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César Brioso, "Last Seasons in Havana: The Cast...
Blending the love for baseball fans in Cuba had during the 1950s with the political upheaval that led to Fidel Castro’s rise to power in 1959, Brioso weaves a fascinating tale...
40 min
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Kent Blansett, "A Journey to Freedom: Richard O...
Richard Oakes was a natural born leader whom people followed seemingly on instinct...
86 min
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T. Troianowska and A. Polakowska, "Being Poland...
The volume provides an overview of Polish culture and literature that absorbs local and global experiences.
39 min
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Elizabeth Todd-Breland, "A Political Education:...
By highlighting the activism of local Black women and Black teachers, Todd-Breland uncovers hidden histories of how Black women have been at the forefront of this fight from the 1960s to the present...
64 min
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Andrew Sobanet, "Generation Stalin: French Wri...
How did Rolland, and other French leftists, come to celebrate and actively promote the authoritarian regime of Joseph Stalin?
54 min
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Seth Bernard, "Building Mid-Republican Rome: La...
As Romans established imperial control over Italy and beyond, the city itself radically transformed from an ambitious central Italian settlement into the capital of the Mediterranean world...
32 min
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Ian Johnson, "The Souls of China: The Return of...
Religion has returned to China. Really, it never left...
70 min
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Prakash Shah, "Western Foundations of the Caste...
The Indian caste system is an ancient, pervasive institution of social organization within the subcontinent – or is it?
58 min
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Richard Drake, "Charles Austin Beard: The Retur...
Richard Drake traces the development of Beard’s ideas in this area and his involvement in the contemporary discourse over current events...
50 min
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Nico Slate, "Lord Cornwallis is Dead: The Strug...
Slate paints a picture of the two countries as learning perpetually from each other...
51 min
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Whitney G. Gamble, "Christ and the Law: Antinom...
The Westminster Assembly (1643-53) was one of the most important ecclesiastical councils in the history of Reformed Protestantism, but until very recently it had received little in the way of scholarly attention...
33 min
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Martha S. Jones, "Birthright Citizens: A Histor...
Jones weaves together the legal and constitutional dimensions of citizenship...
51 min
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Sayaka Chatani, "Nation-Empire: Ideology and Ru...
34 min
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Darren Barany, "The New Welfare Consensus: Ideo...
The 1996 repeal of Aid to Families with Dependent Children -- the New Deal-era relief program for poor women with children -- was a seminal moment in the modern history of the US welfare state...
33 min
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Emily Baum, "The Invention of Madness: State, S...
Baum's book is a genealogy of “psychiatric modernity,” of the invention and reinvention of modern mental illness in Beijing, 1901-1937...
63 min
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Jennifer Ronyak, "Intimacy, Performance, and th...
The Lied is one of the most important genres of nineteenth-century Romantic music...
47 min
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Scott Mobley, "Progressives in Navy Blue: Marit...
This episode of the New Books in Military History podcast is something of a sea change, so to speak, as we turn our attention to naval policy and strategy...
63 min
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Joyce Antler, "Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices ...
The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women’s liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America...
49 min
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James Schwoch, "Wired into Nature: The Telegrap...
It's been called the first Internet. In the nineteenth century, the telegraph spun a world wide web of cables and poles, carrying electronic signals with unprecedented speed...
47 min
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Margaret Hennefeld, "Specters of Slapstick and ...
In the early days of film, female comedians appeared in films that included both strange activities and slapstick....
67 min
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Trent MacNamara, "Birth Control and American Mo...
MacNamara traces the multiple avenues in which birth control entered the lives of everyday Americans and gained social acceptance...
50 min
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Alexander Langlands, "Cræft: An Inquiry into th...
Cræft is an antiquated spelling of “craft” and in the book, Langlands explores what the word meant when it first appeared in English over a thousand years ago...
54 min
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Chet Van Duzer, "Henricus Martellus’s World Map...
The 1491 world map by Henricus Martellus has long been deemed “an essentially unstudiable object"...
58 min
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Ronald L. Lewis and Robert L. Zangrando, "Walte...
Though overshadowed today by more celebrated figures, Walter Francis White was one of the most prominent campaigners for civil rights in mid-20th-century America...
79 min
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Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, "The Ideas that Mad...
Ratner-Rosenhagen offers a sweeping examination of the key ideas that have infused American society...
62 min