New Books in History
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Megan Brown, "The Seventh Member State: Algeria...
An interview with Megan Brown
62 min
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Alan McPherson, "Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How...
64 min
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Robert Hutchinson, "After Nuremberg: American C...
An interview with Robert Hutchinson
54 min
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Maxim Samson, "Earth Shapers: How Humans Master...
71 min
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David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic H...
73 min
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Christy Pichichero, "The Military Enlightenment...
An interview with Christy Pichichero
59 min
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Chiara Formichi, "Islam and Asia: A History" (C...
Formichi helps us to rethink how we tell the story of Islam and the lived expressions of Muslims without privileging certain linguistic, cultural, and geographic realities...
66 min
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Giles Tremlett, "The International Brigades: Fa...
An interview with Giles Tremlett
50 min
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Julia Sneeringer, "A Social History of Early Ro...
The Beatles’ sojourn in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg during the early 1960s is part of music legend....
68 min
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Y. Kokosalakis and F. J. Leira-Castiñeira, "Vio...
48 min
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Sasha D. Pack, "The Deepest Border: The Strait ...
Pack considers the Strait of Gibraltar as an untamed in-between space—from “shatter zone” to borderland...
57 min
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Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Sto...
"The Perfect Fascist" pivots from the intimate story of a tempestuous seduction and inconvenient marriage―brilliantly reconstructed through family letters and court records―to a riveting account of Mussolini’s rise and fall...
60 min
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Nathan Stoltzfus, “Hitler’s Compromises: Coerci...
How did the Nazi regime respond to protest? How did Hitler’s desire for popular authority shape the relationship between state and society? Nathan Stoltzfus challenges the idea that the Third Reich relied on terror to survive in his new book Hitler’s C...
51 min
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Michael Vorenberg, "Lincoln's Peace: The Strugg...
90 min
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Michael Stauch, "Wildcat of the Streets: Detroi...
61 min
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Ory Amitay, "Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: ...
44 min
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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
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Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History...
75 min
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Michael John Witgen, "Seeing Red: Indigenous La...
An interview with Michael John Witgen
55 min
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Jo Teeuwisse, "Fake History: 101 Things That Ne...
An interview with Jo Teeuwisse
34 min
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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
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Ashley Howard, "Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Re...
66 min
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Kelefa Sanneh, "Major Labels: A History of Popu...
An interview with Kelefa Sanneh
58 min
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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
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Luke A. Nichter, "The Year That Broke Politics:...
59 min