New Books in History
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Graham R. G. Hodges, "Black New Jersey 1664 to ...
Hodges emphasizes the history of slavery, religion, the rise of the Black middle class, and the quest for social equality through the Jim Crow era...
39 min
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Jürgen Melzer, "Wings for the Rising Sun: A Tra...
Over the course of three decades Japan built an aircraft industry that by 1941 was qualitatively the equal of any in the world...
43 min
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Emily E. LB. Twarog, "Politics of the Pantry: H...
Twarog examines how working- and middle-class American housewives used their identity as housewives to protest the high cost of food. In doing so, housewives' relationships with the state evolved over the course of the century...
37 min
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
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Orly Clergé, "The New Noir: Race, Identity and ...
How has the expansion of the Black American middle class and the increase in the number of Black immigrants among them since the Civil Rights period transformed the cultural landscape of New York City?
35 min
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Ariella Aisha Azoulay, "Potential History: Unle...
Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history itself, are all dependent on imperial modes of thinking...
48 min
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Bryant Simon, "The Hamlet Fire: A Story of Chea...
Simon discusses the tragic consequences of the ethos of "cheap" for workers, communities, and the nation...
33 min
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Amy Shira Teitel, "Breaking the Chains of Gravi...
Amy Shira Teitel talks about Apollo and the community of people who are deeply attached to space history.
27 min
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Sohaira Siddiqui, "Law and Politics Under the A...
Siddiqui conducts a masterful analysis of how conditions of political change and fragmentation generate intellectual debates and fermentation on the often-conflictual interaction of certainty, continuity, and community in Muslim thought and practice....
44 min
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Erika Denise Edwards, "Hiding in Plain Sight: B...
Edwards has produced the first comprehensive study in English of the history of African descendants outside of Buenos Aires in the late colonial and early republican periods...
69 min
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Steve Suitts, "Overturning Brown: The Segregati...
Suitts examines the parallels between de facto segregationist practices and the modern school choice movement...
28 min
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Murad Idris, "War for Peace: Genealogies of a V...
Idris traces the concept of peace, and the way it is often insinuated with other words and concepts, over more than 2000 years of political thought...
63 min
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L. Benjamin Rolsky, "The Rise and Fall of the R...
Rolsky makes the case for understanding Norman Lear as a key protagonist in the culture wars of the late 20th century...
59 min
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John Tweeddale, "John Calvin: For a New Reforma...
This book introduces principal themes of Calvin’s life, thought and literary achievements...
29 min
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Sarah Stockwell, "The British End of the Britis...
How did de-colonialization impact the United Kingdom itself?
43 min
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Donald L. Miller, "Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign ...
Miller explains in great detail how Grant ultimately succeeded in taking the city and turning the tide of the war in favor of the Union...
82 min
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Yaakov Katz, "Shadow Strike: Inside Israel’s Se...
On September 6, 2007, shortly after midnight, Israeli fighters advanced on Deir ez-Zour in Syria. Although Israel often flew into Syria as a warning to President Bashar al-Assad, this time there was no warning and no explanation...
55 min
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Nicholas Blincoe, "More Noble Than War: A Socce...
Blincoe offers a beautifully narrated and written history of a century of conflict between pre-state Jews and Palestinians and Israeli Jews and Israeli Palestinians after the establishment of the state...
59 min
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Peter Cole, "Dockworker Power: Race and Activis...
Dockworker Power is a refreshing mixture of two methodological approaches that situates the study of black internationalism among workers...
66 min
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Eddie Michel, "The White House and White Africa...
Michel examines the complicated relationship between the United States and Rhodesia...
37 min
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James N. Green, "Exile Within Exiles: Herbert D...
Green tells the story of Herbert Daniel, a significant and complex figure in Brazilian leftist revolutionary politics and social activism from the mid-1960s until his death in 1992...
59 min
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Eric Lomazoff, "Reconstructing the National Ban...
Lomazoff has written a kind of detective novel about the national bank controversy during the early years of the new republic
41 min
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Todd Shepard, "Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-...
Shepard offers a complex analysis of the lasting impact of the Algerian Revolution through the cultural politics of sex, gender, and power in France....
60 min
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Christopher J. Shepherd, "Haunted Houses and Gh...
Anyone who tries to understand the history, religion, and especially the “culture” of Southeast Asia, will soon encounter the phenomenon of animism...
40 min
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Maria Taroutina, "The Icon and the Square: Russ...
Taroutina examines how the traditional interests of institutions such as the crown, the church, and the Imperial Academy of Arts temporarily aligned with the radical, leftist, and revolutionary avant-garde at the turn of the twentieth century...
61 min