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Mike Duncan, "The Storm Before the Storm: The B...
In 146 BC, Rome finally emerged as the strongest power in the Mediterranean. But the very success of the Republic proved to be its undoing...
80 min
7602
Daniel Schwartz, "Ghetto: The History of a Word...
The word “ghetto” has taken on different meanings since its coinage in the 16th century...
52 min
7603
Pierre Asselin, "Vietnam’s American War: A Hist...
"Vietnam’s American War" is an iconoclastic revision of the history of the war...
69 min
7604
Appeasement Eighty Years On
What was "Appeasement," and What Is It Today?
50 min
7605
Michael Khodarkovsky, "Russia's 20th Century: A...
Khodarkovsky has taken a novel approach to charting the century by crafting one hundred vignettes, one for each year of the century...
68 min
7606
David Wheat, "Atlantic Africa and the Spanish C...
Wheat argues that the extensive participation of Luso-Africans, Latinized Africans, and free people of color made possible Spain’s colonization of the Caribbean...
58 min
7607
Helen Rozwadowski, "Vast Expanses: A History of...
Rozwadowski talks about the history of the oceans and how these oceans have shaped human history in profound ways...
30 min
7608
Wendy Gonaver, "The Peculiar Institution and th...
Gonaver discusses the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Virginia, and the roles that race, the institution of slavery, and slave labor played in the development of psychiatric diagnosis and care through the nineteenth century and beyond...
53 min
7609
What are Empires and Why do they Matter?
You hear a lot about "empires," but what are they?
59 min
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Jonathan Rees, "Before the Refrigerator: How We...
Frederic Tudor was the “Ice King” of early nineteenth-century America..
51 min
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Charles B. Jones, "Chinese Pure Land Buddhism: ...
Jones explores many of the core doctrines, practices and controversies of Chinese Pure Land Buddhism, situating them historically and in the modern period...
71 min
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David Hayton, "Conservative Revolutionary: The ...
Namier remains famous in academic circles for supposedly declaring that any reference to ideas in political discourse was nothing more than 'flapdoodle'...
75 min
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J. Yates and C. N. Murphy, "Engineering Rules: ...
Standards are crucial to the way we live—just look around you. A no. 2 pencil, perhaps?
49 min
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Dave Tell, "Remembering Emmett Till" (U Chicago...
Tell analyses acts of remembering Emmett following his brutal murder in the 1960s until the present day...
52 min
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Margaret E. Schotte, "Sailing School: Navigatin...
Schotte charts more than two hundred years of navigational history as she investigates how mariners solved the challenges of navigating beyond sight of land...
54 min
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Wendy Wickwire, "At The Bridge: James Teit and ...
The history of anthropology remembers James Teit as a field assistant and man-on-the spot for Franz Boas...
61 min
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Claire Edington, "Beyond the Asylum: Mental Ill...
Both colonies and insane asylums are well known institutions of power. But what of asylums in Europe’s early 20th-century colonial empires?
70 min
7618
Robert Mann, "Becoming Ronald Reagan: The Rise ...
Throughout much of his career as an actor in Hollywood, Ronald Reagan identified as a passionate New Deal Democrat...
50 min
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William P. Hustwit, "Integration Now: Alexander...
"Integration Now" explores how studying the case Alexander v. Holmes (1969) enhances understandings of the history underlying school desegregation...
42 min
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Douglas R. Egerton, "Heirs of an Honored Name: ...
John and Abigail Adams founded a famous political family, but they would not witness its calamitous fall from grace...
100 min
7621
S. Deborah Kang, "The INS on the Line: Making I...
Kang explores the history behind Immigration and Naturalization Service throughout the 20th Century,..
47 min
7622
John Launer, "Sex Versus Survival: The Life and...
Spielrein's life resembles a nodal point; she stood at the crossroads of extraordinary changes in world politics and psychoanalysis...
56 min
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Han F. Vermeulen, "Before Boas: The Genesis of ...
Where did ethnography come from?
100 min
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Noelle Giuffrida, "Separating Sheep from Goats:...
Guiffrida tells the history of collecting and exhibiting Chinese art through the story of renowned curator and museum director Sherman E. Lee (1918-2008)...
81 min
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Kenneth Fones-Wolf, "Struggle for the Soul of t...
Fones-Wolf discusses the role of religion in the CIO's Operation Dixie, and provides perspective on the participation of faith communities in the modern labor movement...
30 min