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Society & Culture
History
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Averill Earls, "Love in the Lav: A Social Biogr...
30 min
177
Maria R. Montalvo, "Enslaved Archives: Slavery,...
77 min
178
Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the...
31 min
179
William Kelleher Storey, "The Colonialist: The ...
62 min
180
Brendan A. Shanahan, "Disparate Regimes: Nativi...
73 min
181
Cynthia Paces, "Prague: The Heart of Europe" (O...
100 min
182
Chris Millington, "A History of Fascism in Fran...
An interview with Chris Millington
60 min
183
Molly Worthen, "Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped...
62 min
184
Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, "Reth...
48 min
185
Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao, "Mao and ...
An interview with Christopher Marquis
45 min
186
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, "Claire McCardell: ...
34 min
187
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
188
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
189
Matthew Bowser, "Containing Decolonization: Bri...
58 min
190
Nicholas Birman Trickett, "Empire of Austerity:...
39 min
191
Oswyn Murray, "The Muse of History: The Ancient...
58 min
192
David Woodman, "The First King of England: Æthe...
36 min
193
Rhys Kaminski-Jones, "Welsh Revivalism in Imper...
54 min
194
Raphael Cormack, "Holy Men of the Electromagnet...
40 min
195
Lucy Delap, "Feminisms: A Global History" (U Ch...
49 min
196
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: F...
28 min
197
Laura Murphy, "Freedomville: The Story of a 21s...
41 min
198
Prudence Peiffer, "The Slip: The New York City ...
46 min
199
Kathleen B. Casey, "The Things She Carried: A C...
34 min
200
Michael Hiltzik, "Golden State: The Making of C...
36 min