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Noel Malcolm, "Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ot...
Malcolm tells the story of Western European fascination with the Ottoman empire and Islam between the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the latter half of the 18th century...
60 min
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Frank Jacob, "Japanese War Crimes during World ...
When you mention Japanese War crimes in World War Two, you’ll often get different responses from different generations...
62 min
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Scott Laderman, "The 'Silent Majority' Speech: ...
On November 3, 1969 Richard M. Nixon addressed the nation in what would come to be known as “The Silent Majority Speech”...
66 min
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Dan Royles, "To Make the Wounded Whole: The Afr...
In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities...
69 min
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D. Bilak and T. Nummedal, "Furnace and Fugue. A...
In 1618, on the eve of the Thirty Years’ War, the German alchemist and physician Michael Maier published Atalanta fugiens, an intriguing and complex musical alchemical emblem book designed to engage the ear, eye, and intellect..,
55 min
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Philip Cunliffe, "The New Twenty Years' Crisis:...
At the end of the 20th century, the liberal international order appeared unassailable after its triumph over the authoritarian challenges of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Twenty years later, however, the assumptions underlying the system appear discredited as international relations devolve into confrontation and conflict...
42 min
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Rachel Manekin, "The Rebellion of the Daughters...
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, over three hundred young Jewish women from Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) fled their communities and sought refuge in a Kraków convent, where many converted to Catholicism...
50 min
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Prop to Prerequisite: How Manikins have Been Us...
An interview with Cali Buckley
21 min
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Alexey Golubev, "The Things of Life: Materialit...
Golubev offers a social and cultural history of material objects and spaces during the late socialist era...
57 min
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Chinua Thelwell, "Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface...
Thelwell offers a rich, well-researched, and sobering investigation of blackface minstrelsy as the “visual bedrock of a transcolonial cultural imaginary.”
74 min
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James Simpson, "Permanent Revolution: The Refor...
In Simpson’s account, liberalism did not flow neatly from Protestant triumph. Liberalism and Protestantism are indeed intertwined, but in a much more violent, anguished way than we’re familiar with...
86 min
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Martyn Rady, "The Habsburgs: To Rule the World"...
Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built -- and then lost -- over nearly a millennium...
57 min
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Stefan Bauer, "The Invention of Papal History: ...
Stefan Bauer has written an outstanding study of one of the most important Catholic historians in early modern Europe...
29 min
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K. Grenier and A. Mushal, "Cultures of Memory i...
The essays in this volume explore commemorative practices as they developed in the nineteenth century...
47 min
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Paul Howe, "Teen Spirit: How Adolescence Transf...
Howe offers a novel and provocative perspective on how we came to be living in an age of political immaturity and social turmoil...
70 min
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Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr., "Where Caciques and Map...
Erbig charts the interplay between imperial and indigenous spatial imaginaries and shows the critical role that indigenous actors played in imperial border-making between the Spanish and the Portuguese in the Río de la Plata region during the mid-to-late eighteenth century...
68 min
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Bernice Lerner, "All the Horrors of War: A Jewi...
Lerner describes their lives – one of them her mother, the other one of the people who helped save her – and how they intersected when British forces liberated Bergen-Belsen in April 1945...
42 min
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A. Wylegala and M. Glowacka-Grajper, "The Burde...
In a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma...
60 min
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Barbara Keys, "The Ideal of Global Sport: From ...
In our conversation, we discussed the origins of Olympism’s moral claims, the nexus between sport and human rights, and why it can be hard to understand the human costs of contemporary mega-events....
50 min
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Alexandra J. Finley, "An Intimate Economy: Ensl...
Finley examines the history of American slavery and capitalism by foregrounding women’s labor in the Antebellum slave trade...
42 min
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Joan Scott, "On the Judgment of History" (Colum...
Scott challenges us to question the persistence of structures of power and the very idea of the nation-state, while encouraging us to rethink whether there truly is such a thing as the judgment of history...
60 min
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Wilson Chacko Jacob, "For God or Empire: Sayyid...
Sayyid Fadl, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, led a unique life—one that spanned much of the nineteenth century and connected India, Arabia, and the Ottoman Empire...
93 min
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Ben Vinson III, "Before Mestizaje: The Frontier...
Vinson opens new dimensions on race in Latin America by examining the extreme caste groups of colonial Mexico...
33 min
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Ernest Freeberg, "A Traitor to His Species: Hen...
In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and animal alike...
59 min
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Rhodri Jeffreys Jones, "The Nazi Spy Ring in Am...
Rhodri Jeffreys Jones tells the dramatic story of the Nazi spy ring in America. In the mid-1930s just as the United States was embarking on a policy of neutrality,..
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