New Books in History
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Pamela S. Nadell, "America’s Jewish Women: A Hi...
Jewish women have consistently played a vital and significant role in American history more broadly, and American Jewish history specifically...
51 min
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Dilip Hiro, "Cold War in the Islamic World: Sau...
In recent years, the concept of a ‘Cold War’ has been revived to describe the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran...
65 min
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Robert Matzen, "Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and ...
Audrey Hepburn was justly known for her long acting career, yet her early life is largely unknown...
55 min
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Christian Philip Peterson, "The Routledge Histo...
The collection of essays examines the varied and multifaceted scholarship surrounding the topic of peace and engages in a fruitful dialogue about the global history of peace since 1750...
51 min
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Elizabeth Schmidt, "Foreign Intervention in Afr...
Using a variety of different case studies, Schmidt illuminates some of the patterns that have informed western intervention in Rwanda, Somalia, and elsewhere, and the complicated role of international institutions in this process.
57 min
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Margaret Leslie Davis , "The Lost Gutenberg: Th...
Margaret Leslie Davis traces the journey of one copy of the Gutenberg Bible – known as Number 45 – over the course of two centuries as it changed hands through a succession of owners.
58 min
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Craig Benjamin, "Empires of Ancient Eurasia: Th...
In the late second century BCE, a series of trading route developed between China in the east and Rome’s empire in the west...
54 min
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Lincoln A. Mitchell, "Baseball Goes West: The D...
Ask a Brooklynite over the age of fifty and they’ll likely tell you that baseball’s golden age ended the day the Dodgers and Giants packed up and headed for the West Coast...
76 min
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Shonaleeka Kaul, "The Making of Early Kashmir: ...
Kaul upturns many prevalent views about the cultural history of Kashmir...
70 min
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Jeremy Black, "Charting the Past: The Historica...
Eighteenth-century England was a place of both the enlightenment and progress: new ideas abounded in science, politics, transportation, commerce, philosophy, religion, and the arts...
28 min
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Mickey and Dick Flacks, "Making History/Making ...
As active members of the Civil Rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement in the 1960s, and leaders in today’s social movements, the Flacks' stories are a first-hand account of progressive American activism from the 1960s to the present.
78 min
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Roger Robinson, "When Running Made History" (Sy...
“A race can mean more than a race,” Roger Robinson writes in his new book...
58 min
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Hennie van Vuuren, "Apartheid Guns and Money: A...
This war machine, as van Vuuren describes it, remains a largely hidden aspect of South Africa’s past – until now...
41 min
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Randall Stephens, "The Devil’s Music: How Chris...
When rock n’roll emerged in the 1950’s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music’s demonic origins....
51 min
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Max Felker-Kantor, "Policing Los Angeles: Race,...
In recent years, the treatment of African Americans by police departments around the country has come under increased public scrutiny...
75 min
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Patrick Sharma, "Robert McNamara’s Other War: T...
Robert McNamara is best remembered today for his momentous term as Secretary of Defense in the 1960s. Often overlooked because of this is his even longer tenure as president of the World Bank...
55 min
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Sigrid Lien, "Pictures of Longing: Photography ...
In what has been called history’s largest population migration, hundreds of thousands of Norwegians immigrated to North American during the 1800s and early 1900s...
61 min
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James O'Toole, "The Enlightened Capitalists: Ca...
Is the University of Chicago-blessed, "greed is good" near-term profits approach to business wearing out its welcome?
48 min
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Michael Desch, "Cult of the Irrelevant: The Wan...
Michael Desch traces the history of the relationship between the Beltway and the Ivory Tower from World War I to the present day...
47 min
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Leslie Hahner, "To Become an American: Immigran...
Hahner connects the Americanization campaigns at the turn of the century to contemporary political issues surrounding who counts as a "real" American and how we know...
54 min
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Christopher Herbert, "Gold Rush Manliness: Race...
Not all gold rushes are created equal, argues Christopher Herbert...
65 min
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Robert A. Voeks, "The Ethnobotany of Eden: Reth...
Jungle medicine: it's everywhere, from chia seeds to ginseng tea to CBD oil..
45 min
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Rósa Magnúsdóttir, "Enemy Number One: The Unite...
Magnusdottir explores depictions of America in post-war Soviet propaganda. While the 1945 “meeting on the Elbe” marked a high point in United States/Soviet friendship, official relations deteriorated quickly thereafter...
61 min
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Michael A. Schoeppner, "Moral Contagion: Black ...
Between 1822 and 1857, eight Southern states barred the ingress of all free black maritime workers...
51 min
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Nancy Yunhwa Rao, "Chinatown Opera Theater in N...
The story of popular entertainment in American immigrant communities is only just beginning to be told...
55 min