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John C. McManus, "Fire and Fortitude: The US Ar...
The men and women of the US Army were among the first to confront the Japanese military onslaught, most notably in the Philippines...
69 min
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Nozomi Naoi, "Yumeji Modern: Designing the Ever...
Nao offers the first book-length English-language study of one of Japan’s iconic twentieth-century artists, Takehisa Yumeji (1884–1934)...
77 min
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Thomas Richards Jr., "Breakaway Americas: The U...
Richards argues that the map of North America was not preordained...
61 min
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Alex Sayf Cummings, "Brain Magnet: Research Tri...
Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina’s low-wage economy...
35 min
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Samuel Morris Brown, "Joseph Smith's Translatio...
Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith, claimed to have translated ancient scriptures. He dictated an American Bible from metal plates reportedly buried by ancient Jews in a nearby hill,...
53 min
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Natalia Milanesio, "¡Destape! Sex, Democracy, a...
With the return to democracy in 1983, Argentines experienced new freedoms, including sexual freedoms...
61 min
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Nyasha Junior, “Reimagining Hagar: Blackness an...
Junior sought to understand how Hagar become Black and what purposes that served...
48 min
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Anton Howes, "Arts and Minds: How the Royal Soc...
Over the past 300 years, The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce has tried to improve British life in every way imaginable....
65 min
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
In this episode, I look at Eisler’s last days in England, where he found that the Oxford readership he had been promised before being sent to Dachau was taken by someone else....
57 min
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Anne Lindsay, "Reconsidering Interpretation of ...
Lindsay explores a number of tourist attractions that play a crucial role in teaching Americans about their past...
64 min
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Gaurav Desai, "Commerce with the Universe: Afri...
Desai offers an alternative history of East Africa in the Indian Ocean world...
76 min
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Melissa J. Wilde, "Birth Control Battles: How R...
Wilde shows that support for contraception among some of America’s most prominent religious groups was tied to white supremacist views of race, immigration, and manifest destiny....
62 min
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Charlton D. McIlwain, "Black Software: The Inte...
In connecting these threads, McIlwain demonstrates the centrality of African Americans to both the history and future of the Internet...
48 min
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Mari K. Webel, "The Politics of Disease Control...
Webel tells a history of colonial interventions among three communities of the Great Lakes region of East Africa...
78 min
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Sunny Stalter-Pace, "Imitation Artist: Gertrude...
Gertrude Hoffman is one of many entertainers who were big stars in vaudeville before World War I, but whose celebrity faded as the American public was seduced by radio and film after the Great War.
54 min
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Olivia Weisser, "lll Composed: Sickness, Gender...
This book sits right at the intersection of all three of these subfields and contributes to our understanding of the lived experience of religion, the lived experience of gender, ideas about ‘nature,’ and, of course, the history of medicine...
39 min
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Paula Fredriksen, "When Christians Were Jews: T...
Jesus was Jewish? Yes, he was...and how.
65 min
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Sarah B. Rodriguez, "The Love Surgeon: A Story ...
Dr. James Burt believed women’s bodies were broken, and only he could fix them....
41 min
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Lindsay M. Chervinsky, "The Cabinet: George Was...
Chervinsky traces the origins of the President’s cabinet in American government...
49 min
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Juan Pablo Scarfi, "The Hidden History of Inter...
Scarfi shows the central role of a coterie of elite Latin American jurists and intellectuals in constructing a Pan-American inflected conception of international law...
58 min
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Brett Dakin, "American Daredevil: Comics, Commu...
Gleason’s experiences with the House Un-American Activities Committee and Dr. Frederic Wertham and other Anti-Comic activists give a glimpse into important political and social activism of the 1940s and 50s in American history...
45 min
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Pritipuspa Mishra, "Language and the Making of ...
The province of Odisha, previously “Orissa,” was the first linguistically organized province of India...
69 min
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Rebecca E. Karl, "China’s Revolutions in the Mo...
Karl argues that China’s contemporary emergence is best seen not as a “return,” but rather as the product of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary activity and imaginings...
78 min
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Ann Tucker, "Newest Born of Nations: European N...
From the earliest stirrings of southern nationalism to the defeat of the Confederacy, analysis of European nationalist movements played a critical role in how southerners thought about their new southern nation...
28 min
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Paulo Drinot, "The Sexual Question: A History o...
Drinot studies the interplay of sexuality, society, and the state in Peru in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
59 min