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Society & Culture
History
351
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, "Claire McCardell: ...
34 min
352
Matthew Bowser, "Containing Decolonization: Bri...
58 min
353
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
354
Oswyn Murray, "The Muse of History: The Ancient...
58 min
355
Nicholas Birman Trickett, "Empire of Austerity:...
39 min
356
David Woodman, "The First King of England: Æthe...
36 min
357
Rhys Kaminski-Jones, "Welsh Revivalism in Imper...
54 min
358
Raphael Cormack, "Holy Men of the Electromagnet...
40 min
359
Lucy Delap, "Feminisms: A Global History" (U Ch...
49 min
360
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: F...
28 min
361
Laura Murphy, "Freedomville: The Story of a 21s...
41 min
362
Prudence Peiffer, "The Slip: The New York City ...
46 min
363
Kathleen B. Casey, "The Things She Carried: A C...
34 min
364
Michael Hiltzik, "Golden State: The Making of C...
36 min
365
Edward Luce, "Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezi...
40 min
366
Faisal Chaudhry, "South Asia, the British Empir...
73 min
367
Tom Arnold-Forster, "Walter Lippmann: An Intell...
40 min
368
Federico Marcon, "Fascism: The History of a Wor...
89 min
369
Aviva Guttmann, "Operation Wrath of God: The Se...
47 min
370
Elaine Weiss, "Spell Freedom: The Underground S...
62 min
371
Peter K. Andersson, "The Dandy: A People's Hist...
42 min
372
Michael Geheran, "Comrades Betrayed: Jewish Wor...
An interview with Michael Geheran
69 min
373
Walter Scheidel, "What Is Ancient History?" (Pr...
57 min
374
Zack Cooper, "Tides of Fortune: The Rise and De...
37 min
375
Timothy Messer-Kruse, "Slavery’s Fugitives and ...
56 min