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Aaron Magid, "The Most American King: Abdullah ...
49 min
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Meg Groff, "Not If I Can Help It" (Rivertown Bo...
35 min
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Judith L. Pearson, "Radical Sisters: Shirley Te...
58 min
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Al Posamentier, "Math Makers: The Lives and Wor...
This charming book is more than just mathematics, because mathematicians are not just makers of mathematics...
53 min
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Martha Biondi, "We Are Internationalists: Prexy...
39 min
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David T. Beito, "FDR: A New Political Life" (Op...
29 min
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House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s ...
51 min
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Mark L. Clifford, "The Troublemaker: How Jimmy ...
86 min
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Elizabeth R. Hyman, "The Girl Bandits of the Wa...
38 min
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Rob Wells, "The Insider: How the Kiplinger News...
20 min
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Brian Baker, "The Road" (Akashic Books, 2025)
31 min
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Diane Ravitch, "An Education: How I Changed My ...
59 min
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Patrick Parr, "Malcolm Before X" (U Massachuset...
24 min
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Ashley D. Farmer, "Queen Mother: Black National...
23 min
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Sarah Smarsh, "Bone of the Bone: Essays on Amer...
61 min
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Abhimanyu Kumar and Aletta André, "The House of...
42 min
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Carl Rollyson, "The Making of Sylvia Plath (UP ...
51 min
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Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting ...
An interview with Peter C. Zimmerman
53 min
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Maurice Samuels, "Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at th...
36 min
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Anthony Valerio, "Semmelweis: The Women's Docto...
Though his advice has saved the lives of millions of people, the name Ignaz Semmelweis is not one commonly known today...
57 min
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Stephen Fritz, "The First Soldier: Hitler as a ...
A necessary volume for understanding the influence of World War I on Hitler’s thinking, this work is also an eye-opening reappraisal of major events like the invasion of Russia and the battle for Normandy...
73 min
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Bill V. Mullen, "James Baldwin: Living in Fire"...
An interview with Bill V. Mullen
57 min
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Hilary Holladay, "The Power of Adrienne Rich: A...
54 min
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Francis L. Sampson, "Look Out Below!: A Story o...
An interview with Sean Brennan
45 min
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Mahboob Qirvanian and Behnaz Mirzai, "Life of a...
56 min