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Henning Pieper, "Fegelein’s Horsemen and Genoci...
The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations as it developed a dual role: SS cavalrymen both helped to initiate the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and experienced combat at the front...
53 min
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Eric T. Kasper and Quentin D. Vieregge, "The Un...
The U.S. Constitution is often depicted in popular films, teaching lessons about what this founding document means and what it requires...
64 min
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Jeffrey S. McDonald, "John Gerstner and the Ren...
One of the most important trends within evangelicalism over the last half-century has been a renewal of Reformed theology...
34 min
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Pang Yang Huei, "Strait Rituals: China, Taiwan,...
The Taiwan Strait Crises of 1954-55 and 1958 occurred at the height of the Cold War...
54 min
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Ann Gleig, "American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Mo...
Gleig focuses on meditation-based convert Buddhist lineages in North America, and in particular she is interested in the generational changes underway in these groups...
86 min
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Nancy Tomes, "Remaking the American Patient" (U...
Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it...
48 min
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Vivi Lachs, "Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigran...
Lachs looks at London's Yiddish popular culture...
36 min
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Muhammad Qasim Zaman, "Islam in Pakistan: A His...
Zaman's book is is a landmark publication in the fields of Religious Studies, modern Islam, South Asian Islam...
101 min
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James L. A. Webb, "The Long Struggle against Ma...
It is estimated that malaria kills between 650,000 to 1.2 million Africans every year; experts believe that nearly 90 percent of these deaths occur in Africa...
66 min
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Kenneth I. Helphand, "Lawrence Halprin" (Librar...
49 min
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Jacob Lee, "Masters of the Middle Waters: India...
Lee traces the Native kinship ties that determined which nations rose and fell in the period before the Illinois became dominant.
88 min
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Pu Wang, "The Translatability of Revolution: Gu...
Wang's is the first study of the whole life of Guo Moruo, the ‘writer, poet, dramatist, Marxist historian, paleographer . . . revolutionist and cultural fighter.'
63 min
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René Weis, "The Real Traviata: The Song of Mari...
Though she died in 1847 at a young age, Marie Duplessis inspired one of the greatest operas ever composed...
46 min
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Ariel I. Ahram, "Break all the Borders: Separat...
47 min
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Kristin L. Hoganson, "The Heartland: An America...
The Heartland makes a strong case for the Midwest not as a provincial, isolated, region but rather as a place defined by global connections, diasporas, and a wide array of cultures...
91 min
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E. MacDonald et al., "Time and a Place: An Envi...
With its long and well-documented history, Prince Edward Island makes a compelling case study for thousands of years of human interaction with a specific ecosystem...
109 min
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Kate Brown, "Manuel for Survival: A Chernobyl G...
By digging into recently opened regional archives, conducting dozens of interviews, and visiting sites across Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, Brown sought to understand the extent of the damage from the 1986 explosion of Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4.
44 min
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Chip Colwell, "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spir...
Five decades ago, Native American leaders launched a crusade to force museums to return their sacred objects and allow them to rebury their kin...
64 min
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Harold Holzer, "Monument Man: The Life and Art ...
Holzer chronicles the career of French, who became best known for his sculpture of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
64 min
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Richard Hingley, "Londinium: A Biography" (Rout...
From its humble beginnings as a crossing point over the river Thames Londinium grew into the largest city in Roman Britain...
47 min
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Michael R. Cohen, "Cotton Capitalists: American...
Michael R. Cohen is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University, where he holds a Sizeler Professorship...
44 min
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Naomi Pullin, "Female Friends and the Making of...
Pullin reconstructs the Meetings that monitored the lives of Quaker women...
32 min
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Lukas Engelmann, "Mapping AIDS: Visual Historie...
What role do visual media play in establishing a medical phenomenon?
48 min
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Margaret C. Jacob, "The Secular Enlightenment" ...
Jacob, reveals how this newly secular outlook was not a wholesale rejection of Christianity but rather a new mental space in which to encounter the world on its own terms.
60 min
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Eliot Borenstein, "Plots Against Russia: Conspi...
Borenstein discusses popular conspiracy theories such as the Harvard Project and the Dulles Plan, why and how conspiratorial thinking has flourished in post-Soviet Russia
49 min