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Erica Armstrong Dunbar, "Never Caught: The Wash...
Dunbar offers a powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave who risked everything to escape the nation’s capital and reach freedom...,
59 min
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Mark Wild, "Renewal: Liberal Protestants and th...
Wild traces the achievements and losses of American mainline Protestant Christians as they attempted to renew their churches and their cities in the twentieth century...
50 min
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Daniel S. Lucks, "Reconsidering Reagan: Racism,...
Daniel Lucks looks at Reagan’s approach to racial issues over the course of his political career...
39 min
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Ioanna Lordanou, "Venice's Secret Service: Orga...
Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organized state intelligence service....
46 min
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Martha S. Jones, "Vanguard: How Black Women Bro...
An interview with Martha S. Jones
60 min
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Jeremy Black, "Tank Warfare" (Indiana UP, 2020)
The story of the battlefield in the 20th century was dominated by a handful of developments. Foremost of these was the introduction and refinement of tanks...
50 min
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Heather L. Dichter, "Soccer Diplomacy: Internat...
In our conversation, we discussed the origins of soccer diplomacy, the diplomatic role of different actors, and whether winning matters for sports diplomats....
50 min
6583
Ana Beatriz Ribeiro, "Modernization Dreams, Lus...
What history and motivations make up the discourses we are taught to hold, and spread, as common sense?
53 min
6584
Kiran Klaus Patel, "Project Europe: A History" ...
Patel rethinks the development of the European Communities and the European Union from first principles...
38 min
6585
Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages:...
An interview with Roland Betancourt
68 min
6586
Noel John Pinnington, "A New History of Medieva...
Pinnington traces the history of noh and kyōgen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts...
45 min
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Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel...
Morris describes the ways in which Frankel stood up to the Nazis and what understandings he drew from that experience...
59 min
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Konstantina Zanou, "Transnational Patriotism in...
Interview with Konstantina Zanou
54 min
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N. Mclaughlin and J. Braniff, "How Belfast Got ...
Braniff and McLaughlin center Belfast, the complex political situation of Northern Ireland just before the Troubles, and the Blues...
68 min
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Brandon Mills, "The World Colonization Made: Th...
Mills explores the beginnings and ends of the colonization movement from the late-18th century to the coming of the Civil War...
44 min
6591
Tony Bolden, "Groove Theory: The Blues Foundati...
Bolden offers a history of funk artists such as George Clinton who developed a new aesthetic style through the Black Arts Era of the 1960s and 1970s....
58 min
6592
Steven Fabian, "Making Identity on the Swahili ...
Fabian combines extensive archival sources from African and European archives alongside fieldwork in Bagamoyo to move beyond the category of 'Swahili' as it has been traditionally understood....
102 min
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Justin Gifford, "Revolution Or Death: The Life ...
Charismatic, brilliant, and courageous, Eldridge Cleaver built a base of power and influence that struck fear deep in the heart of White America...
72 min
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Susan M. Reverby, "Co-Conspirator for Justice: ...
Reverby sheds fascinating light on questions of political violence and revolutionary zeal in her account of Berkman's extraordinary career...
56 min
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Edward Wilson-Lee, "The Catalogue of Shipwrecke...
After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library to collect everything ever printed...
46 min
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Mithu Sanyal, "Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo" (...
Sanyal covers the history of rape as well as of our divergent and misguided conceptions for it...
36 min
6597
Antoinette Burton, "Africa in the Indian Imagin...
An interview with Antoinette Burton
41 min
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Marissa J. Moorman, "Powerful Frequencies: Radi...
Moorman narrates Angolan history with the radio at its center...
61 min
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Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow, "Suffrage at...
An interview with Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow
53 min
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Virginia Postrel, "The Fabric of Civilization: ...
Virginia Postrel describes how humans coevolved with textiles...
60 min