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Society & Culture
History
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Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby, "Soon an...
An interview with Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby
50 min
227
Elaine Pagels, "Miracles and Wonder:The Histori...
36 min
228
Nechama Birnbaum, "The Redhead of Auschwitz: A ...
An interview with Nechama Birnbaum
48 min
229
John Lee Hooker Jr., "From the Shadow of the Bl...
An interview with John Lee Hooker Jr.
50 min
230
Jerome Powell: “We don't think you're a straigh...
The Chair: In the Room at the Federal Reserve Episode 8
45 min
231
Janet Yellen: “She had a view that the world wa...
The Chair: In the Room at the Federal Reserve Episode 7
53 min
232
Ben Bernanke: “Like being a paleontologist”
The Chair: In the Room at the Federal Reserve 6
40 min
233
Alan Greenspan: “The man who knew”
The Chair: In the Room at the Federal Reserve Episode 5
44 min
234
Chris Stowers, "Shoot, Ask...and Run" (Earnshaw...
An interview with Chris Stowers
48 min
235
Alexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Sovi...
Popoff brings the life and work of this often-overlooked writer into brilliant focus...
62 min
236
Reider Payne, "War and Diplomacy in the Napoleo...
An interview with Reider Payne
65 min
237
Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator...
An interview with Geoffrey Roberts
73 min
238
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, ed., "We Have Ceased to See...
An interview with Ignat Solzhenitsyn
40 min
239
Kayla E.'s "Precious Rubbish" (Fantagraphics Bo...
An interview with Kayla E.
54 min
240
Erica Stern, "Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost St...
An interview with Erica Stern
50 min
241
Martha A. Sandweiss, "The Girl in the Middle: A...
An interview with Martha Sandweiss
50 min
242
Ulf Zander, "Raoul Wallenberg: Life and Legacy"...
An interview with Ulf Zander
63 min
243
Mark Doyle, "John Cale's Paris 1919" (Bloomsbur...
An interview with Mark Doyle
53 min
244
Karen A. Frenkel, "Family Treasures: Lost & Fou...
An interview with Karen A. Frenkel
53 min
245
Stephen J. Campbell, "Leonardo da Vinci: An Unt...
An interview with Stephen Campbell
40 min
246
Loretta Vandi, "Eufrasia Burlamacchi" (Getty Pu...
An interview with Loretta Vandi
41 min
247
Seán Creagh, "Republican Solipsist: The Life an...
35 min
248
Michael Backus, "The Heart Is Meat: An 80s Memo...
An interview with Michael Backus
50 min
249
Martha S. Jones, "The Trouble of Color: An Amer...
An interview with Martha Jones
48 min
250
Miriam Haughton, "The Theatre of Louise Lowe" (...
An interview with Miriam Haughton
51 min