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Robert Chiles, "The Revolution of ’28: Al Smith...
Traditionally Al Smith’s 1928 presidential campaign is remembered mainly for being the first time a Catholic was nominated as the candidate for a major political party....
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Lindsey Fitzharris, "The Butchering Art: Joseph...
45 min
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Joe Street, "Dirty Harry’s America: Clint Eastw...
When "Dirty Harry" first premiered in 1971, it was both praised and condemned for its portrayal of a rogue policeman fighting crime by ignoring many of the rules and procedures of the profession...
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Alan Jacobs, "The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christ...
Drawing on interventions made at the height of global war by T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, Simone Weil and Jacques Maritain, Jacobs shows how leading intellectuals worried about a world in crisis and how they imagined it might be set right...
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Helena Rosenblatt, "The Lost History of Liberal...
How is it that “liberalism” is a word so ubiquitous and yet we can hardly seem to agree on its meaning?
49 min
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Michael Fischbach, "Black Power and Palestine: ...
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the great animating foreign policy issues of the twenty-first century...
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Special Discussion: Approaches to Textbooks on ...
How do you write a textbook about genocide...
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James W. Loewen, "Teaching What Really Happened...
In an atmosphere filled with social media and fake news, history is more important than ever. But, what do you really know about history...
39 min
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Hassan Malik, "Bankers and Bolsheviks: Internat...
Lumbering late Tsarist Russia and international finance? Is there anything there? The Bolsheviks and finance? How can there be anything there?
38 min
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Michael Cotey Morgan, "The Final Act: The Helsi...
Just when you thought that you knew everything and anything pertaining to the Cold War and the ending of it...
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Andrew S. Curran, "Diderot and the Art of Think...
Denis Diderot has long been regarded as one of the leading figures of the French Enlightenment...
62 min
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Maurice J. Hobson, "The Legend of the Black Mec...
Dr. Maurice J. Hobson’s new book delves into the tremendously rich history of Atlanta...
69 min
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Anne Reinhardt, "Navigating Semi-Colonialism: S...
At a time when trade between China and the outside world is rarely out of the news, it remains important to remember that in centuries past global commerce moved in directions very different from those which dominate the present...
61 min
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Suzanne Schneider, "Mandatory Separation: Relig...
The history of Palestine is overly political; most studies, especially of the Mandate period, when the British effectively colonized Palestine, focus on the political actors...
48 min
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Victoria Brownlee, "Biblical Readings and Liter...
Victoria Brownlee is the author of an exciting new contribution to discussions of early modern religion and literature...
35 min
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Peter Hart-Brinson, "The Gay Marriage Generatio...
How and why did public opinions about gay marriage shift?
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Seamus O’Hanlon, "City Life: The New Urban Aust...
In his new book, City Life: The New Urban Australia (NewSouth Publishing, 2018), Seamus O’Hanlon explores the economic, social, cultural, and demographic changes in Australian cities over the last four decades.
15 min
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Audra J. Wolfe, "Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold...
Science’s self-concept as politically neutral and dedicated to empirical observation free of bias has often been at odds with its collaboration with the purposes of the Cold War state...
58 min
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Rory Cormac, "Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special ...
In the decades following the Second World War, the British government increasingly turned to covert operations as a means of achieving their foreign policy goals...
43 min
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Daniel Stahl, "Hunt for Nazis: South America's ...
How did the search for Nazi fugitives become a vehicle to oppose South American dictatorships?
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Perrin Selcer, "The Postwar Origins of the Glob...
Having been born into a world in which people knew about anthropogenic global warming, I grew up in the “global environment.”
63 min
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Pamela E. Klassen, "The Story of Radio Mind: A ...
At the dawn of the radio age in the 1920s, Frederick Du Vernet—Anglican archbishop and self-declared scientist—announced a psychic channel by which minds could telepathically communicate across distance...
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Kellie Jones, "South of Pico: African American ...
New York City might have been the epicenter of the twentieth century American art scene, but Los Angeles was no slouch either...
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Laura McEnaney, "Postwar: Waging Peace in Chica...
When World War II ended, Americans celebrated a military victory abroad, but the meaning of peace at home was yet to be defined...
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John B. Judis, "The Nationalist Revival: Trade,...
Why has nationalism suddenly returned with a vengeance to the political front stage?
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