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Society & Culture
History
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Molly Worthen, "Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped...
62 min
402
Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, "Reth...
48 min
403
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
404
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, "Claire McCardell: ...
34 min
405
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
406
Matthew Bowser, "Containing Decolonization: Bri...
58 min
407
Nicholas Birman Trickett, "Empire of Austerity:...
39 min
408
Oswyn Murray, "The Muse of History: The Ancient...
58 min
409
David Woodman, "The First King of England: Æthe...
36 min
410
Rhys Kaminski-Jones, "Welsh Revivalism in Imper...
54 min
411
Raphael Cormack, "Holy Men of the Electromagnet...
40 min
412
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: F...
28 min
413
Lucy Delap, "Feminisms: A Global History" (U Ch...
49 min
414
Laura Murphy, "Freedomville: The Story of a 21s...
41 min
415
Prudence Peiffer, "The Slip: The New York City ...
46 min
416
Kathleen B. Casey, "The Things She Carried: A C...
34 min
417
Michael Hiltzik, "Golden State: The Making of C...
36 min
418
Faisal Chaudhry, "South Asia, the British Empir...
73 min
419
Edward Luce, "Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezi...
40 min
420
Tom Arnold-Forster, "Walter Lippmann: An Intell...
40 min
421
Federico Marcon, "Fascism: The History of a Wor...
89 min
422
Aviva Guttmann, "Operation Wrath of God: The Se...
47 min
423
Elaine Weiss, "Spell Freedom: The Underground S...
62 min
424
Peter K. Andersson, "The Dandy: A People's Hist...
42 min
425
Walter Scheidel, "What Is Ancient History?" (Pr...
57 min