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Society & Culture
History
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I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines...
52 min
502
Celene Reynolds, "Unlawful Advances: How Femini...
42 min
503
Jessica B. Harris, "Braided Heritage: Recipes a...
35 min
504
Owen Rees, "The Far Edges of the Known World: L...
80 min
505
Kevin Passmore, "The Maginot Line: A New Histor...
62 min
506
The High Frontier: Gerard O’Neill’s Space Utopia
83 min
507
Laura Hobson Faure, "Who Will Rescue Us?: The S...
68 min
508
Devika Shankar, "An Encroaching Sea: Nature, So...
65 min
509
Aidan Forth, "Camps: A Global History of Mass C...
37 min
510
Brandon Bloch, "Reinventing Protestant Germany:...
52 min
511
Averill Earls, "Love in the Lav: A Social Biogr...
30 min
512
Dorothy Armstrong, "Threads of Empire: A Histor...
70 min
513
Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the...
31 min
514
Maria R. Montalvo, "Enslaved Archives: Slavery,...
77 min
515
Brendan A. Shanahan, "Disparate Regimes: Nativi...
73 min
516
Cynthia Paces, "Prague: The Heart of Europe" (O...
100 min
517
William Kelleher Storey, "The Colonialist: The ...
62 min
518
Chris Millington, "A History of Fascism in Fran...
An interview with Chris Millington
60 min
519
Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, "Reth...
48 min
520
Molly Worthen, "Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped...
62 min
521
Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao, "Mao and ...
An interview with Christopher Marquis
45 min
522
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, "Claire McCardell: ...
34 min
523
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
524
Matthew Bowser, "Containing Decolonization: Bri...
58 min
525
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