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Steven Seegel, "Map Men: Transnational Lives an...
Seegel offers an insightful contribution to the history of map making which is written through and by individual geographers/cartographers/map men...
43 min
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Tevi Troy, "Fight House: Rivalries in the White...
Troy examines some of the juiciest, nastiest, and most consequential internecine administration struggles in modern American history...
50 min
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Norman A. Kutcher, "Eunuch and Emperor in the G...
Eunuchs. Nobody liked them, everybody seems to have hated them, but, even so, they were an essential part of many states – even in the Qing...
71 min
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Joseph S. Nye, Jr., "In Do Morals Matter?: Pres...
Americans since the beginning of their history, have constantly made moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through and assessed...
42 min
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Shoshana Keller, "Russia and Central Asia: Coex...
Keller provides an excellent introduction and overview of the history of Central Asia, from roughly the 14th century to the present...
64 min
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Marcus P. Nevius, "City of Refuge: Slavery and ...
Nevius tells the interrelated histories of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina...
107 min
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John Weber, "From South Texas to the Nation: Th...
Weber discusses migrant agricultural labor, immigration policy, and the long-term impacts of the labor relations model that developed in South Texas during the early twentieth century...
37 min
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Spencer Dew, "The Aliites: Race and Law in the ...
Dew treats his readers to a riveting and often counterintuitive account of the interaction of law, race, and citizenship in the discourses of the Moorish Science Temple and other movements inspired by Noble Drew Ali...
76 min
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Nicholas R. Jones, "Staging Habla de Negros: Ra...
Jones problematizes long-held beliefs among literary critics and linguists that habla de negros as represented in dominant Spanish literature was exclusively racist stereotypes...
75 min
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Jonathan Scott, "How the Old World Ended: The A...
This book is about movement, water, the interchange of ideas, peoples, and cultures. At its centre is the Anglo-Dutch relationship and, at its many peripheries, Scott reveals the transformative effects of this unique republican pulse...
25 min
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Mathias Haeussler, "Helmut Schmidt and British-...
The former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt grew up as a devout Anglophile, yet he clashed heavily and repeatedly with his British counterparts Wilson, Callaghan, and Thatcher during his time in office between 1974 and 1982..
35 min
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Karima Moyer-Nocchi, "The Eternal Table: A Cult...
According to Moyer-Nocchi, the cucina romanesca is multi-layered from the papal court to the flow of pilgrims and Grand Tourists, from the House of Savoy and the Kingdom of Italy to Fascism and the rise of the middle classes...
53 min
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Christopher J. Lee, "Unreasonable Histories: Na...
Lee recovers the forgotten experiences of multiracial peoples in the British colonies of Nyasaland, Southern and Northern Rhodesia...
81 min
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Jay Weiner, "Professor Berman: The Last Lecture...
In his latest book, journalist Jay Weiner details the extraordinary life of Professor Hy Berman...
49 min
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Melissa Kravetz, "Women Doctors in Weimar and N...
Kravetz examines how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods,..
57 min
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Nancy Sinkoff, "From Left to Right: Lucy S. Daw...
Sinkoff offers s the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field that is now called "Holocaust Studies"..
56 min
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Paul Hanebrink, "A Specter Haunting Europe: The...
Hanebrink shows how Fascists, Conservatives and Nazis imagined Jewish Bolsheviks as enemies who crossed borders to subvert order from within and bring destructive ideas from abroad...
34 min
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Kirsten L. Ziomek, "Lost Histories: Recovering ...
Challenging conventional narratives of Japan’s colonial history that often centered on sites of dominance and oppression, Ziomek “reverse engineers” these narratives to focuses on the experiences of Japan’s colonial subjects,..
67 min
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Alan Taylor, "Thomas Jefferson’s Education" (W....
Taylor tells the story of how Jefferson’s vision for educating the next generations of American came to be...
32 min
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Melissa Walker and Giselle Roberts, "Women’s Di...
Walker and Roberts discuss the field of documentary editing and how the personal writings of southern women reveal the broader history of life in the U.S. South during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
40 min
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Nancy Appelbaum, "Mapping the Country of Region...
Appelbaum reconstructs how elites, through visual and textual methodologies, envisioned the nation and its component parts...
57 min
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Michael O’Sullivan, "Disruptive Power: Catholic...
How did Catholic mysticism shape politics and religion in 20th-century Germany?
75 min
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Paul J. Polgar, "Standard-Bearers of Equality: ...
Polgar tells the story of a racially inclusive abolition movement which followed in the wake of the American Revolution...
59 min
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The Origins of World War One
Who or what originated and/or caused the Great War from breaking out in July 1914?
65 min
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Sophie White, "Voices of the Enslaved: Love, La...
In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved...
40 min