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Society & Culture
History
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Ara Sarafian et al., "Microhistories in Armenia...
56 min
452
Jessica Ratcliff, "Monopolizing Knowledge: The ...
82 min
453
Hanno Sauer, "The Invention of Good and Evil: A...
67 min
454
Megan Brown, "The Seventh Member State: Algeria...
An interview with Megan Brown
62 min
455
Alan McPherson, "Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How...
64 min
456
Jonathan Fisher and Nina Wilén, "African Peacek...
An interview with Jonathan Fisher and Nina Wilén
51 min
457
Robert Hutchinson, "After Nuremberg: American C...
An interview with Robert Hutchinson
54 min
458
Maxim Samson, "Earth Shapers: How Humans Master...
71 min
459
David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic H...
73 min
460
Christy Pichichero, "The Military Enlightenment...
An interview with Christy Pichichero
59 min
461
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
462
Giles Tremlett, "The International Brigades: Fa...
An interview with Giles Tremlett
50 min
463
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
464
Y. Kokosalakis and F. J. Leira-Castiñeira, "Vio...
48 min
465
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
466
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
467
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
468
Michael Vorenberg, "Lincoln's Peace: The Strugg...
90 min
469
Michael Stauch, "Wildcat of the Streets: Detroi...
61 min
470
Ory Amitay, "Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: ...
44 min
471
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
472
Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History...
75 min
473
Jo Teeuwisse, "Fake History: 101 Things That Ne...
An interview with Jo Teeuwisse
34 min
474
Michael John Witgen, "Seeing Red: Indigenous La...
An interview with Michael John Witgen
55 min
475
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