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William Kelso, "Jamestown: The Truth Revealed" ...
Unpersuaded by the common assumption that James Fort had long ago been washed away by the James River, William Kelso and his collaborators...
69 min
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Volker Berghahn, "Journalists between Hitler an...
What can the lives of journalists under Hitler and Adenauer reveal?
67 min
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Clarence Taylor, "Fight the Power: African Amer...
Clarence Taylor looks at black resistance to police brutality in the city, and institutional efforts to hold the NYPD accountable, since the late 1930s and '40s.
40 min
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Mark T. Calhoun, "General Lesley J. McNair: Uns...
In this pioneering study of one of the World War Two era US Army’s primary architects of victory, Calhoun presents a portrait of a deeply intellectual and loyal commander who took on responsibility for many unpopular doctrinal and ToE choices.
82 min
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Alexander S. Dawson, "The Peyote Effect: From t...
Peyote occupies a curious place in the United States and Mexico...
56 min
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Tim Mohr, "Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Re...
Tim Mohr examines East Germany punk rock and its role in the collapse of the East German dictatorship...
61 min
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Benoît Majerus, "From the Middle Ages to Today:...
Benoît Majerus uses an impressively wide range of visual sources, from religious images and architectural photographs to neuroleptic advertisements and administrative maps.
32 min
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Ellen Moore, "Grateful Nation: Student Veterans...
I don’t know about the colleges and universities you’re familiar with, but the U.S. military has a pretty visible presence on my campus....
62 min
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Kathryn Lomas, "The Rise of Rome: From the Iron...
What transformed a humble city into the preeminent power of the region?
105 min
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John Witte, Jr., "The Western Case for Monogamy...
Originally conceived as a brief for an advisory opinion to a Canadian court, Witte transformed this assignment into a work that not only explores the history of European marital law, but argues that monogamy is positive for society.
57 min
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Andrew R. Murphy, "William Penn: A Life" (Oxfor...
While William Penn’s name is one familiar to many Americans thanks to his founding of the Pennsylvania colony...
59 min
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Sarah Thomsen Vierra, "Turkish Germans in the F...
After years of being overlooked, there has been a growing interest among academic historians in the history of Turkish Guest Workers in West Germany.
66 min
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Christopher Gerrard, "Lost Lives, New Voices: U...
In November 2013, two mass burials were discovered unexpectedly on a construction site in the city of Durham in northeast England....
86 min
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Ashley D. Farmer, "New Perspectives of the Blac...
The field of African American intellectual history is enjoying a kind of renaissance at the moment...
48 min
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Nicholas Bauch, "Geography of Digestion: Biotec...
While most people in the US are familiar with the ubiquitous Kellogg cereal brand, few know how it relates to US geography, science and technology around the turn of the 20th century...
59 min
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Kathleen Day, "Broken Bargain: Bankers, Bailout...
Think that today's debates about the role of the Federal Reserve Bank, financial regulation, "too big to fail", etc. are new? Think again...
53 min
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Joe Jackson, "Black Elk: The Life of an America...
Black Elk witnessed some of the most monumental moments in the history of the Lakota and the Northern Great Plains....
68 min
8268
Onur Ulas Ince, "Colonial Capitalism and the Di...
This text brings together a number of lenses through which to consider the writings and ideas of British liberal thinkers, especially John Locke, Edmund Burke, and Edward Gibbon Wakefield...
59 min
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Harry Franqui-Rivera, "Soldiers of the Nation: ...
As the island of Puerto Rico transitioned from Spanish to U.S. imperial rule, the military and political mobilization of popular sectors of its society played important roles in the evolution of its national identities and subsequent political choices...
89 min
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen, "Adivasis and the State: Su...
This longue-durée approach allows Alf Gunvald Nilsen to unravel the Indian state's everyday tyranny against its adivasi citizens...
39 min
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Megan Finn, "Documenting Aftermath: Information...
Documenting Aftermath is a very timely book, for as global warming promises more frequent catastrophes, large-scale social media and government information systems increasingly dictate how information moves...
53 min
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William D. Green, "The Children of Lincoln: Whi...
Dr. William Green investigates this statement in a case-study of four whites from Minnesota who fought hard and won rights for black Americans during and after the Civil War...
56 min
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Julian Gill-Peterson, "Histories of the Transge...
With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media, and culture, the pervasive myth still exists that today’s transgender children are a brand new generation...
61 min
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Angelos Chaniotis, "Age of Conquests: The Greek...
The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death in 323 BCE...
67 min
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Jesse A. Zink, "Christianity and Catastrophe in...
Zink’s book is an outstanding account of the growth and evolution of Anglican Christianity among the Dinka people of what is now South Sudan...
38 min