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Robert Crowcroft, "The End is Nigh: British Pol...
Crowcroft's is a tale of relentless intrigue, burning ambition, and the bitter rivalry in British politics during the years preceding the Second World War...
72 min
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Elizabeth Otto, "Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirit...
Otto “liberates Bauhaus history” with this work, drawing the focus from the handful of male artists like Klee and Breuer outward as she considers the other 1200 odd Bauhäusler...
71 min
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Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, "Reciting the Godd...
This book represents the very first study of a fascinating Hindu phenomenon: the Svasthanivratakatha (SVK), a sixteenth-century narrative textual tradition native to Nepal surrounding the Goddess, Svasthānī...
58 min
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Sarah L. Quinn, "American Bonds: How Credit Mar...
From the 1780s, when national land credit policy was established, to the postwar foundations of our current housing finance system, Quinn examines the evolution of securitization and federal credit programs...
23 min
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Larry Holmes, "War, Evacuation, and the Exercis...
Holmes uses the case study of the Pedagogical Institute during the war years to explore power relationships in the institute and between local/ regional power and central power in Moscow...
50 min
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Matt Oram, "The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: ...
Are we in the midst of a psychedelic renaissance?
51 min
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Lukas Rieppel, "Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil...
Rieppel explains how the paleontological discoveries projected American exceptionalism and, at the height of the Gilded Age, became symbols of industrial capitalism....
53 min
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Carl Hoffman, "The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A T...
Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary “Wild Men of Borneo.”
30 min
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Sharra L. Vostral, "Toxic Shock: A Social Histo...
In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a serious, life-threatening illness with no visible source...
20 min
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Sarah Seo, "Policing the Open Road: How Cars Tr...
When Americans think of freedom, they often picture the open road. Yet nowhere are we more likely to encounter the long arm of the law than in our cars...
32 min
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Ryan A. Quintana, "Making a Slave State: Politi...
Quintana examined how enslaved African Americans built the state of South Carolina, in the literal sense of the word...
49 min
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A. Ricardo López-Pedreros, "Makers of Democracy...
This tightly argued social and intellectual history of the middle classes in Colombia makes a compelling case for the importance of both transnationalism and gender in the mid-century idea of middle-class-ness...
36 min
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A. Lakhtikova, A. Brintlinger, and I. Glushchen...
Food plays a pivotal role throughout Russian history, but perhaps no more so than during the Soviet era, when the perennial Russian cycle of feast and famine took on a highly political aspect...
59 min
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Katharina Karcher, "Sisters in Arms: Militant F...
Karcher examines a critical time in the history and development of the feminist movement in Germany...
52 min
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Cynthia Nicoletti, "Trial: The Treason Prosecut...
Was secession constitutional?
51 min
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Amy Collier Artman, "The Miracle Lady: Kathryn ...
Artman tells the story of Kuhlman’s life and, in the process, relates the larger story of charismatic Christianity, particularly how it moved from the fringes of American society to the mainstream...
57 min
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Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousan...
Moller traces the histories of migration of three ancient authors, Euclid, Ptolemy and Galen, from ancient Alexandria in 500 to Syria and Constantinople,
61 min
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Jeff Sahadeo, "Voices from the Soviet Edge: Sou...
Sahadeo looks at the migrant experiences of peoples from the Caucuses and Central Asia in the late Soviet and early Post-Soviet periods ( 1960s-1990s)...
52 min
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Peter Jan Margry, "The Miracle of Amsterdam: Bi...
According to tradition, on the night of March 15, 1345, a Eucharistic host thrown into a burning fireplace was found intact hours later...
63 min
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Howard Philips Smith, "Unveiling the Muse: The ...
Howard Philips Smith has been investigating and writing about the gay history of New Orleans for over two decades...
61 min
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Okezi Otovo, "Progressive Mothers, Better Babie...
Otovo explores the intersecting histories of race, gender, and class in modern Brazil...
71 min
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Monica Muñoz Martinez, "The Injustice Never Lea...
Martinez argues that the rampant violence inflicted by Anglos against Mexican and Latinx people in Texas in the early twentieth century left a long legacy which reverberates into the twenty first century...
67 min
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Jessica Lowe, "Murder in the Shenandoah: Making...
Lowe follows the criminal case against John Crane, a member of a prominent Virginian family, for the murder of a harvest worker employed by a neighbor...
48 min
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David Stenner, "Globalizing Morocco: Transnatio...
The story of Morocco’s independence struggle against France and Spain is a complicated one...
51 min
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Roy Hay, "Aboriginal People and Australian Foot...
Hay offers an extensively researched account of indigenous participation in Australian Rules Football from the origins of the game through the early twentieth century...
64 min