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Iain MacGregor, "Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold W...
There is perhaps no more iconic symbol of the Cold War than the Berlin Wall...
68 min
7627
Karen Routledge, "Do You See Ice?: Inuit and Am...
In the 1800s, explorers and whalers returning home from the Arctic described a cold, desolate world,..
29 min
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Paula McQuade, "Catechisms and Women’s Writing ...
McQuade opens up an entirely new field for the study of early modern women’s writing,..
32 min
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Derrick E. White, "Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Jak...
White chronicles the development of black college football in the twentieth century, and is among the first comprehensive histories of black college athletics...
66 min
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AfroAm Studies Roundtable: Ashley Farmer on "Ar...
What happens when particular groups of historians do not feel like they have full access to archival material?
32 min
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Trevor Thompson, "Playing for Australia: The Fi...
In "Playing for Australia," Thompson investigates the Asian context of some of Australia’s earliest international soccer matches...
57 min
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Sara Lorenzini, "Global Development: A Cold War...
The idea of economic development was a relatively novel one even as late as the 1940s...
48 min
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John Shelton Reed, "Dixie Bohemia: A French Qua...
In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful street life...
47 min
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Najam Haider, "The Rebel and the Imam in Early ...
In the absence of any real certainty about the nature and intention of the early sources that tell us the story of the early Islamic period, how can we use them?
44 min
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Carlton F. W. Larson, "The Trials of Allegiance...
"The Trials of Allegiance" looks at the law of treason during the American Revolution, showing just how central treason is to understanding the course of the Revolution...
38 min
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Donald Ostrowski, "Europe, Byzantium, and the '...
Why did intellectual path of Medieval Russian culture differ so much from its counterparts in Western Europe?
76 min
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Susan Neiman, “Learning from the Germans: Race ...
How did Germany deal with the Nazi past?
82 min
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Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "Stuck on Communism: Memoi...
This memoir by one of the foremost scholars of the Soviet period spans three continents and more than half a century...
58 min
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Emily Wilson, trans., "The Odyssey" (Norton, 2017)
Wilson’s "Odyssey" captures the beauty and enchantment of this ancient poem...
65 min
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Stuart Schrader, "Badges Without Borders: How ...
Stuart Schrader makes the compelling case that the growth of carceral state is just one front of a “discretionary empire” that persists today...
71 min
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Erica Armstrong Dunbar, "She Came to Slay: The ...
Harriet Tubman is best known as one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad...
35 min
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Aurélie Basha i Novosejt, "I Made Mistakes: Rob...
Robert S. McNamara confessed: 'We've made mistakes in Vietnam … I've made mistakes. But the mistakes I made are not the ones they say I made'...
52 min
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Alexander L. Hinton, "Man or Monster?: The Tria...
Can justice heal? Must there be justice in order to heal? Is there such a thing as justice, something to be striven for regardless of context?
74 min
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Cara New Daggett, "Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuel...
Daggett suggests that reassessing our relationships with fossil fuels in the face of climate change also requires that we rethink the concept of energy itself...
40 min
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
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Joseph F. O'Callaghan, "Alfonso X, the Justinia...
As O’Callaghan details, many of the code's provisions were drawn up in response to the problems Alfonso dealt with as king...
56 min
7647
Wang Gungwu, "Home is Not Here" (NUS Press, 2018)
Wang Gungwu has long been recognized as a world authority on the history of China and the overseas Chinese...
38 min
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Jay Driskell, "Schooling Jim Crow: The Fight fo...
Driskell traces the roots of black protest politics to early 20th century Atlanta and the fight for equal education...
43 min
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Bruce Riedel, "Beirut 1958: How America's Wars ...
In July 1958, U.S. Marines stormed the beach in Beirut, Lebanon, ready for combat....
33 min
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Eileen Boris, "Making the Woman Worker: Precari...
Eileen Boris illuminates the ILO's transformation in the context of the long fight for social justice...
41 min