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8001
Chris Donnelly, "Doc, Donnie, The Kid and Billy...
Donnelly focuses on the 1985 New York baseball season, a season like no other since the Mets came to town in 1962...
45 min
8002
David Milne, "Worldmaking: The Art and Science ...
An examination of the lives of foreign policy thinkers can therefore help explain why U.S. foreign policy took particular paths...
72 min
8003
Marisol LeBrón, "Policing Life and Death: Race,...
LeBrón examines the rise of and resistance to punitive governance (tough on crime policing policies) in Puerto Rico from the 1990s to the present...
61 min
8004
Heidi Tworek, "News from Germany: The Competiti...
Tworek explores how elites in academia, business, and government fought over the regulation of news at home and sought to use communications to extend German power abroad.
55 min
8005
Terence Keel, "Divine Variations: How Christian...
With trenchant analyses of Christian intellectual history and the founding figures of ethnology, Keel documents an infrastructure of thought – about universalism, the supercession of knowledge, creation, and human dispersion – that shaped and still shapes the science of race...
51 min
8006
Ryan Grim, "We've Got People: From Jesse Jackso...
The modern progressive movement is rising in influence, intensity and numbers. Just where did it come from and where is it going?
46 min
8007
Brett Grainger, "Church in the Wild: Evangelica...
Grainger argues that it was not the Transcendentalists but evangelical revivalists who transformed the everyday religious life of Americans and spiritualized the natural environment..
44 min
8008
Jeannette Eileen Jones, "Search of Brightest Af...
Jones talks about the many different groups, from naturalists and conservationists to African American artists and intellectuals, who begin to recast Africa in the America imagination in the early 20th century...
27 min
8009
PJ Capelotti, "Adventures in Archaeology: The W...
Capelotti discusses the role of exploration archaeology in understanding the Pacific voyage of Kon-Tiki, the Arctic airship expeditions of Walter Wellman, and the fate of Orca II, a fishing boat used in the film Jaws...
38 min
8010
Katherine M. Marino, "Feminism for the Americas...
Marino follows the many Latin American and Caribbean women in the first half of the century who not only championed feminism for the continent but also contributed to defining the meaning of international human rights...
51 min
8011
Patton E. Burchett, "A Genealogy of Devotion: B...
Burchett re-examines what we assume about the rise of devotionalism in North India, tracing its flowering since India’s early medieval “Tantric Age” to present day...
59 min
8012
Sara K. Eskridge, "Rube Tube: CBS and Rural Com...
The television comedies of the 1960s set in the American South epitomize American innocence...
49 min
8013
A. Nilsen, K. Nielsen, A. Vaidya, "Indian Democ...
More than 70 years after its founding, with Narendra Modi's authoritarian Hindu nationalists in government, is the dream of Indian democracy still alive and well?
48 min
8014
Matilda Rabinowitz, "Immigrant Girl, Radical Wo...
Rabinowitz, born in 1887 in Ukraine, described her experiences as an immigrant, factory worker, single mother by choice, and union organizer...
57 min
8015
E. Douglas Bomberger, "Making Music American: 1...
Rather than primarily trace historical events while touching on cultural matters as many of these books do, Bomberger follows the events in jazz and classical music during this crucial year while framing them within America’s entry into World War One....
59 min
8016
Jeremy Black, "The English Press: A History" (B...
Black focuses on the major developments in the world of print journalism and sets the history of the press in wider currents of English history, political, social, economic and technological...
60 min
8017
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "The Cold War's Killing...
Chamberlin reminds us that the Cold War was not at all Cold for hundreds of millions of people...
61 min
8018
Vahram Ter-Matevosyan, "Turkey, Kemalism and th...
Ter-Matevosyan looks into the origins, evolution, and transformational phases of Kemalism between the 1920s and 1970s...
33 min
8019
Marc Gallicchio and Waldo Heinrich, "Implacable...
The two authors, both masters in the field, take on the monumental task of offering a civil-military synthesis of the war against Japan that covers both the home front and the campaigns in exacting detail...
69 min
8020
Kirsteen M. MacKenzie, "The Solemn League and C...
MacKenzie re-examines the political and constitutional bonds that were implied by the covenant to which the English and Scottish parliaments had subscribed at the beginning of the first civil war, and considers why so many Presbyterians understood the Cromwellian occupation to represent a breach of the covenant’s obligations...
32 min
8021
Thomas Dodman, "What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire...
Dodman explores the history of nostalgia from the late seventeenth to the late nineteenth century...
59 min
8022
Dannel Jones, "An African in Imperial London: T...
In 1919 a man named Ohlohr Maigi died of tuberculosis in London, in deep poverty...
61 min
8023
Brian Cremins, "Captain Marvel and the Art of N...
Cremins explores the history of Billy Batson, a boy who met a wizard that allowed him to transform into a superhero. When Billy says, “Shazam!” he becomes Captain Marvel...
64 min
8024
Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest fo...
Milanich explains how fatherhood, long believed to be impossible to know with certainty, became a biological “fact” that could be ascertained with scientific testing...
61 min
8025
Christina Proenza-Coles, "American Founders: Ho...
Proenza-Coles reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy...
51 min