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Marisol LeBrón, "Policing Life and Death: Race,...
LeBrón examines the rise of and resistance to punitive governance (tough on crime policing policies) in Puerto Rico from the 1990s to the present...
61 min
5027
Chris Donnelly, "Doc, Donnie, The Kid and Billy...
Donnelly focuses on the 1985 New York baseball season, a season like no other since the Mets came to town in 1962...
45 min
5028
David Milne, "Worldmaking: The Art and Science ...
An examination of the lives of foreign policy thinkers can therefore help explain why U.S. foreign policy took particular paths...
72 min
5029
Ryan Grim, "We've Got People: From Jesse Jackso...
The modern progressive movement is rising in influence, intensity and numbers. Just where did it come from and where is it going?
46 min
5030
Jeannette Eileen Jones, "Search of Brightest Af...
Jones talks about the many different groups, from naturalists and conservationists to African American artists and intellectuals, who begin to recast Africa in the America imagination in the early 20th century...
27 min
5031
Rachel Augustine Potter, "Bending the Rules: Pr...
Rule-making may rarely make headlines, but the significance of this largely hidden process cannot be underestimated...
21 min
5032
Brett Grainger, "Church in the Wild: Evangelica...
Grainger argues that it was not the Transcendentalists but evangelical revivalists who transformed the everyday religious life of Americans and spiritualized the natural environment..
44 min
5033
Sara K. Eskridge, "Rube Tube: CBS and Rural Com...
The television comedies of the 1960s set in the American South epitomize American innocence...
49 min
5034
Mark Peterson, "The City-State of Boston: The R...
Peterson discusses how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britain’s Stuart monarchs and how—through its bargain with slavery and ratification of the Constitution—it would tragically lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States...
136 min
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Ben Merriman, "Conservative Innovators: How Sta...
Merriman's book new book explores what he calls uncooperative federalism. He finds a deliberate conservative strategy to use the courts and state executive power to resist federal influence in state affairs...
21 min
5036
E. Douglas Bomberger, "Making Music American: 1...
Rather than primarily trace historical events while touching on cultural matters as many of these books do, Bomberger follows the events in jazz and classical music during this crucial year while framing them within America’s entry into World War One....
59 min
5037
Marc Gallicchio and Waldo Heinrich, "Implacable...
The two authors, both masters in the field, take on the monumental task of offering a civil-military synthesis of the war against Japan that covers both the home front and the campaigns in exacting detail...
69 min
5038
Matilda Rabinowitz, "Immigrant Girl, Radical Wo...
Rabinowitz, born in 1887 in Ukraine, described her experiences as an immigrant, factory worker, single mother by choice, and union organizer...
57 min
5039
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "The Cold War's Killing...
Chamberlin reminds us that the Cold War was not at all Cold for hundreds of millions of people...
61 min
5040
Chandra Russo, "Solidarity in Practice: Moral P...
Russo explores how solidarity activists contest the practices of the US security state both within its borders and abroad. Russo follows three social movement organizations...
43 min
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Harvard S. Heath, "Confidence Amid Change: The ...
With his secretary’s coaxing over the course of nineteen years, McKay documented how he charted a steady course through institutional storms...
55 min
5042
Bryan McCann, "The Mark of Criminality: Rhetori...
The Mark of Criminality positions the work of key gangsta rap artists--Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur--as well as the controversies their work produced...
60 min
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Clare Daniel, "Mediating Morality: The Politics...
"Mediating Morality" is a contemporary exploration of the construction of teen pregnancy in legal events, activism, media campaigns, television, film, and across many domains of popular-political culture since the dismantling of the welfare state, which Daniel definitively places in the year 1996...
59 min
5044
Christina Proenza-Coles, "American Founders: Ho...
Proenza-Coles reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy...
51 min
5045
Joseph C. Sternberg, "The Theft of a Decade: Ho...
Melennials have experienced much trauma in the last decade, especially as a result of the Great Recession of 2008.
62 min
5046
Brian Cremins, "Captain Marvel and the Art of N...
Cremins explores the history of Billy Batson, a boy who met a wizard that allowed him to transform into a superhero. When Billy says, “Shazam!” he becomes Captain Marvel...
64 min
5047
Alexander Garvin, "The Heart of the City: Creat...
Downtowns are more than economic engines: they are repositories of knowledge and culture and generators of new ideas, technology, and ventures. They are the heart of the city that drives its future...
45 min
5048
Daniel HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes, "Producers...
52 min
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Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, ...
McClanahan's book is a masterful exploration of the cultural politics of the financial crisis and a powerful mediation on how to make sense of an era of unrepayable debts...
56 min
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Peter Guardino, "The Dead March: A History of t...
Peter Guardino argues that in order to understand the war’s beginnings, its course, and its legacy, both Mexico and the United States need to be considered as equal halves in the conflict’s history...
65 min