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7501
Christopher A. Molnar, "Memory, Politics, and Y...
During Europe’s 2015 refugee crisis, more than a hundred thousand asylum seekers from the western Balkans sought refuge in Germany. This was nothing new...
67 min
7502
C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A Hi...
Alvarez offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of a border wall in 1990...
57 min
7503
Andrew Israel Ross, "Public City/Public Sex: H...
Ross maps out the intersection between histories of sexualities and the urban history of Paris in the 1800s
36 min
7504
Stephanie Malia Hom, "Empire's Mobius Strip: Hi...
Italy's current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has its roots in early twentieth century imperial ambitions...
37 min
7505
Benjamin Francis-Fallon, "The Rise of the Latin...
Francis-Fallon historicizes how Latinos were imagined into a national electoral constituency...
50 min
7506
Gillian Glaes, "African Political Activism in P...
Glaes examines the experiences and agency of African immigrants in France from 1960 through the 1970s.,,
60 min
7507
Adele Lindenmeyr, "Citizen Countess: Sofia Pani...
In the aftermath of the February Revolution in 1917 Panina served on the Petrograd city council and as an assistant cabinet minister—the first female cabinet member in world history...
42 min
7508
E. Wakild and M. K. Berry, "A Primer for Teachi...
Wakild and Berry offers strategies and approaches that educators can apply in a variety of settings: from high school classrooms to college courses, and from environmental history and environmental studies courses to US and world history surveys...
49 min
7509
David Head, "A Crisis of Peace: George Washingt...
In March 1783, George Washington confronted a meeting of disgruntled Continental Army officers at their encampment at Newburgh, New York...
54 min
7510
Seán Crosson, "Gaelic Games on Film" (Cork UP, ...
In "Gaelic Games on Film," Crosson traces out the use of Irish sports in Irish, American, and British cinema.
64 min
7511
Joshua Specht, "Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Ta...
Why do Americans eat so much beef?
27 min
7512
Charlotte Brooks, "American Exodus: Second-Gene...
Between 1901 and World War II, up to half of all U.S.-born Chinese Americans relocated to China in search of better lives due to the discrimination they faced in the United States...
65 min
7513
Alex Lichtenstein, "Margaret Bourke-White and t...
"Life" published two photo-essays highlighting Bourke-White’s photographs, but much of her South African work remained unpublished until now...
35 min
7514
The Treaty of Versailles One Hundred Years On
The Versailles Treaty of 1919, celebrates its one-hundred anniversary this year...
37 min
7515
Angelina Callahan, "NASA in the World: Fifty Ye...
Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory’s Vanguard Project...
31 min
7516
Reider Payne, "War and Diplomacy in the Napoleo...
Payne describes the adventurous life of the third Marquess of Londonderry and the roles he played in the events of his time....
65 min
7517
Evan Friss, "On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of...
Friss historicizes the bicycle’s place in New York City’s social, economic, infrastructural and cultural politics...
46 min
7518
Benjamin Breen, "The Age of Intoxication: Origi...
Focusing in on the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Angola and on the imperial capital of Lisbon, Breen deftly explores the process by which novel drugs were located, commodified, and consumed...
59 min
7519
David Pettinicchio, "Politics of Empowerment: D...
Pettinicchio offers a history of the political development of disability rights in the United States...
22 min
7520
Paul Robinson, "Russian Conservatism" (Cornell ...
Robinson provides a comprehensive examination of the roots and development of the hardy strain of conservative political thought in Russian history...
58 min
7521
Seyed Ali Alavi, "Iran and Palestine: Past, Pre...
Alavi surveys the history of the relationship between Iran – and especially the Islamic Republic of Iran - with Palestinian organisations and leadership...
21 min
7522
Brandon R. Byrd, "The Black Republic: African A...
Byrd examines the multitude of responses by African American leaders towards Haiti following the Civil War and going into the 20th Century...
56 min
7523
James M. Vaughn, "The Politics of Empire at the...
Vaughn offers an powerful challenge to the received view that the Asian domains were acquired by accident and formed part of an empire of liberty.,,
39 min
7524
K. B. Berzock, "Caravans of Gold, Fragments in ...
What is the “medieval”? How can we understand historical movements across the Sahara? How does religion –specifically, Islam– play a role in this project?
69 min
7525
Beth Fischer, "The Myth of Triumphalism: Rethin...
Fischer argues that the military buildup was actually deeply counterproductive, frightening the Soviet leadership and delaying meaningful negotiations for several years...
40 min