Steven Attewell, "People Must Live by Work: Dir...
There’s lot of talk these days, at least in some circles on the left, of a Universal Basic Income...
46 min
4927
Peter Hopsicker and Mark Dyreson, "A Half Centu...
The Super Bowl is a singular spectacle in American culture. More than just a championship football game...
36 min
4928
David J. Puglia, "Tradition, Urban Identity, an...
In Baltimore, the word "hon" has a particular salience and is often associated a certain type of blue-collar woman who sports a beehive hairdo and cat-eye glasses...
58 min
4929
Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis. "Classical New York: ...
A new book explores how and why New York City became a showcase for the art and architectural styles of ancient Greece and Rome.
38 min
4930
Monica Kim, "The Interrogation Rooms of the Kor...
Monica Kim provides a fresh look at the Korean War with a people-centered approach that studies the experiences of prisoners of war...
58 min
4931
Jan English-Lueck, "Cultures@SiliconValley: Sec...
Silicon Valley is understood to be one of the most fast-paced regions on earth, where innovation and upheaval are part and parcel of daily life...
65 min
4932
Calvin Schermerhorn, "Unrequited Toil: A Histor...
Writing a synthesis on the history American Slavery is quite a job. Calvin Schermerhorn, though, has done a wonderful job of it.
56 min
4933
Farina King, "The Earth Memory Compass: Diné La...
Farina King argues that education and the creation of “thick” cultural knowledge played, and continues to play, a central role in the survival of Diné culture...
61 min
4934
Noah Coburn, "Under Contract: The Invisible Wor...
Noah Coburn's book is about the hidden workers of American’s foreign wars: third country nationals who while not serving in their country’s militaries, still work to support the American war effort...
57 min
4935
Hidetaka Hirota, "Expelling the Poor: Atlantic ...
Dr. Hirota’s book focuses on state legislation policies of immigration control in New York and Massachusetts...
32 min
4936
Dave Chase, "The Opioid Crisis Wake Up Call: He...
The opioid crisis in America is considered by many to be the worst national public health crisis in the last 100 years....
46 min
4937
Mark T. Calhoun, "General Lesley J. McNair: Uns...
In this pioneering study of one of the World War Two era US Army’s primary architects of victory, Calhoun presents a portrait of a deeply intellectual and loyal commander who took on responsibility for many unpopular doctrinal and ToE choices.
82 min
4938
Clarence Taylor, "Fight the Power: African Amer...
Clarence Taylor looks at black resistance to police brutality in the city, and institutional efforts to hold the NYPD accountable, since the late 1930s and '40s.
40 min
4939
William Kelso, "Jamestown: The Truth Revealed" ...
Unpersuaded by the common assumption that James Fort had long ago been washed away by the James River, William Kelso and his collaborators...
69 min
4940
Alexander S. Dawson, "The Peyote Effect: From t...
Peyote occupies a curious place in the United States and Mexico...
56 min
4941
Van Jackson, "On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and The...
Jackson argues that the 2017 nuclear crisis was a product of a gradual hardening of U.S. policy towards North Korea...
52 min
4942
Ellen Moore, "Grateful Nation: Student Veterans...
I don’t know about the colleges and universities you’re familiar with, but the U.S. military has a pretty visible presence on my campus....
62 min
4943
Andrew R. Murphy, "William Penn: A Life" (Oxfor...
While William Penn’s name is one familiar to many Americans thanks to his founding of the Pennsylvania colony...
59 min
4944
David Dayen, "Fat Cat: The Steve Mnuchin Story"...
How did a Wall Street executive and “foreclosure king” like Steve Mnuchin become the Treasury Secretary for a populist like Donald Trump?
Think that today's debates about the role of the Federal Reserve Bank, financial regulation, "too big to fail", etc. are new? Think again...
53 min
4946
Ashley D. Farmer, "New Perspectives of the Blac...
The field of African American intellectual history is enjoying a kind of renaissance at the moment...
48 min
4947
Joe Jackson, "Black Elk: The Life of an America...
Black Elk witnessed some of the most monumental moments in the history of the Lakota and the Northern Great Plains....
68 min
4948
Nicholas Bauch, "Geography of Digestion: Biotec...
While most people in the US are familiar with the ubiquitous Kellogg cereal brand, few know how it relates to US geography, science and technology around the turn of the 20th century...
59 min
4949
Robin Marie Averbeck, "Liberalism is not Enough...
Through ideological laden invocation of pluralism, the “culture of poverty,” and faith in the workings of democratic institutions, liberals shared with conservatives support for an individualistic and racist social order...
55 min
4950
Harry Franqui-Rivera, "Soldiers of the Nation: ...
As the island of Puerto Rico transitioned from Spanish to U.S. imperial rule, the military and political mobilization of popular sectors of its society played important roles in the evolution of its national identities and subsequent political choices...