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Patrick Sharma, "Robert McNamara’s Other War: T...
Robert McNamara is best remembered today for his momentous term as Secretary of Defense in the 1960s. Often overlooked because of this is his even longer tenure as president of the World Bank...
55 min
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Su'ad Abdul Khabeer, “Muslim Cool: Race, Religi...
Islam in American has been profoundly shaped by the Black Muslim experience...
65 min
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Sarah Reckhow, "Outside Money in School Board E...
Who funds local school board elections?
24 min
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Michael A. Schoeppner, "Moral Contagion: Black ...
Between 1822 and 1857, eight Southern states barred the ingress of all free black maritime workers...
51 min
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Rósa Magnúsdóttir, "Enemy Number One: The Unite...
Magnusdottir explores depictions of America in post-war Soviet propaganda. While the 1945 “meeting on the Elbe” marked a high point in United States/Soviet friendship, official relations deteriorated quickly thereafter...
61 min
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Christopher Herbert, "Gold Rush Manliness: Race...
Not all gold rushes are created equal, argues Christopher Herbert...
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LaTanya McQueen, "And It Begins Like This" (Bla...
Today, I spoke with LaTanya McQueen, whose new collection of essays reckons with intriguing and timely questions about history, race, family, place, and self...
47 min
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Racquel J. Gates, "Double Negative: The Black I...
Gates interrogates understandings of African-American representations on screen...
43 min
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Nancy Yunhwa Rao, "Chinatown Opera Theater in N...
The story of popular entertainment in American immigrant communities is only just beginning to be told...
55 min
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Kathleen Burk, "The Lion and the Eagle: The Int...
Throughout modern history, British and American rivalry has gone hand in hand with common interests...
70 min
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Vivian Percy, "Saving Jenny: Rescuing Our Youth...
Vivian Percy's new book is the narration of a mother and daughter’s long painful journey from tragedy, through opioid addiction, toward redemption...
56 min
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Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, "They Were Her Prope...
Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery...
58 min
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Bruce Van Orden, "We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout: T...
If you’re a Latter Day Saint, you’ve probably heard of W. W. Phelps, and no doubt, you’ve probably sung some of his hymns...
78 min
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Joseph Vogel, "James Baldwin and the 1980s: Wit...
By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained an important, prolific writer until his death in 1987...
37 min
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Linda K. Wertheimer, "Faith Ed: Teaching About ...
Teaching about religion in a public school in the United States is rewarding, but very difficult...
57 min
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Candis Watts Smith, "Black Politics in Transiti...
Black Politics in Transition examines the role of three themes—immigration, suburbanization, and gentrification—in Black politics today...
20 min
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Karen Ordahl Kupperman, "Pocahontas and the Eng...
Kupperman shifts the lens on the well-known narrative of Virginia’s founding to reveal the previously untold and utterly compelling story of the youths who, often unwillingly, entered into cross-cultural relationships...
48 min
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Michael Mario Albrecht, "Masculinity in Contemp...
Albrecht explores the ways in which popular cultural texts address widely circulating discourses of the ostensible ’crisis of masculinity’ in contemporary culture...
55 min
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Ron Keurajian, "Baseball Hall of Fame Autograph...
Keurajian provides historical perspective behind every autograph. He does not mince words when it comes to exposing forgeries and backs up his assertions with evidence...
41 min
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I. Gould Ellen and J. Steil, "The Dream Revisit...
Why do people live where they do? What explains the persistence of residential segregation?
56 min
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Steve Luxenberg, "Separate: The Story of Plessy...
Steve Luxenberg has created an unusual history of the famous Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson and the 19th century’s segregationist practices...
45 min
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Keith Gave, "The Russian Five: A Story of Espio...
In the late 1980s, Gave was asked by the Detroit Red Wings to reach behind the Iron Curtain and initiate contact with the team's newest draft picks, two players on the Soviet Union's famed Red Army hockey club...
73 min
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
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Michael C. Desch, "Cult of the Irrelevant: The ...
In Cult of the Irrelevant, Desch traces the history of the relationship between the Washington and the academy across the 20th century...
24 min
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S. M. Milkis and D. J. Tichenor, "Rivalry and R...
Rivalry and Reform explores the historical relationships between presidents and social movements.
25 min