New Books in History
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Brian DeMare, "Land Wars: The Story of China’s ...
Key to the psychological, political and economic transformations which unfolded in China’s million villages in the 1940s and ‘50s was a powerful narrative impulse – a Maoist “script”...
63 min
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Teresa Bergman, "The Commemoration of Women in ...
Bergman examines the public memorialization of women in the US over the past century, with a particular focus on the late twentieth century and early twenty first...
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Allan Downey, "The Creator’s Game: Lacrosse, Id...
Downey examines the role that lacrosse played and continues to play in the construction of settler-colonial and indigenous identity in Canada...
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Nathan G. Alexander, "Race in a Godless World: ...
Is modern racism a product of secularization and the decline of Christian universalism?
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Joe Geisner, "Writing Mormon History: Historian...
In this book, well-known historians describe their journeys of writing books that have influenced our understanding of the Mormon past...
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Micol Seigel, "Violence Work: State Violence an...
Recent calls for the defunding or abolition of police raise important questions about the legitimacy of state violence and the functions that police are supposed to serve...
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Henry M. Cowles, "The Scientific Method: An Evo...
The idea of a single scientific method, shared across specialties and teachable to ten-year-olds, is just over a hundred years old...
52 min
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Jill Strauss, "Slavery's Descendants: Shared Le...
The stories in "Slavery’s Descendants" deal with harrowing topics—rape, lynching, cruelty, shame—but they also describe acts of generosity,..
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Kabria Baumgartner, "In Pursuit of Knowledge: B...
Baumgartner offers an intellectual and cultural history of the educational activism of African American women and girls in the long nineteenth century...
39 min
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Imre Salusinszky, "The Hilton Bombing: Evan Ped...
In 1978, Evan Pederick, a naive 22-year-old in the thrall of a radical religious movement, Ananda Marga, placed an enormous bomb outside Sydney's Hilton Hotel...
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Elizabeth Horodowich, "The Venetian Discovery o...
We explore her primary argument, that Venetians used their knowledge, and their ability to employ that knowledge, to write Venetians into the story....
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Thomas C. Field Jr. et al., "Latin America and ...
The Cold War is not exactly over in Latin America...
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Aaron Kamugisha, "Beyond Coloniality: Citizensh...
Kamugisha reminds us of a Caribbean radical tradition that is fiercely critical of racism, middle-class complacencies and the incursions of neoliberalism...
58 min
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
In this episode (# 2), we discuss Eisler’s early years as a member of the Jewish bourgeoisie in turn-of-the-century Vienna with historian Steven Beller...
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Paige Glotzer, "How the Suburbs Were Segregated...
Glotzer examines the history surrounding how modern housing segregation was purposefully planned out beginning at the turn of the 20th Century...
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Lynn M. Thomas, "Beneath the Surface: A Transna...
By 2024, global sales of skin lighteners are projected to reach more than $30 billion...
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Alberto Harambour, "Soberanías fronterizas: Est...
Harambour examines the explosion of foreign-owned sheep farming, the fitful expansion of Argentine and Chilean sovereignty, and the violence of primitive accumulation and genocide in southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego...
55 min
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Mona L. Siegel, "Peace on Our Terms: The Global...
Siegel explores the previously neglected history of a diverse group of women from around the world who fought for women’s rights as male politicians forged a new world order...
59 min
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John K. Roth, "Sources of Holocaust Insight: Le...
John reflects on the people who have taught him, in all the different ways teaching can happen, and the lessons that he’s learned over decades of thinking and writing about the Holocaust...
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Robert C. McGreevey, "Borderline Citizens: The ...
McGreevey explores the contested meaning and limits of citizenship for Puerto Ricans from the late nineteenth century to the late 1930s...
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Elisheva A. Perelman, "American Evangelists and...
Perelman examines the consequences of Japan’s decision not to tackle the tuberculosis epidemic that ravaged the country during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth....
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Romeo Guzman et al., "East of East: The Making ...
Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte...
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Garrett Felber, "Those Who Know Don't Say: The ...
Felber examines efforts to build broad-based grassroots coalitions among liberals, radicals, and nationalist to oppose the carceral state and struggle for local Black self-determination...
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Nandini Patwardhan, "Radical Spirits: India’s F...
In 1883, a young woman named Anandi Joshi set out from her native India to the United States to study medicine..,
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Why Did the Allies Win World War One?
Perhaps nothing was as unexpected in this conflict as the sudden termination of the same in November 1918...
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