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7901
Thomas A. Foster, "Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Vio...
"Rethinking Rufus" is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men...
39 min
7902
John D. Hawks, "Almost Human: The Astonishing T...
Hawks talks about new developments in paleoanthropology – the discovery of a new hominid species Homo Naledi in South Africa, the Neanderthal ancestry of many human populations, and the challenge of rethinking anthropological science’s relationship with indigenous peoples and the general public...
30 min
7903
James W. Pardew, "Peacemakers: American Leaders...
Pardew describes the role of the U.S. involvement in ending the wars and genocide in the Balkans...
41 min
7904
Danny Orbach, "Curse on This Country: The Rebel...
Orbach provides new insights into the origins of the insubordination that plagued and characterized the Imperial Japanese Army in the 1930s...
53 min
7905
Gregory Borchard, "A Narrative History of the A...
Borchard calls for a better understanding of journalism's past, at a time of acute concern about its future...
51 min
7906
Betsy Perabo, "Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-...
Perabo examines the conflict through the concept of an “interreligious war” between Christian and Buddhist nations...
46 min
7907
Kimberly Welch, "Black Litigants in the Antebel...
Welch explores the history of free and enslaved black Americans use of local courts in the Cotton South...
45 min
7908
Maria Cotera, "Chicana Movidas: New Narratives ...
The editors have formulated a landmark anthology illustrating Chicana feminism and activism that spread in the Southwest, Midwest, and Pacific Northwest during the Chicana/o movement era...
57 min
7909
Melissa McCormick, "The Tale of Genji: A Visual...
The Genji Album (1510) in the Harvard Art Museums is the oldest dated set of Genji illustrations known to exist...
54 min
7910
Ann Powers, "Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black an...
Powers explores the rich and, at times, unexpected intersections of love, sex, race, gender, sexuality, and American popular music...
60 min
7911
Brian Haara, "Bourbon Justice: How Whiskey Law ...
Bourbon whiskey has been around since nearly the beginning of the United States...
60 min
7912
Benjamin Meiches, "The Politics of Annihilation...
At the center of this analysis is what Meiches refers to throughout his text as the hegemonic understanding of genocide...
54 min
7913
Elaine Hampton and Cynthia Ontiveros, "Copper S...
Elaine Hampton tell the story of how a Mexican American community in El Paso have fought back against environmental injustice...
36 min
7914
Nancy S. Steinhardt, "Chinese Architecture: A H...
Steinhardt here draws on decades of exhaustive reading and tireless fieldwork to tell the story of Chinese building practices, principles and techniques across space and time...
63 min
7915
Laura Alice Watt, "The Paradox of Preservation:...
Watt precisely narrates a rich case study of the sweeping lands and waters surrounding Point Reyes, an hour north of San Francisco in Marin County,..
74 min
7916
Marko Geslani, "Rites of the God-King: Śānti an...
Is “Vedic” fire sacrifice at odds with “Hindu” image worship?
56 min
7917
Catherine Keyser, "Artificial Color: Modern Foo...
Keyser explores the ways that modern fiction writers responded to the theories and anxieties about race in the early twentieth century through related anxieties about modern industrial food...
71 min
7918
Katie Batza, "Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics ...
Katie Batza demonstrates in this path-breaking book, there was already a well-developed network of gay-health clinics in American cities when the epidemic struck, and these clinics served as the first responders to the disease...
30 min
7919
Hannah Weiss Muller, "Subjects and Sovereign: B...
There is no denying that the public remains fascinated with monarchy...
38 min
7920
Shirletta J. Kinchen, "Black Power in the Bluff...
During the civil rights era, Memphis gained a reputation for having one of the South’s strongest NAACP branches...
60 min
7921
Marc Stein, "Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court De...
Stein shows how a diverse set of influential journalists, judges, and scholars translated the Court's language about marital and reproductive rights into bold statements about sexual freedom and equality...
34 min
7922
Alexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Sovi...
Popoff brings the life and work of this often-overlooked writer into brilliant focus...
62 min
7923
David Varel, "The Lost Black Scholar: Resurrect...
Allison Davis (1902-1983) was a pioneering anthropologist who did ground-breaking fieldwork in the Jim Crow south, challenged the racial bias of IQ tests, and became the first African American to be tenured at the University of Chicago...
63 min
7924
Jeremy Friedman, "Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Sov...
Taking ideology seriously as a component of socialist foreign policy, Friedman’s new and compelling analysis shows how deep Moscow and Beijing’s disagreements ran...
61 min
7925
Jakobina Arch, "Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans ...
Arch weaves together a wealth of diverse materials to demonstrate and explore the social, cultural, economic, intellectual, and religious impacts of whales on the world of Tokugawa Japan...
55 min