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Society & Culture
History
251
Kevin Passmore, "The Maginot Line: A New Histor...
62 min
252
The High Frontier: Gerard O’Neill’s Space Utopia
83 min
253
Devika Shankar, "An Encroaching Sea: Nature, So...
65 min
254
Laura Hobson Faure, "Who Will Rescue Us?: The S...
68 min
255
Brandon Bloch, "Reinventing Protestant Germany:...
52 min
256
Aidan Forth, "Camps: A Global History of Mass C...
37 min
257
Dorothy Armstrong, "Threads of Empire: A Histor...
70 min
258
Averill Earls, "Love in the Lav: A Social Biogr...
30 min
259
Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the...
31 min
260
Maria R. Montalvo, "Enslaved Archives: Slavery,...
77 min
261
Cynthia Paces, "Prague: The Heart of Europe" (O...
100 min
262
Brendan A. Shanahan, "Disparate Regimes: Nativi...
73 min
263
William Kelleher Storey, "The Colonialist: The ...
62 min
264
Chris Millington, "A History of Fascism in Fran...
An interview with Chris Millington
60 min
265
Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, "Reth...
48 min
266
Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao, "Mao and ...
An interview with Christopher Marquis
45 min
267
Molly Worthen, "Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped...
62 min
268
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, "Claire McCardell: ...
34 min
269
Steve Luxenberg, "Separate: The Story of Plessy...
Steve Luxenberg has created an unusual history of the famous Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson and the 19th century’s segregationist practices...
45 min
270
Matthew Bowser, "Containing Decolonization: Bri...
58 min
271
Brendan Simms, "Hitler: A Global Biography" (Ba...
Simms argues that fears that Germany would lose the economic and demographic competition with Britain and especially the US sat at the heart of Hitler's world view...
26 min
272
Oswyn Murray, "The Muse of History: The Ancient...
58 min
273
Nicholas Birman Trickett, "Empire of Austerity:...
39 min
274
David Woodman, "The First King of England: Æthe...
36 min
275
Raphael Cormack, "Holy Men of the Electromagnet...
40 min