz, "Immigrant Girl, Radical Wo...
Rabinowitz, born in 1887 in Ukraine, described her experiences as an immigrant, factory worker, single mother by choice, and union organizer...
57 min
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Chandra Russo, "Solidarity in Practice: Moral P...
Russo explores how solidarity activists contest the practices of the US security state both within its borders and abroad. Russo follows three social movement organizations...
43 min
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Harvard S. Heath, "Confidence Amid Change: The ...
With his secretary’s coaxing over the course of nineteen years, McKay documented how he charted a steady course through institutional storms...
55 min