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Society & Culture
History
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Averill Earls, "Love in the Lav: A Social Biogr...
30 min
152
Dorothy Armstrong, "Threads of Empire: A Histor...
70 min
153
Maria R. Montalvo, "Enslaved Archives: Slavery,...
77 min
154
Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the...
31 min
155
Cynthia Paces, "Prague: The Heart of Europe" (O...
100 min
156
Brendan A. Shanahan, "Disparate Regimes: Nativi...
73 min
157
William Kelleher Storey, "The Colonialist: The ...
62 min
158
Chris Millington, "A History of Fascism in Fran...
An interview with Chris Millington
60 min
159
Molly Worthen, "Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped...
62 min
160
Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, "Reth...
48 min
161
Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao, "Mao and ...
An interview with Christopher Marquis
45 min
162
Steve Luxenberg, "Separate: The Story of Plessy...
Steve Luxenberg has created an unusual history of the famous Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson and the 19th century’s segregationist practices...
45 min
163
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, "Claire McCardell: ...
34 min
164
Brendan Simms, "Hitler: A Global Biography" (Ba...
Simms argues that fears that Germany would lose the economic and demographic competition with Britain and especially the US sat at the heart of Hitler's world view...
26 min
165
Matthew Bowser, "Containing Decolonization: Bri...
58 min
166
Nicholas Birman Trickett, "Empire of Austerity:...
39 min
167
Oswyn Murray, "The Muse of History: The Ancient...
58 min
168
David Woodman, "The First King of England: Æthe...
36 min
169
Raphael Cormack, "Holy Men of the Electromagnet...
40 min
170
Rhys Kaminski-Jones, "Welsh Revivalism in Imper...
54 min
171
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: F...
28 min
172
Lucy Delap, "Feminisms: A Global History" (U Ch...
49 min
173
Prudence Peiffer, "The Slip: The New York City ...
46 min
174
Laura Murphy, "Freedomville: The Story of a 21s...
41 min
175
Kathleen B. Casey, "The Things She Carried: A C...
34 min