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Postscript: Shirley Chisholm as Principled Poli...
What is the political and intellectual legacy of Shirley Chisholm?
54 min
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Audrey Truschke, “Aurangzeb: The Life and Legac...
For many, the history of the Mughal empire looms heavy over contemporary South Asian social imaginaries. The lightning rod figure within modern day myths about the past is the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (1618-1707)...
64 min
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Joanna Stingray, "Red Wave: An American in the ...
"Red Wave" is Joanna Stingray’s autobiographical account of her time on the underground music scene in the USSR and Russia in the late 1980s and early 1990s....
57 min
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Tamar Herzig, "A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, an...
Salomone da Sesso, was so good at his job that he was a verifiable celebrity. He had a very complex relationship with, and occasionally ran afoul of, his fellow Jews, so much so that he is charged with sodomy (amongst other things) and coverts to Christianity....
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Marion Bower, "The Life and Work of Joan Rivier...
Joan Riviere (1883-1962) is best known for her role in promoting the ideas of others. She came to prominence in the world of psychoanalysis as Freud’s favorite translator and Melanie Klein’s earliest and most loyal supporter...
54 min
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Crawford Gribben, "An Introduction to John Owen...
Gribben details his subject’s conception of the roles that belief and doctrine should play in the lives of Christians....
33 min
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Alicia Turner, "The Irish Buddhist: The Forgott...
This is the story of U Dhammaloka, an Irishman who “went native” and became a Buddhist monk in British Burma at the turn of the twentieth century...
48 min
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Charisse Burden-Stelly, "W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life...
Why is the scholarship and advocacy work of W.E.B. Du Bois so relevant for 21st century politics?
65 min
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Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Sto...
"The Perfect Fascist" pivots from the intimate story of a tempestuous seduction and inconvenient marriage―brilliantly reconstructed through family letters and court records―to a riveting account of Mussolini’s rise and fall...
60 min
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J. E. Zelizer, "Burning Down the House: Newt Gi...
Trump is not the first Republican to rise to power by pushing incendiary policies and destroying opponents...
44 min
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A. Meleagrou-Hitchens, "Incitement: Anwar al-Aw...
Anwar al-Awlaki was, according to one of his followers, “the main man who translated jihad into English.”
61 min
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A Discussion with J. T. Roane on Writing Africa...
Who do we write African American lives?
78 min
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Steven C. Smith, "Music by Max Steiner: The Epi...
During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winner Max Steiner did more than any other composer to introduce and establish the language of film music....
65 min
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Benjamin Talton, "In This Land of Plenty: Micke...
Talton a transnational history that explores the influence of African American leaders on US foreign policy towards Africa in the 1980s....
71 min
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Lucas E. Morel, "Lincoln and the American Found...
Morel tells us which of the founders Lincoln particularly admired, why the Declaration was of greater import to Lincoln’s political thinking than the Constitution and how Lincoln turned to the Declaration again and again throughout his adult life....
99 min
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Rae Linda Brown, "Heart of a Woman: The Life an...
In 1933, the Chicago Symphony performed the Symphony in E Minor by Florence B. Price. It was the first time a major American orchestra played a composition by an African American woman...
54 min
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Duane Tananbaum, "Herbert H. Lehman: A Politica...
Over the course of three decades of public service, Herbert Lehman dedicated himself tirelessly to advances the causes in which he believed...
71 min
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Polly E. Bugros McLean, "Remembering Lucile: A ...
McLean depicts the rise of the African American middle class through the historical journey of Lucile and her family from slavery in northern Virginia to life in the American West...
64 min
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Amy Von Lintel, "Georgia O'Keeffe's Wartime Tex...
In 1912, at age 24, Georgia O’Keeffe boarded a train in Virginia and headed west, to the prairies of the Texas Panhandle...
39 min
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Barry Witham, "From Red-Baiting to Blacklisting...
Witham traces Fried’s long career as a labor organizer and Communist Party militant, as well as the obsessive lengths the FBI went to in order to suppress his activism...
46 min
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Nozomi Naoi, "Yumeji Modern: Designing the Ever...
Nao offers the first book-length English-language study of one of Japan’s iconic twentieth-century artists, Takehisa Yumeji (1884–1934)...
77 min
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
In this episode, I look at Eisler’s last days in England, where he found that the Oxford readership he had been promised before being sent to Dachau was taken by someone else....
57 min
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Russell J. A. Kilbourn, "The Cinema of Paolo So...
KIlbourn offers the first comprehensive study published in the English-speaking world on one of the most compelling figures in twenty-first century European film...
70 min
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Theresa Kaminski, "Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War:...
Among the tens of thousands of Americans who volunteered their services during the Civil War was Mary Walker, a daring young woman who was one of the handful of female doctors in the nation at that time...
48 min
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
On May 20th, Eisler was arrested and spent the next fifteen months in Dachau and Buchenwald...
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