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Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel, "Futbolera: A Hi...
Elsey and Nadel uncover the hidden history of the arrival of physical education for girls in the late-nineteenth century,
59 min
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Hye-Kyung Lee, "Cultural Policy in South Korea:...
Lee demonstrates the importance of South Korea is both an example in comparative cultural policy, and as a fascinating case study in its own right...
39 min
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Matthew Edney, "Cartography: The Ideal and Its ...
Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray...
56 min
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Gregory H. Wolf, "Wrigley Field: The Friendly C...
Wrigley Field is one of a handful of sports stadiums to have transcended its athletic purpose to become a true American landmark...
69 min
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Nick Estes, "Our History is the Future: Standin...
The historian Nick Estes traces two centuries of Indigenous-led resistance and anti-colonial struggle...
50 min
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Paul Ramírez, "Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s E...
Ramirez explores how laypeople impacted the new medical techniques and technologies implemented by the imperial state in the final decades of Spanish rule in colonial Mexico...
54 min
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Stephen R. Duncan, "The Rebel Café: Sex, Race, ...
This book is a collective biography of the places that harbored beatniks, blabbermouths, hipsters, playboys, and partisans who altered the shape of postwar liberal politics and culture...
44 min
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David Munns, "Engineering the Environment: Phyt...
The phytotron was not only at the center of post-war plant science, but also connected to the Cold War, commercial agriculture, and long-duration space flight...
31 min
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Anthony J. Badger, "Albert Gore, Sr.: A Politic...
In 1956 Albert Gore, Sr. received national attention as one of only three senators from the states of the former Confederacy who refused to sign the infamous “Southern Manifesto” opposing the racial integration of public spaces...
58 min
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Chris S. Duvall, "The African Roots of Marijuan...
Duvall helps us understand cannabis as a crop, commodity, and tool in African culture and in the history of slavery...
47 min
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Rebecca Janzen, "Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonite...
Janzen examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture...
51 min
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David Karol, "Red, Green, and Blue: The Partisa...
Karol examines the history of environmental policy within American political parties...
32 min
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Edward Vallance, "Loyalty, Memory and Public Op...
Vallance examines ‘loyal addresses’ as mechanisms for the expression of public opinion, and as links between the local and national contexts of politics...
54 min
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John O'Brien, "States of Intoxication: The Plac...
Is alcohol a universal feature of human society? Why is problematic in some countries and not others? How was alcohol helped build the modern state?
44 min
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Heather Mayer, "Beyond the Rebel Girl: Women an...
Mayer finds women played a crucial role in the politics of the union...
27 min
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Kristen R. Ghodsee, "Second World, Second Sex: ...
Ghodsee addresses a telling gap in the historiography of women rights movements – the contributions of the Second World women rights activists...
66 min
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Shennette Garrett-Scott, "Banking on Freedom: B...
Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard? Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South...
39 min
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Carolyn J. Dean, "The Moral Witness: Trials and...
Dean examines the cultural history of the idea of the “witness to genocide” in Western Europe and the United States...
35 min
7994
Stacy Fahrenthold, "Between the Ottomans and th...
Fahrenthold sheds a timely light on Syrian and Lebanese immigrants who established vibrant diaspora communities in the Americas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
51 min
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Alexandra M. Nickliss, "Phoebe Apperson Hearst:...
Nickliss shows how Hearst came to exercise such power and the ways she uses it to advance the causes in which she believed...
50 min
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David Green, "The Hundred Years War: A People’s...
The year 1453 marked the end of an intermittent yet seemingly endless series of wars between the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of England that, some four hundred years later, was dubbed the Hundred Years War...
51 min
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Eleonor Gilburd, "To See Paris and Die: The Sov...
Gilburd looks at the perfect cultural and social storm created by the combination of more liberal politics, foreign culture and the technology to make it accessible to 11 time zones...
84 min
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Kara Ritzheimer, "'Trash,' Censorship, and Nati...
German lawmakers drafted a constitution in 1919 legalizing the censorship of movies and pulp fiction, and prioritizing social rights over individual rights...
56 min
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Jonathan Fennell, "Fighting the People's War: T...
Fennell challenges our understanding of the Second World War and of the relationship between conflict and socio-political change...
59 min
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Emily Wilcox, "Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Da...
What is “Chinese dance,” how did it take shape in during China’s socialist period, and how has this socialist form continued to influence Post-Mao expressive cultures in the People’s Republic of China?
64 min