New Books in History
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James D. Bratt, "A Christian and a Democrat: A ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when asked at a press conference about the roots of his political philosophy, responded simply, “I am a Christian and a Democrat.”
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Emily Colbert Cairns, "Esther in Early Modern I...
Colbert Cairns traces the biblical figure of Esther, the secret Jewish Queen, as she is reinvented as the patron saint for the early modern Sephardic community....
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Ian Wray, "No Little Plans: How Government Buil...
Wray’s book goes in search of an America shaped by government, plans and bureaucrats, not by businesses, bankers and shareholders. He demonstrates that government plans did not damage American wealth. On the contrary, they built it, and in the most profound ways...
51 min
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James M. Banner, Jr., "Presidential Misconduct:...
What standard should be used to assess presidential misconduct during the Trump presidency?
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Astrid M. Eckert, "West Germany and the Iron Cu...
How did the Iron Curtain shape the Federal Republic of Germany?
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Ariel Mae Lambe, "No Barrier Can Contain It: Cu...
Lambe offers a history of transnational Cuban activists who mobilized in the mid-1930s to fight fascism both in Cuba and beyond...
66 min
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Lauren Working, "The Making of an Imperial Poli...
Working examines a complex trans-Atlantic process of the movement of objects, ideas, and cultural mixing...
29 min
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Brian Cervantez, "Amon Carter: A Lone Star Life...
Cervantez has drawn on Texas Christian University’s rich collection of Carter papers to chart Carter’s quest to bring business and government projects to his adopted hometown...
53 min
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J. L. Anderson, "Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, a...
Anderson provides a history of pigs in America from the first arrival on the continent in the Columbian Exchange to the modern agribusiness of pork production...
55 min
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Rachel Chrastil, "How to Be Childless: A Histor...
Chrastil explores the most personal of women’s decisions from the 1500s on...
34 min
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Daniel Kennefick, "No Shadow of Doubt: The 1919...
Daniel Kennefick talks about resistance to relativity theory in the early twentieth century and the huge challenges that faced British astronomers who wanted to test the theory during the solar eclipse of 1919...
36 min
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Blake Perkins, "Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal ...
Perkins discusses regional relations with the federal government, and the evolution of grassroots politics...
38 min
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Benjamin Dangl, "The Five Hundred Year Rebellio...
Dangl demonstrates the ways that Aymara, Quechua, and Guaraní intellectuals, activists, and communities use history as a means of resistance...
50 min
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Jane H. Hong, "Gates to Asia: A Transpacific Hi...
Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receives more immigrants from Asia than from anywhere else in the world...
45 min
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Filippo Marsili, "Heaven Is Empty: A Cross-Cult...
Marsili offers a new comparative perspective on the role of the sacred in the formation of China’s early empires (221 BCE–9 CE)...
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Dr. Alice Collett, "Lives of Early Buddhist Nun...
Collett delves into the lives of six of the best-known nuns from the period of early Buddhism...
64 min
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Lori Gemeiner-Bihler, "Cities of Refuge: German...
Gemeiner-Bihler compares the experiences of Jewish refugees who immigrated to London and New York City by analyzing letters, diaries, newspapers, organizational documents, and oral histories...
63 min
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Eileen Botting, "The Wollstonecraftian Mind" (R...
A political and moral thinker and a forerunner to modern feminism, Wollstonecraft has not received attention on par with the wide breath of her ideas...
66 min
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Jonathan Erickson, "Imagination in the Western ...
Imagination is one of the most important elements of being human, but is most often assumed we know what it is,..
86 min
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Benjamin Balint, "Jerusalem: City of the Book" ...
Balint and Mack offer a fascinating journey through Jerusalem’s libraries which tells the story of this city as a place where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words...
42 min
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Jessica Lynne Pearson, "The Colonial Politics o...
Pearson recounts France’s collision with the UN and World Health Organization in the immediate post-World War II years...
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Kim A. Wagner, "Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fea...
Wagner puts this act of colonial violence in its proper historical context...
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Judi Rever, "In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of ...
Rever and her sources tell a story far different from the one most people who are familiar with the Rwandan Genocide would recognize...
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Arbella Bet-Shlimon, "City of Black Gold: Oil, ...
Bet-Shlimon explores the vibrant and often troubled history of one of Iraq’s most diverse and oil-rich cities...
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Tobias Boes, "Thomas Mann's War: Literature, Po...
Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted...
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