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Billy Coleman, "Harnessing Harmony: Music, Powe...
Billy Coleman reveals an influential strand of conservative music-making that exerted influence on public life from the beginning of Washington’s government until the Civil War.
66 min
6702
Zainab Saleh, "Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives...
Salah tells the human story of this exile in the context of decades of U.S. imperial interests in Iraq—from the U.S. backing of the 1963 Ba'th coup and support of Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980s, to the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 invasion and occupation...
48 min
6703
Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, "Between Fitness and Dea...
Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and deformed beings...
42 min
6704
John Garrison Marks, "Black Freedom in the Age ...
Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom...
69 min
6705
Koritha Mitchell, "From Slave Cabins to the Whi...
Mitchell offers a complex, interdisciplinary, and important analysis focusing on black women as the lens to explore the intersection of racism and sexism and the strategies that black women have used to persevere and succeed...
49 min
6706
Walker Robins, "Between Dixie and Zion: Souther...
Walker Robins explores how Southern Baptists engaged what was called the “Palestine question”: whether Jews or Arabs would, or should, control the Holy Land after World War I....
53 min
6707
Eric Rutkow, "The Longest Line on the Map The U...
Rutkow retraces the fascinating, decades-long history of the attempt to build the world’s longest highway...
49 min
6708
Tera W. Hunter, "Bound In Wedlock: Slave and Fr...
Hunter offers the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century....
65 min
6709
Jennifer S. Light, "States of Childhood: From t...
A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults...
60 min
6710
Andrew Liu, "Tea War: A History of Capitalism i...
Liu’s book offers a fascinating new history of this ubiquitous beverage, leveraging its production, consumption, and global circulation to offer a fresh and compelling account of capitalist accumulation....
47 min
6711
Craig Keener, "Christobiography: Memory, Histor...
Are the canonical Gospels historically reliable?
38 min
6712
Agnès Delahaye, "Settling the Good Land: Govern...
Delahaye tells the story of John Winthrop’s tenure as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630’s...
53 min
6713
David S. Nasca, "The Emergence of American Amph...
Nasca offers a novel examination of the relationship between amphibious warfare, American strategic interests, and the United States’s rise to prominence in the first half of the twentieth century...
62 min
6714
Sujung Kim, "Shinra Myojin and Buddhist Network...
Kim offers a fascinating study of the transcultural underpinnings of Medieval East Asian Buddhist traditions with an emphasis on Shinra Myōjin, a deity integral to the institutional development of the Medieval Japanese Tendai faction, the Jimon...
81 min
6715
Thomas Fleischman, "Communist Pigs: An Animal H...
The pig played a fundamental role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create and sustain a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles...
56 min
6716
Michael Q. Morton, "Masters of the Pearl: A His...
Morton draws the reader in by weaving a well-written tale of tribal intrigue, regional and historic animosities, and big power rivalry...
58 min
6717
N. Chare and D. Williams, "Testimonies of Resis...
Chare and Williams assemble careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represented-by themselves and by others-both during and after the Holocaust.,.,
50 min
6718
Paolo Astorri, "Lutheran Theology and Contract ...
Astorri shows how the Protestant Reformation influence European law. Martin Luther and his successors led European Christianity away from medieval ideas of penance and the careful accounting that went with it toward theology of grace...
41 min
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J. A. Delton, "The Industrialists: How the Nati...
Delton focuses on the conservative policy goals of the organization but also its surprisingly progressive tactics...
54 min
6720
Grégory Quin, "Des Réseaux et des Hommes: Parti...
Quin joins nine other scholars in a critical examination of Switzerland’s sports history...
54 min
6721
Y. Gorlizski and O. Khlevniuk, "Substate Dictat...
Gorlizski and Khlevniuk chart the strategies of Soviet regional leaders, paying particular attention to the forging and evolution of local trust networks...
55 min
6722
Alexander Lee, "Humanism and Empire: The Imperi...
Lee looks at the relationship between humanists of northern Italy and the Holy Roman Empire...
100 min
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Erin A. McCarthy, "Doubtful Readers: Print, Poe...
McCarthy offers readings of work by Shakespeare, Lanyer, Donne and many other poets to show that early printings of their work organised their texts in order to make specific points about both poetry and poets...
29 min
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Chima J. Korieh, "Nigeria and World War II: Col...
Britain's declaration of war on Germany on 3 September, 1939, made Nigeria, like many other African societies, active participants in the war against the Axis powers...
75 min
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Sarah Longair, "Cracks in the Dome: Fractured H...
One of the most monumental and recognisable landmarks from Zanzibar’s years as a British Protectorate is the distinctive domed building of the Zanzibar Museum...
55 min