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Society & Culture
History
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Kenneth Roth, "Righting Wrongs: Three Decades o...
An interview with Kenneth Roth
68 min
202
Jay Prosser, "Loving Strangers: A Camphorwood C...
An interview with Jay Prosser
51 min
203
The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Lif...
A Discussion with Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
64 min
204
Alisse Waterston, "My Father's Wars: Migration,...
An interview with Alisse Waterston
70 min
205
Jeff Copeland, "Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn"...
An interview with Jeff Copeland
51 min
206
Stan Bunger, "Mornings with Madden: My Radio Li...
An interview with Stan Bunger
59 min
207
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
A Discussion with Ericka Kim Verba
59 min
208
Rosemary Wakeman, "The Worlds of Victor Sassoon...
An interview with Rosemary Wakeman
43 min
209
Ann Schmiesing, "The Brothers Grimm: A Biograph...
An interview with Ann Schmiesing
45 min
210
Jean Strouse, "Family Romance: John Singer Sarg...
An interview with Jean Strouse
32 min
211
Alexis Wolf, "Transnational Women Writers in th...
An interview with Alexis Wolf
34 min
212
Elio Zarmati, "Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming o...
An interview with Elio Zarmati
72 min
213
Yves Rees, "Travelling to Tomorrow: How Austral...
An interview with Yves Rees
50 min
214
Lionel Barber, "Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of ...
An interview with Lionel Barber
29 min
215
Anand Venkatkrishnan, "Love in the Time of Scho...
An interview with Anand Venkatkrishnan
32 min
216
About Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics o...
An interview with Ben Baer and Smaran Dayal
59 min
217
Peter Brian Barry, "George Orwell: The Ethics o...
An interview with Peter Brian Barry
60 min
218
Christopher Burnham, "Sir Ronald Storrs: Person...
An interview with Christopher Burnham
56 min
219
Vera Keller, "Curating the Enlightenment: Johan...
An interview with Vera Keller
45 min
220
The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great G...
An interview with James L. W. West III and Sarah Churchwell
28 min
221
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and ...
A Discussion with Marlene L. Daut
61 min
222
Michael Ray Richardson, "Banned: How I Squander...
An interview with Jacob Uittit
52 min
223
Patchen Barss, "The Impossible Man: Roger Penro...
An interview with Patchen Barss
30 min
224
Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's...
An interview with Rebecca Brenner Graham
51 min
225
Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biograp...
An interview with Joel Whitebook
51 min