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5001
Caitlyn Collins, "Making Motherhood Work: How W...
Where in the world do working moms have it best?
45 min
5002
Philip W. Clements, "Science in an Extreme Envi...
Clements discusses the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition...
30 min
5003
Sarah Eppler Janda, "Prairie Power: Student Act...
Borrowing from the language of the activists themselves, Janda dubs midwestern student protest to be “Prairie Power"...
48 min
5004
Nancy Mirabal, "Suspect Freedoms: The Racial an...
Mirabal details New York Cuban diasporic history between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with keen attention to how political debates about the potential future, visibility, and belonging in Cuba played out along issues of race and gender...
48 min
5005
Gregory D. Smithers, "Native Southerners: Indig...
Gregory D. Smithers effectively articulates the complex history of Native Southerners...
63 min
5006
Morgan Marietta, "One Nation, Two Realities: Du...
They introduce the concept of ‘dueling fact perceptions’ based on years of research, and for our interview, Morgan Marietta explains how they arrived at such conclusions and their implications for our country’s future...
44 min
5007
Candace L. Bailey, "Charleston Belles Abroad: T...
Bailey uses a close reading of the music owned and performed by three prominent women in antebellum Charleston to demonstrate the varied experiences and perspectives of figures who also had much in common...
53 min
5008
Kimberly Alexander, "Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stor...
A shoe molds to the foot and captures a facet of the physical characteristics of its wearer, as well as, by extension, an element of his or her personal history...
61 min
5009
Amanda Littauer, "Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, ...
Amanda Littauer traces the origins of the "sexual revolution" of the 1960s...
76 min
5010
Gregory H. Wolf, "Wrigley Field: The Friendly C...
Wrigley Field is one of a handful of sports stadiums to have transcended its athletic purpose to become a true American landmark...
69 min
5011
Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos, "Original Plumbing...
When Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos first launch Original Plumbing in 2009, they created a magazine the world desperately needed: a creative and celebratory biannual publication about trans men, by trans men...
51 min
5012
Amy Lippert, "Consuming Identities: Visual Cult...
Lippert explores the significance of the pictorial revolution in one of its vanguard cities: San Francisco, the revolving door of the gold rush...
115 min
5013
Nick Estes, "Our History is the Future: Standin...
The historian Nick Estes traces two centuries of Indigenous-led resistance and anti-colonial struggle...
50 min
5014
David Munns, "Engineering the Environment: Phyt...
The phytotron was not only at the center of post-war plant science, but also connected to the Cold War, commercial agriculture, and long-duration space flight...
31 min
5015
Dorinne Kondo, "Worldmaking: Race, Performance,...
Kondo brings together critical race studies, affect theory, psychoanalysis and her critically keen awareness of the politics and potential of theatre production and reception to ask how theatre ‘makes, unmakes and remakes’ race...
45 min
5016
Anthony J. Badger, "Albert Gore, Sr.: A Politic...
In 1956 Albert Gore, Sr. received national attention as one of only three senators from the states of the former Confederacy who refused to sign the infamous “Southern Manifesto” opposing the racial integration of public spaces...
58 min
5017
Stephen R. Duncan, "The Rebel Café: Sex, Race, ...
This book is a collective biography of the places that harbored beatniks, blabbermouths, hipsters, playboys, and partisans who altered the shape of postwar liberal politics and culture...
44 min
5018
David Karol, "Red, Green, and Blue: The Partisa...
Karol examines the history of environmental policy within American political parties...
32 min
5019
Rebecca Janzen, "Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonite...
Janzen examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture...
51 min
5020
Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Ornamentalism offers arguably the first sustained theory of the yellow woman...
65 min
5021
Heather Mayer, "Beyond the Rebel Girl: Women an...
Mayer finds women played a crucial role in the politics of the union...
27 min
5022
Alexandra M. Nickliss, "Phoebe Apperson Hearst:...
Nickliss shows how Hearst came to exercise such power and the ways she uses it to advance the causes in which she believed...
50 min
5023
Stacy Fahrenthold, "Between the Ottomans and th...
Fahrenthold sheds a timely light on Syrian and Lebanese immigrants who established vibrant diaspora communities in the Americas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
51 min
5024
Shennette Garrett-Scott, "Banking on Freedom: B...
Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard? Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South...
39 min
5025
Carolyn J. Dean, "The Moral Witness: Trials and...
Dean examines the cultural history of the idea of the “witness to genocide” in Western Europe and the United States...
35 min