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R. Scott Huffard, Jr., "Redemption: Railroads a...
Huffard offers a fascinating history of capitalism in the South, which tells the story of how railroads revitalized the region following the Civil War...
34 min
7427
Matthew Goodman, "The City Game: Triumph, Scand...
The 1949-50 CCNY Beavers basketball team were one of the unlikeliest of champions in sports history...
46 min
7428
Christopher Frank, "Workers, Unions and Payment...
The passage of the 1831 Truck Act was intended to end throughout the United Kingdom the practice of paying employees in truck, or goods, rather than in money...
52 min
7429
Alex Dika Seggerman, "Modernism on the Nile: Ar...
Seggerman analyzes Egypt’s modernist art movement from the late-nineteenth century up until the 1960s, demonstrating the interconnectedness of this movement with a constellation of artistic production outside of Egypt...
39 min
7430
D. J. Taylor, "The Lost Girls: Love and Literat...
Who were the Lost Girls?
20 min
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Penny Sinanoglou, "Partitioning Palestine: Brit...
Sinanoglou asks what drove and constrained British policymaking around partition, and why partition was simultaneously so appealing to British policymakers yet ultimately proved so difficult for them to enact...
54 min
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Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New...
In the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City...
61 min
7433
Paul Lay, "Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall o...
"Providence Lost" is the most up to date and accessible narrative of this crucial period...
38 min
7434
Peter Bergamin, "The Making of the Israeli Far-...
Bergamin positions Ahimeir within the contexts of the Israeli right and the Zionist movement in general, and corrects some common misunderstandings surrounding the man and his ideology...
34 min
7435
Jacob Remes, "Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, ...
Remes challenges prevailing assumptions about how ordinary people, governments, and institutions act in the wake of natural disasters...
38 min
7436
Catherine Newell, "Destined for the Stars: Fait...
Catherine Newell talks about the religious roots of the final frontier, focusing on the collaboration of artist Chesley Bonestell, science writer Willy Ley, and the NASA rocket engineer Wernher von Braun...
35 min
7437
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
7438
Eric Setzekor, "The Rise and Fall of an Officer...
Between 1942 and 1955, Setzekorn argues, professionally-minded officers within the KMT leveraged their military partnership with the United States to build China's first truly national army...
56 min
7439
Catherine A. Stewart, "Long Past Slavery: Repre...
Stewart examines the history behind the collection of more than 2,300 narratives from formerly enslaved people, as part of the New Deal’s Federal Writers’ Project...
70 min
7440
Salvador Salinas, "Land, Liberty, and Water: Mo...
Salinas fills an important gap in the history of the Zapatista Revolution in Morelos - namely, what happened after 1920...
41 min
7441
Christopher J. Phillips, "Scouting and Scoring:...
Phillips crafts a compelling narrative sure to delight baseball fans and historians of the human sciences alike...
43 min
7442
Mark Gamsa, “Manchuria: A Concise History” (Blo...
The term ‘Manchuria’ conjures up all manner of evocative associations for people interested in East Asian and world history,..
48 min
7443
Gregory P. Downs, "The Second American Revoluti...
Downs argues that we can see the Civil War anew by understanding it as a revolution...
69 min
7444
Andrew R. M. Smith, "No Way But To Fight: Georg...
Smith shows that from his upbringing in Houston’s Fifth Ward to his role as a spokesman for the Foreman Grill, Foreman always fought to redefine himself along with the times...
58 min
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Scott C. Esplin, "Return to the City of Joseph:...
In the mid-twentieth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) returned to Nauvoo, Illinois, home to the thriving religious community led by Joseph Smith before his murder in 1844...
60 min
7446
Keri Holt, "Reading These United States: Federa...
Holt explores how Americans read, saw, and understood the federal structure of the country in its early years...
34 min
7447
Carol Dyhouse, "Hearthrobs: A History of Women ...
What can a cultural history of the heartthrob teach us about women, desire, and social change?
28 min
7448
Jeremy Black, "Geographies of an Imperial Power...
A great deal of recent discussion among humanities scholars has focused on the possibility or even necessity of “de-colonising the curriculum.” But what does this project mean?
26 min
7449
Adrienne Petty, "Standing Their Ground: Small F...
Petty discusses the black and white farmers in the South who were part of the "small farming class," and their evolving strategies for holding onto their land through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
40 min
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Wulf Gruner, "The Holocaust in Bohemia and Mora...
The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia bore some similarities to that in other places, but also differed in ways that lead to new questions and approaches...
60 min