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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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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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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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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
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Darren E. Tromblay, "Spying: Assessing US Domes...
Initiated in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, have the reforms of the US intelligence enterprise served their purpose?
45 min
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Douglas Irwin, "Clashing over Commerce: A Histo...
Scholars of US history have treated trade policy in less than enthusiastic ways...
55 min
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Paul Finkelman, "Supreme Injustice: Slavery in ...
Finkelman is a specialist on the history of slavery and the law...
41 min
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Joshua D. Farrington, "Black Republicans and th...
Reflecting on his fifty-year effort to steer the Grand Old Party toward black voters, Memphis power broker George W. Lee declared, "Somebody had to stay in the Republican Party and fight."
74 min
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Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, "For Black Trans Girl...
Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi is an African, Cuban, Indigenous, American Trans performance artist, author, and playwright among many different titles...
54 min
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Mary-Elizabeth Murphy, "Jim Crow Capital: Women...
Though women’s roles in the black freedom struggle remain under-acknowledged, scholars continue to make their importance clear...
50 min
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Kent Gramm, "Gettysburg: The Living and the Dea...
In the book, Gramm shares the experiences of the people at Gettysburg...
53 min
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Shelby Wynn Schwartz, "The Bodies of Others: Dr...
Schwartz covers four decades of drag dances, exploring the politics of gender in motion...
52 min
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Matthew James, "Collecting Evolution: The Galap...
James talks about the 1905 Galapagos Expedition organized by the California Academy of Sciences...
30 min
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Douglas K. Miller, "Indians on the Move: Native...
In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100,000 Native American people from rural to urban areas...
97 min
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Meredith Oda, "The Gateway to the Pacific: Japa...
Oda shows how city leaders and local residents in San Francisco fashioned a postwar municipal identity through their promotion of what Oda calls transpacific urbanism...
87 min
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J. C. D. Clark, "Thomas Paine: Britain, America...
There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark...
28 min
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Stephen Alan Bourque, "Beyond the Beach: The Al...
Did the Allied bombing plan for the liberation of France follow a carefully orchestrated plan, or was it executed on an ad-hoc basis with little concern or regard for collateral damage?
63 min
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Kevin M. Baron, "Presidential Privilege and the...
Baron dives into the history of information and the role that access to information plays in supporting democracy...
54 min
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Carol J. Adams, "Burger" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
In "Burger," Adams offers a history of the hamburger as a cultural object
64 min
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James Tharin Bradford, "Poppies, Power, and Pol...
Afghanistan and the United States have a complicated relationship. And poppies have often been at the center of the problem between the two countries...
31 min
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Margaret O’Mara, "The Code: Silicon Valley and ...
Seventy years ago, there was no Apple Campus or Googleplex. Silicon Valley itself didn’t even exist!
59 min