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Society & Culture
History
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Michael Stauch, "Wildcat of the Streets: Detroi...
61 min
227
Ory Amitay, "Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: ...
44 min
228
Julian Jackson, "De Gaulle" (Harvard UP, 2018)
If Sir Winston Churchill was (in the words of Harold Macmillan) the "greatest Englishman In history", then Charles de Gaulle was without a doubt, the greatest Frenchman since Napoleon Bonaparte...
67 min
229
Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History...
75 min
230
Michael John Witgen, "Seeing Red: Indigenous La...
An interview with Michael John Witgen
55 min
231
Jo Teeuwisse, "Fake History: 101 Things That Ne...
An interview with Jo Teeuwisse
34 min
232
M’hamed Oualdi, "A Slave between Empires: A Tra...
Oualdi explores the life and afterlife of one figure, the manumitted slave and Tunisian dignitary Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah...
38 min
233
Ashley Howard, "Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Re...
66 min
234
Kelefa Sanneh, "Major Labels: A History of Popu...
An interview with Kelefa Sanneh
58 min
235
Alex J. Kay and David Stahel, "Mass Violence in...
The book argues for a more comprehensive understanding of what constitutes Nazi violence and who was affected by this violence...
39 min
236
Luke A. Nichter, "The Year That Broke Politics:...
59 min
237
Darius Von Guttner-Sporzynski, "The Jagiellon D...
44 min
238
Scott Harrison et al., "Socialist Subjectivitie...
72 min
239
Nicholas Thomas, "Voyagers: The Settlement of t...
An interview with Nicholas Thomas
53 min
240
Sean McMeekin, "Stalin's War: A New History of ...
An interview with Sean McMeekin
72 min
241
Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov, "American by ...
An interview with Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov
77 min
242
How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Histo...
20 min
243
Allan Doig, "A History of the Church through it...
An interview with Allan Doig
34 min
244
Meegan Kennedy, "Writing Embodiment in Victoria...
38 min
245
Peter Apps, "Deterring Armageddon: A Biography ...
54 min
246
Haley Cohen Gilliland, "A Flower Traveled in My...
47 min
247
Alissa Walter, "Contested City: Citizen Advocac...
28 min
248
Sonia C. Gomez, "Picture Bride, War Bride: The ...
58 min
249
Ian Stewart, "The Celts: A Modern History" (Pri...
56 min
250
Renay Richardson and Arisa Loomba, "Human Resou...
61 min