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1
Peter Mauch, "Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan'...
60 min
2
Cathryn J. Prince, "For the Love of Labor: The ...
49 min
3
The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of Sholem Ale...
63 min
4
David Bather Woods, "Arthur Schopenhauer: The L...
72 min
5
Martha Feldman, "Castrato Phantoms: Moreschi, F...
39 min
6
The Vilna Gaon and the Making of Modern Judaism
62 min
7
Marc Chagall: Reflections of a Granddaughter
64 min
8
Kalpana Karunakaran, "A Woman of No Consequence...
59 min
9
H. S. Jones, "Liberal Worlds: James Bryce and t...
54 min
10
Ethelene Whitmire, "The Remarkable Life of Reed...
26 min
11
Terese Svoboda, "Hitler and My Mother-In-Law" (...
41 min
12
Dana A. Williams, "Toni at Random: The Iconic W...
46 min
13
Glen Oglaza, "When I Stories" (Pegasus, 2024)
73 min
14
Charles Delgadillo and James Stacey, eds., "Hea...
50 min
15
Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry | Filmm...
61 min
16
Vladka Meed's "On Both Sides of the Wall"
56 min
17
Daniel Brook, "The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus ...
46 min
18
Richard Vinen, "The Last Titans: How Churchill ...
100 min
19
Ani DiFranco and Lauren Coyle Rosen, "The Spiri...
36 min
20
Coming Out as Dalit with Yashica Dutt
53 min
21
E. T. Dailey, "Radegund: The Trials and Triumph...
An interview with E. T. Dailey
63 min
22
Michael Glover Smith, "Bob Dylan as Filmmaker: ...
74 min
23
Sandra E. Greene, “Slave Owners of West Africa:...
In today’s podcast we talked to Dr. Sandra Greene about her book Slave Owners of West Africa. Decision Making in the Age of Abolition published in 2017 by Indiana University Press. In this book Dr. Greene presents us with the biographies of three indiv...
39 min
24
Seamus McElearney with Barbara Finkelstein, "Fl...
65 min
25
Preacher, Teacher, and Founder: On Princeton's ...
50 min