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Daniel Veidlinger, "From Indra’s Net to Interne...
Veidlinger offers a theoretically compelling exploration of the types communicative “ecosystems” in which Buddhist ideas have flourished throughout history.
54 min
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Sabine Frühstück, "Playing War: Children and th...
Frühstück shows how children and childhood have been used in twentieth century Japan as technologies to moralize war, and later, in the twenty-first century, to sentimentalize peace...
42 min
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Kevin M. Baron, "Presidential Privilege and the...
Baron dives into the history of information and the role that access to information plays in supporting democracy...
54 min
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J. C. D. Clark, "Thomas Paine: Britain, America...
There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark...
28 min
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Stephen Alan Bourque, "Beyond the Beach: The Al...
Did the Allied bombing plan for the liberation of France follow a carefully orchestrated plan, or was it executed on an ad-hoc basis with little concern or regard for collateral damage?
63 min
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Meredith Oda, "The Gateway to the Pacific: Japa...
Oda shows how city leaders and local residents in San Francisco fashioned a postwar municipal identity through their promotion of what Oda calls transpacific urbanism...
87 min
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Joseph U. Lenti, "Redeeming the Revolution: The...
Lenti focuses on state-labor relations in the decade directly following the massacre of peacefully protesting students in 1968...
49 min
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Carol J. Adams, "Burger" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
In "Burger," Adams offers a history of the hamburger as a cultural object
64 min
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David Philip Miller, "The Life and Legend of Ja...
For all of his fame as one of the seminal figures of the Industrial Revolution, James Watt is a person around whom many misconceptions congregate...
68 min
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David Gaunt, "Let Them Not Return" (Berghahn Bo...
The book functions in some ways like an invitation—an invitation to learn something about peoples and suffering about which we know little,..
49 min
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Margaret O’Mara, "The Code: Silicon Valley and ...
Seventy years ago, there was no Apple Campus or Googleplex. Silicon Valley itself didn’t even exist!
59 min
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Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, "Vagrants and Vagabo...
O'Brassill-Kulfan focuses on the control over poor migrants’ mobility and how their movement shaped ideas of class, race, and status in the United States...
45 min
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Michael Lower, "The Tunis Crusade of 1270: A Me...
Why was a Crusade that was initially meant for Syria end up in Tunis?
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Andrew Wright Hurley, "Ludwig Leichhardt’s Ghos...
Hurley talks about the life and afterlife of the Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, a man whose reputation has shifted to reflect the changing cultures of Australia and Germany over the past 160 years....
33 min
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Is the Idea of "The Enlightenment" Still Useful?
A Discussion with Jeremy Black and William Gibson
45 min
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Michael Zakim, "Accounting for Capitalism: The ...
This is a big story, told through an ostensibly marginal event: the birth of a class of “merchant clerks” in the United States...
75 min
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Robert Haug, "The Eastern Frontier: Limits of E...
Haug offers an in-depth look at the frontier zone of the Sassanian, Umayyad, and Abbasid Empires...
60 min
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Lynn Kaye, "Time In The Babylonian Talmud: Natu...
Kaye examines how rabbis of late antiquity thought about time through their legal reasoning and storytelling, and what these insights mean for thinking about time today...
49 min
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Lenora Warren, "Fire on the Water: Sailors, Sla...
Fire on the Water looks at the history of abolition and slave violence by looking at the representation of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late 18th and early 19th century literature...
47 min
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Mike Jay, "Mescaline: A Global History of the F...
Psychedelics are not terribly new. And the drug mescaline is certainly not new...
26 min
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Grégory Pierrot, "The Black Avenger in Atlantic...
The black avenger channeled fresh anxieties about slave uprisings and racial belonging occasioned by European colonization in the Americas...
57 min
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Erin-Marie Legacey, "Making Space for the Dead:...
Legacey explores the transformation of burial practices in the aftermath of the French Revolution...
49 min
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Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, "Getting Tough: Welfar...
In 1970s America, politicians began "getting tough" on drugs, crime, and welfare...
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Tsega Etefa, "The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in...
Are ethnic conflicts in Africa the product of age-old ancient hatreds?
49 min
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Michael Beckley, "Unrivaled: Why America Will R...
Is the era of American hegemony over? Is America finished as a superpower?
45 min