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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
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Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste:...
Environmental racism is visible not only as cancer clusters or the location of grocery stores...
45 min
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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
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Anne M. Kornhauser, "Debating the American Stat...
The New Deal left a host of political, institutional, and economic legacies...
48 min
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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
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Patrick Andelic, "Donkey Work: Congressional De...
What happened to the Democratic Party after the 1960s?
36 min
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Kevin M. Levin, "Searching for Black Confederat...
Levin investigates the claims that numerous African Americans willingly fought for the Confederacy....
41 min
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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
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Keir Giles, "Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia t...
From Moscow, the world looks different...
31 min
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Andrew Newman, "Allegories of Encounter: Coloni...
Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives...
94 min
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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
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Niambi Michele Carter, "American While Black: A...
In American While Black, Carter argues that immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment,
31 min
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Brett Krutzsch, "Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyr...
Krutzsch argues that gay activists memorialized people like Shepard as part of a political strategy to present gays as similar to the country's dominant class of white, straight Christians...
43 min
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Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New...
Hoffnung-Garskof seamlessly ties together various scholarly subfields into a truly transnational history of anticolonial politics and the Afro-Latino diaspora in the United States...
86 min
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Kevin Dawson, "Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic ...
Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers, canoe makers, and canoeists...
50 min
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Graham Thompson, "Herman Melville: Among the Ma...
Thompson examines the Melville's magazine work in its original publication...
50 min
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David M. Wrobel, "America's West: A History, 18...
Wrobel describes a sixty year period of remarkable change for the vast region...
77 min
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Patricia A. Banks, "Diversity and Philanthropy ...
Banks explores the rise of the African American museum and its patrons and philanthropists...
34 min
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Joseph M. Adelman, "Revolutionary Networks: The...
Adelman argues that printers—artisans who mingled with the elite but labored in a manual trade—used their commercial and political connections to directly shape Revolutionary political ideology and mass mobilization...
56 min
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Simon Balto, "Occupied Territory: Policing Blac...
Balto argues that local police department policies and procedures left black Chicagoans “overpoliced and underprotected” far before mass incarceration began...
72 min