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Patrick Andelic, "Donkey Work: Congressional De...
What happened to the Democratic Party after the 1960s?
36 min
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Hendrik Hartog, "The Trouble with Minna: A Case...
Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century...
23 min
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Anne M. Kornhauser, "Debating the American Stat...
The New Deal left a host of political, institutional, and economic legacies...
48 min
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Kevin M. Levin, "Searching for Black Confederat...
Levin investigates the claims that numerous African Americans willingly fought for the Confederacy....
41 min
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Katie Jarvis, "Politics in the Marketplace: Wor...
The king’s guards became increasingly nervous as they watched nearly 7,000 individuals march on Versailles on October 5, 1789...
47 min
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Elizabeth S. Kassab, "Enlightenment on the Eve ...
Kassab shows her readers that the demands for human dignity, freedom, and political participation had been robustly discussed by intellectuals in Syria and Egypt during the 1990s and 2000s...
56 min
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Vincent DiGirolamo, "Crying the News: A History...
DiGirolamo looks at the legion of children and teenagers who sold newspapers on city streets, moving trains, and even Civil War battlefields in the 19th and early 20th centuries...
27 min
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Charles King, "Gods of the Upper Air: How A Cir...
King's book is a reminder of the central ideas of Boasian anthropology: a recognition that gender roles and racial assumptions are cultural constructions and not biological facts...
59 min
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Jay Sexton, "A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New A...
A popular myth in the American nationalist imaginary is that the country has been on a continued path of progress...
54 min
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Alma Jeftić, "Social Aspects of Memory: Stories...
Jeftić presents the compelling results of an empirical psychological study on how ordinary people remember war...
54 min
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Bianca Premo, "The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordi...
Premo demonstrates a gradual shift from a justice-oriented system—focused on extralegal outcomes and casuistic jurisprudence—to a Enlightened law-oriented system...
68 min
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David Doddington, "Contesting Slave Masculinity...
Doddington demonstrates the significance of internal divisions, comparison, and conflict in shaping gender and status in slave communities of the American South...
36 min
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Emily Dufton, "Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall a...
Dufton visits the podcast to talk about the ups and downs and highs and lows of cannabis in the United State...
33 min
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Erik Loomis, "Empire of Timber: Labor Unions an...
Loomis examines the relationship between workers and their environments in this century-long history of timber workers in the Pacific Northwest...
38 min
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Jennifer C. Lena, "Entitled: Discriminating Tas...
Lena charts the history of American arts and cultural policy, interrogating the institutions, practices, and technologies underpinning the development of American Art...
33 min
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Jenny Huangfu Day, "Qing Travelers to the Far W...
Day offers a fresh take on Qing diplomacy...
52 min
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Andrew Newman, "Allegories of Encounter: Coloni...
Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives...
94 min
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Niambi Michele Carter, "American While Black: A...
In American While Black, Carter argues that immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment,
31 min
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Arik Moran, "Kingship and Polity on the Himalay...
Arik Moran examines three Rajput kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories and court intrigues.
51 min
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Jesse Cromwell, "The Smugglers’ World: Illicit ...
This incredibly well researched and beautifully written book explores how smuggling in the Spanish Atlantic became more than an economic transaction or imperial worry...
49 min
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Brett Krutzsch, "Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyr...
Krutzsch argues that gay activists memorialized people like Shepard as part of a political strategy to present gays as similar to the country's dominant class of white, straight Christians...
43 min
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Frank Dikötter, "Mao’s Great Famine" (Bloomsbur...
Dikötter estimates that at least 45 million people “were starved” (not just “starved”) to death in Mao’s Great Famine...
60 min
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Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New...
Hoffnung-Garskof seamlessly ties together various scholarly subfields into a truly transnational history of anticolonial politics and the Afro-Latino diaspora in the United States...
86 min
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Mark Braude, "The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon o...
This unexpected and absorbing book delves into the story of Napoleon’s exile on the island of Elba following his abdication in 1814...
58 min
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Levi McLaughlin, "Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolutio...
Founded in the 1930s by a group of teachers focused on educational reform, Soka Gakkai has since evolved from its grassroot origins as a movement inspired by Nichiren Buddhism...
45 min