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Society & Culture
History
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Marcus Willaschek, "Kant: A Revolution in Think...
61 min
77
Amy Bowers Cordalis, "The Water Remembers: My I...
59 min
78
Michael Braddick, "Christopher Hill: The Life o...
50 min
79
Jane Eisner, "Carole King: She Made the Earth M...
39 min
80
Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism’s High Tide: A...
48 min
81
Joseph Torigian, "The Party’s Interests Come Fi...
44 min
82
Michael Staunton, "Thomas Becket and His World"...
67 min
83
Henry Rausch, "Submerged: Life on a Fast Attack...
52 min
84
Ali Anooshahr, "Slavery in the Early Mughal Wor...
50 min
85
Adam Silverstein, "Haman" (Princeton UP, 2025)
34 min
86
Brooke Barbier, "King Hancock: The Radical Infl...
45 min
87
Dennis Deletant, "In Search of Romania" (Hurst,...
An interview with Dennis Deletant
50 min
88
Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP...
An interview with Sarah Ruden
62 min
89
Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Ken...
An interview with Chris Yogerst
64 min
90
Jonathan Eig, "King: A Life" (FSG, 2023)
An interview with Jonathan Eig
36 min
91
Treena Orchard, "Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Cult...
38 min
92
Christina Cecelia Davidson, "Dominican Crossroa...
37 min
93
Emma Heaney, "This Watery Place: Four Essays on...
72 min
94
David Chanoff, "Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolit...
44 min
95
Julie Dobrow, "Love and Loss After Wounded Knee...
41 min
96
Simon Appleford, "Drawing Liberalism: Herblock'...
52 min
97
Dustin Condren, "An Imaginary Cinema: Sergei Ei...
64 min
98
Lester D. Friedman, "Citizen Spielberg" (U of I...
An interview with Lester D. Friedman
46 min
99
Philip Nash, "Clare Boothe Luce: American Renai...
An interview with Philip Nash
62 min
100
Christina Lane, "Phantom Lady: Hollywood Produc...
An interview with Christina Lane
57 min