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Jane D. Hatter, "Composing Community in Late Me...
Hatter shows that the repertory she studies reflects a musical culture that valued intergenerational connections between artists and compositional virtuosity...
54 min
7527
April Eisman, "Bernhard Heisig and the Fight fo...
Eisman examines one of East Germany's most successful artists as a point of entry into the vibrant art world of the "other" Germany. In the 1980s..
54 min
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Talitha LeFlouria, "Chained in Silence: Black W...
LeFlouria discusses the lives, labors, and legacies of incarcerated black women and the convict lease system in the early 20th century South...
34 min
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Matthew Lockwood, "To Begin The World Over Agai...
Lockwood shows that the war, whatever its debatable effects for the residents of the thirteen colonies, unleashed a whole host of catastrophes for people elsewhere...
64 min
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Darnella Davis, "Untangling a Red, White, and B...
Davis combines the personal with the national in telling the story of allotment in Indian Territory/Oklahoma...
55 min
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Giuliana Chamedes, "A Twentieth-Century Crusade...
Chamedes explores how World War I galvanized the central government of the Catholic Church to craft its own variety of internationalism...
67 min
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Thomas Kühne, "The Rise and Fall of Comradeship...
Kühne writes an innovative account of how the concept of comradeship shaped the actions, emotions and ideas of ordinary German soldiers across the two world wars and during the Holocaust...
65 min
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G. Edward White, "Law in American History, Volu...
White surveys the many developments in American law from the middle of the 20th century to the case of Bush v. Gore...
60 min
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Taomo Zhou, “Migration in the Time of Revolutio...
In Southeast Asia the Chinese outside China were intimately entangled in a vast among of what was going on at this time on the diplomatic and political level...
63 min
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Julia Neuberger, "Antisemitism: What It Is, Wha...
Anti-Semitic incidents, ranging from vandalism through murder, are on the rise in Great Britain, and across Europe and North America...
46 min
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Fran Altvater, "Sacramental Theology and the De...
Baptismal fonts were necessary to the liturgical life of the medieval Christian...
31 min
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Louis Hyman, "Temp: How American Work, American...
Jobs are less secure today not because the market demanded it but because, starting as early as the 1950s, executives, consultants, and policy makers decided to make them that way...
71 min
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Katherine Rye Jewell, "Dollars for Dixie: Busin...
Jewell discusses the evolution of political and economic conservatism in the twentieth-century South...
40 min
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Stephen F. Knott, "The Lost Soul of the America...
Knott guides the reader through more than 200 years of presidents and the changes that these individuals have brought to the office itself...
43 min
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Jelena Subotić, "Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocau...
Subotić asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled―ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated―throughout Eastern Europe...
46 min
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Céline Carayon, "Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal ...
Carayon answers the long-standing question of how, and how well, Indigenous Americans and the Europeans who arrived on their shores communicated with each other...
111 min
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Lennox Honychurch, "In the Forests of Freedom: ...
Maroons—enslaved Africans who escaped and formed autonomous communities—dominated Dominica’s hilly interior for centuries...
48 min
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Gabe Logan, "The Early Years of Chicago Soccer,...
The thriving metropolis of Chicago was the land of opportunity for a wide variety of ethnic groups...
44 min
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Richard Whatmore, "Terrorists, Anarchists, and ...
Whatmore tells the story of a utopian city inspired by a spirit of liberty and republican values being turned into a place where republicans who had fought for liberty were extinguished by the might of empire...
74 min
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Joshua Simon, "The Ideology of the Creole Revol...
Simon compares the political thought of three Creole revolutionary leaders: Alexander Hamilton, Simón Bolívar and Lucas Alamán...
65 min
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Amy Aronson, "Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary...
Aronson gives us the life of a women’s rights activist, labor lawyer, radical pacifist, writer and co-founder of what became the Civil Liberties Union...
57 min
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A. R. Ruis, "Learning to Eat: The Origins of Sc...
Ruis narrates the development of school lunch programs from the late 19th century to the present,..
69 min
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Luis Martínez-Fernández, "Key to the New World:...
Martínez-Fernández talks about his Latin American upbringing, the history of pre-contact Cuba, the historical context of Western Europe in 1492, the deep connection between sugar production and slavery, and so much more...
68 min
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Wilson Jeremiah Moses, "Thomas Jefferson: A Mod...
Moses dissects the corpus of Jefferson’s writings and examines the span of his activities...
63 min
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E. Jones-Imhotep and T. Adcock, "Made Modern: S...
"Made Modern" explores the complex interconnections between science, technology, and modernity in Canada...
58 min