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Julie Hardwick, "Sex in an Old Regime City: You...
How did young workers spend time together? When would they initiate sexual relationships outside of marriage?
57 min
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Boel Berner, "Strange Blood: The Rise and Fall ...
In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia...
56 min
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Charles F. Walker, "Witness to the Age of Revol...
For this volume, the brilliant Liz Clarke illustrated Dr. Walker’s biography of a ½ brother of José Gabriel Condorcanqui Tupac Amaru, the leader of the 1780-1783 Tupac Amaru Rebellion....
64 min
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Mira L. Siegelberg, "Statelessness: A Modern Hi...
Siegelberg traces the history of the concept of statelessness in the years following the First and Second World Wars...
52 min
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Alexis Wick, "The Red Sea In Search of Lost Spa...
44 min
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Earle H. Waugh, “Al Rashid Mosque: Building Can...
In the early 20th-century Muslims, primarily with roots in Lebanon, began to settle in Canada’s interior plains...
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Chris Lombardi, "I Ain’t Marching Anymore: Diss...
Before the U.S. Constitution had even been signed, soldiers and new veterans protested...
27 min
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Stephen Wall, "Reluctant European: Britain and ...
What was at the core of the UK's semi-detachment to the EU?
37 min
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Jeremy Black, "The Holocaust: History and Memor...
The event that is commonly labeled as the ‘Holocaust’, was one of the most horrific of the Twentieth Century. It is also one of the most popularly discussed events of both the past and the current century. And like many popular events it is filled with mis-understandings and mis-interpretations...
31 min
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Matthew S. Hopper, "Slaves of One Master: Globa...
In this wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Matthew S. Hopper examines the interconnected themes of enslavement, globalization, and empire and challenges previously held conventions regarding Middle Eastern slavery and British imperialism...
64 min
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Benjamin D. Hopkins, "Ruling the Savage Periphe...
Intrinsic to the practice of empire is the creation of boundaries...
82 min
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Jerry Gershenhorn, "Louis Austin and the Caroli...
Gershenshorn offers a history of the struggle for Black equality in North Carolina from 1927 to 1971 as told through the life and activism of Black newspaperman Louis Austin...
54 min
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Arleen Tuchman, "Diabetes: A History of Race an...
Tuchman describes the history of how the perception of diabetes has evolved over the past two centuries...
54 min
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Thomas Levenson "Money for Nothing" (Random Hou...
Modern finance isn't really all that modern...
63 min
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Sheri Berman, "Democracy and Dictatorship in Eu...
At the end of the twentieth century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, but for hundreds of years it competed with various forms of dictatorship...
54 min
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Christopher Capozzola, "Bound By War: How the U...
Christopher Capozzola reveals this forgotten history, showing how war and military service forged an enduring, yet fraught, alliance between Americans and Filipinos...
66 min
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Brandon M. Schechter, "The Stuff of Soldiers: A...
Brandon Schechter attends to a diverse array of things―from spoons to tanks―to show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the provisioning of material goods separated soldiers from civilians...
55 min
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Ian Kumekawa, "The First Serious Optimist: A. C...
Over the course of his long career, Pigou advanced ideas that remain very relevant today...
42 min
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Prita Meier, "Swahili Port Cities: The Architec...
On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean...
85 min
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Jennifer Lisa Koslow, "Exhibiting Health: Publi...
In the early twentieth century, public health reformers approached the task of ameliorating unsanitary conditions and preventing epidemic diseases with optimism...
45 min
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D. Benge and N. Pickowicz, "The American Purita...
The authors present nine mini-biographies that outline key events in the lives of individuals including Anne Bradstreet, John Eliot, John Cotton and Cotton Mather...
30 min
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Denise E. Bates, "Basket Diplomacy: Leadership,...
Before the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana became one of the state’s top private employers—with its vast landholdings and economic enterprises—they lived well below the poverty line and lacked any clear legal status....
46 min
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David R. Marples, "Understanding Ukraine and Be...
Marples highlights the dramatic changes of the late Soviet and post-Soviet periods, his travel stories, experiences, and the Stalinist legacy in both countries...
55 min
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E. A. Alpers and C. Goswami, "Transregional Tra...
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Christopher J. Blythe, "Terrible Revolution: La...
Blythe examines apocalypticism across the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, particularly as it took shape in the writings and visions of the laity...
37 min