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Society & Culture
History
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Celene Reynolds, "Unlawful Advances: How Femini...
42 min
452
Owen Rees, "The Far Edges of the Known World: L...
80 min
453
Kevin Passmore, "The Maginot Line: A New Histor...
62 min
454
The High Frontier: Gerard O’Neill’s Space Utopia
83 min
455
Devika Shankar, "An Encroaching Sea: Nature, So...
65 min
456
Laura Hobson Faure, "Who Will Rescue Us?: The S...
68 min
457
Brandon Bloch, "Reinventing Protestant Germany:...
52 min
458
Aidan Forth, "Camps: A Global History of Mass C...
37 min
459
Dorothy Armstrong, "Threads of Empire: A Histor...
70 min
460
Averill Earls, "Love in the Lav: A Social Biogr...
30 min
461
Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the...
31 min
462
Maria R. Montalvo, "Enslaved Archives: Slavery,...
77 min
463
Brendan A. Shanahan, "Disparate Regimes: Nativi...
73 min
464
William Kelleher Storey, "The Colonialist: The ...
62 min
465
Cynthia Paces, "Prague: The Heart of Europe" (O...
100 min
466
Chris Millington, "A History of Fascism in Fran...
An interview with Chris Millington
60 min
467
Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, "Reth...
48 min
468
Molly Worthen, "Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped...
62 min
469
Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao, "Mao and ...
An interview with Christopher Marquis
45 min
470
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, "Claire McCardell: ...
34 min
471
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
472
Matthew Bowser, "Containing Decolonization: Bri...
58 min
473
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
474
Nicholas Birman Trickett, "Empire of Austerity:...
39 min
475
Oswyn Murray, "The Muse of History: The Ancient...
58 min