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Conservatism is Always Evolving: A Discussion w...
For two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity...
58 min
6727
Ian Buruma, "The Churchill Complex" (Penguin Pr...
Buruma offers a brilliant, witty journey through the "Special Relationship" between Britain and America that has done so much to shape the world, from World War II to Brexit...
54 min
6728
F. H. Buckley, "American Secession: The Looming...
If small is beautiful, and smaller nations tend to be happier, why shouldn't a state like California secede and put its savings from national defence into a scheme for national health?
28 min
6729
Eddie Cole, "The Campus Color Line: College Pre...
Cole sheds light on the important place of college presidents in the struggle for racial parity.,,
26 min
6730
Jonathan Schneer, "The Lockhart Plot: Love Betr...
Schneer's recounts the story of a young British diplomat, Bruce Lockhart, sent to Soviet Russia soon after the October Revolution in 1917...
52 min
6731
Robert Fieseler, "Tinderbox: The Untold Story o...
Fieseler mesmerizingly reconstructs the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans’ subterranean gay community...
55 min
6732
Emily J. Lordi, "The Meaning of Soul: Black Mus...
Lordi takes on the challenge of explaining “soul,” through a book that zooms in and out between sweeping ideas about suffering and resilience in Black culture and fine-grained, close readings of individual performances by soul musicians...
51 min
6733
Robert Zoellick, "America in the World: A Histo...
Both a sweeping work of history and an insightful guide to U.S. diplomacy past and present, America in the World serves as an informative companion and practical adviser to readers seeking to understand the strategic and immediate challenges of U.S. foreign policy during an era of transformation and change...
58 min
6734
Michael Stamm, "Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing ...
Stamm begins with the simple but thought-provoking premise that, not too long ago, newspapers were almost exclusively physical objects made out of paper...
64 min
6735
Eve M. Troutt Powell, "Tell This in my Memory: ...
Troutt Powell offers a study of slavery, liberation, and remembrance between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries....
46 min
6736
Warren Hoffman, "The Great White Way: Race and ...
Hoffman explores the ways that race and racism have shaped the American musical from Show Boat to Hamilton....
53 min
6737
Matthew W. Slaboch, "A Road to Nowhere: The Ide...
It turns out that some major, influential thinkers were not wild about the idea of progress...
86 min
6738
David Davis, "Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed ...
Out of the carnage of World War II comes an unforgettable tale about defying the odds and finding hope in the most harrowing of circumstances...
45 min
6739
Coulter George, "How Dead Languages Work" (Oxfo...
The book takes readers through Greek, Latin, Old English and the Germanic Languages, Sanskrit, Old Irish and the Celtic Languages, and Hebrew, introducing their phonology, morphology, lexicons, grammar, and excerpting passages from texts such as the Illiad, Beowulf, and the Rig Veda...
62 min
6740
Hayden J. Bellenoit, "The Formation of the Colo...
Bellenoit digs beneath imperial formation on a macro level and looks at the fiscal management of empire....
30 min
6741
Peter J. Thuesen, "Tornado God: American Religi...
Thuesen links the “numinous” religious experiences of Americans as they experienced the uniquely destructive weather phenomenon of the tornado....
48 min
6742
Dónal Hassett, "Mobilizing Memory: The Great Wa...
Hassett explores the experiences and political aims of key constituencies throughout Algerian society, including: socialists and trade unionists; European and Algerian veterans; and even the Algerian widows and orphans...
59 min
6743
Karlos K. Hill, "The Murder of Emmett Till: A G...
Hill tells the story of this crime, placing it in the context of both the African American experience and the practice of white supremacy...
61 min
6744
Judith G. Coffin, "Sex, Love, and Letters: Writ...
When Judith G. Coffin discovered a virtually unexplored treasure trove of letters to Simone de Beauvoir from Beauvoir's international readers, it inspired Coffin to explore the intimate bond between the famed author and her reading public...
37 min
6745
Andrew Demshuk, "Bowling for Communism: Urban I...
Demshuk illuminates how civic life functioned in Leipzig, East Germany's second-largest city, on the eve of the 1989 revolution by exploring acts of urban ingenuity amid catastrophic urban decay...
54 min
6746
Felicia Angeja Viator, "To Live and Defy in LA:...
Viator describes how rap leapt across the continent from its New York roots in the mid-1980s and took hold in Los Angeles..
74 min
6747
Thomas S. Mullaney, "The Chinese Deathscape: Gr...
"The Chinese Deathscape" is published as part of Stanford University Press’ digital project series which aims to confer the same level of academic credibility on digital projects as academic print books receive...
65 min
6748
Ellen Wayland-Smith, "The Angel in the Marketpl...
Wayland-Smith follows the career of adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub who in the mid-twentieth century created the advertising campaigns selling consumer products to the average American housewife. More than products,,,
46 min
6749
Kristin Plys, "Brewing Resistance: Indian Coffe...
In 1947, decolonization promised a better life for India's peasants, workers, students, Dalits, and religious minorities. By the 1970s, however, this promise had not yet been realized...
35 min
6750
Michael E. McCullough, "The Kindness of Strange...
Why Give a Damn About Strangers?
32 min