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Sara Georgini, "Household Gods: The Religious L...
Household Gods is a family biography that explores the Christian republicanism of John and Abigail Adams...
52 min
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Jennifer Jensen Wallach, "What We Need Ourselve...
The history of black food traditions can be most accurately conceptualized as a web of ongoing conversations, debates, and reinventions...
54 min
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Gregg L. Frazer, "God against the Revolution: T...
Not everyone was convinced by the arguments of patriots during the American revolution...
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Mark Burford, "Mahalia Jackson and the Black Go...
Mahalia Jackson, the great mid-twentieth century gospel singer, thought of herself as an embodiment of the history of African Americans in the United States...
57 min
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Larry E. Morris, "A Documentary History of the ...
The story of the creation of the Book of Mormon has been told many times, and often ridiculed...
48 min
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Michael F. Conlin, "The Constitutional Origins ...
Colins demonstrates that many more constitutional provisions and practices played a crucial role in the bloody conflict that claimed the lives of over 750,000 Americans...
69 min
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Miroslava Chávez-García, "Migrant Longing: Lett...
"Migrant Longing" is a history of migration, courtship, and identity across the U.S.-Mexican border...
53 min
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Alex J. Kay, "The Making of an SS Killer: the L...
Focusing on the actions and consequences of a “front-line Holocaust perpetrator”, Kay’s biographies diverges drastically with the traditional bios of other more well-known Nazis...
44 min
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Evdoxios Doxiadis, "State, Nationalism, and the...
How did minorities fit into the new Greek state during the country’s transition from imperial rule to national sovereignty?
48 min
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Joy McCann, "Wild Sea: A History of the Souther...
McCann discusses the great circumpolar ocean that surrounds Antarctica...
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Lawrence Glickman, "Free Enterprise: An America...
“Free enterprise” is an everyday phrase that connotes an American common sense...
57 min
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Elizabeth D. Carney, "Eurydice and the Birth of...
As the wife of a Macedonian king and the mother of three sons who would succeed him, Eurydice played an important role in Macedonia at an important moment in the kingdom’s history...
54 min
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Jeffrey Ostler, "Surviving Genocide: Native Nat...
Ostler’s book documents the resilience of Native people, showing how they survived genocide in the face of serious and diverse threats to their existence...
51 min
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Alexandra Minna Stern, "White Ethnostate: How t...
Our conversation examines the intersections of gender and sexuality, and is they relate to her her research on eugenics, white nationalists, the alt-right, and the alt-lite...
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Aaron Hale-Dorrell, "Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s...
Hale-Dorrell re-evaluates Khrushchev’s corn campaign as the cornerstone of his reformation programs...
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Chiara Russo Krauss, "Wundt, Avenarius and Scie...
At the start of the 19th century, the field we now call psychology was still the branch of philosophy that studied the soul...
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Kate Kirkpatrick, "Becoming Beauvoir: A Life" (...
Beauvior is now celebrated, but during her life she was a controversial figure both by conventional and feminists’ standards...
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William Sturkey, "Hattiesburg: An American City...
If you really want to understand Jim Crow—what it was and how African Americans rose up to defeat it—you should start by visiting Mobile Street in Hattiesburg,..
24 min
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Bathsheba Demuth, "Floating Coast: An Environme...
Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years...
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Christine M. DeLucia, "Memory Lands: King Phili...
Memory Lands provides a much needed new account of King Philip’s War which centers the Natives of the Northeast,
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Amanda L. Tyler, "Habeas Corpus in Wartime: Fro...
"Habeas Corpus in Wartime" is a comprehensive history of the writ of habeas corpus in Anglo-America...
62 min
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Rico Issacs, "Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: ...
Issacs uses cinema as an analytical tool to demonstrate the constructed and contested nature of Kazakh national identity...
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Shayne Legassie, "The Medieval Invention of Tra...
Legassie talks about medieval travel, especially long distance travel, and the way it was feared, praised, and sometimes treated with suspicion.
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Lawrence B. A. Hatter, "Citizens of Convenience...
Hatter documents how traders in the northern borderlands of the early American Republic constantly shifted sides between British and American nationalities
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Matthew Crow, "Thomas Jefferson, Legal History,...
Crow studies how Jefferson’s association with legal history was born out of America’s long history as part of an early modern empire and the political thought which preceded him...
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