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Hassan Malik, "Bankers and Bolsheviks: Internat...
Lumbering late Tsarist Russia and international finance? Is there anything there? The Bolsheviks and finance? How can there be anything there?
38 min
5252
Maurice J. Hobson, "The Legend of the Black Mec...
Dr. Maurice J. Hobson’s new book delves into the tremendously rich history of Atlanta...
69 min
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New Books in Political Science Year in Review: ...
To wrap up the year and look ahead to 2019, we talked about the books we loved...
18 min
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David LaRocca, "The Philosophy of War Films" (U...
56 min
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Christian B. Long, "The Imaginary Geography of ...
While most every live-action film takes place in a specific location, the role of these places has not often been studied...
62 min
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Ashley Jardina, "White Identity Politics" (Camb...
One of the themes of the era of Donald Trump is whiteness and white identity...
22 min
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Audra J. Wolfe, "Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold...
Science’s self-concept as politically neutral and dedicated to empirical observation free of bias has often been at odds with its collaboration with the purposes of the Cold War state...
58 min
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Peter Hart-Brinson, "The Gay Marriage Generatio...
How and why did public opinions about gay marriage shift?
42 min
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Kellie Jones, "South of Pico: African American ...
New York City might have been the epicenter of the twentieth century American art scene, but Los Angeles was no slouch either...
46 min
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Pamela E. Klassen, "The Story of Radio Mind: A ...
At the dawn of the radio age in the 1920s, Frederick Du Vernet—Anglican archbishop and self-declared scientist—announced a psychic channel by which minds could telepathically communicate across distance...
49 min
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Laura McEnaney, "Postwar: Waging Peace in Chica...
When World War II ended, Americans celebrated a military victory abroad, but the meaning of peace at home was yet to be defined...
32 min
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James Baldwin, "Little Man, Little Man: A Story...
This 2018 reprint of Little Man, Little Man exemplifies communal and collaborative textual production.
36 min
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Brian Crim, "Our Germans: Project Paperclip and...
In his new book, Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), Brian Crim, Associate Professor of History at the University of Lynchburg, looks at the controversial program to bring German scientist to the United States after World War II...
57 min
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Katherine K. Preston, "Opera for the People: En...
Katherine Preston’s new book, Opera for the People: English-Language Opera & Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America (Oxford University Press, 2017) is the first complete overview of the repertoire, companies, performers, and managers that provided English-language opera to Americans after the Civil War...
59 min
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Margot Finn, "Discriminating Taste: How Class A...
50 min
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K. Fullagar and M. A. McDonnell, "Facing Empire...
Kate Fullagar's and Michael A. McDonnell's edited volume Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018) reimagines the Age of Revolution from the perspective of indigenous peoples...
68 min
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A. G. Holloway and J. W. White, "Our Little Mon...
Ever since their famous naval encounter in 1862, the Monitor and Merrimack (a.k.a., C.S.S. Virginia) have been part of American Civil War lore...
45 min
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Joshua Reid, "The Sea is My Country: The Mariti...
In 1999, the Makahs went out on the Pacific for their first whale hunt in over seventy years. The event drew protests from animal rights activists and local (mostly white) Washingtonians...
48 min
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Tison Pugh, "The Queer Fantasies of the America...
Perhaps no form of popular art has appeared as poised to resist subversive sexual themes as the television situation comedy...
53 min
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Hannah Holleman, "Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperia...
None of the climate news that we’re getting is good right now, especially now that a number of governments are reversing or failing to meet commitments they made as part of the Paris Climate Accord...
56 min
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Patrick B. Mullen, "Right to the Juke Joint: A ...
On its back cover, Patrick B. Mullen’s Right to the Juke Joint: A Personal History of American Music (University of Illinois Press, 2018) is aptly described as “part scholar's musings and part fan's memoir."
50 min
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R. David Cox, "The Religious Life of Robert E. ...
Professor Cox’s book presents his perennially controversial subject was a consistently religious thinker, working from the deist and evangelical influences of Lee’s parents towards the religious convictions and commitments of his maturity...
40 min
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Brenden W. Rensink, "Native but Foreign: Indige...
Brenden Rensink asks the question "How do national borders affect and react to Native identity?"
56 min
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Peter Hitchens, "The Phoney Victory: The World ...
Was World War II really the 'Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations, especially the United Kingdom....
43 min
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Melanie V. Dawson and Meredith L. Goldsmith, "A...
As scholars and readers, we often view literary history in rigid, simplistic terms. We imagine that nineteenth-century aesthetic and thematic preoccupations withered away as 1899 became 1900, only to be replaced immediately by a new literature of the twentieth century...
50 min