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Nemata Blyden, "African Americans and Africa: a...
“What is Africa to me?”, African-American writer Countee Cullen asked in "Color."
54 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
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Dale Cockrell, "Everybody’s Doin’ It: Sex, Musi...
Where is American music?
58 min
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Donald Stevens, "Mexico in the Time of Cholera"...
Stevens uses the 1833 Cholera epidemic that devastated independent Mexico as his his point of departure, this is not primarily a medical history...
37 min
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Amy Harris, "Siblinghood and Social Relations i...
Harris examines the impact sisters and brothers had on eighteenth-century English families and society...
81 min
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Roxann Prazniak, "Sudden Appearances: The Mongo...
The “Mongol turn” in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries forged new political, commercial, and religious circumstances in Eurasia.
64 min
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Deborah Dash Moore, "Jewish New York: The Remar...
"Jewish New York" reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethnic and religious groups...
43 min
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Eric Lee, "The Night of the Bayonets: The Texel...
Lee tells the story of the events leading up to the little-known revolt of Georgian Wehrmacht recruits against the Germans on the island of Texel, which was part of the Atlantic Wall fortifications off the Dutch coast...
50 min
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Pamela S. Nadell, "America’s Jewish Women: A Hi...
Nadell surveys varied experiences of Jewish women who made America their home. In elegant prose, she introduces readers to a fascinating cast of characters from the seventeenth century to the present day...
52 min
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Anthony Valerio, "Semmelweis: The Women's Docto...
Though his advice has saved the lives of millions of people, the name Ignaz Semmelweis is not one commonly known today...
57 min
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Andrei Kushnir, "Epic Journey: Life and Times o...
Wasyl Kushnir goes back to the second half of the 19th century and takes the reader to the present moment: the story provides a glimpse into a family that seems to be shaped by all the atrocities of the 20th century...
48 min
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Monique A. Bedasse, "Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians,...
Bedasse examines Rastafarian reparation to Tanzania in the 1970s and 1980s...
58 min
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Chiara Formichi, "Islam and Asia: A History" (C...
Formichi helps us to rethink how we tell the story of Islam and the lived expressions of Muslims without privileging certain linguistic, cultural, and geographic realities...
66 min
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Michael Braddick, "The Common Freedom of the Pe...
Braddick takes a fresh look at the turmoil that gripped England for three decades in the middle of the seventeenth century...
25 min
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Viet Thanh Nguyen, "Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam ...
According to Viet Thanh Nguyen, all wars are fought twice: first on the field of battle, and then in the struggles over memory...
67 min
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Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, "Landscape of Migration: Mo...
Nobbs-Thiessen traces the entwined histories of Andean, Mennonite, and Okinawan migrants to Amazonian Bolivia...
59 min
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Carl Suddler, "Presumed Criminal: Black Youth a...
Suddler brings to light a much longer history of the policies and strategies that tethered the lives of black youths to the justice system indefinitely...
62 min
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Alexander Bukh, "These Islands Are Ours" (Stanf...
Bukh provides critical historical perspective on the social construction of territorial disputes between Japan and its neighbors in Northeast Asia...
77 min
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Vaneesa Cook, "Spiritual Socialists: Religion a...
Cook shows that there is a deep religious strain within the American Left despite contrary common perceptions...
50 min
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Manuel Barcia, "The Yellow Demon of Fever: Figh...
Barcia offers a striking rendition of the diseases that swept through the illegal slave trade Atlantic World...
43 min
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Coryne Hall, "Queen Victoria and the Romanovs: ...
The balance of power in nineteenth-century Europe was anchored on one end by the redoubtable Queen Victoria (1819 -1901), the doyenne of sovereigns, and at the opposite end by the autocratic Romanov dynasty...
39 min
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Richard Lachmann, "First Class Passengers on a ...
Lachmann argues that while imperial expansion can deliver more resources to their centers, they can also create dynamics of elite conflict...
68 min
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Björn Krondorfer, "The Holocaust and Masculinit...
In recent decades, scholarship has turned to the role of gender in the Holocaust, but rarely has it critically investigated the experiences of men as gendered beings..
49 min
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Éva Guillorel, "Rhythms of Revolt: European Tra...
The culture of insurgents in early modern Europe was primarily an oral one...
46 min
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Mary Fraser, "Policing the Home Front, 1914-191...
When Britain went to war in 1914, policemen throughout Great Britain found themselves called upon to perform an ever-increasing range of new tasks that reflected the expanded power of the British state in wartime...
44 min