Gabriela González, "Redeeming La Raza: Transbor...
Gonzalez strategies transborder activists used to redeem la raza from body politic exclusion happening in the U.S....
63 min
1152
Nolan McCarty, "Polarization: What Everyone Nee...
McCarty synthesizes what scholars know and don't know about the origins, development, and implications of rising political conflicts in the United States...
20 min
1153
Alex Broadbent, "Philosophy of Medicine" (Oxfor...
Philosophy of medicine itself has evolved in response to developments in the philosophy of science, especially with regard to epistemology, positioning it to make contributions that are medically useful...
25 min
1154
Marko Geslani, "Rites of the God-King: Śānti an...
Is “Vedic” fire sacrifice at odds with “Hindu” image worship?
56 min
1155
Hannah Weiss Muller, "Subjects and Sovereign: B...
There is no denying that the public remains fascinated with monarchy...
38 min
1156
Catherine Keyser, "Artificial Color: Modern Foo...
Keyser explores the ways that modern fiction writers responded to the theories and anxieties about race in the early twentieth century through related anxieties about modern industrial food...
71 min
1157
Seán Moore, "Slavery and the Making of Early Am...
Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade...
59 min
1158
Susanna Schellenberg, "The Unity of Perception:...
How does perception result in thoughts about items in the world (such as dogs or flowers) and in conscious states of many kinds (such as experiences of seeing red)?
65 min
1159
Sarah Anne Carter, "Object Lessons: How Ninetee...
Carter reveals that object lessons were a classroom exercise, in wide use during the nineteenth century...
More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life...
55 min
1161
Emily S. Johnson, "This Is Our Message: Women's...
Johnson examines the lives and work of four well-known women-evangelical marriage advice author Marabel Morgan, singer and anti-gay-rights activist Anita Bryant, author and political lobbyist Beverly LaHaye, and televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker...
47 min
1162
Petra Goedde, "The Politics of Peace: A Global ...
Earlier histories of the Cold War haven’t exactly been charitable toward the peace activists and pacifists who led peace initiatives...
51 min
1163
Jeremy F. Walton, "Muslim Civil Society and the...
Walton explores how members of three contemporary Muslim groups, the Nur community, the Gülen movement, and Alevis, articulate religiosity within the Turkish public sphere...
63 min
1164
Tobias Straumann, "1931: Debt, Crisis, and the ...
What can we learn from the financial crisis that brought Hitler to power?
59 min
1165
Morgan Marietta, "One Nation, Two Realities: Du...
They introduce the concept of ‘dueling fact perceptions’ based on years of research, and for our interview, Morgan Marietta explains how they arrived at such conclusions and their implications for our country’s future...
Lippert explores the significance of the pictorial revolution in one of its vanguard cities: San Francisco, the revolving door of the gold rush...
115 min
1167
Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Ornamentalism offers arguably the first sustained theory of the yellow woman...
65 min
1168
Stacy Fahrenthold, "Between the Ottomans and th...
Fahrenthold sheds a timely light on Syrian and Lebanese immigrants who established vibrant diaspora communities in the Americas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
51 min
1169
Marc Gallicchio and Waldo Heinrich, "Implacable...
The two authors, both masters in the field, take on the monumental task of offering a civil-military synthesis of the war against Japan that covers both the home front and the campaigns in exacting detail...
69 min
1170
E. Douglas Bomberger, "Making Music American: 1...
Rather than primarily trace historical events while touching on cultural matters as many of these books do, Bomberger follows the events in jazz and classical music during this crucial year while framing them within America’s entry into World War One....
59 min
1171
Nicholas Shea, "Representation in Cognitive Sci...
In order to explain thought in natural physical systems, mainstream cognitive science posits representations, or internal states that carry information about the world and that are used by the system to guide its behavior...
57 min
1172
Michael Ruse, "A Meaning to Life" (Oxford UP, 2...
Does human life have any meaning? Does the question even make sense today?
59 min
1173
Cathal J. Nolan, "The Allure of Battle: A Histo...
Nolan also challenges the hoary concept of the military "genius," even of the Great Captains--from Alexander to Frederick and Napoleon--mapping instead the decent into total war...
73 min
1174
John West, "Dryden and Enthusiasm: Literature, ...
John Dryden is often regarded as one of the most conservative writers in later seventeenth-century England, a time-serving “trimmer” who abandoned his early commitments to the English Republic to become the poet laureate and historiographer royal of Charles II’s new regime...
35 min
1175
Matt Guardino, "Framing Inequality: News Media,...
Matt Guardino focuses on the power of corporate news media in shaping how the public understands the key policy debates during this period...