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Ting Zhang, "Circulating the Code: Print Media ...
How could a peasant in Shandong in the Qing dynasty come to know enough about a specific law that he felt confident enough to kill his own wife and his lover’s husband and think that he could get away with it?
62 min
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Duane Tananbaum, "Herbert H. Lehman: A Politica...
Over the course of three decades of public service, Herbert Lehman dedicated himself tirelessly to advances the causes in which he believed...
71 min
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Rae Linda Brown, "Heart of a Woman: The Life an...
In 1933, the Chicago Symphony performed the Symphony in E Minor by Florence B. Price. It was the first time a major American orchestra played a composition by an African American woman...
54 min
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Annette Joseph-Gabriel, "Reimagining Liberation...
Centering the experiences and stories of Black women as ‘political protagonists,’ the book considers questions of race, gender, and political agency.
59 min
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Erik Gellman, "Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom S...
What does democracy look like? And when should we cause trouble to pursue it?
47 min
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Kyle Barnett, "Record Cultures: The Transformat...
Barnett also engages the early recording industry as entertainment media, considering the ways in which sound recording, radio, and film converge in the late 1920s...
64 min
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Maile Arvin, "Possessing Polynesians: The Scien...
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans saw Polynesians as almost racially white...
62 min
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Sasha Abramsky, "Little Wonder: The Fabulous St...
Lottie Dod was the greatest female athlete of all time. And you've never heard of her...
63 min
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Polly E. Bugros McLean, "Remembering Lucile: A ...
McLean depicts the rise of the African American middle class through the historical journey of Lucile and her family from slavery in northern Virginia to life in the American West...
64 min
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Emily Pawley, "The Nature of the Future: Agricu...
Pawley examines a place and period of enormous agricultural vitality—antebellum New York State—and follows thousands of “improving agriculturists,..
61 min
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Deborah E. Kanter, "Chicago Católico: Making Ca...
What happens when a new group of migrants enters not just the social and economic life of a city, but also its religious institutions?
42 min
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Patrice Gueniffey, "Napoleon and de Gaulle: Her...
Gueniffey provides us with a compelling reminder of the importance of heroes in history, in this powerful dual biography of two transformative leaders, Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles de Gaulle....
36 min
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Barry Witham, "From Red-Baiting to Blacklisting...
Witham traces Fried’s long career as a labor organizer and Communist Party militant, as well as the obsessive lengths the FBI went to in order to suppress his activism...
46 min
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Ulrike Freitag, "A History of Jeddah: The Gate ...
Freitag offers a rich urban and biographical history of Jeddah...
72 min
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Nwando Achebe, "Female Monarchs and Merchant Qu...
Nwando Achebe considers the diverse forms and systems of female leadership in both the physical and spiritual worlds, as well as the complexities of female power in a multiplicity of distinct African societies...
61 min
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LaDale Winling, "Building the Ivory Tower: Univ...
Winling casts higher education as the beneficiary and catalyst of the century's monumental state building projects--receiving millions in New Deal construction funds, even more from WWII-era military research, and directing the bulldozer's path during urban renewal schemes around the country...
80 min
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Jennifer Atkins, "New Orleans Carnival Balls: T...
Atkins draws back the curtain on the origin of the exclusive Mardi Gras balls, bringing to light unique traditions unseen by outsiders...
63 min
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Thomas Borstelmann, "Just Like Us: The American...
The American attitude towards outsiders has always been ambivalent....
62 min
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José Alamillo, "Deportes: The Making of a Sport...
Alamillo illustrates how sports intersect in the making of a Latina/o identity, civil rights activities, and community...
44 min
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Alyssa Gabbay, "Gender and Succession in Mediev...
Gabbay shows that contrary to assumptions about Islam’s patrilineal nature, there is in fact precedent in pre-modern Islamic history of Muslims' recognition of bilateral descent...
66 min
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Ananya Chakravarti, "The Empire of Apostles" (O...
Chakravarti recovers the religious roots of Europe's first global order, by tracing the evolution of a religious vision of empire through the lives of Jesuits working in the missions of early modern Brazil and India...
76 min
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Donna Drucker, "Contraception: A Concise Histor...
Drucker traces the history of modern contraception, outlining the development, manufacturing, and use of contraceptive methods from the opening of Dr. Jacobs's clinic to the present...
21 min
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W. J. Perry and T. Z. Collina, "The Button: The...
As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, American nuclear policy continues to be influenced by the legacies of the Cold War...
46 min
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David Tavárez, "Words and Worlds Turned Around:...
Tavarez and his colleagues tackle the big questions of the Christianization of Mexico after the Spanish Conquest and using sources in several indigenous languages...
86 min
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J. Browning and T. Silver, "An Environmental Hi...
This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans' relationship to the natural world....
56 min