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Nancy Beck Young, "Two Suns of the Southwest" (...
What does the 1964 presidential election have to teach us about party dynamics, civil rights and polarization?
66 min
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Christopher Bonanos, "Flash: The Making of Weeg...
In the middle of the twentieth century, a newspaper photographer who went by the name of Weegee took memorable pictures of New York City’s street life...
39 min
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Ismael Garcia-Colon, "Colonial Migrants at the ...
Garcia-Colon offers the first in-depth look at the experiences of Puerto Rican migrant workers in continental U.S. agriculture in the twentieth century...
25 min
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Frank Dimatteo, "Lord High Executioner: The Leg...
Though not as well known today as many of his contemporaries, few American mob bosses were as feared as Albert Anastasia....
42 min
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Peniel E. Joseph, "The Sword and the Shield: Th...
Joseph unpacks the false binaries to reveal the many ways they influenced and persuaded one another. For Joseph, they shared a revolutionary path in search of black dignity, citizenship, and human rights...
53 min
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Sabine Hildebrandt, "The Anatomy of Murder: Eth...
Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians...
22 min
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Francine Hirsch, "Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg"...
How did an authoritarian regime help lay the cornerstones of human rights and international law?
82 min
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Luca Scholz, "Borders and Freedom of Movement i...
Scholz's maps shift the focus from the border to the thoroughfare to show that controls of moving goods and people were rarely concentrated at borders before the mid-eighteenth century...
61 min
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Jeremy Black, "History of Europe: From Prehisto...
Jeremy Black presents a learned and yet entertaining exploration of the history: political, cultural and social of Europe from its prehistory to the 21st century.
39 min
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Richard Gergel, "Unexampled Courage" (Sarah Cri...
Gergel connects the stories of Isaac Woodard, Harry Truman, and J. Waties Waring to illustrate how one incident fits into the larger history of civil rights...
88 min
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Takashi Miura, "Agents of World Renewal: The Ri...
Miura examines a category of Japanese divinities that centered on the concept of “world renewal” (yonaoshi)...
36 min
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Robert Gerwarth, "November 1918: The German Rev...
Was Weimar doomed from the outset?
53 min
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Gina Anne Tam, "Dialect and Nationalism in Chin...
Tam takes us through the ways that people in China have navigated the country’s complex linguistic landscape while also negotiating profound questions over the meanings of modern Chinese identity itself...
66 min
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Greg Mitchell, "The Beginning or the End: How H...
A movie that began as a cautionary tale inspired by atomic scientists aiming to warn the world against a nuclear arms race would be drained of all impact due to revisions and retakes ordered by President Truman and the military..,.
59 min
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Kara Moskowitz, "Seeing Like A Citizen" (Ohio U...
Kara’s book is rigorously researched and beautifully written. She draws on both archival and life history methods to center rural Kenyans,...
50 min
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Jean Halley, "Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives ...
Part memoir, part heavy-hitting theoretical exploration, this delightfully readable book explores the relationship between horses and humans...
49 min
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Hope M. Harrison, "After the Berlin Wall: Memor...
How should Germans remember the Berlin Wall?
71 min
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Allison Bigelow, "Mining Language: Racial Think...
The Spanish Empire in particular was created for and founded upon the mining and coining of silver ore from its colonies...
42 min
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Nicole Myers Turner, "Soul Liberty: The Evoluti...
Turner challenges assumptions regarding the intersection between black religion and politics in this “signal moment of political and cultural transformation in the African-American experience.”
54 min
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David Shimer, "Rigged: America, Russia, and One...
Shimer narrates in meticulous but page-turning detail a century of covert electoral interference, by both the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and continuing to this day...
52 min
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Stephan Talty, "The Good Assassin" (HMH, 2020)
Talty tells the untold story of an Israeli spy’s epic journey to bring the notorious Butcher of Latvia to justice—a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis...
38 min
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Kendra Preston Leonard, "Music for the Kingdom ...
Leonard examines the music and musicians that accompanied silent movies that she calls “spirit films”...
52 min
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Jeremy Black, "Mapping Shakespeare: An Explorat...
This lavishly illustrated volume compiles maps of the world, of Europe, of England, of English counties, and of English villages, to illustrate its author’s detailed description of the history of cartography...
33 min
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M. A. Weitekamp and M. Delaney, "Smithsonian Am...
"Smithsonian American Women" is an inspiring and surprising celebration of U.S. women's history told through Smithsonian artifacts...
76 min
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David Carballo, "Collision of Worlds: A Deep Hi...
Carballo provides a deep history of the encounter, one that considers temporal depth in the richly layered cultures of Mexico and Spain...
60 min