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Kevin Dawson, "Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic ...
Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers, canoe makers, and canoeists...
50 min
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Kevin Dawson, "Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic ...
Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers, canoe makers, and canoeists...
50 min
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Graham Thompson, "Herman Melville: Among the Ma...
Thompson examines the Melville's magazine work in its original publication...
50 min
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William M. Gorvine, "Envisioning A Tibetan Lumi...
Gorvine provides a multifaceted analysis of Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934), one of the most prominent modern representatives of the Tibetan Bön tradition...
63 min
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David M. Wrobel, "America's West: A History, 18...
Wrobel describes a sixty year period of remarkable change for the vast region...
77 min
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Geoffrey Parker, "Emperor: A New Life of Charle...
Parker draws upon an enormous array of documentation to provide readers with a better understanding of Charles and the many challenges he faced over the course of his decades-long reign...
64 min
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Joseph M. Adelman, "Revolutionary Networks: The...
Adelman argues that printers—artisans who mingled with the elite but labored in a manual trade—used their commercial and political connections to directly shape Revolutionary political ideology and mass mobilization...
56 min
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Max Ward, "Thought Crime: Ideology and State Po...
Ward analyzes the trajectory and transformations of the implementation of Japan’s 1925 Peace Preservation Law from its conception until the early years of the 1940s...
67 min
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Simon Balto, "Occupied Territory: Policing Blac...
Balto argues that local police department policies and procedures left black Chicagoans “overpoliced and underprotected” far before mass incarceration began...
72 min
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Evgeny Finkel, "Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survi...
Can there be a political science of the Holocaust?
57 min
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Berthe Jansen, "The Monastery Rules: Buddhist M...
Jansen discusses the position of the monasteries in pre-1950s Tibetan Buddhist societies...
59 min
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Danny Orbach, "Plots Against Hitler" (Eamon Dol...
Orbach offers a profound and complete examination of the plots to assassinate Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler...
60 min
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Douglas Irwin, "Clashing over Commerce: A Histo...
Scholars of US history have treated trade policy in less than enthusiastic ways...
55 min
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Joshua D. Farrington, "Black Republicans and th...
Reflecting on his fifty-year effort to steer the Grand Old Party toward black voters, Memphis power broker George W. Lee declared, "Somebody had to stay in the Republican Party and fight."
74 min
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Max Oidtmann, "Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing...
Why would the Chinese Communist Party revive this former ritual? What powers lie in the symbolism of the “Golden Urn”?
72 min
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Dean Itsuji Saranillio, "Unsustainable Empire: ...
Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai‘i’s admission as a U.S. state...
71 min
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M. David Litwa, "How the Gospels Became History...
Did the early Christians believe their myths?
58 min
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Mary-Elizabeth Murphy, "Jim Crow Capital: Women...
Though women’s roles in the black freedom struggle remain under-acknowledged, scholars continue to make their importance clear...
50 min
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Matthew James, "Collecting Evolution: The Galap...
James talks about the 1905 Galapagos Expedition organized by the California Academy of Sciences...
30 min
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Kent Gramm, "Gettysburg: The Living and the Dea...
In the book, Gramm shares the experiences of the people at Gettysburg...
53 min
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Emma Kuby, "Political Survivors: The Resistance...
Kuby traces the fascinating history of the International Commission Against the Concentration Camp Regime (CICRC) established in 1949 by the French intellectual and Nazi camp survivor David Rousset...
59 min
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Douglas K. Miller, "Indians on the Move: Native...
In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100,000 Native American people from rural to urban areas...
97 min
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Shelby Wynn Schwartz, "The Bodies of Others: Dr...
Schwartz covers four decades of drag dances, exploring the politics of gender in motion...
52 min
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Martin T. Fromm, "Borderland Memories: Searchin...
Fromm has much light to shed on how the country’s ruling Communist Party refashioned its relationship with its frontiers at an earlier point in history...
67 min
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Lisa Greenwald, "Daughters of 1968: Redefining ...
May ’68 marked a watershed moment in French society, culture, and political life...
50 min