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Michael Beckley, "Unrivaled: Why America Will R...
Is the era of American hegemony over? Is America finished as a superpower?
45 min
4927
Grégory Pierrot, "The Black Avenger in Atlantic...
The black avenger channeled fresh anxieties about slave uprisings and racial belonging occasioned by European colonization in the Americas...
57 min
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Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, "Getting Tough: Welfar...
In 1970s America, politicians began "getting tough" on drugs, crime, and welfare...
79 min
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Sarah L. Quinn, "American Bonds: How Credit Mar...
From the 1780s, when national land credit policy was established, to the postwar foundations of our current housing finance system, Quinn examines the evolution of securitization and federal credit programs...
23 min
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Matt Oram, "The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: ...
Are we in the midst of a psychedelic renaissance?
51 min
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Lukas Rieppel, "Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil...
Rieppel explains how the paleontological discoveries projected American exceptionalism and, at the height of the Gilded Age, became symbols of industrial capitalism....
53 min
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Sarah Seo, "Policing the Open Road: How Cars Tr...
When Americans think of freedom, they often picture the open road. Yet nowhere are we more likely to encounter the long arm of the law than in our cars...
32 min
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Andrius Gališanka, "John Rawls: The Path to a T...
It is hard to overestimate the influence of John Rawls on political philosophy and theory over the last half-century...
70 min
4934
Ryan A. Quintana, "Making a Slave State: Politi...
Quintana examined how enslaved African Americans built the state of South Carolina, in the literal sense of the word...
49 min
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Krishnendu Ray, "The Ethnic Restaurateur" (Bloo...
Focusing on New York City, Ray examines the lived experience, work, memories, and aspirations of immigrants working in the food industry.
44 min
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Cynthia Nicoletti, "Trial: The Treason Prosecut...
Was secession constitutional?
51 min
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Amy Collier Artman, "The Miracle Lady: Kathryn ...
Artman tells the story of Kuhlman’s life and, in the process, relates the larger story of charismatic Christianity, particularly how it moved from the fringes of American society to the mainstream...
57 min
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Howard Philips Smith, "Unveiling the Muse: The ...
Howard Philips Smith has been investigating and writing about the gay history of New Orleans for over two decades...
61 min
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Jessica Lowe, "Murder in the Shenandoah: Making...
Lowe follows the criminal case against John Crane, a member of a prominent Virginian family, for the murder of a harvest worker employed by a neighbor...
48 min
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Monica Muñoz Martinez, "The Injustice Never Lea...
Martinez argues that the rampant violence inflicted by Anglos against Mexican and Latinx people in Texas in the early twentieth century left a long legacy which reverberates into the twenty first century...
67 min
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David Resnick, "Representing Education In Film:...
Using many examples of Hollywood movies, Resnick analyzes the way movies perform in a variety of formal and informal educational settings...
50 min
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Gabriela González, "Redeeming La Raza: Transbor...
Gonzalez strategies transborder activists used to redeem la raza from body politic exclusion happening in the U.S....
63 min
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Nolan McCarty, "Polarization: What Everyone Nee...
McCarty synthesizes what scholars know and don't know about the origins, development, and implications of rising political conflicts in the United States...
20 min
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Celeste Watkins-Hayes, "Remaking a Life: How Wo...
How do women -- especially poor and low-income women with histories of childhood sexual trauma and drug addiction -- respond to and deal with an HIV/AIDS diagnosis?
25 min
4945
Sarah Halpern-Meekin, "Social Poverty: Low-Inco...
Does a person’s well-being go well beyond how much money they have in their bank account?
41 min
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Christy Clark-Pujara, "Dark Work: The Business ...
Clark-Pujara draws on the documents of the state, the business, organizational, and personal records of their enslavers, and the few first-hand accounts left by enslaved and free black Rhode Islanders to reconstruct their lived experiences...
45 min
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Emrah Şahin, "Faithful Encounters: Authorities ...
The past decade has seen a tremendous production of scholarship on American missionary endeavors in the Middle East...
68 min
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Ashley Robertson, "Mary McLeod Bethune in Flori...
Mary McLeod Bethune was often called the "First Lady of Negro America," but she made significant contributions to the political climate of Florida as well...
37 min
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Sam Erman, "Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U...
"Almost Citizens" recounts the story of how Puerto Rico came to be part of the United States empire at the turn of the 20th Century...
53 min
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Andrew Torget, "Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slaver...
The secession of Texas from Mexico was a dry run for the slaveholder’s republic of the Confederate States of America, argues Andrew Torget...
50 min