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5101
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
5102
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
5103
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
5104
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
5105
Daniel HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes, "Producers...
52 min
5106
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
5107
Long T. Bui, "Returns of War: South Vietnam and...
Long T. Bui examines the complicated relationship between the Vietnamese diasporic community and its home country, the former South Vietnam...
48 min
5108
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
5109
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
5110
Ian Saxine, "Properties of Empire: Indians, Col...
"Properties of Empire" challenges assumptions about the relationship between Indigenous and imperial property creation in early America...
82 min
5111
Matt Guardino, "Framing Inequality: News Media,...
Matt Guardino focuses on the power of corporate news media in shaping how the public understands the key policy debates during this period...
24 min
5112
Cathal J. Nolan, "The Allure of Battle: A Histo...
Nolan also challenges the hoary concept of the military "genius," even of the Great Captains--from Alexander to Frederick and Napoleon--mapping instead the decent into total war...
73 min
5113
Manu Karuka, "Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Natio...
What does anti-imperialism look like from the vantage point of North America?
64 min
5114
Jennifer Helgren, "American Girls and Global Re...
Jennifer Helgren traces the creation of a new internationalist girl citizenship in the first two decades following World War II by uncovering the activism of girls organizations including Camp Fire Girls, YWCA Y-Teens, and the Girl Scouts...
59 min
5115
Annalee Good, "Teachers at the Table: Voice, Ag...
Annalee’s book is a systematic inquiry into the institutional forces that make it hard for teachers to engage in policymaking, and she contrasts these barriers with the ways they are do have a voice and agency...
49 min
5116
Anne Balay, "Semi Queer: Inside the World of Ga...
Among many topics, Balay details how racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia are a part, and not a part, of truck drivers’ interactions with customers, shippers, and receivers...
53 min
5117
Christopher Childers, "The Webster-Hayne Debate...
No, not the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Perhaps even more important than that Illinois contest of 1858 was the Webster-Hayne debate of 1830.
65 min
5118
Christopher J. Galdieri, "Stranger in a Strange...
While the thrust of Stranger in a Strange State is on this topic of carpetbagging, our understanding of carpetbagging also brings forward considerations of representation, since the critique of the carpetbagger tends to be a disconnection from the citizens to be represented, especially for those running for the United States Senate...
47 min
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Veronica Hinke, "The Last Night on the Titanic:...
Hinke tells the stories of millionaires and pastry chefs, popcorn vendors, and perfume salesmen, all gathered aboard the gargantuan ship for its celebrated maiden voyage in 1912.
50 min
5120
Noam Maggor, "Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of ...
Maggor’s provocative history of the Gilded Age explores how the moneyed elite in Boston—the quintessential East Coast establishment—leveraged its wealth to forge transcontinental networks of commodities, labor, and transportation...
86 min
5121
Brian A. Jackson, "Practical Terrorism Preventi...
The authors examine past countering-violent-extremism (CVE) efforts, evaluate Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and interagency efforts to respond to ideological radicalization to violence...
54 min
5122
Jennifer Fluri and Rachel Lehr, "The Carpetbagg...
For most people, geopolitics is something that happens out there, in boardrooms and on battlefields. But critical geographers, and feminist political geographers in particular, have in recent years shown how the geopolitical is something that comes into being in the intimate and the everyday...
61 min
5123
Ryan Hanley, "Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Bla...
Hanley seeks to shift the focus of black history away from a slavery and abolition, and toward something more complex...
45 min
5124
Amy Murrell Taylor, "Embattled Freedom: Journey...
The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy...
58 min
5125
Timothy A. Sayle, "Enduring Alliance: A History...
Sayle examines the history of NATO from its founding in the late 1940s through to its expansion in the post-Cold War era...
50 min