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Howard A. Husock, "The Projects: A New History of Public Housing" (NYU Press, 2025)
Jun 18 • 39m
Leah Lax, "Not From Here: the Song of America" (Pegasus Elliot MacKenzie, 2024)
Jun 17 • 27m
Ana Hebra Flaster, "Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town" (She Writes Press, 2025)
Jun 16 • 1h 3m
David Zweig, "An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions" (MIT Press, 2025)
Jun 12 • 57m
Alexandria Russell, "Black Women Legacies: Public History Sites Seen and Unseen" (University of Illinois Press, 2024)
Jun 11 • 1h 19m
Myra Mendible, "American War Stories: Veteran-Writers and the Politics of Memoir" (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021)
Jun 10 • 57m
Jonathan Tarleton, "Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons" (Beacon Press, 2025)
Jun 9 • 1h 27m
Jeffrey P. Rogg, "The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jun 9 • 1h 4m
Gwynne Kuhner Brown, "William L. Dawson" (University of Illinois Press, 2024)
Jun 8 • 1h 8m
Sladja Blažan, "Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America" (University of Virginia Press, 2025)
Jun 8 • 53m
Brando Simeo Starkey, "Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System" (Doubleday, 2025)
Jun 6 • 1h 2m
Questions: A Discussion with Leslie Butler and Holly Case
Jun 6 • 1h 36m
Brittany Friedman, "Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons" (UNC Press, 2025)
Jun 5 • 50m
Dionne Koller, "More Than Play: How Law, Policy, and Politics Shape American Youth Sport" (U California Press, 2025)
Jun 4 • 32m
Robert Chernomas, Gregory Chernomas, and Ian Hudson, "The American Gene: Unnatural Selection Along Class, Race, and Gender Lines" (Routledge, 2025)
Jun 3 • 26m
Bonnie Yochelson, "Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen" (Fordham UP, 2025)
Jun 3 • 1h 2m
Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, "Burdens of Belonging: Race in an Unequal Nation" (NYU Press, 2025)
Jun 2 • 33m
Jon Shelton, "The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jun 2 • 1h 11m
Andy Oler, "Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature" (LSU Press, 2019)
Jun 2 • 53m
Victoria Bynum, "Deep Roots, Broken Branches: A History and Memoir" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
Jun 1 • 57m
Michael A. Meyer, "Above All, We Are Jews: A Biography of Rabbi Alexander Schindler" (CCAR Press, 2025)
Jun 1 • 44m
Michael D. Gambone, "The New Praetorians: American Veterans, Society, and Service from Vietnam to the Forever War" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
May 31 • 51m
Jennifer Lynn Gross, "Sisterhood of the Lost Cause: Confederate Widows in the New South" (LSU Press, 2025)
May 31 • 59m
Nneka D. Dennie, "Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth Century Black Radical Feminist" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 30 • 1h 2m
False Dawn: A Conversation with George Selgin on Recovering from the Great Depression
May 30 • 1h 0m
Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby, "Soon and Very Soon: The Transformative Music and Ministry of Andraé Crouch" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 29 • 51m
William Haldeman, "Meeting the Moment: Inspiring Presidential Leadership That Transformed America" (SUNY Press, 2024)
May 28 • 25m
Karida L. Brown, "The Battle for the Black Mind" (Legacy Lit, 2025)
May 27 • 1h 3m
Ryan J. Vander Wielen et al., "The House that Fox News Built?: Representation, Political Accountability, and the Rise of Partisan News" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
May 25 • 30m
Pollyanna Rhee, "Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
May 24 • 44m
Constitutional Crisis or a Stalemate?
May 23 • 46m
Ken Conca, "After the Floods: The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 22 • 49m
Mike Miley, "David Lynch’s American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
May 21 • 58m
Executive Power and the President Who Would Not Be King: A Conversation with Michael McConnell
May 21 • 52m
Elyssa Ford and Rebecca Scofield, "Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo" (U Washington Press, 2023)
May 20 • 1h 20m
Daniel MacFarlane, "The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)
May 19 • 55m
Ruth Braunstein, "My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 18 • 1h 13m
Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik, "Watching TV: American Television Season by Season, Fourth Edition" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
May 17 • 1h 9m
Becky Aikman, "Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger during World War II" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
May 16 • 34m
Katherine Stewart, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
May 15 • 57m
Claudia Rowe, "Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care" (Abrams Press, 2025)
May 14 • 1h 11m
Brian VanDeMark, "Kent State: An American Tragedy" (Norton, 2024)
May 13 • 52m
Aaron Robertson, "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" (FSG, 2024)
May 12 • 54m
Hasia R. Diner, "Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
May 11 • 1h 13m
Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin, "Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America" (Island Press, 2025)
May 10 • 47m
Benjamin Schrader, "Fight to Live, Live to Fight Veteran Activism after War: Veteran Activism after War" (SUNY Press, 2019)
May 9 • 55m
Chloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
May 8 • 36m
Lynn Downey, "American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
May 7 • 44m
Eunji Kim, "The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 6 • 39m
Stephen H. Legomsky, "Reimagining the American Union: The Case for Abolishing State Government" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
May 5 • 59m
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
May 4 • 55m
William Kiser, "The Business of Killing Indians: Scalp Warfare and the Violent Conquest of North America" (Yale UP, 2025)
May 3 • 1h 6m
Steven Hahn, "Illiberal America: A History" (Norton, 2024)
May 2 • 51m
Adam Kissel et al., "Slacking: A Guide to Ivy League Miseducation" (Encounter Books, 2025)
May 1 • 50m
Reginald K. Ellis et al., "Black Citizens and American Democracy: Fighting for the Soul of a Nation" (UP of Florida, 2025)
Apr 29 • 27m
Frederick Knight, "Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Apr 28 • 1h 14m
Katie Rose Hejtmanek, "The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon" (NYU Press, 2025)
Apr 28 • 1h 8m
Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences" (NYU Press, 2025)
Apr 27 • 1h 16m
Jonathan D. Cohen, "Losing Big: America's Dangerous Sports Gambling Boom" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
Apr 26 • 59m
Neil Kraus, "The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement" (Temple UP, 2023)
Apr 25 • 1h 15m
Henry Jenkins, "Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America" (NYU Press, 2025)
Apr 24 • 58m
Colleen A. Dunlavy, "Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the U.S.into a Manufacturing Powerhouse" (Polity Press, 2024)
Apr 23 • 42m
Ross Benes, "1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
Apr 22 • 48m
Max Hastings, “Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975” (Harper, 2018)
Apr 22 • 55m
Maurice Jackson, "Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience: How Black Washingtonians Used Music and Sports in the Fight for Equality" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
Apr 21 • 57m
Davida Siwisa James, "Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries" (Fordham UP, 2024)
Apr 20 • 45m
Engage and Evade in 2025: Asad L. Asad on Latino Immigrants in America
Apr 19 • 51m
The Great Gatsby is an American Dystopia
Apr 18 • 1h 47m
James Davison Hunter, "Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis" (Yale UP, 2024)
Apr 17 • 38m
Lesley J. Gordon, "Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 16 • 41m
Rebecca Zorach, "Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial Enterprise" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Apr 15 • 1h 4m
Martha S. Jones, "The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir" (Basic Books, 2025)
Apr 14 • 54m
Julie Malnig, "Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Apr 13 • 48m
Jonathan Rauch, "Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy" (Yale UP, 2025)
Apr 12 • 53m
Megan Hunt, "Southern by the Grace of God: Religion, Race, and Civil Rights in Hollywood's American South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
Apr 11 • 49m
Tiffany D. Joseph, "Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
Apr 10 • 1h 9m
Bridget Kies, "Murder, She Wrote" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
Apr 9 • 51m
Kathleen Thelen, "Attention, Shoppers!: American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Apr 8 • 50m
Walls, Warnings, and the War on Fentanyl: Peter Andreas on Trump’s Border Politics
Apr 7 • 35m
Jason Cannon, "A Time for Reflection: The Parallel Legacies of Baseball Icons Willie McCovery and Billy Williams" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
Apr 6 • 1h 7m
Peder Anker, "For The Love of Bombs: The Trail of Nuclear Suffering" (Anthem Press, 2025)
Apr 5 • 44m
Lincoln A. Mitchell, "Three Years Our Mayor: George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco" (U Nevada Press, 2025)
Apr 4 • 31m
James M. O’Toole, "For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Apr 3 • 1h 4m
Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy, "Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Apr 2 • 1h 5m
James Tejani, "A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America" (Norton, 2024)
Apr 1 • 56m
Making Radio History
Mar 31 • 1h 7m
Tom Lynch, "Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Mar 29 • 1h 4m
Jason L. Newton, "Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest" (West Virginia UP, 2024)
Mar 29 • 55m
Jehanne Dubrow, "Civilians" (LSU Press, 2025)
Mar 28 • 34m
Michael Vorenberg, "Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War" (Knopf, 2025)
Mar 27 • 1h 12m
Heather Akou, "Afterthought: A Family Story" (Indiana U Libraries, 2025)
Mar 26 • 55m
Paul R. Laird and Elizabeth A. Wells, "The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Mar 25 • 1h 4m
David D. Grafton, "Muhammad in the Seminary: Protestant Teaching about Islam in the Nineteenth Century" (NYU Press, 2024)
Mar 25 • 1h 21m
Postscript: Not a Matter of Left or Right: Historians Fighting Censorship
Mar 24 • 43m
Amanda M. Greenwell, "The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
Mar 23 • 41m
Tracie Canada, "Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football" (U California Press, 2025)
Mar 22 • 1h 14m
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, "The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It" (Basic Books, 2024)
Mar 21 • 1h 2m
Matt Lodder, "Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art" (Yale UP, 2024)
Mar 20 • 1h 9m
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us--A Conversation with Stephen Macedo (Part 2)
Mar 19 • 52m
Douglas Field, "Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father and I" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Mar 18 • 1h 4m
Richard Buttny, "Unfracked: The Struggle to Ban Fracking in New York" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
Mar 18 • 48m
Laurel Leff, "Well Worth Saving: American Universities' Life-And-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe" (Yale UP, 2019)
Mar 17 • 1h 19m
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2023)
Mar 16 • 1h 5m
Postscript: Donald Trump is Erasing History – What YOU Can Do about it
Mar 15 • 18m
Postscript: How Trump’s Executive Order Contradicts Birthright Citizenship
Mar 14 • 41m
Nima Bassiri, "Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Mar 13 • 1h 12m
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us: A Conversation with Frances Lee
Mar 12 • 45m
Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall, "Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Mar 11 • 1h 15m
"Steadfast Democrats" Five Years Later: A Conversation with Chryl N. Laird
Mar 10 • 1h 4m
Lina-Maria Murillo, "Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands" (UNC Press, 2025)
Mar 9 • 1h 11m
Kristin A. Olbertson, "The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Mar 9 • 46m
Andrew C. Isenberg, "The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850" (UNC Press, 2025)
Mar 9 • 1h 7m
Gary Griggs, "California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State" (U California Press, 2024)
Mar 7 • 1h 9m
Richard Heppner, "Woodstock: From World War to Culture Wars" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Mar 7 • 26m
Rachelle Bergstein, "The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us" (Atria, 2024)
Mar 7 • 47m
Georgia Finnegan, "Grace & Grit: A History of Ballet in Minnesota" (Afton Historical Society, 2024)
Mar 6 • 52m
Arwen P. Mohun, "American Imperialist: Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa" (Chicago UP, 2023)
Mar 5 • 45m
Elizabeth T. Craft, "Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 5 • 50m
Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law--A Conversation with Janie Nitze
Mar 5 • 43m
Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola, "Hollywood Unions" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Mar 4 • 56m
Jack Dempsey, "Warriors for Liberty: William Dollarson & Michigan's Civil War African Americans" (Michigan Civil War Association, 2024)
Mar 4 • 38m
Michael Visontay, "Noble Fragments: The Gripping Story of the Antiquarian Bookseller Who Broke Up a Gutenberg Bible" (Scribe, 2024)
Mar 4 • 1h 0m
Hallie Franks, "Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Mar 2 • 59m
Erik Baker, "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Mar 2 • 58m
Dawn Day Biehler, "Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History" (U Washington Press, 2024)
Mar 1 • 54m
Timothy P. R. Weaver, "Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City" (Temple UP, 2025)
Mar 1 • 29m
Jeffrey Thomas Perry, "Law in American Meetinghouses: Church Discipline and Civil Authority in Kentucky, 1780–1845" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Feb 27 • 45m
Laureen D. Hom, "The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles" (U California Press, 2024)
Feb 27 • 1h 26m
Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores
Feb 27 • 1h 2m
Mike Sielski, "Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
Feb 26 • 58m
Religious Freedom: A Conversation on the Conservative Tradition with John D. Wilsey
Feb 26 • 45m
Linh Thuy Nguyen, "Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production" (Temple UP, 2024)
Feb 26 • 1h 32m
Postscript: How to Fight Back: Charting Opposition to the Actions of the Trump Administration
Feb 24 • 54m
Aure Schrock on Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America
Feb 24 • 1h 36m
Benjamin Heber Johnson, "Texas: An American History" (Yale UP, 2025)
Feb 23 • 1h 10m
Ilan Stavans, "Latino USA: A Cartoon History" (Basic Books, 2024)
Feb 22 • 1h 34m
The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker
Feb 19 • 55m
Adam R. Nelson, "Exchange of Ideas: The Economy of Higher Education in Early America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Feb 18 • 1h 7m
Lori A. Flores, "Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to Covid-19" (UNC Press, 2025)
Feb 18 • 1h 19m
Yoni Appelbaum, "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of Prosperity" (Random House, 2025)
Feb 18 • 28m
Mary Frances Phillips, "Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins" (NYU Press, 2025)
Feb 17 • 38m
The Soundworld of Harriet Tubman
Feb 17 • 45m
Hunter Price, "Sacred Capital: Methodism and Settler Colonialism in the Empire of Liberty" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
Feb 16 • 1h 3m
Jessica A. Brockmole, "Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way Into the Driver's Seat" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
Feb 16 • 1h 6m
Allison Rank et al., "Civic Pedagogies: Teaching Civic Engagement in an Era of Divisive Politics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Feb 14 • 51m
Randall Fuller, "Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Feb 13 • 57m
Mountain Memories: A Conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Robert P. George
Feb 12 • 1h 28m
Jeff Copeland, "Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn" (Feral House, 2025)
Feb 11 • 57m
Rebecca Davis Gibbons, "The Hegemon's Tool Kit: US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Feb 11 • 55m
American Higher Education Under the Second Trump Administration
Feb 11 • 32m
Adam Laats, "Mr. Lancaster's System: The Failed Reform That Created America's Public Schools" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Feb 11 • 1h 1m
Katie Beisel Hollenbach, "The Business of Bobbysoxers: Cultural Production in 1940s Frank Sinatra Fandom" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Feb 9 • 49m
Peter J. Bowler, "Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Feb 9 • 50m
Martín Alberto Gonzalez, "Why You Always So Political?: The Experiences and Resiliencies of Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx Students in Higher Education" (Viva Oxnard, 2023)
Feb 8 • 1h 18m
Stan Bunger, "Mornings with Madden: My Radio Life With An American Legend" (Triumph, 2024)
Feb 8 • 1h 7m
Hiroshi Motomura, "Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair, Realistic, and Sustainable Immigration Policy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Feb 8 • 1h 8m
Jeff Gomez, "There Was No Alternative: Generation X, AIDS, and the Making of a Classic Nineties Record" (McFarland, 2023)
Feb 8 • 56m
Corinne Mitsuye Sugino, "Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Feb 7 • 47m
Samantha Ege, "South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Feb 7 • 1h 3m
Zai Liang. "From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States" (U California Press, 2023)
Feb 7 • 1h 3m
Anthony E. Kaye, "Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History" (FSG, 2024)
Feb 6 • 53m
Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Feb 5 • 1h 5m
Sophia Rosenfeld, "The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Feb 5 • 37m
Patricia A. Roos, "Surviving Alex: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Addiction" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Feb 3 • 1h 16m
Derek W. Black, "Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy" (Yale UP, 2025)
Jan 30 • 41m
Edward Westermann, "Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest" (U Oklahoma Press, 2016)
Jan 29 • 1h 37m
Benjamin Carter Hett, "The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War" (Henry Holt, 2020)
Jan 28 • 1h 24m
Peter Harmsen, "Fury and Ice: Greenland, the United States and Germany in World War II" (Casemate, 2024)
Jan 27 • 1h 11m
Taylor N. Carlson, "Through the Grapevine: Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jan 26 • 53m
The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby
Jan 25 • 30m
Adam Jortner, "A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 25 • 1h 3m
Leonne M. Hudson, "Black Americans in Mourning: Reactions to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" (Southern Illinois UP, 2024)
Jan 24 • 1h 15m
Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, "America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Jan 24 • 44m
Ryan Tan Wander, "Settler Tenses: Queer Time and Literatures of the American West" (Texas Tech UP, 2024)
Jan 23 • 1h 10m
Truth Matters: A Conversation with Robert P. George and Cornel West
Jan 22 • 48m
Monica A. Hershberger, "Women in American Operas of The 1950s: Undoing Gendered Archetypes" (U Rochester Press, 2023)
Jan 20 • 1h 7m
Brigid Schulte, "Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life" (Henry Holt, 2024)
Jan 20 • 1h 3m
Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin. "Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum" (NYU Press, 2024)
Jan 20 • 41m
James Michael Buckley, "City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Jan 18 • 45m
Elizabeth L. Block, "Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing" (MIT Press, 2024)
Jan 17 • 38m
Stephen Watt, "From the 'Troubles' to Trumpism: Ireland and America, 1960-2023" (Anthem Press, 2024)
Jan 15 • 51m
Anthony Walton, "The End of Respectability: Notes of a Black American Reckoning with His Life and His Nation" (David R. Godine, 2024)
Jan 15 • 54m
Congressional Deliberation: A Conversation with Kevin J. Burns and Jordan T. Cash
Jan 15 • 54m
Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, "Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Jan 15 • 51m
Brett Bannor, "American Sheep: A Cultural History" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
Jan 14 • 31m
Bernard J. Dobski, "Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc: Political Wisdom, Divine Justice, and the Origins of Modernity" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
Jan 13 • 54m
Andrew Gomez, "Constructing Cuban America: Race and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868–1945" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Jan 13 • 46m
Patrick Dixon, "Nuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
Jan 13 • 1h 6m
Nora Gross, "Brothers in Grief: The Hidden Toll of Gun Violence on Black Boys and Their Schools" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jan 13 • 54m
Jorge Duany, "Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 12 • 1h 25m
Susan A. Brewer, "The Best Land: Four Hundred Years of Love and Betrayal on Oneida Territory" (Three Hills, 2024)
Jan 12 • 59m
Jennifer Greenburg, "At War with Women: Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era of Permanent War" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jan 11 • 46m
Jonathon Wilson-Hartgrove, "White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy" (Liveright, 2024)
Jan 10 • 53m
Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany
Jan 9 • 59m
Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti, "Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 9 • 1h 4m
Rebecca Charbonneau, "Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain" (Polity, 2024)
Jan 8 • 55m
Stacey Diane Arañez Litam, "Patterns that Remain: A Guide to Healing for Asian Children of Immigrants" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jan 8 • 26m
Christopher Phelps and Robin Vandome, "Marxism and America: New Appraisals" (Manchester UP, 2021)
Jan 7 • 1h 16m
Simon Hall, "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s" (Faber and Faber, 2020)
Jan 7 • 44m
Jennie Lightweis-Goff, "Captive City: Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Jan 7 • 58m
Sarah B. Rodriguez, "The Love Surgeon: A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Jan 7 • 47m
Dean Itsuji Saranillio, "Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood" (Duke UP, 2018)
Jan 6 • 1h 18m
Theresa Keeley, "Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Jan 6 • 47m
Joshua Brinkman on American Farming Culture and the History of Technology
Jan 6 • 1h 30m
Judith Giesberg, “Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality” (UNC Press, 2017)
Jan 6 • 1h 7m
Matthew C. Godfrey, ed., "The Joseph Smith Papers: Documents, Volume 7" (Church Historians Press, 2018)
Jan 5 • 1h 26m
Devin Fergus, “Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Jan 5 • 45m
Amy Aronson, "Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jan 5 • 1h 2m
Simon Miles, "Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Jan 4 • 1h 16m
Joshua D. Rothman, "The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America" (Basic Book, 2021)
Jan 4 • 49m
Marc Gallicchio, "Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 4 • 1h 27m
Patrick T. Reardon, "The Loop: The 'L' Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago" (Southern Illinois UP, 2020)
Jan 3 • 45m
Benjamin T. Smith, "The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
Jan 3 • 46m
Rachel Louise Moran, "Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jan 2 • 57m
I. Augustus Durham, "Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius" (Duke UP, 2023)
Jan 2 • 1h 12m
Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2021)
Jan 2 • 1h 27m
Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934" (UVA Press, 2020)
Jan 2 • 1h 2m
Shannan Clark, "The Making of the American Creative Class: New York's Culture Workers and 20th-Century Consumer Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 2 • 1h 6m
Kent Michael Shaw, "Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary" (Pickwick, 2024)
Jan 1 • 47m
Donna Tesiero, "A Revolutionary Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Abolition of Slavery in the North" (McFarland, 2024)
Jan 1 • 1h 33m
Nick Yablon, "Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Dec 31, 2024 • 1h 3m
Hugh Wilford, "The CIA: An Imperial History" (Basic Books, 2024)
Dec 31, 2024 • 55m
James Baldwin’s Use of Mechanisms of Defense in this Story “Going to Meet the Man”
Dec 31, 2024 • 38m
Mike Madrid, "The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
Dec 30, 2024 • 1h 7m
Crystal R. Sanders, "A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs" (UNC Press, 2024)
Dec 30, 2024 • 38m
Susanna Ashton, "A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin" (New Press, 2024)
Dec 29, 2024 • 1h 30m
Farina King, "Diné dóó Gáamalii: Navajo Latter-day Saint Experiences in the Twentieth Century" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
Dec 26, 2024 • 54m
Lisa Sheryl Jacobson. "Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey After Prohibition" (U California Press, 2024)
Dec 25, 2024 • 1h 33m
Jess A. Goldberg, "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Dec 24, 2024 • 1h 18m
Vincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024)
Dec 24, 2024 • 1h 9m
Linda M. Clemmons, "Unrepentant Dakota Woman: Angelique Renville & the Struggle for Indigenous Identity, 1845-1876" (SDHS Press, 2023)
Dec 22, 2024 • 57m
Scott Huver, "Beverly Hills Noir: Crime, Sin, & Scandal in 90210" (Post Hill Press, 2024)
Dec 22, 2024 • 52m
Jeremy Dauber, "American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond" (Algonquin Books, 2024)
Dec 22, 2024 • 1h 11m
Emily Mitchell-Eaton, "New Destinations of Empire: Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United States" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
Dec 22, 2024 • 1h 14m
Joseph McBride, "George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Dec 21, 2024 • 1h 56m
Lindsay Weinberg, "Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Dec 21, 2024 • 48m
Stephen Jackson, "The Patchwork of World History in Texas High Schools" (Routledge, 2022)
Dec 18, 2024 • 1h 6m
Free Inquiry in the Academy and Beyond
Dec 18, 2024 • 55m
Bob Kuska, "Balls of Confusion: Pro Baskelball Goes to War (1965-1970)" (From Way Downtown, 2024)
Dec 17, 2024 • 1h 14m
Tom Clavin, "Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Dec 17, 2024 • 44m
Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler, "Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Dec 17, 2024 • 34m
Tom Jenks, "James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 17, 2024 • 41m
Brian Martin, "From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge: Canada and the Civil War" (ECW Press, 2022)
Dec 16, 2024 • 40m
Postscript: Violence, Consent, and Coercion in American Football
Dec 16, 2024 • 1h 21m
Dianne Ashton and Melissa R. Klapper, "The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai" (NYU Press, 2024)
Dec 15, 2024 • 58m
Carrie M. Lane, "More Than Pretty Boxes: How the Rise of Professional Organizing Shows Us the Way We Work Isn't Working" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Dec 14, 2024 • 40m
Oliver Rosales, "Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Dec 14, 2024 • 1h 10m
Robert Danisch, "Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024)
Dec 14, 2024 • 56m
Melissa B. Jacoby, "Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal" (New Press, 2024)
Dec 13, 2024 • 49m
Barbara A. Biesecker, "Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State" (Penn State Press, 2024)
Dec 13, 2024 • 48m
Leslie Beth Ribovich, "Without a Prayer: Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools" (NYU Press, 2024)
Dec 13, 2024 • 59m
Ana Lucia Araujo, "Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Dec 12, 2024 • 1h 14m
Beth Kaplan, "Finding the Jewish Shakespeare: The Life and Legacy of Jacob Gordin" (Syracuse UP, 2007)
Dec 12, 2024 • 1h 9m
Holly M. Karibo, "Rehab on the Range: A History of Addiction and Incarceration in the American West" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Dec 11, 2024 • 46m
S4E18 Who Cares? A Conversation with Emily Kenway
Dec 11, 2024 • 52m
Jeremy Brecher, "The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Dec 10, 2024 • 31m
Aisha M Beliso-de Jesús, "Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease" (Duke UP, 2024)
Dec 10, 2024 • 56m
Rebecca Brenner Graham, "Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany" (Citadel Press, 2025)
Dec 10, 2024 • 45m
Caroline Winterer, "How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Dec 10, 2024 • 1h 5m
F. K. Clementi, "South of My Dreams: Finding My American Home, A Memoir" (U South Carolina Press, 2024)
Dec 9, 2024 • 55m
Casey B. K. Dominguez, "Commander in Chief: Partisanship, Nationalism, and the Reconstruction of Congressional War Powers" (UP of Kansas, 2024)
Dec 9, 2024 • 58m
Susan Gaunt Stearns. "Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
Dec 9, 2024 • 1h 3m
Victoria Sturtevant, "It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Dec 8, 2024 • 54m
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, "Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America" (W. W. Norton, 2024)
Dec 8, 2024 • 57m
Stacy Torres, "At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America" (U California Press, 2025)
Dec 8, 2024 • 1h 10m
Jonathan Conlin, "The Met: A History of a Museum and Its People" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Dec 7, 2024 • 57m
Deondra Rose, "The Power of Black Excellence: HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 7, 2024 • 57m
Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
Dec 5, 2024 • 1h 18m
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
Dec 5, 2024 • 56m
Caroline Alexander, "Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World" (Viking, 2024)
Dec 5, 2024 • 47m
Matthew Gardner Kelly, "Dividing the Public: School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Dec 4, 2024 • 1h 20m
Rachel Hope Cleves, "Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex" (Polity, 2024)
Dec 3, 2024 • 52m
Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, "How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America" (Harvard Education Press, 2024)
Dec 3, 2024 • 41m
Terry H. Anderson, "Why the Nineties Matter" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 3, 2024 • 52m
Carrie N. Baker, "Abortion Pills: US History and Politics" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
Dec 3, 2024 • 1h 4m
Corey Brettschneider, "The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It" (W. W. Norton, 2024)
Dec 2, 2024 • 1h 15m
Amy J. Binder and Jeffrey L. Kidder, "The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Dec 2, 2024 • 1h 13m
Voices Part 1: Hut-Hut-Hike
Dec 2, 2024 • 31m
Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain, "How Government Built America" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Dec 1, 2024 • 1h 28m
Karen Lystra, "Love and the Working Class: The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 30, 2024 • 1h 8m
Olivia Chilcote, "Unrecognized in California: Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians" (U Washington Press, 2024)
Nov 30, 2024 • 1h 23m
Yii-Jan Lin, "Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration" (Yale UP, 2024)
Nov 28, 2024 • 48m
Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan: Can He Really Do It?
Nov 28, 2024 • 30m
Mary Ellen Curtin, "She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan's Life and Legacy in Black Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Nov 28, 2024 • 1h 12m
Daniel J. Mallinson and A. Lee Hannah, "Green Rush: The Rise of Medical Marijuana in the United States" (NYU Press, 2024)
Nov 28, 2024 • 54m
Sabrina Strings, "The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance" (Beacon Press, 2024)
Nov 27, 2024 • 37m
Disabled Ecologies: Lessons From a Wounded Desert
Nov 27, 2024 • 1h 9m
W. Paul Reeve, et al., "This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 26, 2024 • 57m
Osamah F. Khalil, "A World of Enemies: America's Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Nov 26, 2024 • 1h 17m
David Suisman, "Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's Soldiers" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Nov 25, 2024 • 1h 5m
Daniel S. Goldberg, "Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries: Law, Ethics, and Public Health" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Nov 25, 2024 • 1h 3m
Katherine C. Epstein, "Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Nov 24, 2024 • 1h 7m
Elizabeth Garner Masarik, "The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
Nov 24, 2024 • 1h 6m
Kevin B. Smith, "The Jailer's Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration Is Damaging America" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Nov 24, 2024 • 52m
Beverly Tomek and Matthew J. Hetrick, "New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization" (UP of Florida, 2017)
Nov 24, 2024 • 53m
138c Herbert Hoover gave us Woody Guthrie (with David Cunningham)
Nov 23, 2024 • 24m
Liliana M. Naydan, "Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
Nov 23, 2024 • 52m
Travis A. Weisse, "Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness" (UNC Press, 2024)
Nov 23, 2024 • 53m
Lauren D. Olsen, "Curricular Injustice: How U.S. Medical Schools Reproduce Inequalities" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Nov 23, 2024 • 53m
138b Ronald Reagan Gave Us Punk Rock (with Vincent Brown)
Nov 22, 2024 • 21m
Timothy E. Nelson, "Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)
Nov 22, 2024 • 54m
Jordan S. Carroll, "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Nov 22, 2024 • 47m
Debra Bruno, "A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Nov 21, 2024 • 40m
Joan L. Bryant, "Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-century America" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 21, 2024 • 37m
Peter Singer, "Consider the Turkey" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Nov 21, 2024 • 47m
Christopher Bell, "Walking East Harlem: A Neighborhood Experience" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Nov 20, 2024 • 37m
Benjamin Barson, "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)
Nov 19, 2024 • 1h 7m
Domingo Morel, "Developing Scholars: Race, Politics, and the Pursuit of Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 19, 2024 • 50m
Carrie J. Preston, "Complicit Participation: The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 19, 2024 • 53m
Andrew Stone Higgins, "Higher Education for All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan" (UNC Press, 2023)
Nov 18, 2024 • 1h 3m
D. Andrew Johnson, "Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Nov 18, 2024 • 41m
Connie DeNave, "The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass" (2023)
Nov 18, 2024 • 54m
Laura F. Edwards, "Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 18, 2024 • 55m
Karen M. Dunak, "Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life" (NYU Press, 2024)
Nov 17, 2024 • 37m
Ian Miller, "Self-Esteem: An American History" (Polity Press, 2024)
Nov 17, 2024 • 42m
Risk
Nov 16, 2024 • 20m
Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)
Nov 16, 2024 • 58m
Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
Nov 16, 2024 • 1h 8m
D. M. Giangreco, "Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story" (Potomac Books, 2023)
Nov 15, 2024 • 1h 11m
Agustina Paglayan, "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Nov 15, 2024 • 26m
Postscript: Reflections on the 2024 American Presidential Election
Nov 14, 2024 • 1h 3m
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
Nov 14, 2024 • 55m
Sara Glass, "Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir" (Atria, 2024)
Nov 13, 2024 • 1h 2m
The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics
Nov 13, 2024 • 1h 10m
Hunter Hargraves, "Uncomfortable Television" (Duke UP, 2024)
Nov 12, 2024 • 1h 23m
Anthony Grasso, "Dual Justice: America's Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Nov 11, 2024 • 58m
Paul M. Renfro, "The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America" (UNC Press, 2024)
Nov 10, 2024 • 33m
Donna J. Nicol, "Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action" (U Rochester Press, 2024)
Nov 9, 2024 • 1h 4m
James M. Bradley, "Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 8, 2024 • 1h 36m
Why Can’t the US Compete with China in Infrastructure?
Nov 7, 2024 • 48m
Andrew Stravers et al., "Beyond the Wire: US Military Deployments and Host Country Public Opinion" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 7, 2024 • 42m
The Impeachment Power: A Conversation with Keith Whittington
Nov 6, 2024 • 49m
Aran Robert Shetterly, "Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul" (Amistad, 2024)
Nov 6, 2024 • 57m
Elia Powers, "Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Nov 6, 2024 • 59m
Matthew Ferrence, "I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me: Essays on Rural Political Decay" (West Virginia UP, 2024)
Nov 4, 2024 • 38m
Justene Hill Edwards, "Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank" (Norton, 2024)
Nov 3, 2024 • 42m
Anne M. Whitesell, "Living Off the Government?: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Welfare" (NYU Press, 2024)
Nov 3, 2024 • 31m
Sanaullah Khan, "Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Nov 3, 2024 • 54m
Mirin Fader, "Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon" (Hachette, 2024)
Nov 2, 2024 • 46m
Phuc Tran, "Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In" (Flatiron Books, 2020)
Nov 2, 2024 • 38m
From Rubinomics to Bidenomics: On the Democratic Party’s Shifting Trade & Industrial Policy
Nov 1, 2024 • 1h 0m
Ben Yagoda, "Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Nov 1, 2024 • 48m
Richard Schoch, "How Sondheim Can Change Your Life" (Atria Books, 2024)
Nov 1, 2024 • 59m
Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre, "Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience" (U South Carolina Press, 2024)
Oct 31, 2024 • 59m
Ronald Drabkin, "Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor" (William Morrow, 2024)
Oct 31, 2024 • 42m
Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson, "The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Oct 31, 2024 • 1h 7m
Friederike Baer, "Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Oct 30, 2024 • 1h 3m
Lennard J. Davis, "Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It" (Duke UP, 2024)
Oct 30, 2024 • 32m
Eric Helleiner, "The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Oct 29, 2024 • 52m
Michael Hardt, "The Subversive Seventies" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Oct 29, 2024 • 1h 26m
Melissa Deckman, "The Politics of Gen Z: How the Youngest Voters Will Shape Our Democracy" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Oct 28, 2024 • 1h 5m
Nicolas Delsol, "Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study" (UP of Florida, 2024)
Oct 28, 2024 • 59m
Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy
Oct 27, 2024 • 1h 5m
Eve Dunbar, "Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Oct 27, 2024 • 46m
Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva, "The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game" (UNC Press, 2024)
Oct 27, 2024 • 1h 10m
Megan Steigerwald Ille, "Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
Oct 25, 2024 • 51m
The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide
Oct 24, 2024 • 1h 16m
Alexis Peri, "Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence Between American and Soviet Women" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Oct 24, 2024 • 1h 13m
S4E11 Religion and Republic: A Conversation with Miles Smith
Oct 23, 2024 • 52m
Bob Frishman, "Edward Duffield: Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803" (APS Press, 2024)
Oct 23, 2024 • 46m
Steven Levitsky, "Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All" (Crown, 2024)
Oct 22, 2024 • 44m
Peter C. Kunze, "Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Oct 19, 2024 • 1h 8m
E. L. Gaston, "Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Oct 19, 2024 • 1h 2m
Michael J. Alarid, "Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860" (U New Mexico Press, 2022)
Oct 19, 2024 • 42m
Ashawnta Jackson, "Soul-Folk" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Oct 19, 2024 • 1h 10m
Lois Peters Agnew, "Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric" (U Alabama Press, 2024)
Oct 19, 2024 • 25m
Amy Reading, "The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker" (Mariner Books, 2024)
Oct 18, 2024 • 56m
Brad Balukjian, "The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania" (Hachette, 2024)
Oct 18, 2024 • 1h 1m
Jennifer Chudy, "Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Sympathy, Suffering, and Solidarity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Oct 18, 2024 • 42m
Beth Blum on Self-Help, Dale Carnegie to Today (JP)
Oct 17, 2024 • 29m
Keith E. Whittington, "You Can't Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms" (Polity Press, 2024)
Oct 17, 2024 • 55m
Shared Paths: Exploring Jewish and Muslim Experiences in America
Oct 17, 2024 • 41m
Tevi Troy, "The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry" (Regnery History, 2024)
Oct 16, 2024 • 44m
Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms in James Baldwin’s "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"
Oct 16, 2024 • 41m
Dan La Botz, "Riding with the Revolution: The American Left in the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1925" (Brill, 2024)
Oct 15, 2024 • 1h 9m
Donald R. Hickey, "Tecumseh's War: The Epic Conflict for the Heart of America" (Westholme, 2023)
Oct 14, 2024 • 35m
Jackie Wang, "Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood" (Semiotext(e), 2023)
Oct 14, 2024 • 1h 18m
Eric R. Schlereth, "Quitting the Nation: Emigrant Rights in North America" (UNC Press, 2024)
Oct 14, 2024 • 56m
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Sarah Mayorga, "A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Oct 13, 2024 • 1h 1m
Aliza Arzt, "Turning the Pages: Conversations Through Time with Rabbi Isador Signer" (Ben Yehuda Press, 2024)
Oct 13, 2024 • 1h 16m
Wes Marshall, "Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System" (Island Press, 2024)
Oct 12, 2024 • 44m
Gretchen Sisson, "Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Oct 12, 2024 • 1h 9m
Aviva Dove-Viebahn, "There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Oct 10, 2024 • 1h 5m
Isaac Blacksin, "Conflicted: Making News from Global War" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Oct 10, 2024 • 1h 4m
Ryan Emanuel, "On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice" (UNC Press, 2024)
Oct 9, 2024 • 45m
Yolonda Youngs, "Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
Oct 9, 2024 • 1h 5m
Risa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)
Oct 9, 2024 • 1h 21m
Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor, "Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future" (The New Press, 2024)
Oct 9, 2024 • 32m
Zach Fredman, "The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949" (UNC Press, 2022)
Oct 9, 2024 • 1h 0m
Frank R. Baumgartner, “Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us about Policing and Race” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Oct 8, 2024 • 36m
Jonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
Oct 7, 2024 • 28m
Natalie Wall, "Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race" (Emerald Publishing, 2024)
Oct 7, 2024 • 58m
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, "Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians" (NYU Press, 2024)
Oct 7, 2024 • 1h 16m
Iris Jamahl Dunkle, "Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb" (U California Press, 2024)
Oct 6, 2024 • 52m
Jeffrey Ding, "Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Oct 5, 2024 • 35m
Israel G. Solares, "Underground Leviathan: Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas" (U Nevada Press, 2024)
Oct 5, 2024 • 33m
Eric Steven Zimmer, "Red Earth Nation: A History of the Meskwaki Settlement" (U Oklahoma Press, 2024)
Oct 5, 2024 • 1h 35m
Anat Geva, "The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s-1960s" (Texas A&M UP, 2023)
Oct 4, 2024 • 53m
Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Oct 4, 2024 • 1h 15m
Camille Owens, "Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America" (NYU Press, 2024)
Oct 3, 2024 • 42m
Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action
Oct 3, 2024 • 59m
Jon Michaels and David Noll, "Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy" (Atria/One Signal, 2024)
Oct 3, 2024 • 1h 21m
Christian Wolmar, "The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and Ingenuity Won World War II" (Hachette, 2024)
Oct 2, 2024 • 1h 1m
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, "The Cities We Need: Essential Stories of Everyday Places" (MIT Press, 2024)
Oct 2, 2024 • 42m
Brianna Nofil, "The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Oct 2, 2024 • 39m
Mary Bridges, "Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Oct 1, 2024 • 1h 0m
Jerome E. Copulsky, "American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order" (Yale UP, 2024)
Oct 1, 2024 • 1h 14m
Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman, "The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Sep 30, 2024 • 1h 12m
Lynne B. Sagalyn, "Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change" (MIT Press, 2023)
Sep 30, 2024 • 1h 1m
Alessandra Seggi, "Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Sep 29, 2024 • 1h 10m
J. C. D. Clark, "The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 28, 2024 • 31m
Free Speech 70: Michael S. Roth on the Rise of Student Protests, the Fall of Some College Presidents, and Why Liberal Education Matters
Sep 28, 2024 • 1h 16m
Konrad Bercovici, "The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years with the Legends Who Lunch" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Sep 28, 2024 • 45m
Jeff Schuhrke, "Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of U.S. Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade" (Verso, 2024)
Sep 27, 2024 • 1h 9m
Courtney Ann Irby, "Guiding God's Marriage: Faith and Social Change in Premarital Counseling" (NYU Press, 2024)
Sep 27, 2024 • 1h 4m
David L. Swartz, "The Academic Trumpists: Radicals Against Liberal Diversity" (Routledge, 2024)
Sep 26, 2024 • 1h 3m
Andrew W. Kahrl, "The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Sep 25, 2024 • 59m
Jane Little Botkin, "The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen" (She Writes Press, 2024)
Sep 24, 2024 • 39m
David M. Driesen, "The Specter of Dictatorship: Judicial Enabling of Presidential Power" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Sep 23, 2024 • 57m
Francis Stevens, "The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories" (MIT Press, 2024)
Sep 23, 2024 • 40m
Wayne A. Wiegand, "In Silence or Indifference: Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
Sep 23, 2024 • 29m
Emily Carman, "Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System" (U Texas Press, 2016)
Sep 23, 2024 • 1h 15m
Robert Polner and Michael Tubridy, "An Irish Passion for Justice: The Life of Rebel New York Attorney Paul O'Dwyer" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Sep 22, 2024 • 50m
William Cooper, "How America Works and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the US Political System" (Ad Lib, 2024)
Sep 22, 2024 • 37m
Sarah Lewis, "The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Sep 21, 2024 • 45m
Amir Alexander, "Liberty's Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Sep 21, 2024 • 1h 0m
David Kroening Seitz, "A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Sep 20, 2024 • 59m
Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions
Sep 19, 2024 • 1h 8m
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)
Sep 19, 2024 • 55m
Steven K. Bailey, "Target Hong Kong: A True Story of U.S. Navy Pilots at War" (Osprey, 2024)
Sep 19, 2024 • 51m
Joy Knoblauch, "The Architecture of Good Behavior: Psychology and Modern Institutional Design in Postwar America" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
Sep 18, 2024 • 42m
Celebrating Constitution Day, Part. 2: A Conversation with Julia Mahoney
Sep 18, 2024 • 51m
Sheri Chinen Biesen, "Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Sep 18, 2024 • 1h 6m
Anne Byrn, "Baking in the American South: 200 Recipes and Their Untold Stories" (Harper Celebrate, 2024)
Sep 17, 2024 • 56m
Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, "Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier" (Vernon Press, 2023)
Sep 16, 2024 • 1h 0m
Kevin J. McMahon, "A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other: The Deepening Divide Between the Justices and the People" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Sep 16, 2024 • 59m
Paul Peart-Smith, "Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: A Graphic Interpretation" (Beacon Press, 2024)
Sep 15, 2024 • 1h 18m
Michael D. Hattem, "The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History" (Yale UP, 2024)
Sep 15, 2024 • 1h 0m
Michael L. Walker, "Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Sep 15, 2024 • 37m
Grant Olwage, "Paul Robeson's Voices" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Sep 13, 2024 • 1h 38m
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, "When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
Sep 13, 2024 • 48m
Postscript: Harris, Trump, and the Politics of Presidential Debates
Sep 13, 2024 • 52m
Aleksandra Djuric Milovanovic, "The Untold Journey of the Nazarene Emigration from Yugoslavia to North America" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Sep 13, 2024 • 1h 2m
The Political Evolution of Taylor Swift
Sep 12, 2024 • 24m
Celebrating Constitution Day Pt. 1: A Conversation with Cass R. Sunstein
Sep 11, 2024 • 49m
Matthew C. Ehrlich, "The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Sep 11, 2024 • 44m
Josh Cowen, "The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers" (Harvard Education Press, 2024)
Sep 10, 2024 • 41m
Anthony Michael Kreis, "Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development" (U California Press, 2024)
Sep 9, 2024 • 1h 5m
Sharon M. Quinsaat, "Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Sep 9, 2024 • 57m
Kaitlin Sidorsky, "All Roads Lead to Power: The Appointed and Elected Paths to Public Office for US Women" (UP Kansas, 2019)
Sep 9, 2024 • 52m
Tracy Fessenden, “Religion Around Billie Holiday” (Penn State UP, 2018)
Sep 8, 2024 • 1h 3m
Mariana Craciun, "From Skepticism to Competence: How American Psychiatrists Learn Psychotherapy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Sep 8, 2024 • 1h 48m
Trevor Boffone, "TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 8, 2024 • 1h 2m
Ana Stevenson, "The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Sep 8, 2024 • 54m
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration: A Talk by Isabel Wilkerson
Sep 7, 2024 • 1h 8m
Jess Whatcott, "Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics" (Duke UP, 2024)
Sep 7, 2024 • 1h 0m
Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France" (Duke UP, 2018)
Sep 6, 2024 • 1h 0m
James M. Scott, "Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb" (Norton, 2024)
Sep 6, 2024 • 57m
Oren Kroll-Zeldin, "Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine" (NYU Press, 2024)
Sep 6, 2024 • 1h 7m
Mark Blake, "Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
Sep 6, 2024 • 54m
Matt Grossmann and David A. Hopkins, "Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Sep 5, 2024 • 30m
Matt Grossmann and David A. Hopkins, "Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Sep 5, 2024 • 32m
Judge Frederic Block, "A Second Chance: A Federal Judge Decides Who Deserves It" (The New Press, 2024)
Sep 5, 2024 • 27m
David H. Price, "The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Sep 4, 2024 • 56m
E. J. Fagan, "The Thinkers: The Rise of Partisan Think Tanks and the Polarization of American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 4, 2024 • 52m
How Mechanisms of Psychoanalytic Defense Perpetuate Racism in America
Sep 3, 2024 • 45m
Andy Clarno et al., "Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Sep 3, 2024 • 1h 19m
Jonathan Gienapp, "Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique" (Yale UP, 2024)
Sep 3, 2024 • 1h 21m
John S. Garrison, "Red Hot + Blue" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Sep 2, 2024 • 46m
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, "Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia" (NYU Press, 2019)
Sep 1, 2024 • 51m
Sarah Miller-Davenport, "Gateway State: Hawai’i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Sep 1, 2024 • 59m
Karyne E. Messina, "The Power of Community: A 45 Day Action Plan to Stop Trump from Turning Our Democracy into His Autocracy" (PI Press, 2024)
Sep 1, 2024 • 54m
James P. Leary, “Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937–1946” (U Wisconsin Press, 2015)
Sep 1, 2024 • 58m
Tadashi Dozono, "Discipline Problems: How Students of Color Trouble Whiteness in Schools" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Aug 31, 2024 • 31m
Edwin P Rutan II, "High-Bounty Men in the Army of the Potomac: Reclaiming Their Honor" (Kent State UP, 2024)
Aug 31, 2024 • 1h 6m
Ronnie Grinberg, "Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Aug 30, 2024 • 56m
Mark Valeri, "The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 29, 2024 • 49m
Bhaskar Sunkara, "The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality" (Basic Books, 2020)
Aug 29, 2024 • 1h 7m
Tracy Pintchman, "Goddess Beyond Boundaries: Worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 29, 2024 • 42m
Randall Stephens, "The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock n’ Roll" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Aug 28, 2024 • 57m
Holly Miowak Guise, "Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II" (U Washington Press, 2024)
Aug 27, 2024 • 1h 9m
Joanna Wuest, "Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Aug 27, 2024 • 57m
Lori Gemeiner-Bihler, "Cities of Refuge: German Jews in London and New York, 1935-1945" (SUNY Press, 2019)
Aug 27, 2024 • 1h 9m
Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Aug 26, 2024 • 1h 8m
The Democrats Have a Party: DNC2024
Aug 26, 2024 • 56m
Steve Moriarty, "Mia Zapata and the Gits: A True Story of Art, Rock and Revolution" (Ferel House, 2024)
Aug 26, 2024 • 55m
James Barrera, "'We Want Better Education!': The 1960s Chicano Student Movement, School Walkouts, and the Quest for Educational Reform in South Texas" (Texas A&M UP, 2023)
Aug 25, 2024 • 55m
Damaging Rationality: Exxon-Funded Legal Research and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Aug 25, 2024 • 1h 13m
Phil Haun, "Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War: Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Aug 25, 2024 • 43m
Regina G. Kunzel, "In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Aug 25, 2024 • 52m
Douglas K. Miller, "Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2019)
Aug 25, 2024 • 1h 43m
Gary Mucciaroni, "Answers to the Labour Question: Industrial Relations and the State in the Anglophone World, 1880–1945" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
Aug 24, 2024 • 1h 8m
Christopher B. Patterson and Tara Fickle, "Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us" (Duke UP, 2024)
Aug 24, 2024 • 40m
Wesley G. Phelps, "Before Lawrence v. Texas: The Making of a Queer Social Movement" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Aug 24, 2024 • 1h 0m
Bruce W. Dearstyne, "Progressive New York: Change and Reform in the Empire State, 1900-1920: A Reader" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Aug 23, 2024 • 51m
Jennifer Ponce de León, "Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War" (Duke UP, 2021)
Aug 23, 2024 • 1h 5m
Robin Bernstein, "Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Aug 23, 2024 • 1h 16m
Edward Pearson, "The Enslaved and Their Enslavers: Power, Resistance, and Culture in South Carolina, 1670-1825" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Aug 22, 2024 • 1h 6m
Joseph Heathcott, "Global Queens: An Urban Mosaic" (Fordham UP, 2023)
Aug 21, 2024 • 41m
Karen Tongson, "Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us" (NYU Press, 2023)
Aug 18, 2024 • 58m
Raj Jayadev, "Protect Your People: How Ordinary Families Are Using Participatory Defense to Challenge Mass Incarceration" (New Press, 2023)
Aug 18, 2024 • 32m
Stephanie L Canizales, "Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States" (U California Press, 2024)
Aug 18, 2024 • 1h 4m
Gerarldo Cadava, "The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump" (Ecco, 2020)
Aug 18, 2024 • 1h 5m
12 Angry Alaskans: Re-Examining the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Case
Aug 16, 2024 • 1h 12m
Heath Brown, "Roadblocked: Joe Biden's Rocky Transition to the Presidency" (UP of Kansas, 2024)
Aug 16, 2024 • 59m
Shaul Magid, "Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Aug 15, 2024 • 1h 4m
Policing and White Power with Daniel Kryder and David Cunningham (JP, EF)
Aug 15, 2024 • 39m
Anthony Abraham Jack, "Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Aug 15, 2024 • 31m
Alonso Duralde, "Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film" (Running Press Adult, 2024)
Aug 14, 2024 • 59m
James Madison and the Spirit of Self-Government: A Conversation with Colleen Sheehan
Aug 14, 2024 • 55m
Miguel Montalva Barba, "White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space" (Policy Press, 2024)
Aug 14, 2024 • 53m
Crystal Wilkinson, "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" (Clarkson Potter, 2023)
Aug 14, 2024 • 55m
Marc Ambinder, “The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983” (Simon & Schuster, 2018)
Aug 13, 2024 • 1h 0m
Heather Murray, "Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Aug 13, 2024 • 43m
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, "Movies Under the Influence" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Aug 13, 2024 • 55m
Ana Raquel Minian, “Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Aug 13, 2024 • 1h 5m
Peter Charles Hoffer, "The Supreme Court Footnote: A Surprising History" (NYU Press, 2024)
Aug 12, 2024 • 1h 4m
Benjamin C. Waterhouse on "One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America"
Aug 12, 2024 • 1h 25m
Kirsten Fermaglich, "A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America" (NYU Press, 2018)
Aug 11, 2024 • 1h 1m
Spencer Piston, “Class Attitudes in American Politics: Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and Political Implications” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Aug 11, 2024 • 33m
Eric Hoyt, "Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema’s Trade Press" (U California Press, 2022)
Aug 11, 2024 • 1h 11m
Matthew Evangelista, "Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945: Bombing among Friends" (Routledge, 2024)
Aug 11, 2024 • 1h 0m
Ella Houston, "Advertising Disability" (Routledge, 2024)
Aug 10, 2024 • 43m
Samuel C. Heilman and Mucahit Bilici, "Following Similar Paths: What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn from One Another" (U California Press, 2024)
Aug 9, 2024 • 35m
Paul Koudounaris, "Faithful Unto Death: Pet Cemeteries, Animal Graves, and Eternal Devotion" (Thames & Hudson, 2024)
Aug 9, 2024 • 46m
Jonathan Butler, "Join the Conspiracy: How a Brooklyn Eccentric Got Lost on the Right, Infiltrated the Left and Brought Down the Biggest Bombing Network in New York" (Fordham UP, 2024)
Aug 9, 2024 • 45m
Neoliberalism and the University, Part 2
Aug 9, 2024 • 54m
Paul Volcker: “The only number that works is zero”
Aug 9, 2024 • 49m
Claudia Strauss, "What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic" (ILR Press, 2024)
Aug 9, 2024 • 1h 1m
Daniel Kahneman’s Forgotten Legacy: Investigating Exxon-Funded Psychological Research
Aug 9, 2024 • 1h 5m
Laura Zurowski et al., "City Steps of Pittsburgh: A History & Guide" (History Press, 2024)
Aug 8, 2024 • 41m
Arthur Burns: “The smartest guy in the room”
Aug 8, 2024 • 47m
Nora Stone, "How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 8, 2024 • 1h 8m
The Role of Psychoanalytic Mechanisms of Defense; What They Are and How They Work
Aug 7, 2024 • 41m
Bill Martin: “Truman looked at him and said: ‘Traitor’”
Aug 7, 2024 • 48m
Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 7, 2024 • 1h 21m
Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack, "What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service" (Dutton, 2024)
Aug 7, 2024 • 1h 3m
Emily Cousens, "Trans Feminist Epistemologies in the US Second Wave" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Aug 6, 2024 • 46m
Franz Nicolay, "Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Aug 6, 2024 • 41m
Alexandra Popoff, "Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success" (Yale UP, 2024)
Aug 6, 2024 • 1h 0m
Marriner Eccles: Reform “may not have happened in 1935 if Eccles hadn't been there”
Aug 6, 2024 • 1h 4m
Tore C. Olsson, "Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Aug 6, 2024 • 1h 15m
Anne Gray Fischer, "The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification" (UNC Press, 2022)
Aug 5, 2024 • 1h 14m
Katherine Hempstead, "Uncovered: The Story of Insurance in America" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 5, 2024 • 44m
Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Aug 5, 2024 • 59m
Race, Gender, and the 2024 Presidential Election Cycle
Aug 5, 2024 • 51m
Petra Goedde, "The Politics of Peace: A Global Cold War History" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Aug 4, 2024 • 57m
Nadirah Simmons, "First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game" (Twelve, 2024)
Aug 4, 2024 • 1h 17m
Yiman Wang, "To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World" (U California Press, 2024)
Aug 4, 2024 • 1h 0m
Susan Stryker, "When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader" (Duke UP, 2024)
Aug 3, 2024 • 1h 0m
Kate Hext, "Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Aug 3, 2024 • 1h 10m
Nik Ribianszky, "Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
Aug 3, 2024 • 1h 17m
Robert Baker, "Making Modern Medical Ethics: How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics" (MIT Press, 2024)
Aug 2, 2024 • 1h 2m
Edward Kaplan, "The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Aug 2, 2024 • 1h 6m
Mitchel P. Roth and Mahmut Cengiz, "Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Aug 2, 2024 • 42m
Neoliberalism and the University, Part 1
Aug 2, 2024 • 53m
Shaul Magid on the Jewish Radicalism of Meir Kahane (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
Aug 1, 2024 • 55m
Jessica S. Henry, "Smoke But No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened" (U California Press, 2021)
Jul 31, 2024 • 50m
Pawel Armada, "Humanism As Realism: Three Essays Concerning the Thought of Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt" (St. Augustine's Press, 2023)
Jul 31, 2024 • 54m
Jim Higgins, "Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground" (Trouser Press, 2024)
Jul 30, 2024 • 50m
Stephen J. Pyne, "Pyrocene Park: A Journey Into the Fire History of Yosemite National Park" (U Arizona Press, 2023)
Jul 30, 2024 • 1h 9m
David Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jul 29, 2024 • 44m
Sheila Curran Bernard, "Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Jul 28, 2024 • 32m
Laura Yares, "Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America" (NYU Press, 2023)
Jul 28, 2024 • 1h 10m
Musa al-Gharbi, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jul 28, 2024 • 39m
Prithi Kanakamedala, "Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough" (NYU Press, 2024)
Jul 28, 2024 • 54m
Lindsay Goss, "F*ck The Army!: How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War" (NYU Press, 2024)
Jul 27, 2024 • 40m
Miriam Eve Mora, "Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century" (Wayne State UP, 2024)
Jul 27, 2024 • 1h 12m
Kathleen Loock, "Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
Jul 27, 2024 • 1h 7m
Derek Taira, "Forward without Fear: Native Hawaiians and American Education in Territorial Hawai'i, 1900-1941" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
Jul 27, 2024 • 52m
Rosemary Pennington, "Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Jul 26, 2024 • 1h 16m
Jonathan Branfman, "Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy" (NYU Press, 2024)
Jul 26, 2024 • 58m
40 Years of Purple Rain: What to Make of the Movie/Album in 2024
Jul 25, 2024 • 1h 15m
Steven Powell, "Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jul 25, 2024 • 1h 0m
Postscript: Changing Dynamics in the Presidential Race, 2024
Jul 25, 2024 • 55m
Ben Kaplan and Danny Parkins, "Pipeline to the Pros: How D3 Small-College Nobodies Rose to Rule the NBA" (Triumph Books, 2024)
Jul 24, 2024 • 56m
Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling
Jul 24, 2024 • 1h 15m
Steven K. Bailey, "Target Hong Kong: A True Story of U.S. Navy Pilots at War" (Osprey, 2024)
Jul 23, 2024 • 1h 18m
Patrick McKelvey, "Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation" (NYU Press, 2024)
Jul 23, 2024 • 1h 2m
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward, "Fascism in America: Past and Present" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jul 22, 2024 • 38m
Lisandro Perez, “Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York” (NYU Press, 2018)
Jul 22, 2024 • 38m
Kevin Mattson, "We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 22, 2024 • 1h 9m
David E. Kaiser, “The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy” (Harvard UP, 2008)
Jul 22, 2024 • 1h 19m
Tiffany Gill, "To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism" (U Illinois Press, 2019)
Jul 21, 2024 • 40m
Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" (Verso, 2020)
Jul 21, 2024 • 58m
Arie Perliger, "American Zealots: Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jul 21, 2024 • 1h 3m
Francine Banner, "Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems" (U California Press, 2024)
Jul 21, 2024 • 55m
Donald L. Miller, "Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign that Broke the Confederacy" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)
Jul 21, 2024 • 1h 27m
Steve Gillon, “The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After” (Basic Books, 2009)
Jul 21, 2024 • 1h 12m
Pekka Hämäläinen, "Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power" (Yale UP, 2019)
Jul 20, 2024 • 40m
Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
Jul 20, 2024 • 55m
Michael J. Douma, "The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York: A Cultural, Economic, and Demographic History, 1700-1827" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Jul 20, 2024 • 51m
Ujju Aggarwal, "Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Jul 20, 2024 • 39m
Sören Schoppmeier, "Playing American: Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture" (De Gruyter, 2023)
Jul 19, 2024 • 25m
Hamilton Nolan, "The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor" (Hachette Books, 2024)
Jul 19, 2024 • 54m
Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
Jul 18, 2024 • 58m
Kevin Loughran, "Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Jul 18, 2024 • 1h 3m
Diana P. Parsell, "Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 18, 2024 • 1h 0m
Thomas Zeller, "Consuming Landscapes: What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Jul 17, 2024 • 1h 15m
Jacob Lee, "Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions Along the Mississippi" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jul 16, 2024 • 1h 33m
James Mallery, "City of Vice: Transience and San Francisco's Urban History, 1848-1917" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
Jul 16, 2024 • 1h 5m
Michael Willrich, "American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century" (Basic Books, 2023)
Jul 16, 2024 • 1h 11m
Melissa E. Anderson, "Inland Empire" (Fireflies Press, 2021)
Jul 16, 2024 • 57m
Jill A. Fisher, "Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals" (NYU Press, 2020)
Jul 15, 2024 • 49m
Emily J. Lordi, "The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jul 15, 2024 • 57m
Charly Palmer and Karida Brown, "The New Brownies' Book: A Love Letter to Black Families" (Chronicle Books, 2023)
Jul 15, 2024 • 50m
Mónica A. Jiménez, "Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico" (UNC Press, 2024)
Jul 14, 2024 • 1h 27m
Mark Peterson, "The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Jul 14, 2024 • 2h 23m
Kevin Leo Nadal, "Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and the Criminal Justice System" (Lexington Book, 2020)
Jul 14, 2024 • 38m
Kristin J. Jacobson, "The American Adrenaline Narrative" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
Jul 14, 2024 • 57m
Tea Krulos, "American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness" (Feral House, 2020)
Jul 12, 2024 • 57m
Heidi Honeycutt, "I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies" (Headpress, 2024)
Jul 12, 2024 • 49m
Walaa Quisay, "Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Jul 12, 2024 • 1h 40m
Theresa McCulla, "Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jul 11, 2024 • 1h 13m
Maya Pagni Barak, "The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on Trial" (NYU Press, 2023)
Jul 11, 2024 • 49m
Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next
Jul 11, 2024 • 52m
William Gow, "Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Jul 10, 2024 • 1h 5m
Kellie Carter Jackson, "We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance" (Seal Press, 2024)
Jul 10, 2024 • 57m
David Alff, "The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jul 9, 2024 • 46m
Neil J. Young, "Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jul 9, 2024 • 1h 1m
Premal Dharia et al., "Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change" (FSG Originals, 2024)
Jul 9, 2024 • 31m
Natasha L. Mikles, "Shattered Grief: How the Pandemic Transformed the Spirituality of Death in America" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jul 8, 2024 • 56m
Jonathan Tran, "Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 7, 2024 • 31m
Jake Johnson, "The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in Las Vegas" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Jul 7, 2024 • 57m
Kathryn Hughes, "Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Jul 7, 2024 • 59m
The (ir)Rational Rainbow (the DSM & the Fight to Depathologize Homosexuality)
Jul 6, 2024 • 1h 14m
Timothy Grieve-Carlson, "American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jul 6, 2024 • 1h 5m
Amanda McMillan Lequieu, "Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jul 5, 2024 • 41m
Christopher T. Fan, "Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jul 5, 2024 • 2h 13m
Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2024)
Jul 5, 2024 • 1h 7m
Racism as Power Relation: A Discussion with Adaner Usmani (EF, JP)
Jul 4, 2024 • 33m
Sigrid Schönfelder, "'Gold Fever' and Women: Transformations in Lives, Health Care and Medicine in the 19th Century American West" (Transcript, 2023)
Jul 3, 2024 • 45m
Lance J. Sussman, "Portrait of an American Rabbi: In His Own Words" (Xlibris US, 2023)
Jul 2, 2024 • 46m
Ben Wright, "Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism" (LSU Press, 2020)
Jul 2, 2024 • 22m
Postscript: Does the June POTUS Debate Matter?
Jul 1, 2024 • 1h 4m
Meaghan Stiman, "Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and Themselves" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jul 1, 2024 • 30m
Rachel Williams, "Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront" (Kent State UP, 2024)
Jun 30, 2024 • 41m
Bayley J. Marquez, "Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling Across Black and Indigenous Space" (U California Press, 2024)
Jun 30, 2024 • 1h 15m
Felicia Arriaga, "Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jun 30, 2024 • 1h 2m
Nancy Woloch, "Women and the American Experience: A Concise History" (Routledge, 2024)
Jun 29, 2024 • 50m
Jessica Lander, "Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education" (Beacon Press, 2022)
Jun 28, 2024 • 40m
Barbara Klinger, "Immortal Films: 'Casablanca' and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic" (U California Press, 2022)
Jun 27, 2024 • 1h 4m
Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider, "The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual" (The New Press, 2024)
Jun 27, 2024 • 31m
Jeremy Schipper, "Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Jun 27, 2024 • 1h 13m
Frederick Klaits et al., "Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City: Designs for Vitality" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Jun 26, 2024 • 59m
American Muslim Women on Campus
Jun 26, 2024 • 25m
Jerry Rafiki Jenkins, "Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2024)
Jun 25, 2024 • 45m
Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo, "Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics" (U Arizona Press, 2024)
Jun 25, 2024 • 52m
Donald Stoker, "Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Jun 25, 2024 • 46m
Emily Zackin and Chloe N. Thurston, "The Political Development of American Debt Relief" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jun 25, 2024 • 58m
Postscript: Unpacking the 2024 U.S. Presidential Debate, Conventions, and Polling
Jun 24, 2024 • 45m
A Psychoanalytic Overview of Racism in America
Jun 24, 2024 • 48m
Trish Kahle on the Labor History of Energy Systems
Jun 24, 2024 • 1h 1m
Ann Powers, "Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell" (Dey Street Books, 2024)
Jun 24, 2024 • 51m
Elsa Devienne, "Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jun 23, 2024 • 42m
Hank Willenbrink, "Performing for the Don: Theatres of Faith in the Age of Trump" (Routledge, 2024)
Jun 23, 2024 • 1h 30m
Paula Marie Seniors, "Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions: African American Women Radical Activists" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
Jun 22, 2024 • 46m
Allison Elias, "The Rise of Corporate Feminism: Women in the American Office, 1960-1990" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Jun 22, 2024 • 49m
M. Girard Dorsey, "Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jun 21, 2024 • 57m
Jennifer S. Clark, "Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's Liberation" (U California Press, 2024)
Jun 21, 2024 • 48m
Kathleen DuVal, "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America" (Random House, 2024)
Jun 20, 2024 • 58m
Postscript: The Supreme Court’s Decisions on Bump Stocks and Mifepristone
Jun 20, 2024 • 36m
Aziz Rana, "The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jun 19, 2024 • 1h 16m
Sally Stocksdale, "When Emancipation Came: The End of Enslavement on a Southern Plantation and a Russian Estate" (McFarland, 2022)
Jun 19, 2024 • 1h 0m
Alex V. Barnard, "Conservatorship: Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jun 18, 2024 • 59m
Jared McDonald, "Feeling Their Pain: Why Voters Want Leaders who Care" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 18, 2024 • 54m
Postscript: Previewing the 2024 Presidential Race
Jun 17, 2024 • 55m
Timothy G. Anderson and Brian Schoen, "Settling Ohio: First Peoples and Beyond" (Ohio UP, 2023)
Jun 17, 2024 • 36m
Hannah Forsyth, "Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jun 16, 2024 • 44m
Madman in the White House?
Jun 16, 2024 • 1h 3m
Michael V. Singh, "Good Boys, Bad Hombres: The Racial Politics of Mentoring Latino Boys in Schools" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Jun 16, 2024 • 30m
John Soluri, "Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States" (U Texas Press, 2021)
Jun 16, 2024 • 1h 14m
Sommer Browning and Isabel Soto-Luna, "Serving Hispanic, Latine, and Latinx Students in Academic Libraries" (Library Juice Press, 2022)
Jun 15, 2024 • 46m
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jun 15, 2024 • 51m
Jessica Calarco, "Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net" (Portfolio, 2024)
Jun 15, 2024 • 46m
Christopher William England, "Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Jun 14, 2024 • 41m
Jared Stearns, "Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers" (Headpress, 2024)
Jun 14, 2024 • 1h 4m
On Richard Linklater and “Hit Man”
Jun 14, 2024 • 59m
Gale L. Kenny, "Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire" (NYU Press, 2024)
Jun 13, 2024 • 1h 0m
Adam Berg, "The Olympics that Never Happened: Denver '76 and the Politics of Growth" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Jun 12, 2024 • 44m
Chloe Wigston Smith, "Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Yale UP, 2024)
Jun 12, 2024 • 51m
Duana Fullwiley, "Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science" (U California Press, 2024)
Jun 12, 2024 • 1h 16m
Laura Davis-Chanin and Liz Lamere, "Infinite Dreams: The Life of Alan Vega" (Backbeat Books, 2024)
Jun 11, 2024 • 59m
Laura Gómez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism" (The New Press, 2020)
Jun 11, 2024 • 1h 3m
Shannon Bontrager, "Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863-1921" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
Jun 11, 2024 • 1h 41m
Stephanie Ternullo, "How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jun 10, 2024 • 54m
Kathleen Day, "Broken Bargain: Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street" (Yale UP, 2019)
Jun 10, 2024 • 57m
Robert G. Boatright, "Reform and Retrenchment: A Century of Efforts to Fix Primary Elections" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jun 10, 2024 • 59m
Adrienne Brown, "The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Jun 9, 2024 • 1h 1m
Margaret A. Hagerman, "Children of a Troubled Time: Growing Up with Racism in Trump's America" (NYU Press, 2024)
Jun 9, 2024 • 31m
Timothy P. Storhoff, "Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Jun 9, 2024 • 59m
Cian T. McMahon, "The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine" (NYU Press, 2021)
Jun 8, 2024 • 53m
Michele Goodwin, "Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jun 8, 2024 • 1h 4m
Financial Institutions and Enslavement
Jun 8, 2024 • 59m
Jonathan H. Ebel, "From Dust They Came: Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California" (NYU Press,2023)
Jun 7, 2024 • 45m
Corey J. Miles, "Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South" (U Mississippi Press, 2024)
Jun 7, 2024 • 48m
Aaron Fischman, "A Baseball Gaijin: Chasing a Dream to Japan and Back" (Sports Publishing, 2024)
Jun 7, 2024 • 1h 7m
Alan H. McGowan, "The Political Activism of Anthropologist Franz Boas, Citizen Scientist" (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2024)
Jun 7, 2024 • 49m
Thomas Larkin, "The China Firm: American Elites and the Making of British Colonial Society" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jun 7, 2024 • 32m
Aaron Eddens, "Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa" (U California Press, 2024)
Jun 6, 2024 • 53m
Nicholas Tampio, ed., "Democracy and Education" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jun 5, 2024 • 1h 21m
Sergio M. González, "Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Jun 5, 2024 • 1h 21m
Matthew D. Morrison, "Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States" (U California Press, 2024)
Jun 5, 2024 • 1h 17m
Mark Robert Rank, "The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us" (U California Press, 2024)
Jun 4, 2024 • 37m
Tara López, "Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency in El Paso" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Jun 4, 2024 • 51m
Adam Goodman, "The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jun 2, 2024 • 1h 7m
Ramón Espejo, "The Catalonian Journey of American Drama 1909-2000: From Jimmy Valentine to The Vagina Monologues" (Legenda, 2024)
Jun 2, 2024 • 31m
Aya Gruber, "The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration" (U California Press, 2020)
Jun 2, 2024 • 1h 7m
Richard E. Ocejo, "Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jun 2, 2024 • 1h 0m
Robert Cochran, "Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis" (U Arkansas Press, 2024)
Jun 1, 2024 • 1h 14m
Ronald R. Sundstrom, "Just Shelter: Gentrification, Integration, Race, and Reconstruction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jun 1, 2024 • 1h 8m
Ryan White, "Springsteen: Album by Album" (Palazzo Editions, 2024)
May 31, 2024 • 58m
Kazushi Minami, "People's Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations During the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2024)
May 31, 2024 • 1h 10m
Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023)
May 30, 2024 • 49m
Anne Kim, "Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor" (The New Press, 2024)
May 30, 2024 • 28m
Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, "Disability Worlds" (Duke UP, 2024)
May 30, 2024 • 1h 25m
Transforming Hispanic-Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice
May 30, 2024 • 1h 1m
Stephen J. Silvia, "The UAW's Southern Gamble: Organizing Workers at Foreign-Owned Vehicle Plants" (IRL Press, 2023)
May 29, 2024 • 1h 5m
Tom Mueller, "How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine" (Norton, 2023)
May 29, 2024 • 1h 9m
The History of Washington D.C., America’s New Rome
May 29, 2024 • 1h 8m
M. Ramirez and D. Peterson, "Ignored Racism: White Animus Toward Latinos (Cambridge UP, 2020)
May 28, 2024 • 59m
Vanessa Walker, "Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy" (Cornell UP, 2020)
May 27, 2024 • 1h 4m
Larry Roeder and Barry Harrelson, "Dirt Don't Burn: A Black Community's Struggle for Educational Equality Under Segregation" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
May 27, 2024 • 54m
Ears Racing
May 27, 2024 • 58m
Carola Binder, "Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
May 27, 2024 • 43m
Jesse McCarthy, "The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
May 26, 2024 • 1h 13m
Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans, "The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels" (Crown, 2024)
May 26, 2024 • 39m
Marc C. Johnson, "Mansfield and Dirksen: Bipartisan Giants of the Senate" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
May 26, 2024 • 1h 5m
Alan Jenkins and Gan Golan, "1/6, The Graphic Novel: What if the Attack on the U.S. Capitol had Succeeded?" (Sun Print Solutions, 2023)
May 26, 2024 • 55m
Jeffrey Reiman and Paul Leighton, "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison" (Routledge, 2023)
May 24, 2024 • 36m
Cathy Stanton, "Food Margins: Lessons from an Unlikely Grocer" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
May 23, 2024 • 44m
Alex Beringer, "Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip" (Ohio State UP, 2024)
May 22, 2024 • 1h 0m
American Innovation, American Vitality: A Conversation with Chris Buskirk
May 22, 2024 • 1h 1m
Danielle R. Olden, "Racial Uncertainties: Mexican Americans, School Desegregation, and the Making of Race in Post–Civil Rights America" (U California Press, 2022)
May 22, 2024 • 1h 21m
Omar Valerio-Jiménez, "Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship" (UNC Press, 2024)
May 22, 2024 • 1h 11m
Laura Helton, "Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History" (Columbia UP, 2024)
May 22, 2024 • 55m
Mark Moyar, "Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968" (Encounter, 2023)
May 22, 2024 • 23m
Mark Robert Rank, "The Poverty Paradox: Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 21, 2024 • 39m
Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld, "The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
May 20, 2024 • 59m
Daniel P. Ott, "Harvesting History: McCormick's Reaper, Heritage Branding, and Historical Forgery" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
May 20, 2024 • 1h 4m
Ryan Reft, "Heroin and Chocolate City: Black Community Responses to Drug Addiction in the Nation’s Capital, 1967-1973" (2024)
May 20, 2024 • 55m
Stuart A. Reid, "The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination" (Knopf, 2023)
May 19, 2024 • 50m
Raven Simone Maragh-Lloyd, "Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age" (U California Press, 2024)
May 19, 2024 • 57m
James A. Cosby, "Rock Music, Authority and Western Culture, 1964-1980" (McFarland, 2024)
May 19, 2024 • 42m
Chaim Miller, "Turning Judaism Outward: A Biography of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson the Seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe" (Kol Menachem, 2014)
May 18, 2024 • 21m
Shakespeare in America
May 18, 2024 • 56m
Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson, "Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade" (Harvard UP, 2024)
May 16, 2024 • 1h 19m
Kunal M. Parker, "The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870-1970" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
May 16, 2024 • 1h 2m
Lisa Bhungalia, "Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2023)
May 15, 2024 • 47m
Douglas L. Reside, "Fixing the Musical: How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 15, 2024 • 56m
Tessa Winkelmann, "Dangerous Intercourse: Gender and Interracial Relations in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898–1946" (Cornell UP, 2023)
May 15, 2024 • 1h 14m
Christopher Tounsel, "Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity" (Cornell UP, 2024)
May 15, 2024 • 52m
Can the Constitution Still Unite Us?: A Conversation with Yuval Levin
May 14, 2024 • 53m
M. Steven Fish, "Comeback: Routing Trumpism, Reclaiming the Nation, and Restoring Democracy's Edge" (Rivertowns Books, 2024)
May 14, 2024 • 1h 53m
Kevin Woodson, "The Black Ceiling: How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
May 13, 2024 • 37m
Courtney Thorsson, "The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)
May 13, 2024 • 1h 0m
Maria Cristina Garcia, "State of Disaster: The Failure of U. S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change" (UNC Press, 2022)
May 12, 2024 • 50m
Pamela Aronson and Matthew R. Fleming, "Gender Revolution: How Electoral Politics and #MeToo are Reshaping Everyday Life" (Routledge, 2023)
May 12, 2024 • 1h 4m
Cecily N. Zander, "The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era" (LSU Press, 2024)
May 12, 2024 • 1h 2m
Denise Von Glahn, "Circle of Winners: How the Guggenheim Foundation Composition Awards Shaped American Music Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
May 12, 2024 • 1h 8m
Dan Chapman, "A Road Running Southward: Following John Muir's Journey Through an Endangered Land" (Island Press, 2022)
May 11, 2024 • 59m
Alissa Quart, "Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream" (Ecco Press, 2023)
May 11, 2024 • 1h 3m
Robert K. D. Colby, "An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 10, 2024 • 42m
Kendra Y. Hamilton, "Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
May 10, 2024 • 1h 10m
Maggie Messitt, "Newspaper" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
May 9, 2024 • 57m
Book Banning: A Discussion with Christine Emeran of the National Coalition Against Censorship
May 9, 2024 • 45m
Steve McCauley excavates John Cheever's "The Five-Forty-Eight" (JP)
May 9, 2024 • 1h 13m
David Tal, "The Making of an Alliance: The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 8, 2024 • 36m
Julia Havas, "Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
May 8, 2024 • 1h 13m
Battlefield to Big Sky: A Conversation with Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy
May 8, 2024 • 29m
Marion R. Casey, "The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish Image" (NYU Press, 2024)
May 8, 2024 • 29m
Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha, "Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States" (UNC Press, 2023)
May 7, 2024 • 1h 27m
Ariana Mangual Figueroa, "Knowing Silence: How Children Talk about Immigration Status in School" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
May 7, 2024 • 30m
James Wolfinger, "If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress: Black Politics in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia" (Temple UP, 2022)
May 6, 2024 • 59m
Sydney Stern, "The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics" (U Mississippi Press, 2019)
May 5, 2024 • 1h 14m
Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, "Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
May 5, 2024 • 1h 3m
Donald Stoker, "Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
May 5, 2024 • 46m
Salar Mameni, "Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2023)
May 5, 2024 • 1h 6m
Tanisha M. Fazal, "Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 5, 2024 • 56m
Patrick Humphries, "Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood: How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios" (History Press, 2023)
May 4, 2024 • 53m
David J. Silbey and Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, "Wars Civil and Great: The American Experience in the Civil War and World War I" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
May 4, 2024 • 1h 1m
Sara B. Franklin, "The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America" (Atria, 2024)
May 3, 2024 • 26m
Kristi Irene McKim, "Rushmore" (British Film Institute, 2023)
May 3, 2024 • 1h 23m
Leading from the Margins: College Leadership from Unexpected Places
May 2, 2024 • 56m
Crystal Wilkinson, "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" (Clarkson Potter, 2023)
May 2, 2024 • 47m
Catherine Ceniza Choy, "Asian American Histories of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2022)
May 1, 2024 • 49m
Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)
May 1, 2024 • 39m
Jennifer M. Black, "Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
May 1, 2024 • 56m
Allison Schrager, "An Economist Walks Into A Brothel And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk" (Portfolio, 2019)
Apr 30, 2024 • 40m
Adia Harvey Wingfield, "Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It" (Amistad Press, 2023)
Apr 30, 2024 • 46m
Melody Yunzi Li, "Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Apr 30, 2024 • 42m
Christopher Cameron, "Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism" (Northwestern UP, 2019)
Apr 29, 2024 • 48m
David Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 28, 2024 • 58m
Karyne Messina, "Barbie and the Great American Identity Crisis: The Unfortunate Reality of a Nation Plagued by Racism, Patriarchy, and Stark Hypocrisy" (Pi Press, 2024)
Apr 28, 2024 • 52m
John H. Cable, "Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
Apr 28, 2024 • 1h 7m
Michael De Groot, "Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Apr 28, 2024 • 53m
Ross Perlin, "Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024)
Apr 27, 2024 • 1h 4m
Leigh Gilmore, "The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Apr 27, 2024 • 52m
Steven C. Beda, "Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Apr 26, 2024 • 1h 4m
Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, "Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Apr 26, 2024 • 50m
Adam J. Criblez, "Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City" (Three Hills, 2024)
Apr 26, 2024 • 49m
Andrea Wenzel, "Antiracist Journalism: The Challenge of Creating Equitable Local News" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Apr 26, 2024 • 54m
Teri Ann Finneman et al., "Reviving Rural News: Transforming the Business Model of Community Journalism in the US and Beyond" (Routledge, 2024)
Apr 25, 2024 • 42m
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema" (U California Press, 2024)
Apr 24, 2024 • 1h 6m
Alexander Greenhough, "Albert Brooks: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
Apr 24, 2024 • 46m
Philip Mark Plotch and Jen Nelles, "Mobilizing the Metropolis: How the Port Authority Built New York" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Apr 23, 2024 • 48m
Michael J. Graetz, "The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Apr 23, 2024 • 1h 5m
Gary S. Cross, "Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal" (NYU Press, 2024)
Apr 23, 2024 • 48m
Michael Liu, "Forever Struggle: Activism, Identity, and Survival in Boston's Chinatown, 1880-2018" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
Apr 22, 2024 • 47m
Fumilayo Showers, "Migrants Who Care: West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Apr 21, 2024 • 1h 2m
Diana Chapman Walsh, "The Claims of Life: A Memoir" (MIT Press, 2023)
Apr 21, 2024 • 1h 15m
Susan Partovi, "Renegade M.D.: A Doctor's Stories from the Streets" (Bookbaby, 2024)
Apr 21, 2024 • 1h 2m
Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King, "America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Apr 21, 2024 • 1h 6m
Guido Alfani, "As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Apr 19, 2024 • 58m
Tanisha Ford, "Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement" (Amistad Press, 2024)
Apr 19, 2024 • 33m
Charles E. Curran, "Loyal Dissent: Memoir of a Catholic Theologian" (Georgetown UP, 2006)
Apr 19, 2024 • 59m
On Fiorello La Guardia and Why He Still Matters: A Discussion with Author Terry Golway
Apr 19, 2024 • 56m
Rose Miron, "Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Apr 18, 2024 • 44m
Richard Olsen-Harbich, "Sun, Sea, Soil, Wine: Winemaking on the North Fork of Long Island" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Apr 17, 2024 • 58m
Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
Apr 17, 2024 • 35m
Jerry Grillo, "Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
Apr 17, 2024 • 1h 3m
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, "Puerto Rico: A National History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Apr 16, 2024 • 44m
Steven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I" (HarperCollins, 2023)
Apr 15, 2024 • 1h 19m
Ieva Jusionyte, "Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border" (U California Press, 2024)
Apr 15, 2024 • 56m
Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Apr 15, 2024 • 54m
Joseph H. Holland, "Make Your Own History: Timeless Truths from Black American Trailblazers" (Dafina, 2023)
Apr 14, 2024 • 1h 3m
Seth D. Kaplan, "Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time" (Little, Brown Spark, 2023)
Apr 14, 2024 • 30m
Jeremy Black, "The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History" (Routledge, 2015)
Apr 14, 2024 • 41m
R. J. Boutelle, "The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny" (UNC Press, 2023)
Apr 13, 2024 • 1h 7m
Stewart Lawrence Sinclair, "Space Rover" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Apr 13, 2024 • 44m
Paul Williams, "The US Graphic Novel" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Apr 12, 2024 • 1h 0m
Tana Jean Welch, "Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
Apr 10, 2024 • 57m
Benoît Crucifix, "Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic Novel" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 9, 2024 • 1h 0m
Shardé M. Davis, "Being Black in the Ivory: Truth-Telling about Racism in Higher Education" (UNC Press, 2024)
Apr 9, 2024 • 50m
Christopher Michael Blakley, "Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World" (Louisiana State UP, 2023)
Apr 8, 2024 • 58m
Steve Mentz, "Sailing without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels" (Fordham UP, 2024)
Apr 8, 2024 • 55m
Joseph M. Thompson, "Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism" (UNC Press, 2024)
Apr 6, 2024 • 1h 6m
Sandra Fox, "The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Apr 6, 2024 • 48m
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, "The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market" (Bloomsbury. 2023)
Apr 5, 2024 • 1h 3m
Mauricio Fernando Castro, "Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Apr 5, 2024 • 1h 11m
Daniel de Visé, "The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic" (Grove Atlantic, 2024)
Apr 5, 2024 • 58m
Stefan Aune, "Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire" (U California Press, 2023)
Apr 4, 2024 • 29m
Greg Jarrell, "Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods" (Fortress Press, 2024)
Apr 3, 2024 • 49m
Loren D. Lybarger, "Palestinian Chicago: Identity in Exile" (U California Press, 2020)
Apr 3, 2024 • 1h 21m
Naomi Cahn, et al., "Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Apr 3, 2024 • 1h 7m
Diane Winston, "Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's Evangelical Vision" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Apr 1, 2024 • 1h 3m
Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, "Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Mar 31, 2024 • 1h 21m
Dave Mac Marquis and Moira Marquis, "Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
Mar 31, 2024 • 57m
Matthew H. Hersch, "Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle" (MIT Press, 2023)
Mar 30, 2024 • 36m
David J. Dennis Jr. and David J. Dennis Sr., "The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride" (Harper, 2022)
Mar 30, 2024 • 20m
Teresa Ghilarducci, "Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Mar 30, 2024 • 29m
Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen, "The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition" (Haymarket Books, 2024)
Mar 29, 2024 • 1h 10m
Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney, "From Rights to Lives: The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle" (Vanderbilt UP, 2024)
Mar 29, 2024 • 38m
Paul Carter, "Richard Nixon: California's Native Son" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Mar 29, 2024 • 1h 59m
Sam McPheeters, "Mutations: Twenty Years Embedded in Hardcore Punk" (Barnacle Book, 2020)
Mar 28, 2024 • 49m
Jamie Goodall, "Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy: From Cape Cod to the Caribbean" (History Press, 2023)
Mar 28, 2024 • 42m
SunAh M. Laybourn, "Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants" (NYU Press, 2024)
Mar 27, 2024 • 40m
Neil Gong, "Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Mar 27, 2024 • 41m
Adam Lazarus, "The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams" (Citadel Press, 2023)
Mar 27, 2024 • 53m
William W. Parsons and Regina M. Matheson, "The Pink Wave: Women Running for Office After Trump" (NYU Press, 2023)
Mar 26, 2024 • 43m
Why, How, and Who to Marry: A Conversation with Brad Wilcox *01
Mar 26, 2024 • 48m
Rachel S. Gross, "Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America" (Yale UP, 2024)
Mar 26, 2024 • 36m
Maggie Hennefeld, "Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Mar 25, 2024 • 59m
George S. Takach, "Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence in the New Battle between China, Russia, and America" (Pegasus Book, 2024)
Mar 24, 2024 • 1h 8m
Tim Lanzendörfer, "Utopian Pasts and Futures in the Contemporary American Novel" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Mar 24, 2024 • 41m
Emily Conroy-Krutz, "Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Mar 24, 2024 • 49m
John William Nelson, "Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent" (UNC Press, 2023)
Mar 23, 2024 • 1h 22m
John William Nelson, "Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent" (UNC Press, 2023)
Mar 23, 2024 • 1h 22m
David Ostrowsky, "Roberto Alomar: The Complicated Life and Legacy of a Baseball Hall of Famer" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Mar 22, 2024 • 43m
Tonia Sutherland, "Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife" (U California Press, 2023)
Mar 22, 2024 • 58m
Anelise Hanson Shrout, "Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy" (NYU Press, 2024)
Mar 22, 2024 • 55m
Stephen Lee Naish, "Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper" (Routledge, 2024)
Mar 21, 2024 • 48m
Amy Absher, "Fritzie: The Invented Life and Violent Murder of a Flapper" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
Mar 21, 2024 • 31m
Beth Linker, "Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Mar 21, 2024 • 30m
Looking into the Heart of Arizona: A Discussion with Author Tom Zoellner
Mar 21, 2024 • 52m
Heather Akou, "On the Job: A History of American Work Uniforms" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Mar 21, 2024 • 1h 1m
Max Fraser, "Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 20, 2024 • 1h 14m
Stephanie Li, "Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Mar 20, 2024 • 41m
Christina Gish Hill et al., "National Parks, Native Sovereignty: Experiments in Collaboration" (U Oklahoma Press, 2024)
Mar 20, 2024 • 1h 20m
Coretta M. Pittman, "Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
Mar 19, 2024 • 50m
Xaq Frohlich on the History of Food Labeling
Mar 18, 2024 • 1h 30m
Rachel Gordan, "Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 18, 2024 • 1h 3m
John O’Connor, "The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster" (Sourcebooks, 2024)
Mar 16, 2024 • 52m
Lisa Messeri, "In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles" (Duke UP, 2024)
Mar 16, 2024 • 1h 9m
Ellen E. Jones, "Screen Deep: How Film and TV Can Solve Racism and Save the World" (Faber and Faber, 2024)
Mar 16, 2024 • 48m
Andrew J. Kirkendall, "Hemispheric Alliances: Liberal Democrats and Cold War Latin America" (UNC Press, 2022)
Mar 16, 2024 • 1h 44m
Myisha Cherry, "Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024 • 42m
Jonathan W. White, "Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024 • 39m
Whitney Nell Stewart, "This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations" (UNC Press, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024 • 1h 30m
Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm
Mar 14, 2024 • 1h 4m
Foster Care, Family, and Social Class: A Conversation with Rob Henderson
Mar 14, 2024 • 1h 3m
Korey Garibaldi, "Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 13, 2024 • 1h 14m
Janine Giordano Drake, "The Gospel of Church: How Mainline Protestants Vilified Christian Socialism and Fractured the Labor Movement" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 13, 2024 • 42m
Thomas Mareite, "Conditional Freedom: Free Soil and Fugitive Slaves from the U.S. South to Mexico's Northeast, 1803-1861" (Brill, 2024)
Mar 13, 2024 • 59m
Judith Tick, "Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song" (Norton, 2023)
Mar 12, 2024 • 55m
Reading Taylor Swift as a Cultural and Political Text
Mar 11, 2024 • 1h 4m
Sharon D. Wright Austin, "Political Black Girl Magic: The Elections and Governance of Black Female Mayors" (Temple UP, 2023)
Mar 11, 2024 • 46m
Amy Paeth, "The American Poet Laureate" A History of U.S. Poetry and the State" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Mar 11, 2024 • 53m
David Savran, "Tell It to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 11, 2024 • 58m
Flora Lu and Emily Murai, "Critical Campus Sustainabilities: Bridging Social Justice and the Environment in Higher Education" (Springer, 2023)
Mar 11, 2024 • 52m
Rachel Jamison Webster, "Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family" (Henry Holt, 2023)
Mar 11, 2024 • 33m
Sean M. Kelley, "American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865" (Yale UP, 2023)
Mar 10, 2024 • 1h 5m
Ilyon Woo, "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
Mar 9, 2024 • 52m
Benjamin J. Pauli, "Flint Fights Back: Environmental Justice and Democracy in the Flint Water Crisis" (MIT Press, 2019)
Mar 9, 2024 • 38m
Dariusz Tołczyk, "Blissful Blindness: Soviet Crimes under Western Eyes" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Mar 8, 2024 • 1h 32m
Edda Fields-Black, "Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 7, 2024 • 1h 35m
Alicia Kennedy, "No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating" (Beacon Press, 2023)
Mar 6, 2024 • 1h 1m
Amy Coddington, "How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race" (U California Press, 2023)
Mar 6, 2024 • 51m
Jessica Hooten Wilson, "Flannery O'Connor's 'Why Do the Heathen Rage?' A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress" (Brazos Press, 2024)
Mar 5, 2024 • 35m
Joanna Crosby, "Apples and Orchards Since the Eighteenth Century: Material Innovation and Cultural Tradition" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Mar 5, 2024 • 46m
Zhongping Chen, "Transpacific Reform and Revolution: The Chinese in North America, 1898-1918" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Mar 4, 2024 • 54m
Cristina Brito, "Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Mar 4, 2024 • 36m
Justin Owen Rawlins, "Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Mar 3, 2024 • 56m
Alvita Akiboh, "Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Mar 3, 2024 • 47m
Mimi Khúc, "dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss" (Duke UP, 2023)
Mar 3, 2024 • 1h 1m
David P. Gushee, "Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies" (William B. Eerdmans, 2023)
Mar 2, 2024 • 51m
Kristine M. McCusker, "Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent: Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-1955" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Mar 2, 2024 • 55m
Terry Williams, "Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Mar 1, 2024 • 27m
Carly Goodman, "Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction" (UNC Press, 2023)
Feb 29, 2024 • 1h 10m
Leadership in Business, Leadership Abroad: A Conversation with Dave McCormick *96
Feb 28, 2024 • 45m
Gerald Epstein, "Busting the Bankers' Club: Finance for the Rest of Us" (U California Press, 2024)
Feb 28, 2024 • 1h 1m
Sara J. Grossman, "Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy" (Duke UP, 2023)
Feb 28, 2024 • 41m
Alissa Quart and David Wallis, "Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World's Richest Country" (Haymarket, 2023)
Feb 28, 2024 • 54m
Judith Pearson, "Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker" (Mayo Clinic Press, 2023)
Feb 27, 2024 • 58m
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, "Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam" (Duke UP, 2021)
Feb 26, 2024 • 1h 1m
Marcia Bricker Halperin, "Kibbitz and Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow's Cafeteria" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Feb 25, 2024 • 33m
Sarah Keyes, "American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Feb 25, 2024 • 1h 10m
Angela Wanhalla, "Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Feb 25, 2024 • 1h 5m
Neema Avashia, "Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place" (West Virginia UP, 2022)
Feb 25, 2024 • 48m
Daniel Dain, "A History of Boston" (Peter E. Randall, 2023)
Feb 24, 2024 • 1h 16m
Matthew Fox-Amato, "Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Feb 24, 2024 • 53m
Christopher J. Devine, "I’m Here to Ask for Your Vote: How Presidential Campaign Visits Influence Voters" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Feb 24, 2024 • 1h 6m
Gregory D. Smithers, "Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal" (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)
Feb 23, 2024 • 1h 7m
Imani D. Owens, "Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Feb 23, 2024 • 1h 5m
Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Feb 21, 2024 • 40m
T. Corey Brennan, "The Fasces: A History of Ancient Rome's Most Dangerous Political Symbol" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 21, 2024 • 49m
Laurence Ralph, "Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him" (Grand Central Publishing, 2023)
Feb 21, 2024 • 48m
Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023)
Feb 20, 2024 • 1h 8m
Emily Legg, "Stories of Our Living Ephemera: Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907" (Utah State UP, 2023)
Feb 20, 2024 • 1h 3m
John Howland, "Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music" (U California Press, 2021)
Feb 18, 2024 • 1h 35m
Lawrence Glickman, "Free Enterprise: An American History" (Yale UP, 2019)
Feb 18, 2024 • 1h 1m
Matthew C. Ward, "Making the Frontier Man: Violence, White Manhood, and Authority in the Early Western Backcountry" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
Feb 18, 2024 • 1h 18m
Max Felker-Kantor, "DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools" (UNC Press, 2023)
Feb 17, 2024 • 1h 2m
Norman Hill and Velma Murphy Hill, "Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain: The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism" (Regalo Press, 2023)
Feb 17, 2024 • 1h 5m
Mirelsie Velazquez, "Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Feb 17, 2024 • 1h 2m
Ian Saxine, "Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" (NYU Press, 2019)
Feb 16, 2024 • 1h 26m
Sarah Parry Myers, "Earning Their Wings: The WASPs of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition" (UNC Press, 2023)
Feb 16, 2024 • 56m
Richard L. Hasen, "A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Feb 15, 2024 • 28m
Steven Harvey, "The Beloved Republic" (Wandering Aengus Press, 2023)
Feb 15, 2024 • 28m
Marisol LeBrón, "Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico" (U California Press, 2019)
Feb 14, 2024 • 1h 5m
Kimberly Meltzer, “From News to Talk: The Expansion of Opinion and Commentary in U.S. Journalism” (SUNY Press, 2019)
Feb 14, 2024 • 58m
Josh Fernandez, "The Hands That Crafted the Bomb: The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist" (PM Press, 2024)
Feb 13, 2024 • 47m
Jeanne Theoharis, "The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South" (NYU Press, 2019)
Feb 12, 2024 • 44m
William Gale, "Fiscal Therapy: Curing America's Debt Addiction and Investing in the Future" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Feb 12, 2024 • 46m
James L. Gibson and Michael J. Nelson, "Judging Inequality: State Supreme Courts and the Inequality Crisis" (Russell Sage, 2021)
Feb 12, 2024 • 58m
Andrius Gališanka, "John Rawls: The Path to a Theory of Justice" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Feb 12, 2024 • 1h 14m
Richard A. Detweiler, "The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs: Lives of Consequence, Inquiry, and Accomplishment" (MIT Press, 2021)
Feb 11, 2024 • 1h 7m
Timothy A. Sayle, "Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Feb 11, 2024 • 53m
Tim Keogh, "In Levittown’s Shadow: Poverty in America’s Wealthiest Postwar Suburb" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Feb 11, 2024 • 1h 0m
Daniel Immerwahr, "How to Hide an Empire: The History of the Greater United States" (FSG, 2019)
Feb 11, 2024 • 1h 19m
Brian H. Williams, "The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal" (Broadleaf Books, 2023)
Feb 10, 2024 • 37m
Nicholas B. Dirks, "City of Intellect: The Uses and Abuses of the University" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Feb 9, 2024 • 1h 10m
Richard T. Rodríguez, "A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad" (Duke UP, 2022)
Feb 9, 2024 • 1h 7m
Jennifer Sdunzik, "The Geography of Hate: The Great Migration through Small-Town America" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Feb 9, 2024 • 42m
Gregory Wallance, "Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
Feb 8, 2024 • 54m
Wendy Cheng, "Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Feb 8, 2024 • 54m
Gregory Wallance, "Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
Feb 8, 2024 • 54m
Jake Berman, "The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Feb 7, 2024 • 32m
Matthew Kruer, "Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Feb 7, 2024 • 1h 39m
Calvin John Smiley, "Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition" (U California Press, 2023)
Feb 7, 2024 • 1h 4m
Robert Alpert et al., "Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Feb 6, 2024 • 1h 34m
Mark Guarino, "Country and Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Feb 5, 2024 • 1h 11m
Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer, "Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
Feb 5, 2024 • 1h 14m
Alex Squadron, "Life in the G: Minor League Basketball and the Relentless Pursuit of the NBA" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Feb 5, 2024 • 41m
Dustin Kiskaddon, "Blood and Lightening: On Becoming a Tattooer" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Feb 4, 2024 • 53m
Murray Forman and Mark V. Campbell, "Hip Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production" (Intellect, 2023)
Feb 4, 2024 • 1h 1m
Courtney Brannon Donoghue, "The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Feb 4, 2024 • 56m
Elizabeth Varon, "Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Feb 4, 2024 • 28m
Julia Ornelas-Higdon, "The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769–1920" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Feb 3, 2024 • 56m
William L. Bird, "In the Arms of Saguaros: Iconography of the Giant Cactus" (U Arizona Press, 2023)
Feb 3, 2024 • 48m
George Fisher, "Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Feb 3, 2024 • 1h 3m
Michael O'Malley, "The Beat Cop: Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Feb 3, 2024 • 59m
Georgina Hickey, "Breaking the Gender Code: Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Feb 2, 2024 • 1h 8m
Marc Arsell Robinson, "Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest" (NYU Press, 2023)
Feb 2, 2024 • 1h 26m
Sheila Marie Bock, "Claiming Space: Performing the Personal Through Decorated Mortarboards" (Utah State UP, 2023)
Feb 2, 2024 • 47m
Ismar Volić, "Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Feb 1, 2024 • 39m
The Culture Trap, with Sociologist Derron Wallace (EF, JP)
Feb 1, 2024 • 47m
Matthew D. Lassiter, "The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Feb 1, 2024 • 59m
Eviane Leidig, "The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jan 31, 2024 • 42m
Maryam Kashani, "Medina by the Bay: Scenes of Muslim Study and Survival" (Duke UP, 2023)
Jan 31, 2024 • 1h 9m
Charlotte Coté, "A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Jan 30, 2024 • 1h 12m
Colorblindness and the Classics: A Conversation with Andre Archie
Jan 30, 2024 • 49m
Holly A. Baggett, "Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
Jan 30, 2024 • 39m
Hajar Yazdiha, "The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jan 30, 2024 • 44m
On Authoritarianism: A Discussion with Author and Political Scientist Matthew C. MacWilliams
Jan 29, 2024 • 55m
David M. Henkin, "The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms that Made Us who We are" (Yale UP, 2021)
Jan 29, 2024 • 58m
Sarah Diefendorf, "The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety Among White Evangelicals" (U California Press, 2023)
Jan 29, 2024 • 53m
Caitlin Killian, "Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers" (Polity Press, 2023)
Jan 29, 2024 • 59m
Paul Franke, "Feeling Lucky: The Production of Gambling Experiences in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Jan 29, 2024 • 52m
Sandro Galea, "Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jan 28, 2024 • 28m
Alka Vaid Menon, "Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards" (U California Press, 2023)
Jan 28, 2024 • 50m
Damien Sojoyner, "Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory Practice" (Fordham UP, 2023)
Jan 28, 2024 • 43m
Calder Walton, "Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West" (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
Jan 28, 2024 • 44m
Caleb Wellum, "Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Jan 26, 2024 • 57m
Ethel Morgan Smith, "Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
Jan 26, 2024 • 31m
Richard L. Bushman, "Joseph Smith's Gold Plates: A Cultural History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 25, 2024 • 1h 13m
Damon Scott, "The City Aroused: Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Jan 25, 2024 • 1h 9m
Mark Zachary Taylor, "Presidential Leadership in Feeble Times: Explaining Executive Power in the Gilded Age" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 25, 2024 • 53m
Loka Ashwood et al., "Empty Fields, Empty Promises: A State-By-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jan 24, 2024 • 50m
Nicholas Radburn, "Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jan 24, 2024 • 1h 15m
James R. Fichter, "Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773–1776" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jan 24, 2024 • 1h 3m
Ofer Sharone, "The Stigma Trap: College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 22, 2024 • 34m
On Zionism and the Left: A Discussion with Author and Cultural Critic Susie Linfield
Jan 22, 2024 • 1h 5m
Ian MacAllen, "Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Jan 22, 2024 • 52m
Kareem R. Muhammad, "The Fight for Black Empowerment in the USA: America’s Last Hope" (Routledge, 2023)
Jan 22, 2024 • 58m
Aaron Carnes, "In Defense of Ska: The Ska Now More Than Ever Edition" (Clash Books, 2023)
Jan 21, 2024 • 1h 9m
Joseph C. Russo, "Hard Luck and Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jan 21, 2024 • 34m
Cassander L. Smith, "Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic" (LSU Press, 2023)
Jan 21, 2024 • 40m
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, "Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jan 20, 2024 • 48m
Robert C. Post, "The Taft Court (10): Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 19, 2024 • 1h 7m
Leanne Trapedo Sims, "Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawai'i Women's Prison Writing" (Duke UP, 2023)
Jan 19, 2024 • 29m
Bradley R. Clampitt, "Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity" (LSU Press, 2022)
Jan 18, 2024 • 1h 6m
Black and Queer on Campus
Jan 18, 2024 • 51m
Scott Gac, "Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 18, 2024 • 39m
Neall W. Pogue, "The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jan 18, 2024 • 56m
Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan, "The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jan 18, 2024 • 45m
On Henry Einspruch's 1941 Yiddish Translation of the Christian Bible
Jan 17, 2024 • 59m
Aimee Loiselle, "Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jan 17, 2024 • 55m
Geoffrey Levin, "Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jan 16, 2024 • 1h 8m
Alexandra Filindra, "Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jan 15, 2024 • 53m
James C. Goodall, "Nautilus to Columbia: 70 Years of the US Navy's Nuclear Submarines" (Osprey, 2023)
Jan 15, 2024 • 54m
Jeffrey A. Friedman, "The Commander-in-Chief Test: Public Opinion and the Politics of Image-Making in US Foreign Policy" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jan 14, 2024 • 40m
Kathryn Mathers, "White Saviorism and Popular Culture: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation" (Routledge, 2022)
Jan 14, 2024 • 1h 20m
James W. Cortada, "Inside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action" (Columbia Business School, 2023)
Jan 14, 2024 • 1h 8m
Rich Cohen, "When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season" (Random House, 2023)
Jan 13, 2024 • 1h 2m
Matt Singer, "Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
Jan 13, 2024 • 59m
Aviva Ben-Ur and Wim Klooster eds., "Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Jan 13, 2024 • 45m
Emily Brooks, "Gotham’s War Within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jan 13, 2024 • 1h 8m
Sam Lebovic, "State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime" (Basic Book, 2023)
Jan 12, 2024 • 58m
Matthew Batt, "The Last Supper Club: A Waiter's Requiem" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
Jan 12, 2024 • 53m
Hajar Yazdiha, "The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jan 12, 2024 • 30m
Kami Fletcher and Ashley Towle, "Grave History: Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Jan 11, 2024 • 46m
Patrick R. O'Malley, "The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Jan 11, 2024 • 57m
Selby Wynn Schwartz, "The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Jan 11, 2024 • 56m
Darnise C. Martin, "Beyond Christianity: African Americans in a New Thought Church" (NYU Press, 2005)
Jan 11, 2024 • 48m
Jennifer Thomson, "The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health" (UNC Press, 2019)
Jan 10, 2024 • 47m
Matthew Kennedy, "On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 10, 2024 • 1h 7m
Robert Michael Morrissey, "People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Jan 10, 2024 • 1h 8m
Ayelet Brinn, "A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press" (NYU Press, 2023)
Jan 9, 2024 • 33m
Katherine Rye Jewell, "Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jan 9, 2024 • 41m
Steven Rogers, "Accountability in State Legislatures" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jan 8, 2024 • 49m
Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay, "Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Jan 7, 2024 • 1h 5m
Christopher R. Martin, "No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Jan 7, 2024 • 51m
Amy Von Lintel, "Georgia O'Keeffe's Wartime Texas Letters" (Texas A&M UP, 2020)
Jan 6, 2024 • 42m
Martyn Whittock, "American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
Jan 5, 2024 • 31m
Claire Myers Owens and the Banned Book
Jan 4, 2024 • 1h 0m
Susanna Phillips Newbury, "The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Jan 4, 2024 • 38m
Jack Glazier, "Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race" (MSU Press, 2020)
Jan 4, 2024 • 1h 4m
W. K. Stratton, "The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Jan 3, 2024 • 58m
Margaret M. McGuinness, "Katharine Drexel and the Sisters Who Shared Her Vision" (Paulist Press, 2023)
Jan 3, 2024 • 1h 7m
Robert N. Gross, “Public vs. Private: The Early History of School Choice in America” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Jan 3, 2024 • 1h 6m
Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle, "Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives" (NYU Press, 2021)
Jan 2, 2024 • 58m
Benjamin Lorr, "The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket" (Penguin, 2020)
Jan 1, 2024 • 54m
Gregg L. Frazer, "God against the Revolution: The Loyalist Clergy’s Case Against the American Revolution" (UP of Kansas, 2018)
Dec 31, 2023 • 36m
Jonathan Scott, "How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution, 1500-1800" (Yale UP, 2019)
Dec 31, 2023 • 27m
Laura Briggs, "Taking Children: A History of American Terror" (U California Press, 2020)
Dec 31, 2023 • 1h 19m
Timothy K. August, "The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America" (Temple UP, 2020)
Dec 30, 2023 • 42m
Laurent Dubois, “The Banjo: America’s African Instrument” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Dec 30, 2023 • 45m
Nature-Study
Dec 29, 2023 • 22m
Ralph H. Craig, "Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner" (Eerdmans, 2023)
Dec 29, 2023 • 1h 3m
Nicole Seymour, "Glitter" (Bloombury, 2022)
Dec 28, 2023 • 30m
Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, "Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Dec 28, 2023 • 50m
Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture" (Stanford UP, 2016)
Dec 28, 2023 • 59m
Joseph Vogel, "James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
Dec 28, 2023 • 41m
D. B. Maroon, "Black Lives, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience" (Lawrence Hill Books, 2023)
Dec 28, 2023 • 1h 4m
Jeffrey Whyte, "The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 27, 2023 • 1h 23m
Julia F. Irwin, "Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century" (UNC Press, 2023)
Dec 27, 2023 • 56m
David T. Beito, "The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance" (Independent Institute, 2023)
Dec 27, 2023 • 1h 1m
Thomas A. Schwartz, "Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography" (Hill and Wang, 2020)
Dec 26, 2023 • 45m
Jordana M. Saggese, "The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader" (U California Press, 2021)
Dec 26, 2023 • 1h 2m
Marixa Lasso, "Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Dec 26, 2023 • 36m
Tamara Venit-Shelton, "Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace" (Yale UP, 2019)
Dec 26, 2023 • 1h 13m
David Courtwright, "The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Dec 26, 2023 • 44m
Bryan McCann, "The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era" (U Alabama Press, 2017)
Dec 26, 2023 • 1h 2m
Milton Gaither, "Homeschool: An American History" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Dec 26, 2023 • 30m
Matt Garcia, "Eli and the Octopus: The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World’s Most Notorious Corporations" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Dec 25, 2023 • 54m
Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
Dec 25, 2023 • 53m
Walter Greason and Tim Fielder, "The Graphic History of Hip Hop" (NYC Department of Education, 2023)
Dec 25, 2023 • 1h 6m
Jafari S. Allen, "There's a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life" (Duke UP, 2022)
Dec 25, 2023 • 1h 10m
Meredith Oda, "The Gateway to the Pacific: Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Dec 25, 2023 • 1h 30m
David R. Brigham, "Two Hundred Years: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1824-2024" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Dec 25, 2023 • 52m
On Native American Warfare: A Discussion with Author and Historian Wayne E. Lee
Dec 24, 2023 • 55m
James M. Lawson Jr. et al., "Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom" (U California Press, 2022)
Dec 24, 2023 • 21m
Laurence Jurdem, "The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship that Changed American History" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
Dec 24, 2023 • 53m
Yael A. Sternhell, "War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War" (Yale UP, 2023)
Dec 23, 2023 • 55m
Michelle J. Manno, "Denied: Women, Sports, and the Contradictions of Identity" (NYU Press, 2023)
Dec 23, 2023 • 45m
David Craig, "Apocalypse Television: How The Day After Helped Save the World" (Applause Books, 2023)
Dec 20, 2023 • 51m
Emily Horowitz, "From Rage to Reason: Why We Need Sex Crime Laws Based on Facts, Not Fear" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dec 20, 2023 • 1h 0m
Daniel Campo, "Postindustrial DIY: Recovering American Rust Belt Icons" (Fordham UP, 2023)
Dec 20, 2023 • 37m
Speech Unbound: A Conversation with Nadine Strossen
Dec 19, 2023 • 58m
Katlyn Marie Carter, "Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions" (Yale UP, 2023)
Dec 19, 2023 • 51m
Michelle R. Scott, "T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Dec 18, 2023 • 58m
Jack D. Noe, "Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South" (LSU Press, 2021)
Dec 18, 2023 • 32m
Sara Chatfield, "In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Dec 18, 2023 • 55m
Jackson Lears, "Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street" (FSG, 2023)
Dec 17, 2023 • 1h 5m
Sisterhood
Dec 16, 2023 • 20m
Peter Richardson, "Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo" (U California Press, 2022)
Dec 15, 2023 • 1h 12m
Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023)
Dec 15, 2023 • 31m
Ronald C. White, "On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain" (Random House, 2023)
Dec 15, 2023 • 1h 0m
Hugo Wong, "America's Lost Chinese: The Rise and Fall of a Migrant Family Dream" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 14, 2023 • 47m
Caroline J. Smith, "Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women's Food Memoirs" (U Mississippi Press, 2023)
Dec 14, 2023 • 32m
David Steele, "It Was Always a Choice: Picking Up the Baton of Athlete Activism" (Temple UP, 2022)
Dec 12, 2023 • 1h 8m
Julian Go, "Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 12, 2023 • 53m
Melinda N. Ritchie, "Backdoor Lawmaking: Evading Obstacles in the US Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 12, 2023 • 42m
Rob Harvilla, "60 Songs That Explain The 90s" (Twelve, 2023)
Dec 12, 2023 • 53m
Lindsey Claire Smith, "Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Dec 10, 2023 • 35m
Paul Crosthwaite et al., "Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Dec 10, 2023 • 50m
Matthew Dennis, "American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
Dec 10, 2023 • 54m
Sean Howe, "Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s" (Hachette Books, 2023)
Dec 10, 2023 • 51m
Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, "Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine" (Callaway, 2023)
Dec 9, 2023 • 50m
Jeffrey S. Gurock, "Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend" (NYU Press, 2023)
Dec 9, 2023 • 39m
Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez, "An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play" (Berghahn Books, 2022)
Dec 8, 2023 • 49m
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 4: Jamestown and the Myth of the Sovereign Family
Dec 8, 2023 • 45m
Katharine M. Millar, "Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 8, 2023 • 1h 5m
Grace Lin, "Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods" (Little, Brown Books, 2023)
Dec 8, 2023 • 42m
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 3: What Is Genealogy
Dec 7, 2023 • 45m
Self Help
Dec 7, 2023 • 20m
Wendy S. Hesford, "Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
Dec 7, 2023 • 44m
Emma K. Sutton, "William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Dec 5, 2023 • 37m
Ramsey Lewis and Aaron Cohen, "Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music" (Blackstone, 2023)
Dec 4, 2023 • 49m
The Future of the State: A Discussion with Graeme Garrard
Dec 4, 2023 • 38m
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, "How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
Dec 4, 2023 • 51m
Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)
Dec 4, 2023 • 1h 13m
Barbara D. Savage, "Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar" (Yale UP, 2023)
Dec 3, 2023 • 34m
Tracy E. Perkins, "Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism" (U California Press, 2022)
Dec 3, 2023 • 1h 6m
Sara Byala, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 3, 2023 • 1h 7m
Daniel Herbert, "Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film" (U California Press, 2023)
Dec 2, 2023 • 1h 20m
Chhaya Kolavalli, "Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Dec 2, 2023 • 32m
Rachel Stephens, "Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture" (U Arkansas Press, 2023)
Dec 1, 2023 • 54m
On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen
Nov 30, 2023 • 1h 2m
Russ Castronovo, "American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Nov 30, 2023 • 1h 16m
Salim Yaqub, "Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 28, 2023 • 1h 4m
Kevin F. Adler and Donald W. Burnes, "When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America" (North Atlantic Books, 2023)
Nov 28, 2023 • 1h 27m
J. Daniel, "Suds Series: Baseball, Beer Wars, and the Summer of '82" (U Missouri Press, 2023)
Nov 26, 2023 • 1h 12m
Brian D. Blankenship, "The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Nov 26, 2023 • 1h 8m
Diane Carol Fujino, "Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Nov 25, 2023 • 59m
Edward L. Ayers, "American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860" (Norton, 2023)
Nov 25, 2023 • 1h 7m
Mia Mask, "Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Nov 24, 2023 • 56m
Daniel Shea and Nicholas F. Jacobs, "The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Nov 24, 2023 • 53m
Leontina Hormel, "Trailer Park America: Reimagining Working-Class Communities" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Nov 24, 2023 • 55m
Jessi Streib, "The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Nov 23, 2023 • 34m
Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine et al., "When Will the Joy Come?: Black Women in the Ivory Tower" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
Nov 23, 2023 • 44m
William S. Kiser, "Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Nov 23, 2023 • 54m
Boris Heersink, "National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 23, 2023 • 50m
Biko Mandela Gray and Ryan J. Johnson, "Phenomenology of Black Spirit" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Nov 22, 2023 • 52m
Israel, Hamas, and American Jews in a Time of War
Nov 22, 2023 • 37m
Cody D. Ewert, "Making Schools American: Nationalism and the Origin of Modern Educational Politics" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Nov 21, 2023 • 56m
The US State Department and Ever-Changing Global Politics
Nov 21, 2023 • 32m
Kawika Guillermo, "Nimrods: A Fake-Punk Self-Hurt Anti-Memoir" (Duke UP, 2023)
Nov 21, 2023 • 1h 14m
The Future of the Rural-Urban Divide: A Discussion with Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea
Nov 20, 2023 • 43m
Seán Creagh, "The Wolfhounds of Irish-American Nationalism: A History of Clan Na Gael, 1867-Present" (Peter Lang, 2023)
Nov 20, 2023 • 30m
Greil Marcus, "Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs" (Yale UP, 2022)
Nov 20, 2023 • 54m
Thomas Blake Earle, "The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Nov 19, 2023 • 53m
Earl Lewis and Nancy Cantor, "Our Compelling Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society" (Princeton UP, 2016)
Nov 18, 2023 • 43m
Robert P. George's 'Making Men Moral': A 30th Anniversary Conference
Nov 18, 2023 • 1h 1m
Warren Zanes, "Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska' (Crown, 2023)
Nov 17, 2023 • 58m
Charisse Burden-Stelly, "Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Nov 17, 2023 • 48m
Terah J. Stewart, "Sex Work on Campus" (Routledge, 2022)
Nov 17, 2023 • 1h 17m
Matthew F. Jordan, "Danger Sound Klaxon!: The Horn That Changed History" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Nov 17, 2023 • 54m
Huping Ling, "Chinese Americans in the Heartland: Migration, Work, and Community" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Nov 16, 2023 • 52m
Laurence Ralph Reckons With Police Violence (EF, JP)
Nov 16, 2023 • 42m
Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
Nov 16, 2023 • 1h 0m
Brigid Cohen, "Musical Migration and Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Nov 15, 2023 • 1h 3m
'For All Mankind,’ An Alternate History About the Possibility of Utopia
Nov 15, 2023 • 1h 22m
Jennifer Burns on the Life and Lasting Influence of Milton Friedman
Nov 14, 2023 • 43m
Jeffrey Scholes, "Christianity, Race, and Sport" (Routledge, 2021)
Nov 14, 2023 • 32m
Kristofer Ray and Brady DeSanti, "Understanding and Teaching Native American History" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Nov 14, 2023 • 1h 8m
Elizabeth Anderson, "Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Nov 13, 2023 • 56m
David Myer Temin, "Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Nov 13, 2023 • 1h 22m
Juliet Hooker, "Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Nov 13, 2023 • 57m
Brendan J. Doherty, "Fundraiser in Chief: Presidents and the Politics of Campaign Cash" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
Nov 13, 2023 • 50m
Jennifer E. Brooks, "Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama" (LSU Press, 2022)
Nov 12, 2023 • 1h 0m
Eric M. Patashnik, "Countermobilization: Policy Feedback and Backlash in a Polarized Age" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Nov 12, 2023 • 37m
Stephanie K. Kim, "Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul" (MIT Press, 2023)
Nov 12, 2023 • 53m
Cecilia Márquez, "Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation" (UNC Press, 2023)
Nov 12, 2023 • 48m
Adrien Sebro, "Scratchin' and Survivin': Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Nov 12, 2023 • 1h 21m
Shelley Fraser Mickle, "White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America" (Imagine, 2023)
Nov 11, 2023 • 33m
Steven Simon, "Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East" (Penguin, 2023)
Nov 11, 2023 • 1h 0m
Daniel Macfarlane, "Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US-Canada Relations" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
Nov 11, 2023 • 48m
Xaq Frohlich, "From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age" (U California Press, 2023)
Nov 10, 2023 • 47m
Ralph H. Craig III, "Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner" (Eerdmans, 2023)
Nov 10, 2023 • 1h 22m
Barry Reay and Nina Attwood, "Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-garde in Mid-century Paris and New York" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Nov 10, 2023 • 45m
Curtis Smith, "Homelessness and Housing Advocacy: The Role of Red-Tape Warriors" (Routledge, 2022)
Nov 9, 2023 • 1h 23m
Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky, "Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space" (MIT Press, 2023)
Nov 9, 2023 • 37m
Randy Laist, ed.. "The '80s Resurrected: Essays on the Decade in Popular Culture Then and Now" (McFarland, 2023)
Nov 9, 2023 • 41m
Michael Newton, "It's a Wonderful Life" (British Film Institute, 2023)
Nov 8, 2023 • 1h 5m
Matthew J. Clavin, "Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War" (NYU Press, 2023)
Nov 7, 2023 • 36m
Vicki Howard, ed., "A Cultural History of Shopping in the Modern Age" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 7, 2023 • 42m
Speak Freely: The Princeton Principles
Nov 7, 2023 • 59m
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young, "Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Nov 6, 2023 • 1h 4m
Shannon McKenna Schmidt, "The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back" (Sourcebooks, 2023)
Nov 6, 2023 • 34m
Greg Beets and Richard Whymark, "A Curious Mix of People: The Underground Scene of '90s Austin" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Nov 5, 2023 • 1h 10m
Tamson Pietsch, "The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Nov 5, 2023 • 1h 1m
Drew A. Swanson, "A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction" (UNC Press, 2023)
Nov 4, 2023 • 1h 1m
David Alan Richards, "I Give These Books: The History of the Yale University Library, 1656-2016" (Oak Knoll, 2022)
Nov 4, 2023 • 1h 5m
Jacqueline R. Braitman, "She Damn Near Ran the Studio: The Extraordinary Lives of Ida R. Koverman" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Nov 2, 2023 • 1h 7m
Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Nov 1, 2023 • 1h 8m
The Future of Cancelling: A Conversation with Greg Lukianoff
Nov 1, 2023 • 39m
Dara Z. Strolovitch, "When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Oct 31, 2023 • 1h 3m
Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Oct 31, 2023 • 55m
Claire Jean Kim, "Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Oct 30, 2023 • 1h 5m
Frederick V. Engram, "Black Liberation Through Action and Resistance: MOVE" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Oct 30, 2023 • 38m
Chris Bishop, "Medievalist Comics and the American Century" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
Oct 29, 2023 • 53m
Sarah Mayorga, "Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2023)
Oct 29, 2023 • 44m
James V. Fenelon, "Indian, Black and Irish: Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions, 1492-1790" (Routledge, 2023)
Oct 28, 2023 • 40m
Norman Solomon, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine" (New Press, 2023)
Oct 28, 2023 • 1h 5m
Nikki M. Taylor, "Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Oct 28, 2023 • 1h 5m
Nicole Nguyen, "Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Oct 27, 2023 • 55m
Stephen B. Armstrong, "I Want You Around: The Ramones and the Making of Rock 'n' Roll High School" (Backbeat Books, 2023)
Oct 27, 2023 • 1h 11m
Denise D. Meringolo, "Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism" (Amherst College Press, 2021)
Oct 26, 2023 • 1h 2m
Christopher P. Barton, "The Archaeology of Race and Class at Timbuctoo: A Black Community in New Jersey" (UP of Florida, 2023)
Oct 25, 2023 • 42m
Scott Kamen, "From Union Halls to the Suburbs: Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
Oct 25, 2023 • 1h 5m
Greg Glasgow and Kathryn Mayer, "Disneyland on the Mountain: Walt, the Environmentalists, and the Ski Resort That Never Was" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Oct 25, 2023 • 45m
Eric G. Wilson, "Point Blank" (British Film Institute, 2023)
Oct 24, 2023 • 46m
Margaret K. Nelson, "Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s" (NYU Press, 2022)
Oct 24, 2023 • 36m
Jeff Kosseff, "Liar in a Crowded Theater: Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Oct 24, 2023 • 1h 4m
Decolonizing Praxis
Oct 23, 2023 • 23m
Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023)
Oct 23, 2023 • 58m
Michael Welsh, "Big Bend National Park: Mexico, the United States, and a Borderland Ecosystem" (U Nevada Press, 2021)
Oct 22, 2023 • 1h 29m
Campbell F. Scribner, "A Is for Arson: A History of Vandalism in American Education" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Oct 22, 2023 • 1h 0m
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (Vintage, 2006)
Oct 21, 2023 • 1h 10m
Jason C. Bivins, "Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Oct 21, 2023 • 35m
Danielle N. Boaz, "Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Oct 21, 2023 • 1h 2m
Matthew Guariglia, "Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York" (Duke UP, 2023)
Oct 21, 2023 • 1h 1m
Katherine Mason, "The Reproduction of Inequality: How Class Shapes the Pregnant Body and Infant Health" (NYU Press, 2023)
Oct 20, 2023 • 48m
The Unquiet Legacy of Jewish Radical Meir Kahane
Oct 19, 2023 • 45m
Philip Dray, "A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age" (FSG, 2022)
Oct 19, 2023 • 1h 7m
Allison M. Prasch, "The World Is Our Stage: The Global Rhetorical Presidency and the Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Oct 19, 2023 • 46m
The Future of Incarceration: A Discussion with Colleen P. Eren
Oct 18, 2023 • 43m
Jeremy Land, "Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700-1776)" (Brill, 2023)
Oct 18, 2023 • 43m
Colin Dickey, "Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy" (Viking, 2023)
Oct 17, 2023 • 32m
Michael A. Robinson, "Dangerous Instrument: Political Polarization and US Civil-Military Relations" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Oct 17, 2023 • 28m
Orisanmi Burton, "Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt" (U California Press, 2023)
Oct 17, 2023 • 52m
Nick Tabor, "Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
Oct 16, 2023 • 1h 1m
Victoria Houseman, "American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Oct 15, 2023 • 30m
Kristen Green, "The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail" (Seal Press, 2022)
Oct 14, 2023 • 1h 4m
Christopher John Bosso, "Why SNAP Works: A Political History--And Defense--of the Food Stamp Program" (U California Press, 2023)
Oct 14, 2023 • 41m
Peter Stark, "Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation" (Random House, 2023)
Oct 14, 2023 • 1h 20m
Lisandro Pérez, "The House on G Street: A Cuban Family Saga" (NYU Press, 2023)
Oct 13, 2023 • 59m
Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl, "If You Should Go at Midnight: Legends and Legend Tripping in America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
Oct 13, 2023 • 48m
Robert Greene and Tyler D. Parry, "Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2021)
Oct 13, 2023 • 50m
Alejandra Dubcovsky, "Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South" (Yale UP, 2023)
Oct 13, 2023 • 1h 2m
Kristen M. Budd and David C. Lane, "Beyond Bars: A Path Forward from 50 Years of Mass Incarceration in the United States" (Policy Press, 2023)
Oct 13, 2023 • 43m
Indigenous DC: A Conversation with Elizabeth Rule
Oct 12, 2023 • 53m
Paul Crenshaw, "Melt with Me: Coming of Age and Other '80s Perils" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Oct 12, 2023 • 1h 12m
Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol, "Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Oct 12, 2023 • 40m
Dennis C. Rasmussen, "The Constitution's Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
Oct 12, 2023 • 51m
Sheila McManus, "Both Sides Now: Writing the Edges of the North American West" (Texas A&M UP, 2022)
Oct 11, 2023 • 1h 8m
Rhoda Kanaaneh, "The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Oct 10, 2023 • 44m
Marlena Williams, "Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist" (Mad Creek Books, 2023)
Oct 10, 2023 • 59m
Evan C. Rothera, "Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas: The United States, Mexico, and Argentina, 1860–1880" (LSU Press, 2022)
Oct 10, 2023 • 1h 24m
Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, "The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn" (UNC Press, 2023)
Oct 10, 2023 • 1h 6m
Tariq D. Khan, "The Republic Shall be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Oct 9, 2023 • 51m
Oil Beach - How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life: A Conversation with Christina Dunbar-Hester
Oct 9, 2023 • 58m
The Future of Superstates: A Discussion with Alasdair Roberts
Oct 9, 2023 • 42m
John Arena, "Expelling Public Schools: How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Oct 9, 2023 • 47m
Stephanie Southworth and Sara Brallier, "Homelessness in the 21st Century: Living the Impossible American Dream" (Routledge, 2023)
Oct 8, 2023 • 1h 6m
Andrew Monteith, "Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs" (NYU Press, 2023)
Oct 8, 2023 • 1h 14m
Scott Creney and Brigette Adair Herron, "The Story of the B-52s: Neon Side of Town" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Oct 7, 2023 • 1h 4m
Sharon Patricia Holland, "an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life" (Duke UP, 2023)
Oct 7, 2023 • 1h 9m
Charlotte Gray, "Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Oct 7, 2023 • 50m
Melissa Estes Blair, "Bringing Home the White House: The Hidden History of Women Who Shaped the Presidency in the Twentieth Century" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Oct 6, 2023 • 39m
Nick Baumgardner and Mark Snyder, "Mountaintop: The Inside Story of Michigan's 1997 National Title Climb" (Printopya, 2023)
Oct 6, 2023 • 45m
Robert P. Watson, "When Washington Burned: The British Invasion of the Capital and a Nation's Rise from the Ashes" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
Oct 5, 2023 • 58m
James N. Druckman and Elizabeth A. Sharrow, "Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Oct 5, 2023 • 1h 28m
Viet Thanh Nguyen, "A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023)
Oct 3, 2023 • 55m
Janet Somerville, "Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949" (Firefly Books, 2022)
Oct 3, 2023 • 51m
Adrian Chastain Weimer, "A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Oct 3, 2023 • 37m
Twenty Years After “The New Economy”: A Conversation with Doug Henwood
Oct 2, 2023 • 1h 8m
Rebecca J. Fraser, "Black Female Intellectuals in 19th Century America: Born to Bloom Unseen?" (Routledge, 2022)
Oct 1, 2023 • 1h 28m
Kevin F. Adler and Donald W. Burnes, "When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America" (North Atlantic Books, 2023)
Oct 1, 2023 • 32m
Eric Bennett, "Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing During the Cold War" (U Iowa Press, 2015)
Oct 1, 2023 • 44m
Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023)
Sep 30, 2023 • 52m
Christina Ward, "Holy Food: How Cults, Communes and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat" (Process, 2023)
Sep 30, 2023 • 49m
Kiana Fitzgerald, "Ode to Hip-Hop: 50 Albums That Define 50 Years of Trailblazing Music" (Running Press Adult, 2023)
Sep 30, 2023 • 47m
Sara Marcus, "Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Sep 30, 2023 • 44m
Peter Reed, "Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Sep 28, 2023 • 1h 14m
Sirpa Salenius, "An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe" (U Massachusetts Press, 2016)
Sep 27, 2023 • 52m
Jamie L. Jones, "Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling" (UNC Press, 2023)
Sep 26, 2023 • 48m
Dylan C. Penningroth, "Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights" (Liveright, 2023)
Sep 26, 2023 • 1h 47m
Jonathan Mael, "Harlem World: How Hip Hop's Super Showdown Changed Music Forever" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Sep 26, 2023 • 1h 4m
Michelle K. Berry, "Cow Talk: Work, Ecology, and Range Cattle Ranchers in the Postwar Mountain West" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
Sep 26, 2023 • 58m
Alda Balthrop-Lewis, "Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Sep 25, 2023 • 41m
Nigel Biggar, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" (William Collins, 2023)
Sep 25, 2023 • 1h 18m
Mark Thomas Edwards, "Walter Lippmann: American Skeptic, American Pastor" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Sep 25, 2023 • 53m
Laura F. Edwards, "The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South" (UNC Press, 2009)
Sep 25, 2023 • 1h 3m
Nigel Biggar, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" (William Collins, 2023)
Sep 25, 2023 • 1h 18m
Megan MacKenzie, "Good Soldiers Don't Rape: The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Sep 24, 2023 • 44m
Steven P. Gietschier, "Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Sep 23, 2023 • 54m
Diana Rickard, "The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence" (NYU Press, 2023)
Sep 23, 2023 • 48m
Zebulon Vance Miletsky, "Before Busing: A History of Boston's Long Black Freedom Struggle" (UNC Press, 2022)
Sep 22, 2023 • 1h 2m
Jack Schneider and Ethan L. Hutt, "Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don't Have To)" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Sep 22, 2023 • 38m
Todd E. Vachon, "Clean Air and Good Jobs: U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice" (Temple UP, 2023)
Sep 22, 2023 • 36m
C. J. Pascoe, "Nice Is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High" (U California Press, 2023)
Sep 21, 2023 • 56m
David Cunningham, January 6th and Asymmetrical Policing (JP, EF)
Sep 21, 2023 • 31m
Molly Ladd-Taylor, "Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Sep 20, 2023 • 37m
Diane Flynt, "Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South" (UNC Press, 2023)
Sep 20, 2023 • 42m
Lipika Pelham, "Passing: An Alternative History of Identity" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Sep 20, 2023 • 3h 14m
Christian Kiefer, "The Heart of It All" (Melville House, 2023)
Sep 19, 2023 • 29m
Maria Smilios, "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
Sep 19, 2023 • 41m
Kimberly Mack, "Living Colour's Time's Up" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Sep 19, 2023 • 59m
Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, "Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap" (U California Press, 2023)
Sep 19, 2023 • 48m
Takeo Rivera, "Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Sep 19, 2023 • 1h 2m
Lincoln A. Mitchell, "The One Hundred Most Important Players in Baseball History" (Artemesia Publishing, 2023)
Sep 18, 2023 • 54m
Luke Messac, "Your Money Or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Sep 17, 2023 • 34m
Avery Dame-Griff, "The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet" (NYU Press, 2023)
Sep 17, 2023 • 55m
Katie J. Wells et al., "Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Sep 16, 2023 • 55m
Christopher F. Zurn, "Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States" (Routledge, 2023)
Sep 16, 2023 • 1h 20m
Zachary Parolin, "Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2023)
Sep 15, 2023 • 31m
Christopher Paul Harris, "To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Sep 15, 2023 • 33m
Chris Molanphy, "Old Town Road" (Duke UP, 2023)
Sep 15, 2023 • 48m
Jonathan Daniel Wells, "The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War" (Bold Type Press, 2020)
Sep 14, 2023 • 1h 2m
Jonathan Leal, "Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop" (Duke UP, 2023)
Sep 14, 2023 • 1h 19m
Michèle Lamont, "Seeing Others: How Recognition Works-And How It Can Heal a Divided World" (Atria, 2023)
Sep 13, 2023 • 36m
Matthew McManus, "The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity" (Routledge, 2023)
Sep 13, 2023 • 30m
Anthony B. Sanders, "Baby Ninth Amendments: How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Sep 13, 2023 • 49m
The Shadow War between America and Russia
Sep 13, 2023 • 1h 4m
Robert F. Moss, "The Lost Southern Chefs: A History of Commercial Dining in the Nineteenth-Century South" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Sep 12, 2023 • 1h 7m
Gilberto Rosas, "Unsettling: The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the US-Mexico Border" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Sep 12, 2023 • 44m
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023 • 34m
William Darity et al., "The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice" (U California Press, 2023)
Sep 12, 2023 • 37m
Postscript: How Firearms Fuel Domestic Violence in the US
Sep 11, 2023 • 1h 13m
Robyn Muir, "The Disney Princess Phenomenon: A Feminist Analysis" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Sep 11, 2023 • 1h 10m
Race and Electrical Infrastructure in the Jim Crow South
Sep 11, 2023 • 53m
Josephine Lee, "Oriental, Black, and White: The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater" (UNC Press, 2022)
Sep 11, 2023 • 47m
Isabel Machado, "Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
Sep 10, 2023 • 1h 11m
Nicole Fabricant, "Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore" (U California Press, 2022)
Sep 10, 2023 • 36m
Jeanne K. Firth, "Feeding New Orleans: Celebrity Chefs and Reimagining Food Justice" (UNC Press, 2023)
Sep 9, 2023 • 1h 20m
Christian O. Paiz, "The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-And-File History of the UFW Movement" (UNC Press, 2023)
Sep 8, 2023 • 1h 10m
Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
Sep 8, 2023 • 1h 7m
Erik Sherman, "Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Sep 6, 2023 • 46m
Andrew Chan, "Why Mariah Carey Matters" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Sep 5, 2023 • 1h 0m
Kristal Brent Zook, "The Girl in the Yellow Poncho: A Memoir" (Duke UP, 2023)
Sep 5, 2023 • 33m
Alexander Stille, "The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune" (FSG, 2023)
Sep 4, 2023 • 44m
Al Davidoff, "Unionizing the Ivory Tower: Cornell Workers' Fifteen-Year Fight for Justice and a Living Wage" (ILR Press, 2023)
Sep 4, 2023 • 1h 0m
Kidada E. Williams, "I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Sep 3, 2023 • 1h 29m
Zachary Jacobson, "On Nixon's Madness: An Emotional History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Sep 3, 2023 • 37m
John Szwed, "Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith" (FSG, 2023)
Sep 3, 2023 • 1h 1m
Diana W. Anselmo, "A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood" (U California Press, 2023)
Sep 2, 2023 • 1h 4m
Kathryn J. Edin et al., "The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America" (Mariner Books, 2023)
Sep 1, 2023 • 33m
Sarah R. Coleman, "The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Aug 31, 2023 • 47m
Hava Rachel Gordon, "This Is Our School!: Race and Community Resistance to School Reform" (NYU Press, 2021)
Aug 31, 2023 • 47m
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Knopf Doubleday, 2023)
Aug 30, 2023 • 1h 1m
John Brackett, "Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness" (Duke UP, 2023)
Aug 30, 2023 • 1h 6m
Brooke L. Blower, "Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 30, 2023 • 1h 11m
Denise Gigante, "Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America" (Yale UP, 2022)
Aug 29, 2023 • 1h 16m
Ana Lucia Araujo, "Museums and Atlantic Slavery" (Routledge, 2021)
Aug 29, 2023 • 58m
David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023)
Aug 28, 2023 • 1h 9m
Asad L. Asad, "Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Aug 27, 2023 • 1h 15m
Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette, "Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Aug 27, 2023 • 1h 48m
Vanessa I. Corredera, "Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Aug 27, 2023 • 1h 50m
Beverly C. Tomek, "Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania" (Temple UP, 2021)
Aug 27, 2023 • 1h 29m
Peter Heather and John Rapley, "Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West" (Yale UP, 2023)
Aug 27, 2023 • 49m
Hollis Robbins, "Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
Aug 26, 2023 • 1h 34m
Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin, "Public Workers in Service of America: A Reader" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Aug 26, 2023 • 29m
Elly Fishman, "Refugee High: Coming of Age in America" (The New Press, 2021)
Aug 26, 2023 • 34m
Marisa Holmes, "Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Aug 26, 2023 • 47m
Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin, "Public Workers in Service of America: A Reader" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Aug 26, 2023 • 29m
Juliana Hu Pegues, "Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska's Indigenous and Asian Entanglements" (UNC Press, 2021)
Aug 25, 2023 • 56m
Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst, "I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Aug 25, 2023 • 48m
The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
Aug 25, 2023 • 54m
Chesya Burke, "Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Aug 25, 2023 • 57m
Erica O. Turner, "Suddenly Diverse: How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Aug 25, 2023 • 45m
Cara Fitzpatrick, "The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America" (Basic Books, 2023)
Aug 23, 2023 • 35m
Lyndsie Bourgon, "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods" (Little, Brown Spark, 2023)
Aug 22, 2023 • 54m
Postscript: Guns, Violence, and the Law: How Federal Courts are Trying to Figure Out the Second Amendment
Aug 22, 2023 • 52m
Erin Raffety, "From Inclusion to Justice: Disability, Ministry, and Congregational Leadership" (Baylor UP, 2022)
Aug 22, 2023 • 41m
Janiece Johnson, "Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture" (UNC Press, 2023)
Aug 22, 2023 • 27m
Morgan L. W. Hazelton et al., "The Elevator Effect: Contact and Collegiality in the American Judiciary" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 21, 2023 • 57m
Brooke Kroeger, "Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism" (Knopf, 2023)
Aug 21, 2023 • 45m
Christopher C. Sellers, "Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Aug 21, 2023 • 1h 6m
Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care" (Penguin, 2023)
Aug 21, 2023 • 56m
Peter Moore, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776)" ( FSG, 2023)
Aug 20, 2023 • 1h 10m
Jean M. Twenge, "Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future" (Atria, 2023)
Aug 20, 2023 • 1h 2m
Becoming Justice Thomas
Aug 20, 2023 • 56m
Samuel Moyn, "Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times" (Yale UP, 2023)
Aug 19, 2023 • 49m
Kevin Landis, "One Public: New York’s Public Theater in the Era of Oskar Eustis" (Methuen Drama, 2022)
Aug 19, 2023 • 57m
Michael R. Jin, "Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Aug 19, 2023 • 1h 7m
Stephen Aron, "Peace and Friendship: An Alternative History of the American West" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 18, 2023 • 54m
Jennifer Keys Adair and Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki Colegrove, "Segregation by Experience: Agency, Racism, and Learning in the Early Grades" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Aug 18, 2023 • 35m
Ramzi Fawaz, "The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics" (NYU Press, 2016)
Aug 17, 2023 • 1h 26m
Carl Van Ness, "The Making of Florida's Universities: Public Higher Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" (UP of Florida, 2023)
Aug 17, 2023 • 1h 1m
Lauren S. Foley, "On the Basis of Race: How Higher Education Navigates Affirmative Action Policies" (NYU Press, 2023)
Aug 16, 2023 • 35m
In Praise of Reason: Why Rationality Matters for Democracy
Aug 16, 2023 • 14m
Bobby J. Smith II, "Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2023)
Aug 16, 2023 • 1h 18m
Jennifer Ritterhouse, "Discovering the South: One Man's Travels through a Changing America in the 1930s" (UNC Press, 2017)
Aug 16, 2023 • 1h 3m
Earl Cureton and Jake Uitti, "Earl the Twirl: My Life in Basketball" (McFarland, 2023)
Aug 16, 2023 • 1h 29m
Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)
Aug 15, 2023 • 45m
Paratroopers in the Pacific: A Conversation with James Fenelon
Aug 15, 2023 • 45m
How Uber Disrupted Washington, D.C.: A Conversation with Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh
Aug 14, 2023 • 1h 20m
Nicholas Tochka, "Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 14, 2023 • 52m
Julia Wertz, "Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City" (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2017)
Aug 13, 2023 • 37m
Keith A. Mayes, "The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Aug 13, 2023 • 58m
Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2023)
Aug 13, 2023 • 53m
Donovan X. Ramsey, "When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era" (One World, 2023)
Aug 12, 2023 • 24m
The Future of Underground/Sea Cables: A Discussion with Henry Farrell
Aug 12, 2023 • 52m
Ashley Robertson Preston, "Mary Mcleod Bethune the Pan-Africanist" (UP of Florida, 2023)
Aug 12, 2023 • 28m
Kris Marsh, "The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Aug 12, 2023 • 1h 4m
Sophie Bjork-James, "The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Aug 12, 2023 • 55m
Michael J. Diamond, "Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times" (Phoenix Publishing, 2022)
Aug 11, 2023 • 1h 8m
Charlotte Karem Albrecht, "Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling" (U California Press, 2023)
Aug 11, 2023 • 1h 7m
Phillip Reid, "A Boston Schooner in the Royal Navy, 1768-1772: Commerce and Conflict in Maritime British America" (Boydell Press, 2023)
Aug 10, 2023 • 36m
Wendy A. Woloson, "Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Aug 9, 2023 • 44m
William J. Mann, "Bogie and Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair" (Harper, 2023)
Aug 9, 2023 • 51m
Michell D. Jones and Elisabeth A. Nelson, "Besides, Who Would Believe a Prisoner?: Indiana Women's Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920" (New Press, 2023)
Aug 9, 2023 • 1h 4m
Driving While Black: African Americans and the Automobile
Aug 7, 2023 • 40m
Postscript: Protecting the Public? Guns, Intimate Partner Violence, and the US Supreme Court
Aug 7, 2023 • 46m
Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran, "The Open System: Redesigning Education and Reigniting Democracy" ((Harvard Education Press, 2023)
Aug 6, 2023 • 35m
Andreas Killen, "Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War" (Harper, 2023)
Aug 6, 2023 • 53m
Erika Marie Bsumek, "The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Aug 6, 2023 • 56m
Daniel G Hummel, "The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle Over the End Times Shaped a Nation" (William B. Eerdmans, 2023)
Aug 5, 2023 • 1h 24m
Christine Keiner, "Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
Aug 5, 2023 • 31m
Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, "Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Aug 4, 2023 • 57m
Andy Cowan, "B-Side: Pop History Via Its Greatest B-Sides, 1917-2017" (Headpress, 2023)
Aug 4, 2023 • 49m
Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, "Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England" (MIT Press, 2023)
Aug 4, 2023 • 36m
Breaking Out: An Indian Woman's American Journey
Aug 4, 2023 • 15m
Tamara J. Walker, "Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad" (Crown, 2023)
Aug 4, 2023 • 1h 18m
Joshua Cohen’s "The Netanyahus" (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
Aug 3, 2023 • 48m
Thurka Sangaramoorthy, "Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Aug 3, 2023 • 57m
Jill L. Newmark, "Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons" (Southern Illinois UP, 2023)
Aug 3, 2023 • 56m
Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program
Aug 3, 2023 • 19m
Olivier Burtin, "A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Aug 3, 2023 • 43m
Nicholas Lemann, "Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream" (FSG, 2019)
Aug 2, 2023 • 50m
Colleen M. Grogan, "Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 2, 2023 • 40m
James B. Conroy, "The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
Aug 2, 2023 • 38m
Talking Clarence Thomas: A Conversation with Amul Thapar
Aug 1, 2023 • 42m
Kathryn Cramer Brownell, "24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Aug 1, 2023 • 31m
Powering American Farms: A Conversation with Richard Hirsh
Jul 31, 2023 • 1h 13m
Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)
Jul 31, 2023 • 45m
Phil Klay, "Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War" (Penguin, 2022)
Jul 30, 2023 • 1h 8m
Matthew Bentley and John D. Bloom, "The Imperial Gridiron: Manhood, Civilization, and Football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Jul 30, 2023 • 1h 1m
Manfred B. Steger and Ravi K. Roy, "Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 30, 2023 • 1h 6m
Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts eds. "W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jul 30, 2023 • 39m
Rob Eschmann,, "When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age" (U California Press, 2023)
Jul 29, 2023 • 1h 15m
Benjamin Studebaker, "The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Jul 28, 2023 • 1h 7m
Erica Abrams Locklear, "Appalachia on the Table: Representing Mountain Food and People" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Jul 28, 2023 • 53m
Stephen C. Taysom, "Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith" (U of Utah Press, 2023)
Jul 28, 2023 • 45m
Richard N. Langlois, "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jul 27, 2023 • 45m
When Did We See You a Stranger and Welcome You? (with Ben Metcalf)
Jul 27, 2023 • 53m
Michael J. Seth, "Korea at War: Conflicts That Shaped the World" (Tuttle Publishing, 2023)
Jul 27, 2023 • 44m
Penelope Ingram, "Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in 'Postracial' America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
Jul 26, 2023 • 55m
Héctor Tobar, "Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of 'Latino'" (MCD, 2023)
Jul 26, 2023 • 47m
Michelle Dowd, "Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult--A Memoir" (Algonquin, 2023)
Jul 26, 2023 • 53m
Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin, "The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become" (NYU Press, 2023)
Jul 26, 2023 • 53m
Rebecca Sharpless, "Grain and Fire: A History of Baking in the American South" (UNC Press, 2022)
Jul 25, 2023 • 1h 45m
Nicole Evelina, "America's Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor" (Two Dot Books, 2023)
Jul 25, 2023 • 45m
US History in 15 Foods: A Conversation with Anna Zeide
Jul 24, 2023 • 52m
Postscript: Is it Unconstitutional to Take Guns Away from Domestic Abusers?
Jul 24, 2023 • 54m
Andrew Quilty, "August in Kabul: America's Last Days in Afghanistan" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jul 24, 2023 • 41m
John M. Findlay, "The Mobilized American West, 1940-2000" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Jul 24, 2023 • 1h 11m
Howard Fishman, "To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse" (Dutton, 2023)
Jul 22, 2023 • 54m
Scott A. Mitchell, "The Making of American Buddhism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 21, 2023 • 58m
William Wei, "Becoming Colorado: The Centennial State in 100 Objects" (UP of Colorado, 2021)
Jul 20, 2023 • 46m
Miranda Corcoran, "Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches" (U Wales Press, 2022)
Jul 19, 2023 • 1h 0m
Ben Nadler, "The Jewish Deli: An Illustrated Guide to the Chosen Food" (Chronicle Books, 2023)
Jul 18, 2023 • 53m
Mere Natural Law: A Conversation with Hadley Arkes
Jul 18, 2023 • 1h 4m
Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia, "Violent America: The Dynamics of Identity Politics in a Multiracial Society" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jul 18, 2023 • 1h 9m
Brendan O'Brien, "Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It" (Chicago Review Press, 2023)
Jul 18, 2023 • 37m
Nick Witham, "Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jul 18, 2023 • 53m
Victor Luckerson, "Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street" (Random House, 2023)
Jul 17, 2023 • 58m
Michele Meek, "Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Jul 17, 2023 • 47m
African American Women on the American Railroad: A Conversation with Miriam Thaggert
Jul 17, 2023 • 56m
Jessica D. Klanderud, "Struggle for the Street: Social Networks and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Pittsburgh" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jul 17, 2023 • 1h 2m
Vivian Nun Halloran, "Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Jul 16, 2023 • 1h 20m
Jon Michaud, "Last Call at Coogan's: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
Jul 16, 2023 • 34m
Kelly Ross, "Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jul 16, 2023 • 44m
Brianna Holt, "In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So 'Post-Racial' America" (Plume Books, 2023)
Jul 16, 2023 • 43m
Samuel Issacharoff, "Democracy Unmoored: Populism and the Corruption of Popular Sovereignty" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 15, 2023 • 55m
Nikki M. Taylor, "Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jul 15, 2023 • 30m
Stephen Bright and James Kwak, "The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts" (The New Press, 2023)
Jul 15, 2023 • 46m
Sara Moslener, "Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence" (Oxford UP, 2015)
Jul 15, 2023 • 56m
Sofya Aptekar, "Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jul 14, 2023 • 1h 4m
Julie Carr, "Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Jul 14, 2023 • 1h 10m
Nour Halabi, "Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Jul 13, 2023 • 39m
Dana Rubin, "Speaking While Female: 75 Extraordinary Speeches by American Women" (RealClear, 2023)
Jul 13, 2023 • 49m
Randall Patnode, "The Synchronized Society: Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Jul 12, 2023 • 52m
Phoebe Ho et al., "Diversity and the Transition to Adulthood in America" (U California Press, 2022)
Jul 12, 2023 • 1h 3m
Methadone and Covid-19
Jul 12, 2023 • 56m
Emily Flitter, "The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America" (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2022)
Jul 11, 2023 • 57m
Francis L. Sampson, "Look Out Below!: A Story of the Airborne by a Paratrooper Padre" (Catholic U of America Press, 2023)
Jul 11, 2023 • 48m
Eliot Borenstein, "Marvel Comics in The 1970s: The World Inside Your Head" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jul 11, 2023 • 1h 5m
Katherine Giuffre, "Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Jul 10, 2023 • 53m
Morgan L. W. Hazelton and Rachael K. Hinkle, "Persuading the Supreme Court: The Significance of Briefs in Judicial Decision-Making" (UP Kansas, 2022)
Jul 10, 2023 • 55m
Brent Cebul, "Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Jul 9, 2023 • 1h 17m
Jason Chang et al., "The Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom" (PM Press, 2022)
Jul 9, 2023 • 1h 21m
Tina Shrestha, "Surviving the Sanctuary City: Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Jul 9, 2023 • 1h 41m
Keisha Ray, "Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People's Health" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 8, 2023 • 38m
Thomas A. Castillo, "Working in the Magic City: Moral Economy in Early Twentieth-Century Miami" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Jul 6, 2023 • 1h 0m
Studying the Pipeline to Politics for Women
Jul 6, 2023 • 1h 5m
Kristina Horn Sheeler and Karrin Vasby Anderson, "Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture" (Texas A&M Press, 2013)
Jul 6, 2023 • 1h 1m
Ben Terris, "The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind" (Twelve, 2023)
Jul 5, 2023 • 32m
Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox, "Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 5, 2023 • 54m
Jennifer Caplan, "Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
Jul 4, 2023 • 1h 0m
Glen W. Olson and Terry Lee Brussel-Rogers, "Fifty Years of Polyamory in America: A Guided Tour of a Growing Movement" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Jul 4, 2023 • 32m
Sarah L. Hall, "Sown in the Stars: Planting by the Signs" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
Jul 3, 2023 • 54m
Jack Metzgar, "Bridging the Divide: Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society" (ILR Press, 2021)
Jul 3, 2023 • 59m
The Supreme Court's Past, Present, and Future: A Conversation with John Yoo
Jul 3, 2023 • 53m
G. Edward White, "Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jul 2, 2023 • 1h 12m
Katherine C. Mooney, "Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jul 2, 2023 • 1h 23m
John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle, "Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jul 1, 2023 • 31m
Michael O'Hanlon, "Military History for the Modern Strategist: America's Major Wars Since 1861" (Brookings, 2023)
Jul 1, 2023 • 38m
Samuel Helfont, "Iraq Against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post-Cold War Order" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 30, 2023 • 1h 19m
Mary Beltrán, "Latino TV: A History" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jun 29, 2023 • 48m
Danielle Allen, "Justice by Means of Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jun 29, 2023 • 55m
Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire, "A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School" (The New Press, 2023)
Jun 28, 2023 • 44m
Eileen V. Wallis, "California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Jun 28, 2023 • 59m
David E. Kelly, "First Fights in Fallujah: Marines During Operation Vigilant Resolve, in Iraq, April 2004" (Casemate, 2023)
Jun 28, 2023 • 32m
James Zarsadiaz, "Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A." (U California Press, 2022)
Jun 27, 2023 • 1h 0m
Philip A. Wallach, "Why Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 27, 2023 • 49m
Sara Salman, "The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need" (NYU Press, 2023)
Jun 27, 2023 • 57m
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, "The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jun 27, 2023 • 36m
Josh Shepperd, "Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Jun 26, 2023 • 1h 5m
Stephen Vladeck, "The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic" (Basic Books, 2023)
Jun 26, 2023 • 1h 2m
Bradley C. S. Watson, "Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)
Jun 25, 2023 • 1h 22m
Craig Nelson, "V Is For Victory: Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II" (Scribner, 2023)
Jun 24, 2023 • 58m
Thomas W. Lippman, "Get the Damn Story: Homer Bigart and the Great Age of American Newspapers" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
Jun 24, 2023 • 1h 15m
Jean Pfaelzer, "California, a Slave State" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jun 23, 2023 • 54m
Erik Kojola, "Mining the Heartland: Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron Range" (NYU Press, 2023)
Jun 23, 2023 • 31m
Postscript: Politics, Identity, and the US Supreme Court
Jun 23, 2023 • 59m
Michael Gray, "Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan-Vol. 1 Language & Tradition" (FM Press, 2023)
Jun 22, 2023 • 53m
Make it New: A History of Silicon Valley Design
Jun 22, 2023 • 20m
Giulia Pecorella, "The United States of America and the Crime of Aggression" (Routledge, 2021)
Jun 21, 2023 • 59m
Richard Duncan, "The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century" (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)
Jun 21, 2023 • 55m
Samuel G. Freedman, "Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 21, 2023 • 56m
M. Todd Bennett, "Neither Confirm Nor Deny: How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Jun 20, 2023 • 1h 25m
The Ascendance of Social Conservatism in the Public Square
Jun 20, 2023 • 55m
Rani-Henrik Andersson and Janne Lahti, "Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America: Rethinking Finnish Experiences in Transnational Spaces" (Helsinki UP, 2022)
Jun 20, 2023 • 1h 1m
The History of the American Shopping Mall and Its Cultures
Jun 19, 2023 • 1h 7m
Rachel E. Walker, "Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jun 19, 2023 • 51m
Frank Costigliola, "Kennan: A Life Between Worlds" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jun 19, 2023 • 1h 3m
Vicky Johnson-Dahl, "Buffalo in 50 Maps" (Belt, 2023)
Jun 17, 2023 • 39m
Anna Piela, "Wearing the Niqab: Muslim Women in the UK and the US" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Jun 16, 2023 • 54m
Susan McCall Perlman, "Contesting France: Intelligence and US Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jun 16, 2023 • 1h 14m
Lloyd Daniel Barba, "Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jun 16, 2023 • 25m
Allan E. S. Lumba, "Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jun 15, 2023 • 42m
Moon-Ho Jung, "Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State" (U California Press, 2022)
Jun 14, 2023 • 43m
Judith Hicks Stiehm, "Janet Reno: A Life" (UP of Florida, 2023)
Jun 14, 2023 • 23m
Samuel J. Redman, "The Museum: A Short History of Crisis and Resilience" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jun 13, 2023 • 1h 1m
Nate G. Hilger, "The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jun 13, 2023 • 58m
The Rhetoric of Decline
Jun 13, 2023 • 19m
Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik, "Blood in the Tracks: The Minnesota Musicians Behind Dylan's Masterpiece" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Jun 11, 2023 • 58m
Jacqueline Beatty, "In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America" (NYU Press, 2023)
Jun 11, 2023 • 51m
Lee Lowenfish, "Baseball's Endangered Species: Inside the Craft of Scouting by Those Who Lived It" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Jun 11, 2023 • 53m
Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn, "The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule Within America's Universities" (Duke UP, 2023)
Jun 10, 2023 • 1h 7m
Kathryn Olivarius, "Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Jun 10, 2023 • 1h 29m
Patrick J. Charles, "Vote Gun: How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jun 10, 2023 • 42m
Amanda L. Van Lanen, "The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
Jun 9, 2023 • 48m
James Kyung-Jin Lee, "Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority" (Temple UP, 2021)
Jun 8, 2023 • 26m
Mark R. Warren, "Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jun 7, 2023 • 37m
Michael T. Friedman, "Mallparks: Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jun 7, 2023 • 1h 14m
Robin James, "The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jun 7, 2023 • 1h 3m
Erik J. Dahl, "The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
Jun 6, 2023 • 1h 1m
The History of 19th-Century Quarantine Politics: A Conversation with David S. Barnes
Jun 5, 2023 • 1h 28m
Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour, "The Politics of Survival: Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jun 4, 2023 • 1h 30m
J. T. Roane, "Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place" (NYU Press, 2023)
Jun 4, 2023 • 1h 6m
Lorenzo Costaguta, "Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Jun 3, 2023 • 52m
Chris Suh, "The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 3, 2023 • 1h 58m
Kidada E. Williams, "I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jun 2, 2023 • 46m
You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape
Jun 2, 2023 • 48m
Yang Va Lor, "Unequal Choices: How Social Class Shapes Where High-Achieving Students Apply to College" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
May 30, 2023 • 58m
Chris Campion and Bud Lee, "The War is Here: Newark 1967" (ZE Books, 2023)
May 28, 2023 • 43m
Scott McGaugh, "Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II" (Osprey, 2023)
May 28, 2023 • 1h 1m
Joel Lafayette Fletcher III, "With Hawks and Angels: Episodes from a Southern Life" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
May 28, 2023 • 30m
Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons
May 28, 2023 • 56m
Tazeen M. Ali, "The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam" (NYU Press, 2022)
May 28, 2023 • 33m
Naoíse Mac Sweeney, "The West: A New History of an Old Idea" (Dutton, 2023)
May 27, 2023 • 42m
Strategy and Saratoga: A Conversation with Kevin Weddle
May 27, 2023 • 56m
Missing: Men at Work — A Conversation with Nick Eberstadt
May 26, 2023 • 50m
Kenneth Mondschein, "On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
May 26, 2023 • 49m
Evelyn Alsultany, "Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion" (NYU Press, 2022)
May 26, 2023 • 1h 1m
Saskia Coenen Snyder, "A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 25, 2023 • 59m
Party
May 24, 2023 • 17m
Money or Meaning? A Discussion on Choice and Restlessness with Ben and Jenna Storey
May 23, 2023 • 57m
James Zarsadiaz, "Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A." (U California Press, 2022)
May 23, 2023 • 58m
America & Democracy Ep. 5: Brandon Terry on MLK
May 23, 2023 • 46m
Rebecca Brückmann, "Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
May 22, 2023 • 1h 10m
Christopher H. Evans, "Do Everything: The Biography of Frances Willard" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 21, 2023 • 59m
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
May 21, 2023 • 55m
America & Democracy Ep. 3: Carol A. Stabile on the Red Scare
May 20, 2023 • 42m
Book Talk 60: Cleo McNellly Kearns on Mark Twain’s "Huckleberry Finn"
May 20, 2023 • 1h 18m
Landon Jones, "Celebrity Nation: How America Evolved into a Culture of Fans and Followers" (Beacon, 2023)
May 19, 2023 • 26m
Kathryn J. McGarr, "City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
May 19, 2023 • 1h 4m
Carceral Capitalism
May 19, 2023 • 24m
Virginia Jackson, "Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric" (Princeton UP, 2023)
May 18, 2023 • 49m
Mark Paul, "The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
May 18, 2023 • 53m
Thom Shanker and Andrew Hoehn, "Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats" (Hachette Books, 2023)
May 17, 2023 • 1h 3m
The Life and Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo
May 16, 2023 • 1h 20m
Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, "Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women" (Sandycove, 2023)
May 16, 2023 • 47m
Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer, "The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 16, 2023 • 1h 20m
Pharmacological Histories Ep. 2: Mikkael A. Sekeres on the Drugs Fighting Leukemia
May 15, 2023 • 33m
Matthew Jagel, "Khmer Nationalist: Sơn Ngc Thành, the CIA, and the Transformation of Cambodia" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
May 15, 2023 • 1h 1m
Michelle Smirnova, "The Prescription-To-Prison Pipeline: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain" (Duke UP, 2023)
May 15, 2023 • 1h 4m
Jonathan Eig, "King: A Life" (FSG, 2023)
May 13, 2023 • 39m
Bill Steigerwald, "30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South" (Lyons Press, 2017)
May 13, 2023 • 46m
Alvin J. Henry, "Black Queer Flesh: Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
May 13, 2023 • 1h 0m
John Klaess, "Breaks in the Air: The Birth of Rap Radio in New York City" (Duke UP, 2022)
May 12, 2023 • 1h 0m
Philip Clayton Shackelford, "Rise of the Mavericks: The U.S. Air Force Security Service and the Cold War" (US Naval Institute Press, 2023)
May 12, 2023 • 46m
Naomi McDougall Jones, "The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood" (Beacon, 2020)
May 12, 2023 • 1h 4m
Maria L. Quintana, "Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
May 12, 2023 • 52m
Jack Parlett, "Fire Island" (Hanover Square Press, 2022)
May 11, 2023 • 1h 9m
Timothy Sandefur, "Freedom's Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Freedom in an Age of Darkness" (Cato Institute, 2022)
May 11, 2023 • 37m
Co-Illusion: Dispatches from the End of Communication
May 10, 2023 • 21m
Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value
May 10, 2023 • 25m
Gregory Harms, "No Politics, No Religion?: How America's Code of Conduct Conceals Our Unity" (Political Animal Press, 2022)
May 9, 2023 • 1h 3m
Christianity and the American Founding with Mark David Hall
May 9, 2023 • 56m
Karin Chenoweth, "Districts That Succeed: Breaking the Correlation Between Race, Poverty, and Achievement" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
May 9, 2023 • 47m
Henry Grabar, "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World" (Penguin, 2023)
May 9, 2023 • 45m
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, "Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia" (Fordham UP, 2022)
May 8, 2023 • 57m
The Future of Guantanamo: A Discussion with James Connell
May 8, 2023 • 40m
Michael W. Hankins, "Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia" (Cornell UP, 2021)
May 8, 2023 • 1h 1m
Kyla Sommers, "When the Smoke Cleared: The 1968 Rebellion and the Unfinished Battle for Civil Rights in the Nation's Capital" (New Press, 2023)
May 8, 2023 • 36m
Break on Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture
May 7, 2023 • 32m
Samantha Pickette, "Peak TV's Unapologetic Jewish Woman: Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy" (Lexington, 2022)
May 7, 2023 • 1h 6m
Anne Marie Todd, "Valley of Heart's Delight: Environment and Sense of Place in the Santa Clara Valley" (U California Press, 2022)
May 7, 2023 • 1h 2m
Robin Bartlett, "Vietnam Combat: Firefights and Writing History" (Casemate, 2023)
May 6, 2023 • 41m
Stephen Roach, "Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives" (Yale UP, 2022)
May 6, 2023 • 53m
Jack Buffington, "Reinventing the Supply Chain: A 21st-Century Covenant with America" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
May 5, 2023 • 37m
Chad Williams, "The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War" (FSG, 2023)
May 5, 2023 • 56m
Journalistic Collaboration (JP)
May 4, 2023 • 52m
Cedric Johnson, "After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle" (Verso, 2023)
May 4, 2023 • 1h 6m
Reece Jones, "White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall" (Beacon Press, 2021)
May 4, 2023 • 1h 1m
Boomers: A Conversation with Helen Andrews
May 3, 2023 • 54m
Christen T. Sasaki, "Pacific Confluence: Fighting Over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i" (U California Press, 2022)
May 3, 2023 • 43m
All Men Are Created Equal: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo
May 2, 2023 • 1h 5m
Susan Hartman, "City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town" (Beacon Press, 2022)
May 2, 2023 • 43m
Chad E. Pearson, "Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century" (UNC Press, 2022)
May 2, 2023 • 51m
John Lisle, "The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
May 1, 2023 • 1h 2m
Brian Domitrovic, "The Emergence of Arthur Laffer: The Foundations of Supply-Side Economics in Chicago and Washington, 1966–1976" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
May 1, 2023 • 43m
Downeast Maine and the Unseen Story of Rural America: A Conversation with Gigi Georges
May 1, 2023 • 40m
Annie Zaleski, "Lady Gaga: Applause" (Palazzo Editions, 2022)
Apr 30, 2023 • 52m
Locke, Tocqueville, and Civic Education: A Conversation with Jeffrey Sikkenga
Apr 30, 2023 • 36m
Elliott West, "Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Apr 30, 2023 • 1h 11m
Ana Schwartz, "Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America" (UNC Press, 2022)
Apr 29, 2023 • 51m
Charles Reagan Wilson, "The Southern Way of Life: Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South" (UNC Press, 2023)
Apr 29, 2023 • 1h 13m
This is My Body: Communion and Cannibalism in Colonial New England and New France
Apr 29, 2023 • 23m
High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies
Apr 28, 2023 • 55m
The Future of the Republican Party: A Conversation with Congressman Mike Gallagher '06
Apr 28, 2023 • 43m
Tatiana D. McInnis, "To Tell a Black Story of Miami" (UP of Florida, 2022)
Apr 28, 2023 • 35m
Arleen Tuchman, "Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease" (Yale UP, 2020)
Apr 27, 2023 • 48m
Christina Dunbar-Hester, "Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Apr 27, 2023 • 48m
Helle Strandgaard Jensen, "Sesame Street: A Transnational History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Apr 26, 2023 • 57m
Keith Brian Wood, "Memphis Hoops: Race and Basketball in the Bluff City,1968-1997" (U Tennessee Press, 2021)
Apr 26, 2023 • 1h 13m
Elizabeth Elbourne, "Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842" (Cambridge UP., 2022)
Apr 26, 2023 • 1h 8m
Kaitlin Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller, "Inequality across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 26, 2023 • 50m
Benjamin L. Carp, "The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution" (Yale UP, 2023)
Apr 25, 2023 • 1h 3m
Michael K. Johnson, "Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Apr 25, 2023 • 47m
Jeffrey E. Stern, "The Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
Apr 25, 2023 • 1h 3m
Beth Bailey, "An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era" (UNC Press, 2023)
Apr 25, 2023 • 44m
Will York, "Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age" (Headpress, 2023)
Apr 25, 2023 • 52m
Paul A. Lombardo, "Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Apr 24, 2023 • 1h 3m
Dwayne Epstein, "Killin' Generals: The Making of The Dirty Dozen, the Most Iconic WW II Movie of All Time" (Citadel Press, 2023)
Apr 24, 2023 • 52m
Nicholas Guyatt, "The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison" (Basic Books, 2022)
Apr 24, 2023 • 1h 8m
Joshua Myers, "Of Black Study" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Apr 23, 2023 • 57m
George Black, "The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam" (Knopf, 2023)
Apr 23, 2023 • 1h 4m
Thomas Aiello, "Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration: The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Apr 22, 2023 • 36m
The Garage: A History
Apr 22, 2023 • 25m
George Washington and American Honor: A Conversation with Craig Bruce Smith
Apr 21, 2023 • 54m
Unalienable Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy: A Conversation with Secretary Pompeo and Ambassador Glendon
Apr 21, 2023 • 19m
Benjamin E. Park, "Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier" (Liveright, 2020)
Apr 20, 2023 • 59m
David Chrisinger, "The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II" (Penguin, 2023)
Apr 20, 2023 • 1h 32m
Kathryn Cornell Dolan, "Breakfast Cereal: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Apr 19, 2023 • 1h 7m
Cristina Mejia Visperas, "Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory" (NYU, 2022)
Apr 19, 2023 • 57m
Susan Burch, "Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and Beyond Institutions" (UNC Press, 2021)
Apr 18, 2023 • 24m
Benjamin E. Park, "American Nationalisms: Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783-1833" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Apr 18, 2023 • 1h 8m
Elizabeth S. Hurd and Winnifred F. Sullivan, "At Home and Abroad: The Politics of American Religion" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Apr 18, 2023 • 44m
Tina Post, "Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression" (NYU Press, 2023)
Apr 17, 2023 • 1h 8m
Ryan M. Brooks, "Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Apr 17, 2023 • 1h 23m
Donald Harman Akenson, "The Americanization of the Apocalypse: Creating America's Own Bible" (Oxford UP. 2023)
Apr 16, 2023 • 32m
Lincoln at Gettysburg: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo
Apr 16, 2023 • 55m
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Pantheon Books, 2022)
Apr 15, 2023 • 1h 2m
The Future of Antisemitism: A Discussion with Dave Rich
Apr 15, 2023 • 58m
Daniel Neofetou, "Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Apr 14, 2023 • 1h 10m
Gregory J. Kaliss, "Beyond the Black Power Salute: Athlete Activism in an Era of Change" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Apr 14, 2023 • 1h 0m
Dror Goldberg, "Easy Money: American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Apr 13, 2023 • 46m
Abortion and the Law
Apr 12, 2023 • 1h 51m
Alexander Rose, "The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy" (Mariner Books, 2022)
Apr 12, 2023 • 1h 5m
Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Apr 11, 2023 • 40m
Andrew Curley, "Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation" (U Arizona Press, 2023)
Apr 11, 2023 • 52m
Andrew Long, "Secrets of the Cold War: Espionage and Intelligence Operations from Both Sides of the Iron Curtain" (Pen and Sword History, 2022)
Apr 11, 2023 • 1h 29m
Mari N. Crabtree, "My Soul Is a Witness: The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching" (Yale UP, 2023)
Apr 11, 2023 • 54m
Judge Amy Coney Barrett on "The Constitution as Our Story"
Apr 10, 2023 • 1h 1m
Laura Hobson Faure, "A 'Jewish Marshall Plan': The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Apr 10, 2023 • 1h 12m
The Cooperative Extension System
Apr 10, 2023 • 21m
Howard Gillette, Jr., "The Paradox of Urban Revitalization: Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Apr 9, 2023 • 1h 0m
Lauren Kay Johnson, "The Fine Art of Camouflage" (MilSpeak Books, 2023)
Apr 9, 2023 • 1h 12m
Steve Kemper, "Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor" (Mariner Books, 2022)
Apr 8, 2023 • 1h 6m
Leah Mickens, "In the Shadow of Ebenezer: A Black Catholic Parish in the Age of Civil Rights and Vatican II" (NYU Press, 2022)
Apr 7, 2023 • 1h 0m
Alan Blinder, "A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Apr 6, 2023 • 59m
Antero Garcia, "All through the Town: The School Bus as Educational Technology" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Apr 6, 2023 • 50m
Gay on God's Campus: Mobilizing for LGBT Equality at Christian Colleges and Universities
Apr 6, 2023 • 1h 5m
Abortion and the Pro-Life Movement: A Conversation with Alexandra DeSanctis
Apr 5, 2023 • 33m
Lincoln and the American Founding: A Conversation with Lucas Morel
Apr 5, 2023 • 47m
Carolyn Woods Eisenberg, "Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Apr 5, 2023 • 55m
Joseph Giacomelli, "Uncertain Climes: Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Apr 5, 2023 • 41m
Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management
Apr 3, 2023 • 1h 38m
Jason Gilmore and Charles Rowling, "Exceptional Me: How Donald Trump Exploited the Discourse of American Exceptionalism" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Apr 3, 2023 • 32m
Deborah Carr, "Aging in America" (U California Press, 2023)
Apr 2, 2023 • 57m
Julia H. Lee, "The Racial Railroad" (NYU Press, 2022)
Apr 1, 2023 • 50m
David Horgan, "Helmi's Shadow: A Journey of Survival from Russia to East Asia to the American West" (U Nevada Press, 2021)
Apr 1, 2023 • 1h 29m
Eva Hagberg, "When Eero Met His Match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Apr 1, 2023 • 46m
David Lester and Marcus Rediker, "Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, a Graphic Novel" (Beacon Press, 2023)
Mar 31, 2023 • 1h 7m
Land of Hope: A Conversation with Bill McClay
Mar 31, 2023 • 51m
Gary Kulik: Conscientious Objector Who Served in Vietnam
Mar 30, 2023 • 59m
Geoff Harkness, "DVS Mindz: The Twenty-Year Saga of the Greatest Rap Group to Almost Make It Outta Kansas" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Mar 30, 2023 • 50m
Eric Alterman, "We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel" (Basic Book, 2022)
Mar 30, 2023 • 1h 5m
Susan Burgess, "LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights" (NYU Press, 2023)
Mar 30, 2023 • 54m
Mark Robert Rank, "The Poverty Paradox: Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 29, 2023 • 33m
Ethan Warren, "The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Mar 29, 2023 • 1h 1m
Rebecca Herman, "Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 29, 2023 • 42m
Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Mar 27, 2023 • 1h 5m
Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right but... US Lies and Media Reporting in the 2003 Iraq War
Mar 27, 2023 • 37m
Andrea Friederici Ross, "Edith: The Rogue Rockefeller McCormick" (Southern Illinois UP, 2020)
Mar 27, 2023 • 58m
Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right but... US Lies and Media Reporting in the 2003 Iraq War
Mar 27, 2023 • 37m
Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd, "Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Mar 27, 2023 • 1h 4m
Kristin Hass, "Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices" (Beacon Press, 2022)
Mar 26, 2023 • 1h 4m
E. Cram, "Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West" (U California Press, 2022)
Mar 25, 2023 • 1h 26m
Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S Jacobs, "Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor" (U California Press, 2023)
Mar 25, 2023 • 1h 4m
Dominique A. Tobbell, "Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Mar 24, 2023 • 52m
Adam Sowards, "Making America's Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Mar 24, 2023 • 52m
Robin M. Morris, "Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Mar 23, 2023 • 44m
Present at the Creation: Edward Mead Earle and the Depression-Era Origins of Security Studies
Mar 22, 2023 • 26m
Tom Zoellner, "Rim to River: Looking Into the Heart of Arizona" (U Arizona Press, 2023)
Mar 22, 2023 • 1h 1m
Leigh Goodmark, "Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism" (U California Press, 2023)
Mar 22, 2023 • 59m
Daniel L. Hatcher, "Injustice, Inc.: How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor" (U California Press, 2023)
Mar 21, 2023 • 1h 3m
Alvin Hall, "Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance" (HarperOne, 2023)
Mar 21, 2023 • 1h 8m
Woody Holton, "Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
Mar 21, 2023 • 53m
Melanie Heath, "Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Mar 21, 2023 • 48m
Nadia Abu El-Haj, "Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America" (Verso, 2022)
Mar 21, 2023 • 1h 19m
Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien, "Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations Under Settler Siege" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Mar 20, 2023 • 26m
Rose Marshack, "Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Mar 20, 2023 • 54m
China's Century? Why America's Edge Will Endure
Mar 20, 2023 • 29m
Patrick L. Schmidt, "Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)
Mar 19, 2023 • 1h 21m
Felicity Hwee-Hwa Chan, "Tensions in Diversity: Spaces for Collective Life in Los Angeles" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Mar 18, 2023 • 1h 8m
Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile" (Duke UP, 2009)
Mar 18, 2023 • 1h 1m
Michael Walzer, "The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On 'Liberal' As an Adjective" (Yale UP, 2023)
Mar 18, 2023 • 52m
Roy Schwartz, "Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero" (McFarland, 2021)
Mar 18, 2023 • 1h 46m
Jessica Wilson, "It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies" (Hachette Go, 2023)
Mar 17, 2023 • 59m
Roger Biles and Mark H. Rose, "A Good Place to Do Business: The Politics of Downtown Renewal Since 1945" (Temple UP, 2022)
Mar 15, 2023 • 1h 4m
Tisa Wenger and Sylvester A. Johnson, "Religion and US Empire: Critical New Histories" (NYU Press, 2022)
Mar 15, 2023 • 53m
Bradford Vivian, "Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 15, 2023 • 57m
R. J. M. Blackett, "Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle" (Yale UP, 2023)
Mar 15, 2023 • 1h 1m
Stephen Prothero, "God, the Bestseller: How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time" (HarperOne, 2023)
Mar 14, 2023 • 46m
The Deception Dividend: FDR's Undeclared War
Mar 14, 2023 • 35m
Traveling Black, A Story of Race and Resistance: A Conversation with Mia Bay
Mar 13, 2023 • 52m
Damian Alan Pargas, "Freedom Seekers: Fugitive Slaves in North America, 1800–1860" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Mar 13, 2023 • 1h 12m
Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren, "The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
Mar 13, 2023 • 1h 6m
Cherished and Cursed: Toward a Social History of "The Catcher in the Rye"
Mar 13, 2023 • 33m
Kelsey Klotz, "Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 12, 2023 • 1h 10m
"Prettier Than They Used to Be”: Femininity, Fashion, and the Recasting of Radcliffe's Reputation, 1900-1950
Mar 12, 2023 • 27m
Susan J. Stanfield, "Rewriting Citizenship: Women, Race, and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Mar 12, 2023 • 2h 7m
Robin L. Owens, "'My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole': Barbara Jordan and the Politics of Scriptures" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
Mar 11, 2023 • 32m
Alberto García, "Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico" (U California Press, 2023)
Mar 11, 2023 • 1h 5m
Brian Harker, "Sportin' Life: John W. Bubbles, an American Classic" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 11, 2023 • 1h 12m
Theresa Runstedtler, "Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA" (Bold Type Books, 2023)
Mar 11, 2023 • 57m
A Yankee Rebellion? The Regulators, New England, and the New Nation
Mar 10, 2023 • 34m
Jefferson Cowie, "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" (Basic Book, 2022)
Mar 10, 2023 • 56m
Ross Melnick, "Hollywood's Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Mar 10, 2023 • 1h 3m
Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 10, 2023 • 45m
Chris Walley on Deindustrialization (EF, JP)
Mar 9, 2023 • 40m
T. R. Johnson, "New Orleans: A Writer's City" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 9, 2023 • 38m
The Native American Veterans of Connecticut's Volunteer Regiments and the Union Army
Mar 8, 2023 • 24m
Lillian Colon, "Lilly: The First Latina Rockette" (Lilly Enterprises, 2021)
Mar 7, 2023 • 55m
Ryan Donovan, "Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 7, 2023 • 1h 14m
Elizabeth Cobbs, "Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Mar 7, 2023 • 1h 7m
Nicola Rollock, "The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival" (Penguin, 2022)
Mar 5, 2023 • 44m
Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Diversity and Free Expression in Education
Mar 5, 2023 • 12m
Raina Lipsitz, "The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics" (Verso, 2022)
Mar 5, 2023 • 38m
Jovan Scott Lewis, "Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa" (Duke UP, 2022)
Mar 5, 2023 • 55m
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, "Decolonizing American Spanish: Eurocentrism and the Limits of Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
Mar 4, 2023 • 40m
Marcus Rediker, "The Slave Ship: A Human History" (Penguin, 2008)
Mar 3, 2023 • 56m
Thomas Aiello, "Dixieball: Race and Professional Basketball in the Deep South, 1947-1979" (U Tennessee Press, 2019)
Mar 3, 2023 • 1h 8m
Steve Kemper, "Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor" (Mariner Books, 2022)
Mar 2, 2023 • 44m
Are We Done with Higher Education Rankings?
Mar 2, 2023 • 49m
Lerone A. Martin, "The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 1, 2023 • 40m
Damien M. Sojoyner, "Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums" (U California Press, 2022)
Mar 1, 2023 • 1h 18m
Richard McGahey, "Unequal Cities: Overcoming Anti-Urban Bias to Reduce Inequality in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Mar 1, 2023 • 33m
Celeste Vaughan Curington et al., "The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance" (U California Press, 2021)
Mar 1, 2023 • 49m
Margaret Hall, "Gemignani: Life and Lessons from Broadway and Beyond" (Applause Books, 2022)
Mar 1, 2023 • 46m
Mapping the American Right: A Conversation with the American Enterprise Institute’s Robert Doar
Feb 28, 2023 • 47m
Saida Grundy, "Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man" (U California Press, 2022)
Feb 28, 2023 • 1h 1m
Melvyn P. Leffler, "Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 28, 2023 • 1h 21m
What a City Is for: Remaking the Politics of Displacement
Feb 28, 2023 • 23m
Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
Feb 28, 2023 • 1h 36m
Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Feb 27, 2023 • 1h 20m
Lara Gabrielle, "Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies" (U California Press, 2022)
Feb 27, 2023 • 49m
The Story of American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada
Feb 27, 2023 • 59m
Jen B. Larson, "Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983" (Feral House, 2022)
Feb 26, 2023 • 59m
Mary Crossley, "Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Feb 26, 2023 • 1h 6m
Caroline Dodds Pennock, "On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe" (Knopf, 2023)
Feb 26, 2023 • 1h 0m
Gary Alan Fine, "Fair Share: Senior Activism, Tiny Publics, and the Culture of Resistance" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Feb 26, 2023 • 38m
Mitchell Schwarzer, "Hella Town: Oakland's History of Development and Disruption" (U California Press, 2022)
Feb 26, 2023 • 1h 17m
Stephen Bullivant, "Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 26, 2023 • 1h 23m
Jonathan W. White and Lydia J. Davis, ed., "My Work Among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss" (U Virginia Press, 2021)
Feb 26, 2023 • 41m
Ron Hirschbein and Amin Asfari, "Jews and Muslims in the White Supremacist Conspiratorial Imagination" (Routledge, 2023)
Feb 26, 2023 • 1h 17m
Bernard D. Geoghegan, "Code: From Information Theory to French Theory" (Duke UP, 2023)
Feb 25, 2023 • 53m
Gesine Bullock-Prado, "A Vermont Table: Recipes for All (Six) Seasons" (Countryman Press, 2023)
Feb 25, 2023 • 44m
Claire Bond Potter, "Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy" (Basic Books, 2020)
Feb 25, 2023 • 1h 9m
Britni de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D'Arcangelo, "Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League" (Bold Type Books, 2021)
Feb 25, 2023 • 1h 8m
Ashley Brown, "Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 24, 2023 • 45m
Jeffrey J. Matthews, "Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)
Feb 24, 2023 • 54m
The Future of Democratic Capitalism: A Discussion with Martin Wolf
Feb 24, 2023 • 47m
Leonard C. Spitale, "Victorine Du Pont: The Force Behind the Family" (U Delaware Press, 2022)
Feb 24, 2023 • 49m
Ian C. Hartman and David Reamer, "Black Lives in Alaska: A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest" ( U Washington Press, 2022)
Feb 24, 2023 • 1h 0m
David H. Price, "The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Feb 23, 2023 • 54m
John Vinci, "Reconstructing the Garrick: Adler and Sullivan's Lost Masterpiece" (Alphawood Exhibitions, 2021)
Feb 23, 2023 • 31m
Elżbieta Janicka and Michael Steinlauf, "This Was Not America: A Wrangle Through Jewish-Polish-American History" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2022)
Feb 22, 2023 • 1h 29m
Deborah Holt Larkin, "A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of California's Most Notorious Killer" (Pegasus Crime, 2022)
Feb 22, 2023 • 47m
Kevin Bryant, "Spies on the Sidelines: The High-Stakes World of NFL Espionage" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Feb 22, 2023 • 1h 3m
Tara Zahra, "Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars" (Norton, 2023)
Feb 22, 2023 • 1h 5m
The Business of the Early NHL
Feb 22, 2023 • 29m
Michel Jacques Gagné, "Thinking Critically about the Kennedy Assassination: Debunking the Myths and Conspiracy Theories" (Routledge, 2022)
Feb 21, 2023 • 1h 8m
David Bond, "Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment" (U California Press, 2022)
Feb 21, 2023 • 1h 8m
Pete Millwood, "Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Feb 21, 2023 • 1h 10m
Joseph Plaster, "Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin" (Duke UP, 2023)
Feb 20, 2023 • 1h 5m
Zachary M. Schrag, "The Fires of Philadelphia: Citizen-Soldiers, Nativists, and the 1844 Riots Over the Soul of a Nation" (Pegasus, 2021)
Feb 20, 2023 • 59m
Anna Zeide, "US History in 15 Foods" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Feb 20, 2023 • 39m
Gerald F. Goodwin, "Race in the Crucible of War: African American Servicemen and the War in Vietnam" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
Feb 19, 2023 • 53m
Nicholas Mirzoeff, "White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness" (MIT Press, 2023)
Feb 19, 2023 • 1h 1m
Lynn Cullen, "The Woman with the Cure" (Berkley Books, 2023)
Feb 19, 2023 • 40m
A History of the Métis Nation
Feb 18, 2023 • 45m
Ying Zhu, "Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Movie Market" (New Press, 2022)
Feb 18, 2023 • 48m
Lisa Hajjar, "The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight Against Torture" (U California Press, 2022)
Feb 18, 2023 • 1h 28m
Laura Janet Feller, "Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
Feb 17, 2023 • 43m
Victor Roy, "Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines" (U California Press, 2023)
Feb 17, 2023 • 54m
Andrea G. McDowell, "We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Feb 17, 2023 • 49m
The Future of the Liberal Order: A Discussion with James E. Cronin
Feb 16, 2023 • 51m
Sarah Foss, "On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala" (UNC Press, 2022)
Feb 16, 2023 • 1h 1m
Elisabeth Eittreim, "Teaching Empire: Native Americans, Filipinos, and Us Imperial Education 1879-1918" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
Feb 16, 2023 • 35m
Philip Nel, "Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Feb 16, 2023 • 49m
Stephen F. Knott, "Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
Feb 16, 2023 • 48m
Labor Journalism, Farmworkers, and Reynolds Tobacco with Victoria Bouloubasis
Feb 15, 2023 • 40m
Matthew S. Henry, "Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Feb 15, 2023 • 55m
Kathy E. Ferguson, "Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture" (Duke UP, 2023)
Feb 15, 2023 • 55m
The History of Student Loans in the United States
Feb 14, 2023 • 1h 6m
Malcolm Harris, "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World" (Little, Brown, 2023)
Feb 14, 2023 • 1h 2m
Lisa Haushofer, "Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition" (U California Press, 2022)
Feb 14, 2023 • 1h 1m
Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler, "The American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Feb 14, 2023 • 53m
Molly H. Bassett and Natalie Avalos, "Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes" (Equinox Publishing, 2022)
Feb 14, 2023 • 44m
Maya Phillips, "Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse" (Atria Books, 2022)
Feb 14, 2023 • 55m
Lauron J. Kehrer, "Queer Voices in Hip Hop: Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
Feb 14, 2023 • 56m
American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D
Feb 13, 2023 • 59m
Lee D. Baker, "From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954" (U California Press, 1998)
Feb 13, 2023 • 54m
Leigh Campbell-Hale, "Remembering Ludlow But Forgetting the Columbine: The 1927-1928 Colorado Coal Strike" (U Colorado Press, 2023)
Feb 13, 2023 • 1h 26m
How Do We Treat Opioid Addiction?
Feb 13, 2023 • 56m
Gun-Detecting AI, Infrastructure, and Bureaucracy
Feb 12, 2023 • 1h 26m
Benjamin Hoy, "A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border Across Indigenous Lands" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 11, 2023 • 44m
Winston James, "Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Feb 11, 2023 • 1h 53m
Mike Westhoff, "Figure It Out: My Thirty-Two-Year Journey While Revolutionizing Pro Football's Special Teams" (Mascot Books, 2022)
Feb 11, 2023 • 1h 13m
Marvin N. Olasky and Leah Savas, "The Story of Abortion in America: A Street-Level History, 1652-2022" (Crossway, 2023)
Feb 11, 2023 • 59m
ALICE and Economic Hardship in the United States
Feb 11, 2023 • 1h 1m
The Future of the News: A Discussion with Roger Mosey
Feb 11, 2023 • 33m
Hannah Noel, "Deflective Whiteness: Coopting Black and Latinx Identity Politics" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Feb 10, 2023 • 54m
Kate Masur, "Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction" (Norton, 2021)
Feb 10, 2023 • 51m
We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States
Feb 9, 2023 • 54m
Energy Costs, Poverty, and Race
Feb 9, 2023 • 59m
Leslie Bow, "Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy" (Duke UP, 2022)
Feb 8, 2023 • 50m
Arthur Bovino, "Buffalo Everything: A Guide to Eating in Nickel City with 50 Recipes" (Countryman Press, 2018)
Feb 8, 2023 • 51m
Francis M. Carroll, "America and the Making of an Independent Ireland: A History" (NYU Press, 2021)
Feb 8, 2023 • 34m
Dianne M. Stewart, "Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African-American Marriage" (Seal Press, 2020)
Feb 8, 2023 • 1h 5m
M. V. Hood and Seth C. McKee, "Rural Republican Realignment in the Modern South: The Untold Story" (U South Carolina Press, 2022)
Feb 8, 2023 • 50m
Bruce Kuklick, "Fascism Comes to America: A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Feb 8, 2023 • 1h 2m
How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires
Feb 8, 2023 • 1h 5m
Ben Burgis, "Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters" (Zero Books, 2022)
Feb 7, 2023 • 1h 8m
Erin in the Morning: A Interview with Erin Reed, LGBTQ+ Activist and Substacker
Feb 6, 2023 • 50m
Yu Tokunaga, "Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations" (U California Press, 2022)
Feb 6, 2023 • 53m
Steven Hyden, "Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation" (Hachette Books, 2022)
Feb 6, 2023 • 46m
Where is the Left? The Rise and Decline of Social Democratic Movements
Feb 6, 2023 • 43m
Adam Elder, "New Kids in the World Cup: The Totally Late '80s and Early '90s Tale of the Team That Changed American Soccer Forever" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Feb 5, 2023 • 56m
Gabriel Glickman, "US-Egypt Diplomacy Under Johnson: Nasser, Komer, and the Limits of Personal Diplomacy" (Bloombury, 2021)
Feb 5, 2023 • 1h 23m
Deep Cuts: Classic Rock and Hair Metal with Professor and Guitarist Jesse Kavadlo
Feb 5, 2023 • 1h 8m
Emily Strasser, "Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
Feb 5, 2023 • 59m
Richard Overy, "Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945" (Viking, 2022)
Feb 4, 2023 • 59m
Reclaiming a Lost Vision of Feminism: A Conversation with Erika Bachiochi
Feb 4, 2023 • 55m
H. Jefferson Powell, "The Practice of American Constitutional Law" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Feb 3, 2023 • 1h 48m
Michael Lawrence Dickinson, "Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Feb 2, 2023 • 1h 2m
Truth, Fiction, and Student Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Beth Akers
Feb 2, 2023 • 41m
Clare Forstie, "Queering the Midwest: Forging LGBTQ Community" (NYU Press, 2022)
Feb 1, 2023 • 1h 14m
Inventing American Telecommunications
Feb 1, 2023 • 1h 20m
Derrick Darby, "A Realistic Blacktopia: Why We Must Unite to Fight" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 1, 2023 • 1h 18m
J. Brent Morris, "Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp" (UNC Press, 2022)
Jan 31, 2023 • 1h 16m
Missing: Men at Work
Jan 31, 2023 • 51m
Money or Meaning? A Discussion on Choice, Restlessness, and Higher Education
Jan 30, 2023 • 57m
Above the Veil: Beyond Segregationism and Assimilationism
Jan 29, 2023 • 37m
Vona Groarke, "Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jan 29, 2023 • 48m
Zachary Shore, "This Is Not Who We Are: America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 29, 2023 • 47m
Collaborations between Cold War Scientists and Artists
Jan 29, 2023 • 1h 16m
Robin Bartram, "Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jan 29, 2023 • 31m
Anthony Reed, "Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jan 28, 2023 • 55m
Michael T. Rizzi, "Jesuit Colleges and Universities in the United States: A History" (Catholic U of America Press, 2022)
Jan 28, 2023 • 38m
David S. Painter and Gregory Brew, "The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951-1954" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jan 28, 2023 • 1h 17m
Elizabeth Kelly Gray, "Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 27, 2023 • 59m
Shaun M. Anderson, "The Black Athlete Revolt: The Sport Justice Movement in the Age Of #BlackLivesMatter" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Jan 27, 2023 • 1h 23m
Stephen C. Finley, "In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jan 27, 2023 • 1h 6m
Eric Adler, "The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 25, 2023 • 1h 3m
Sheri Brenden, "Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Jan 25, 2023 • 48m
Kevin Munger, "Generation Gap: Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Jan 25, 2023 • 42m
Frank Wolff, "Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund" (Haymarket Books, 2021)
Jan 25, 2023 • 1h 20m
The History of Temp Work
Jan 24, 2023 • 1h 11m
Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, "Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Jan 24, 2023 • 1h 16m
Oline Eaton, "Finding Jackie: The Second Act of America's First Lady" (Diversion Books, 2023)
Jan 24, 2023 • 57m
Gregory Pfitzer, "'Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas': Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
Jan 24, 2023 • 50m
Climate of Denial: Why Do Americans Doubt Climate Change?
Jan 23, 2023 • 33m
How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
Jan 23, 2023 • 1h 24m
Dick Weissman, "Bob Dylan's New York: A Historic Guide" (SUNY Press, 2022)
Jan 22, 2023 • 38m
Amy Kohout, "Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Jan 22, 2023 • 1h 13m
Progressive Souls: Religion and the Pursuit of a Just Society (Part 2)
Jan 22, 2023 • 24m
Progressive Souls: Religion and the Pursuit of a Just Society (Part 1)
Jan 21, 2023 • 27m
Helen Anne Curry, "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" (U California Press, 2022)
Jan 21, 2023 • 49m
Adam Lajeunesse, "Lock, Stock, and Icebergs: A History of Canada's Arctic Maritime Sovereignty" (UBC Press, 2016)
Jan 21, 2023 • 59m
Karyne E. Messina, "Resurgence of Global Populism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy" (Routledge, 2022)
Jan 21, 2023 • 48m
Viola Franziska Müller, "Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South" (UNC Press, 2022)
Jan 20, 2023 • 1h 15m
Daniel F. Runde, "The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power" (Bombardier, 2023)
Jan 20, 2023 • 47m
Drew Morton, "After Midnight: Watchmen After Watchmen" (U Mississippi Press, 2022)
Jan 20, 2023 • 1h 2m
Emily A. Owens, "Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jan 19, 2023 • 1h 32m
The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature
Jan 19, 2023 • 1h 1m
We Shall Overcome: Sister Thea Bowman and the Black Catholic Experience
Jan 18, 2023 • 59m
Robert Ovetz, "We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Jan 18, 2023 • 1h 11m
Richard Aquila, "Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America: A Cultural History of the Early 1960s" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Jan 18, 2023 • 1h 37m
Michael Joseph Roberto, "The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920-1940" (Monthly Review Press, 2018)
Jan 17, 2023 • 1h 30m
Lisa Biggs, "The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Jan 16, 2023 • 1h 7m
Eric A. Stanley, "Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jan 16, 2023 • 52m
The History of the Black Urban Working-Class in the United States
Jan 16, 2023 • 1h 23m
Apocalyptic Politics: What Do Evangelical Voters Want?
Jan 15, 2023 • 29m
Infrastructure and Inequality
Jan 15, 2023 • 1h 3m
Eternity Now: Talking about Mysticism with the Apostle to the Gangs of LA
Jan 14, 2023 • 49m
Tanya Katerí Hernández, "Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality" (Beacon Press, 2022)
Jan 14, 2023 • 59m
Donna Stein, "Archaeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch" (Skira, 2022)
Jan 14, 2023 • 40m
Aaron Berman, "America's Arab Nationalists: From the Ottoman Revolution to the Rise of Hitler" (Routledge, 2022)
Jan 13, 2023 • 1h 14m
Sabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023)
Jan 13, 2023 • 55m
Seeing Truth in the Speculative: A Conversation with Dexter Gabriel
Jan 12, 2023 • 48m
Simon Brodbeck, "Divine Descent and the Four World-Ages in the Mahābhārata" (Cardiff UP, 2022)
Jan 12, 2023 • 54m
Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America
Jan 12, 2023 • 1h 2m
The Climate Change Scientist: A Conversation with Dr. Shuang-Yu Wu
Jan 12, 2023 • 1h 1m
Sarah Imhoff, "The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jan 11, 2023 • 1h 7m
Vincent Phillip Muñoz, "Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jan 11, 2023 • 1h 21m
Matthew Smith, "The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Jan 10, 2023 • 46m
Poverty, Race, and Rural Sanitation
Jan 10, 2023 • 1h 0m
Demeritocracy: Should We Still Believe in Meritocracy?
Jan 10, 2023 • 25m
The History of Household Technology from Open Hearth to the Microwave
Jan 9, 2023 • 1h 14m
Lior Lehrs, "Unofficial Peace Diplomacy: Private Peace Entrepreneurs in Conflict Resolution Processes" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Jan 8, 2023 • 49m
Neoliberalism and Higher Education
Jan 8, 2023 • 1h 6m
21st Century Citizenship: What Does It Mean to be a Citizen in America?
Jan 8, 2023 • 15m
Jonathan W. White, "To Address You as My Friend: African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln" (UNC Press, 2021)
Jan 8, 2023 • 43m
Jason Isralowitz, "Nothing to Fear: Alfred Hitchcock and the Wrong Men" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2023)
Jan 7, 2023 • 1h 1m
Albert Glinsky, "Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jan 7, 2023 • 1h 11m
Roger A Sneed, "The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
Jan 6, 2023 • 1h 27m
White Balance: How Do Race and Class Intersect?
Jan 6, 2023 • 13m
Do We Live in a Christian Country?
Jan 6, 2023 • 55m
Ellen Cassedy, "Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
Jan 6, 2023 • 49m
On W. H. Auden
Jan 5, 2023 • 25m
Why Did 48,000 UC Workers Go on Strike? A Conversation with Dr. Trevor Griffey
Jan 5, 2023 • 1h 7m
Generation Why?: Do We Need "Generations?"
Jan 4, 2023 • 13m
Assessing Affirmative Action: A Conversation with Jason Riley
Jan 3, 2023 • 42m
Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, "Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Jan 3, 2023 • 1h 39m
Seriously Funny: Politics and Comedy
Jan 3, 2023 • 14m
Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, "She Is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jan 3, 2023 • 49m
Paul J. Gutacker, "The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 3, 2023 • 44m
Felicity M. Turner, "Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America" (UNC Press, 2022)
Jan 1, 2023 • 1h 4m
Mairead Sullivan, "Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger Between Feminist and Queer" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Jan 1, 2023 • 57m
Bonus Episode: "Nomadland"
Jan 1, 2023 • 29m
Adam M. Silver, "Partisanship and Polarization: American Party Platforms, 1840-1896" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Dec 30, 2022 • 57m
Tommie Shelby, "The Idea of Prison Abolition" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Dec 30, 2022 • 1h 12m
Abdul Alkalimat, "The Future of Black Studies" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Dec 29, 2022 • 1h 36m
Jefferson Cowie, "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" (Basic Books, 2022)
Dec 28, 2022 • 1h 31m
"Gone with the Wind" Revisited
Dec 28, 2022 • 34m
Jed Rasula, "What the Thunder Said: How 'The Waste Land' Made Poetry Modern" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Dec 28, 2022 • 49m
Mary M. Burke, "Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 26, 2022 • 44m
Stuart Klawans, "Crooked, But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Dec 25, 2022 • 52m
Lucy Fraser, "The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"" (Wayne State UP, 2017)
Dec 25, 2022 • 36m
Naa Oyo A. Kwate, "White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Dec 25, 2022 • 44m
Eve Golden, "Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)
Dec 25, 2022 • 27m
Anatoly Liberman, "Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Dec 25, 2022 • 48m
Kevin R. C. Gutzman, "The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
Dec 25, 2022 • 1h 0m
The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 3 of 3
Dec 25, 2022 • 1h 53m
The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 2 of 3
Dec 24, 2022 • 1h 29m
Neurasthenia
Dec 23, 2022 • 18m
The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 1 of 3
Dec 23, 2022 • 1h 13m
Edward E. Curtis IV, "Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest" (NYU Press, 2022)
Dec 23, 2022 • 40m
Lauren N. Haumesser, "The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861" (UNC Press, 2022)
Dec 23, 2022 • 41m
The Future of Global Trade: A Discussion with Shannon K. O'Neil
Dec 22, 2022 • 45m
Finis Dunaway. "Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice" (UNC Press, 2021)
Dec 22, 2022 • 1h 15m
Craig Seymour, "Luther: The Life and Longing of Luther Vandross" (2017)
Dec 21, 2022 • 1h 9m
Lyzette Wanzer, "Trauma, Tresses, and Truth: Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narratives" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
Dec 21, 2022 • 19m
Brenden W. Rensink, "The North American West in the Twenty-First Century" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Dec 21, 2022 • 59m
Jacob Kramer, "The New Freedom and the Radicals: Woodrow Wilson, Progressive Views of Radicalism, and the Origins of Repressive Tolerance" (Temple UP, 2015)
Dec 21, 2022 • 55m
Matthew F. Delmont, "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad" (Viking, 2022)
Dec 18, 2022 • 43m
Sonya Y. Ramsey, "Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership" (UP of Florida, 2022)
Dec 18, 2022 • 1h 1m
Quentin Bruneau, "States and the Masters of Capital: Sovereign Lending, Old and New" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Dec 18, 2022 • 51m
Michael Weeks, "Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Dec 17, 2022 • 1h 23m
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, "A Saint of Our Own: How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American" (UNC Press, 2019
Dec 17, 2022 • 42m
Shelley Fraser Mickle, "Borrowing Life: How Scientists, Surgeons, and a War Hero Made the First Successful Organ Transplant a Reality" (Imagine, 2020)
Dec 17, 2022 • 1h 1m
Neil Baldwin, "Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern" (Knopf, 2022)
Dec 17, 2022 • 1h 3m
J. V. Fesko, "The Spirit of the Age: The 19th-Century Debate Over the Holy Spirit and the Westminster Confession" (Reformation Heritage, 2017)
Dec 17, 2022 • 40m
Sean Metzger, "The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2020)
Dec 16, 2022 • 58m
Gregory Smithsimon, "Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism" (NYU Press, 2022)
Dec 16, 2022 • 1h 24m
Alison L. Gash and Daniel J. Tichenor, "Democracy's Child: Young People and the Politics of Control, Leverage, and Agency" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 15, 2022 • 1h 3m
Karen Levy, "Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Dec 15, 2022 • 34m
Samuel J. Redman, "Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Dec 15, 2022 • 47m
Elizabeth N. Ellis. "The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Dec 14, 2022 • 59m
Harold Holzer, "The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media" (Dutton, 2020)
Dec 14, 2022 • 1h 2m
Catherine Bateson, "Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood" (Louisiana UP, 2022)
Dec 14, 2022 • 24m
Yasmine Ali, "Walk Through Fire: The Train Disaster That Changed America" (Citadel Press, 2023)
Dec 14, 2022 • 44m
William Inboden, "The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink" (Dutton, 2022)
Dec 14, 2022 • 1h 8m
What Went Wrong in the 1970s in the USA?: A Discussion with Bill McKibben
Dec 12, 2022 • 44m
Brian Daldorph, "Words Is a Powerful Thing: Twenty Years of Teaching Creative Writing at Douglas County Jail" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
Dec 11, 2022 • 35m
Thomas Beller, "Lost in the Game: A Book about Basketball" (Duke UP, 2022)
Dec 11, 2022 • 1h 13m
Natasha Lasky, "Britney Spears's Blackout" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Dec 11, 2022 • 1h 16m
Barbara Katz Rothman, "The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Dec 11, 2022 • 52m
Daniel Immerwahr, "The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars" (2022)
Dec 10, 2022 • 1h 5m
Jake S. Friedman, "The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
Dec 10, 2022 • 52m
Timothy Shenk, "Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy" (FSG, 2022)
Dec 8, 2022 • 1h 6m
Autumn Womack, "The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Dec 8, 2022 • 1h 5m
Dan Bouk, "Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them" (MCD, 2022)
Dec 8, 2022 • 57m
Robert L. Hetzel, "The Federal Reserve: A New History" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Dec 8, 2022 • 1h 42m
Norm Cohen et al., "An American Singing Heritage: Songs from the British-Irish-American Oral Tradition as Recorded in the Early Twentieth Century" (A-R Editions, 2021)
Dec 8, 2022 • 1h 6m
Ted Conover, "Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge" (Knopf, 2022)
Dec 7, 2022 • 53m
Barbara E. Mattick, "Teaching in Black and White: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the American South" (Catholic U of America Press
Dec 7, 2022 • 45m
Virginia L. Summey, "The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism within the Courts" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Dec 7, 2022 • 56m
Barbara Harris Combs, "Bodies Out of Place: Theorizing Anti-Blackness in U.S. Society" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Dec 6, 2022 • 1h 10m
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, "Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
Dec 5, 2022 • 41m
Eyal Press, "Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America" (Picador, 2022)
Dec 5, 2022 • 25m
On James Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time"
Dec 5, 2022 • 43m
Madeline Lane-McKinley, "Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times" (Common Notions, 2022)
Dec 4, 2022 • 49m
John Delury, "Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Dec 4, 2022 • 1h 9m
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, "Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Dec 4, 2022 • 1h 4m
Char Miller, "West Side Rising: How San Antonio's 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement" (Maverick Books, 2022)
Dec 2, 2022 • 1h 22m
On John Rawl's "A Theory of Justice"
Dec 1, 2022 • 39m
Jonathan R. Hunt, "The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Dec 1, 2022 • 1h 18m
Stephanie Azzarone, "Heaven on the Hudson: Mansions, Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park" (Fordham UP, 2022)
Nov 30, 2022 • 33m
Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Nov 29, 2022 • 1h 7m
Sarah Abel, "Permanent Markers: Race, Ancestry, and the Body After the Genome" (UNC Press, 2021)
Nov 29, 2022 • 1h 5m
William Marling, "Christian Anarchist: Ammon Hennacy, A Life on the Catholic Left" (NYU Press, 2022)
Nov 29, 2022 • 1h 13m
Shana Kushner Gadarian et al., "Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 28, 2022 • 45m
Tara T. Green, "Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 25, 2022 • 52m
Gregory Nobles, "The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Nov 25, 2022 • 57m
Jasmine Nichole Cobb, "New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair" (Duke UP, 2022)
Nov 25, 2022 • 24m
Jennifer Mittelstadt and Mark R. Wilson, "The Military and the Market" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Nov 25, 2022 • 53m
Kate Christine Moore Koppy, "Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them" (Lexington, 2021)
Nov 25, 2022 • 32m
Joseph McBride, "Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Nov 24, 2022 • 1h 27m
Christopher Willoughby, "Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in US Medical Schools" (UNC Press, 2022)
Nov 24, 2022 • 52m
Ray Scott, "The NBA in Black and White: The Memoir of a Trailblazing NBA Player and Coach" (Seven Stories Press, 2022)
Nov 24, 2022 • 1h 14m
Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, "Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back" (Beacon Press, 2022)
Nov 23, 2022 • 46m
Anna Arabindan-Kesson, "Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World" (Duke UP, 2021)
Nov 23, 2022 • 1h 12m
Jeanne Theoharis, "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" (Beacon Press, 2015)
Nov 23, 2022 • 1h 2m
Rhonda F. Levine, "When Race Meets Class: African Americans Coming of Age in a Small City" (Routledge, 2019)
Nov 23, 2022 • 59m
Burt Kearns, "Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
Nov 23, 2022 • 47m
Michael A. Verney, "A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Nov 23, 2022 • 52m
Michael Genovese, "The Modern Presidency: Six Debates That Define the Institution" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022 • 1h 1m
Bridget Kies and Megan Connor, "Fandom, the Next Generation" (U Iowa Press, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022 • 40m
Amy Gajda, "Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy" (Viking, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022 • 52m
Caroline Grego, "Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South" (UNC Press, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022 • 1h 7m
Paul Barba, "Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Nov 22, 2022 • 1h 1m
Lyndsie Bourgon, "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods" (Little, Brown Spark, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022 • 40m
Jon Lewis, "The Godfather, Part II" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 21, 2022 • 1h 5m
Psyche A. Williams-Forson, "Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America" (UNC Press, 2022)
Nov 21, 2022 • 32m
Antonio T. Bly, "Escaping Slavery: A Documentary History of Native American Runaways in British North America" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Nov 21, 2022 • 1h 28m
Elliott H. Powell, "Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Nov 21, 2022 • 57m
Robert P. Crease with Peter D. Bond, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 18, 2022 • 55m
Steve Kemper, "Our Man In Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor" (Mariner Books, 2022)
Nov 17, 2022 • 42m
Riché Richardson, "Emancipation's Daughters: Re-Imagining Black Femininity and the National Body" (Duke UP, 2020)
Nov 17, 2022 • 1h 9m
Bradley Morgan, "U2's the Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America" (Backbeat Books, 2021)
Nov 17, 2022 • 46m
Riché Richardson, "Emancipation's Daughters: Re-Imagining Black Femininity and the National Body" (Duke UP, 2020)
Nov 17, 2022 • 1h 9m
Ethnonationalism since 1973: A Discussion with Quinn Slobodian
Nov 17, 2022 • 46m
Science Against the People: Anti-Capitalist Science
Nov 16, 2022 • 1h 4m
Heart of All: Oral Histories of Oglala Lakota People on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Nov 16, 2022 • 45m
Adam Laats, "Creationism USA: Bridging the Impasse on Teaching Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 16, 2022 • 30m
Megan Asaka, "Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Nov 15, 2022 • 1h 5m
Alan Shuback, "Hollywood at the Races: Film's Love Affair with the Turf" (UP of Kentucky, 2019)
Nov 15, 2022 • 1h 9m
Jeffrey Bellin, "Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How it Can Recover" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 15, 2022 • 36m
Therí Alyce Pickens, "Black Madness :: Mad Blackness" (Duke UP, 2019)
Nov 14, 2022 • 1h 3m
Ryan Poll, "Aquaman and the War Against Oceans: Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Nov 14, 2022 • 42m
Transforming the Urban University: Northeastern University, 1996-2006
Nov 14, 2022 • 1h 21m
Naomi A. Moland, "Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism?: Children's Television and Globalized Multicultural Education" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Nov 14, 2022 • 33m
Sofi Thanhauser, "Worn: A People's History of Clothing" (Vintage, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022 • 52m
Kathryn Gin Lum, "Heathen: Religion and Race in American History" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022 • 1h 3m
Bruce W. Dearstyne, "The Crucible of Public Policy: New York Courts in the Progressive Era" (SUNY Press, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022 • 50m
Jeremy Bangs, "New Light on the Old Colony: Plymouth, the Dutch Context of Toleration, and Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration" (Brill, 2019)
Nov 11, 2022 • 39m
Rachael Hanel, "Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Life from Small-Town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022 • 46m
Muggsy Bogues and Jake Uitti, "Muggsy: My Life from a Kid in the Projects to the Godfather of Small Ball" (Triumph, 2022)
Nov 10, 2022 • 54m
Where Does Research Really Begin?
Nov 10, 2022 • 1h 10m
David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 10, 2022 • 1h 5m
Hua Hsu, "Stay True: A Memoir" (Doubleday, 2022)
Nov 10, 2022 • 31m
Sarah E. Wagner, "What Remains: Bringing America's Missing Home from the Vietnam War" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Nov 10, 2022 • 1h 6m
Bradley Onishi, "Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--And What Comes Next" (Broadleaf Books, 2023)
Nov 10, 2022 • 54m
Stephen G. Rabe, "The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy: A Story of Resistance, Courage, and Solidarity in a French Village" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 10, 2022 • 43m
Andrew Fiss, "Performing Math: A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Nov 9, 2022 • 44m
Nancy Woloch, "The Insider: A Life of Virginia C. Gildersleeve" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Nov 9, 2022 • 1h 26m
Veronica Kirin, "Stories of Elders: What the Greatest Generation Knows about Technology that You Don't" (2018)
Nov 9, 2022 • 54m
Richard Petts, "Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States: Contemporary Norms and Barriers" (Routledge, 2022)
Nov 9, 2022 • 24m
On Toni Morrison's "Beloved"
Nov 9, 2022 • 28m
Todd Meyers, "All That Was Not Her" (Duke UP, 2022)
Nov 9, 2022 • 39m
Katie Hickman, "Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West" (Spiegel & Grau, 2022)
Nov 9, 2022 • 1h 6m
Natasha Lance Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Nov 9, 2022 • 45m
Christopher Howard, "Who Cares: The Social Safety Net in America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 8, 2022 • 35m
Dan Bouk, "Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them" (MCD, 2022)
Nov 8, 2022 • 50m
Bruce Davis, "The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences" (Brandeis UP, 2022)
Nov 8, 2022 • 1h 6m
Andrew S. Rosenberg, "Undesirable Immigrants: Why Racism Persists in International Migration" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 7, 2022 • 48m
On "The U.S. Constitution"
Nov 7, 2022 • 44m
The Hundred Year War for the American Right: A Conversation with Matthew Continetti
Nov 7, 2022 • 44m
Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach, "Dream Books and Gamblers: Black Women's Work in Chicago's Policy Game" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Nov 7, 2022 • 49m
Guthrie P. Ramsey, "Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present" (U California Press, 2022)
Nov 7, 2022 • 46m
Mikkael A. Sekeres, "Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 4, 2022 • 58m
92 Janet McIntosh on "Let's Go Brandon," QAnon and Alt-Right Language (EF, JP)
Nov 3, 2022 • 38m
Richard V. Reeves, "Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It" (Brookings Institution, 2022)
Nov 3, 2022 • 34m
Timothy W. Burns, "Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Nov 3, 2022 • 1h 51m
Jeremi Suri, "Civil War by Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
Nov 2, 2022 • 57m
Andrew McIlwaine Bell, "The Origins of Southern College Football: How an Ivy League Game Became a Dixie Tradition" (LSU Press, 2020)
Nov 2, 2022 • 47m
Shaken and Stirred
Nov 2, 2022 • 1h 3m
Bruce G. Carruthers, "The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 2, 2022 • 42m
Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 2, 2022 • 57m
Clayton J. Butler, "True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction" (LSU Press, 2022)
Nov 2, 2022 • 58m
Matthew Delmont, "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad" (Viking, 2022)
Nov 2, 2022 • 41m
David Kaiser, "Well, Doc, You're In: Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 2, 2022 • 1h 10m
Sarah Quesada, "The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 1, 2022 • 54m
Mike Owen Benediktsson, "In the Midst of Things: The Social Lives of Objects in the Public Spaces of New York City" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 1, 2022 • 48m
Elizabeth Drame et al., "The Resistance, Persistence and Resilience of Black Families Raising Children with Autism" (Peter Lang, 2020)
Nov 1, 2022 • 56m
Darts Transit Commission: Silicon Valley’s Car Culture
Oct 31, 2022 • 47m
Emily Weinstein and Carrie James, "Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)" (MIT Press, 2022)
Oct 31, 2022 • 1h 5m
Beyond Meat? Dietary Shifts and Meat Contestations in China, India and Vietnam
Oct 30, 2022 • 31m
Ross Cole, "The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination" (U California Press, 2021)
Oct 28, 2022 • 1h 2m
Joseph McBride, "The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers" (Anthem Press, 2022)
Oct 28, 2022 • 1h 3m
Regina L. Wagner, "Electoral Patterns in Alabama: Local Change and Continuity Amid National Trends" (Palgrave MacmIllan, 2022)
Oct 28, 2022 • 40m
Elizabeth F. Schwartz, "Before I Do: A Legal Guide to Marriage, Gay and Otherwise" (New Press, 2016)
Oct 27, 2022 • 44m
Jose O. Fernandez, "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022 • 43m
Jose O. Fernandez, "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022 • 43m
Kelisha B. Graves, ed., "Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)
Oct 26, 2022 • 51m
Mallory Lewis and Nat Segaloff, "Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop: The Team That Changed Children's TV" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022 • 31m
Larry Ceplair, "The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist: Seventy-Five Years Later" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022 • 58m
Guy Lancaster, "American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching" (U Arkansas Press, 2021)
Oct 26, 2022 • 39m
Shall We Play A Game?
Oct 26, 2022 • 51m
A. Carly Buxton, "Un-Thinking Collaboration: American Nisei in Transwar Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022 • 1h 1m
Lynn M. Hudson, "West of Jim Crow: The Fight Against California's Color Line" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Oct 26, 2022 • 1h 2m
Dan Immergluck, "Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta" (U California Press, 2022)
Oct 25, 2022 • 36m
Rachel Schreiber, "Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration" (Temple UP, 2021)
Oct 25, 2022 • 1h 24m
Kenyon Gradert, "Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Oct 25, 2022 • 39m
Kenyon Gradert, "Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Oct 25, 2022 • 39m
Sara Wallace Goodman, "Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Oct 24, 2022 • 59m
Robert Hutchinson, "After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals" (Yale UP, 2022)
Oct 24, 2022 • 58m
Ahmed White, "Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers" (U California Press, 2022)
Oct 24, 2022 • 1h 15m
Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis, "Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Oct 21, 2022 • 1h 6m
Scott Bukatman, "Black Panther" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022 • 1h 12m
On Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Oct 21, 2022 • 32m
Michael Keevak, "On Saving Face: A Brief History of Western Appropriation" (Hong Kong UP, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022 • 1h 16m
Eric Jay Dolin, "Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution" (Liveright, 2022)
Oct 20, 2022 • 44m
Randall Balmer, "Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America" (UNC Press, 2022)
Oct 20, 2022 • 48m
Jeffers Lennox, "North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution" (Yale UP, 2022)
Oct 19, 2022 • 50m
John Briscoe, "Crush: The Triumph of California Wine" (U Nevada Press, 2018)
Oct 19, 2022 • 1h 25m
Wolverines!
Oct 19, 2022 • 56m
John Suval, "Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Oct 19, 2022 • 57m
Diane Negra, "Shadow of a Doubt" (Auteur, 2021)
Oct 18, 2022 • 1h 2m
John F. Lyons, "Joy and Fear: The Beatles, Chicago and the 1960s" (Permuted Press, 2020)
Oct 18, 2022 • 1h 7m
David Weinfeld, "An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Oct 18, 2022 • 1h 3m
Anita Wohlmann, "Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Oct 18, 2022 • 1h 4m
Patricia A. Turner, "Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century" (U California Press, 2022)
Oct 18, 2022 • 36m
Robert P. Crease, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
Oct 18, 2022 • 1h 30m
The Future of Cold War: A Discussion with Sergey Radchenko
Oct 18, 2022 • 48m
Robert Steven Levine et al., "The Norton Anthology of American Literature" (Norton, 2022)
Oct 18, 2022 • 47m
Jakob Feinig, "Moral Economies of Money: Politics and the Monetary Constitution of Society" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Oct 17, 2022 • 42m
Erin Keane, "Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me" (Belt Publishing, 2022)
Oct 17, 2022 • 1h 11m
Radicalism, Humility, and Racism in America
Oct 17, 2022 • 1h 5m
Evan Haefeli, "Accidental Pluralism: America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497-1662" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Oct 17, 2022 • 40m
Sherry Boschert, "37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination" (New Press, 2022)
Oct 14, 2022 • 1h 15m
Maria Adele Carrai and Jennifer Rudolph, "The China Questions 2: Critical Insights Into US-China Relations" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Oct 14, 2022 • 21m
Charles Sawyer, "B. B. King: From Indianola to Icon: A Personal Odyssey with the 'King of the Blues'" (Schiffer Publishing, 2022)
Oct 14, 2022 • 1h 8m
Alexander Sergeant, "Encountering the Impossible: The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Oct 14, 2022 • 1h 6m
Doron Taussig, "What We Mean by the American Dream: Stories We Tell about Meritocracy" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Oct 14, 2022 • 51m
Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan W. Concannon, "Does Scripture Speak for Itself?: The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Oct 13, 2022 • 50m
Bhaskar Sunkara, "The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality" (Basic Books, 2020)
Oct 13, 2022 • 1h 5m
Ramzi Fawaz, "Queer Forms" (NYU Press, 2022)
Oct 13, 2022 • 1h 1m
The Fight to Save the Town
Oct 13, 2022 • 1h 13m
P. E. Caquet, "Opium's Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Oct 12, 2022 • 1h 4m
Peter Coviello, "Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Oct 12, 2022 • 1h 7m
Gabriel Debenedetti, "The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama" (Henry Holt, 2022)
Oct 12, 2022 • 37m
Alena Pirok, "The Spirit of Colonial Williamsburg: Ghosts and Interpreting the Recreated Past" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
Oct 12, 2022 • 1h 14m
Sami Schalk, "Black Disability Politics" (Duke UP, 2022)
Oct 12, 2022 • 42m
John D'Emilio, "Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties" (Duke UP, 2022)
Oct 12, 2022 • 47m
Suzana Sawyer, "The Small Matter of Suing Chevron" (Duke UP, 2022)
Oct 12, 2022 • 1h 27m
Truth, Fiction, and Student Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Beth Akers
Oct 11, 2022 • 40m
Nadine Weidman, "Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Oct 11, 2022 • 1h 9m
Anima Adjepong, "Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra" (UNC Press, 2021)
Oct 11, 2022 • 57m
Mitch Troutman, "Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925-1942" (PM Press, 2022)
Oct 11, 2022 • 42m
M. Margaret McKeown, "Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas" (Potomac Books, 2022)
Oct 10, 2022 • 55m
Technocracy Now! Part 2: Exploring Technocracy through Cybernetics
Oct 10, 2022 • 1h 8m
Peter Montoya, "The Second Civil War: A Citizen's Guide to Healing Our Fractured Nation" (RH Press, 2021)
Oct 10, 2022 • 23m
Andrew Porwancher et al., "The Prophet of Harvard Law: James Bradley Thayer and His Legal Legacy" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
Oct 10, 2022 • 1h 20m
Joseph Blankholm, "The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious" (NYU Press, 2022)
Oct 7, 2022 • 43m
Emerald Garner, "Finding My Voice" (Haymarket, 2022)
Oct 7, 2022 • 24m
On John Hersey's "Hiroshima"
Oct 7, 2022 • 32m
Kathryn Gin Lum, "Heathen: Religion and Race in American History" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Oct 7, 2022 • 46m
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise" (Routledge, 2022)
Oct 6, 2022 • 1h 8m
Tenzan Eaghll and Rebekka King, "Representing Religion in Film" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Oct 6, 2022 • 43m
Edward Chancellor, "The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2022)
Oct 6, 2022 • 46m
A Region of the Mind: U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies
Oct 6, 2022 • 37m
The Two Russias
Oct 5, 2022 • 54m
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink, "Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress" (NYU Press, 2022)
Oct 5, 2022 • 1h 3m
Ian Macpherson McCulloch, "John Bradstreet's Raid 1758: A Riverine Operation in the French and Indian War" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
Oct 5, 2022 • 1h 29m
The Future of the Legitimate Opposition: A Discussion with Alexander S. Kirshner
Oct 4, 2022 • 43m
Cinema’s First Nasty Women
Oct 4, 2022 • 1h 17m
On Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"
Oct 3, 2022 • 30m
Technocracy Now! Part 1: Noam Chomsky on Intellectuals and Expertise
Oct 3, 2022 • 1h 7m
Erin A. Snider, "Marketing Democracy: The Political Economy of Democracy Aid in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP. 2022)
Oct 3, 2022 • 58m
Angela Tedesco, "Finding Turtle Farm: My Twenty-Acre Adventure in Community-Supported Agriculture" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Oct 3, 2022 • 25m
R. E. Evans and B. E. Kinnear, "'Richard Eager'": A Pilot's Story from Tennessee Eagle Scout to General Montgomery's 'Flying Fortress'" (Kieran Publishing, 2021)
Oct 3, 2022 • 59m
Noah Shusterman, "Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
Sep 30, 2022 • 1h 24m
The Canada-US Border: A History of a Fluid and Unstable Boundary
Sep 30, 2022 • 37m
Alex Williams and Jeremy Gilbert, "Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back)" (Verso, 2022)
Sep 29, 2022 • 1h 2m
Robert P. Watson, "George Washington's Final Battle: The Epic Struggle to Build a Capital City and a Nation" (Georgetown UP, 2021)
Sep 29, 2022 • 43m
James Bessen, "The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation" (Yale UP, 2022)
Sep 29, 2022 • 45m
Kermit Roosevelt III, "The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Sep 29, 2022 • 1h 1m
Cold War Homefront
Sep 28, 2022 • 1h 3m
Beverly Weintraub, "Wings of Gold: The Story of the First Women Naval Aviators" (Lyons Press, 2021)
Sep 28, 2022 • 55m
Abigail Perkiss, "Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Sep 28, 2022 • 34m
Peter Coviello, "Vineland Reread" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Sep 28, 2022 • 56m
Christopher Nichols and David Milne, "Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Sep 28, 2022 • 1h 0m
Wendy Simonds, "Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization" (Routledge, 2016)
Sep 28, 2022 • 42m
Tripp Mickle, "After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul" (William Morrow, 2022))
Sep 28, 2022 • 40m
Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean, "Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing" (Verso, 2022)
Sep 28, 2022 • 45m
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, "Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
Sep 27, 2022 • 55m
Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert, "Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman" (Seal Press, 2022)
Sep 27, 2022 • 44m
Gregory Sholette, "The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art" (Lund Humphries, 2021)
Sep 27, 2022 • 57m
Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa, "Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader" (NYU Press, 2021)
Sep 26, 2022 • 1h 13m
Jim Cullen, "1980: America's Pivotal Year" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Sep 26, 2022 • 42m
On F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
Sep 26, 2022 • 33m
Andrew Bomback, "Long Days, Short Years: A Cultural History of Modern Parenting" (MIT Press, 2022)
Sep 23, 2022 • 33m
Yarimar Bonilla ed. et al., "Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader" (Duke UP, 2021)
Sep 23, 2022 • 1h 5m
Doug Greene, "Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism" (Zero Books, 2022)
Sep 23, 2022 • 1h 13m
Catherine Lester, "Horror Films for Children: Fear and Pleasure in American Cinema" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Sep 23, 2022 • 1h 3m
Keri Blakinger, "Corrections in Ink: A Memoir" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
Sep 22, 2022 • 1h 1m
Olúfemi Táíwò, "Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously" (Hurst, 2022)
Sep 22, 2022 • 1h 5m
Patrick O. Cohrs, "The New Atlantic Order: The Transformation of International Politics, 1860-1933" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Sep 22, 2022 • 1h 7m
Charles L. Chavis Jr., "The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Sep 22, 2022 • 40m
On On the Beach (1959), The Day After (1983), and Threads (1984)
Sep 21, 2022 • 1h 13m
Michael R. Gordon, "Degrade and Destroy: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump" (FSG, 2022)
Sep 21, 2022 • 1h 4m
Olivier Zunz, "The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Sep 21, 2022 • 1h 8m
Jon Krampner, "Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
Sep 21, 2022 • 1h 0m
David Enrich, "Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice" (Mariner Books, 2022)
Sep 21, 2022 • 1h 4m
Abby L. Goode, "Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability" (UNC Press, 2022)
Sep 20, 2022 • 39m
Stevie Van Zandt, "Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir" (Hachette Books, 2022)
Sep 20, 2022 • 1h 7m
John M. Curatola, "Autumn of Our Discontent: Fall 1949 and the Crises in American National Security" (US Naval Institute Press, 2022)
Sep 20, 2022 • 24m
Nancy Fraser, "Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It" (Verso, 2022)
Sep 20, 2022 • 59m
Randall Balmer, "Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America" (UNC Press, 2022)
Sep 20, 2022 • 1h 1m
Kenneth H. Kolb, "Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate" (U California Press, 2021)
Sep 20, 2022 • 38m
Timothy Paul Bowman, "You Will Never Be One of Us: A Teacher, a Texas Town, and the Rural Roots of Radical Conservatism" (U of Oklahoma Press, 2022)
Sep 20, 2022 • 1h 12m
Brian D. Bunk, "From Football to Soccer: The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Sep 19, 2022 • 53m
Tod Gitlin on the Recovery of American Ideals
Sep 19, 2022 • 41m
Emily Bingham, "My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song" (Knopf, 2022)
Sep 19, 2022 • 59m
Raúl Pérez, "The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Sep 19, 2022 • 1h 34m
Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Sep 16, 2022 • 35m
Chris Belcher, "Pretty Baby: A Memoir" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Sep 16, 2022 • 45m
Paul Russell Semendinger, "The Least Among Them: 29 Players, Their Brief Moments in the Big Leagues, and a Unique History of the New York Yankees" (Artemesia, 2021)
Sep 16, 2022 • 52m
Mohamed Adhikari, "Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples" (Hackett, 2022)
Sep 16, 2022 • 1h 2m
Steve Adelman, "Nocturnal Admissions: A Nightlife Memoir" (Santa Monica Press, 2022)
Sep 16, 2022 • 53m
Michael O. Johnston, "Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Sep 16, 2022 • 26m
David Crow, "The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story" (Sandra Jonas Publishing, 2019)
Sep 15, 2022 • 1h 22m
Brad Snyder, "Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment" (Norton, 2022)
Sep 14, 2022 • 1h 21m
Christin Essin, "Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Sep 14, 2022 • 1h 4m
Bruce J. Dierenfield and David A. Gerber, "Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education: The Story Behind Zobrest V. Catalina Foothills School District" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Sep 14, 2022 • 45m
A MAD, MAD, World
Sep 14, 2022 • 58m
Ethan Czuy Levine, "Rape by the Numbers: Producing and Contesting Scientific Knowledge about Sexual Violence" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Sep 13, 2022 • 59m
The Future of American Decline: A Conversation with Jed Esty
Sep 13, 2022 • 55m
Esther Wright, "Rockstar Games and American History: Promotional Materials and the Construction of Authenticity" (de Gruyter, 2022)
Sep 13, 2022 • 37m
Ellie D. Hernández et al., "Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Spaces" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Sep 13, 2022 • 39m
Derek H. Alderman et al., "Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Sep 13, 2022 • 54m
On "The Book of Mormon"
Sep 13, 2022 • 41m
Carl A. Brasseaux and Donald W. Davis, "Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
Sep 13, 2022 • 1h 1m
Danielle J. Lindemann, "True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us" (FSG, 2022)
Sep 12, 2022 • 36m
Karen Hunger Parshall, "The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Sep 12, 2022 • 1h 10m
Pew Research Center: Analyzing the Evangelical Right
Sep 9, 2022 • 1h 36m
Josep M. Fradera, "The Imperial Nation: Citizens and Subjects in the British, French, Spanish, and American Empires" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Sep 9, 2022 • 55m
Jodi Skipper, "Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the U.S. South" (U Iowa Press, 2022)
Sep 9, 2022 • 52m
William C. Kirby, "Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Sep 8, 2022 • 46m
Eric A. Posner, "How Antitrust Failed Workers" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Sep 8, 2022 • 39m
Marissa R. Moss, "Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be" (Henry Holt, 2022)
Sep 7, 2022 • 1h 5m
Who Can You Trust?
Sep 7, 2022 • 56m
Ugo Corte, "Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Sep 7, 2022 • 1h 0m
Michael O'Hanlon, "The Art of War in an Age of Peace: U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint" (Yale UP, 2021)
Sep 7, 2022 • 54m
Allyson P. Brantley, "Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism" (UNC Press, 2021)
Sep 6, 2022 • 52m
Phillip B. Levine, "A Problem of Fit: How the Complexity of College Pricing Hurts Students—and Universities" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Sep 6, 2022 • 49m
Liz Bucar, "Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Sep 6, 2022 • 48m
Mark T. Johnson, "The Middle Kingdom Under the Big Sky: A History of the Chinese Experience in Montana" (U of Nebraska Press, 2022)
Sep 6, 2022 • 1h 2m
Peter S. Alagona, "The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities" (U California Press, 2022)
Sep 5, 2022 • 1h 5m
Fritz Bartel, "The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Sep 5, 2022 • 58m
Truck Nuts: The Political History of Trucks and Trucking
Sep 5, 2022 • 1h 19m
Decoteau Irby, "Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
Sep 5, 2022 • 1h 35m
Marcus Nevius on Becoming a Historian, Marronage, Slave Resistance, and More!
Sep 3, 2022 • 2h 22m
William Alexander, "Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022)
Sep 2, 2022 • 58m
Adam Abraham, "Attack of the Monster Musical: A Cultural History of Little Shop of Horrors" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Sep 2, 2022 • 41m
Mark Clague, "O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of the Star-Spangled Banner" (Norton, 2022)
Sep 2, 2022 • 1h 3m
The Tamiflu Trials: Profit and Public Health
Sep 2, 2022 • 1h 3m
Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Sep 1, 2022 • 43m
Meighen McCrae, "Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War: The Supreme War Council and War Planning, 1917-1918" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Sep 1, 2022 • 1h 14m
Tommi Koivula and Heljä Ossa, "NATO’s Burden-Sharing Disputes: Past, Present and Future Prospects" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Sep 1, 2022 • 35m
88 Underwater Eye: Margaret Cohen explores the Film Aquatic
Sep 1, 2022 • 46m
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, "Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Sep 1, 2022 • 43m
The Heroin Clinic
Sep 1, 2022 • 53m
He May Be a Communist!
Aug 31, 2022 • 1h 0m
This is Your Brain on Trial
Aug 31, 2022 • 1h 8m
John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins, "Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
Aug 31, 2022 • 2h 6m
Anthony Christian Ocampo, "Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons" (NYU Press, 2022)
Aug 31, 2022 • 32m
Jillian Peterson and James Densley, "The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic" (Harry N. Abrams, 2021)
Aug 31, 2022 • 32m
E. James West, "Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr." (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
Aug 30, 2022 • 58m
Pathological: The Work of Dr. Charles Smith
Aug 30, 2022 • 1h 20m
Merlin Chowkwanyun, "All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health" (UNC Press, 2022)
Aug 30, 2022 • 1h 9m
Sandra Eder, "How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Aug 30, 2022 • 51m
On Herman Melville's "Moby Dick"
Aug 29, 2022 • 27m
Wendy L. Rouse, "Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement" (NYU Press, 2022)
Aug 29, 2022 • 53m
Derailed: The Crisis of Forensic Expertise
Aug 29, 2022 • 1h 26m
Jeroen Dewulf, "Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America's First Black Christians" (U Notre Dame Press, 2022)
Aug 26, 2022 • 53m
Julie A. Turnock, "The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Aug 26, 2022 • 1h 18m
Paul Adler, "No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Aug 26, 2022 • 1h 46m
Michael Sidney Fosberg, "Nobody Wants to Talk about It: Race, Identity, and the Difficulties in Forging Meaningful Conversations" (Incognito, 2020)
Aug 25, 2022 • 1h 3m
Michael J. Altman, "Hinduism in America: An Introduction" (Routledge, 2022)
Aug 25, 2022 • 44m
Jennifer C. Lucas and Christopher J. Galdieri, "Polarization and Political Party Factions in the 2020 Election" (Lexington, 2022)
Aug 25, 2022 • 50m
Gamify Everything: Turning Work Into Play . . . for Better and for Worse
Aug 24, 2022 • 51m
Ben Rhodes, "After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made" (Random House, 2021)
Aug 24, 2022 • 57m
Monica De La Torre, "Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Aug 24, 2022 • 57m
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
Aug 24, 2022 • 1h 7m
Stu Halpern, "Esther in America" (Maddig, 2020)
Aug 23, 2022 • 34m
The Future of Q Anon: A Discussion with Sophia Moskalenko
Aug 23, 2022 • 53m
Philip Nash, "Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman" (Routledge, 2022)
Aug 23, 2022 • 1h 5m
Reality TV
Aug 23, 2022 • 16m
Postscript: How the Supreme Court Overturned a Century-Old Gun Law…and Changed American Jurisprudence
Aug 22, 2022 • 1h 1m
Moral Kombat: How Mortal Kombat Caused Moral Outrage
Aug 22, 2022 • 1h 8m
Autumn Womack, "The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-1930" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Aug 22, 2022 • 1h 14m
Jamil W. Drake, "To Know the Soul of a People: Religion, Race, and the Making of Southern Folk" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 22, 2022 • 28m
Gene Andrew Jarrett, "Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Aug 22, 2022 • 59m
Andrew Dubbins, "Into Enemy Waters: A World War II Story of the Demolition Divers Who Became the Navy SEALs" (Diversion Books, 2022)
Aug 19, 2022 • 47m
The Journal of Higher Education in Prison
Aug 18, 2022 • 50m
Cynthia E. Orozco, "Pioneer of Mexican-American Civil Rights: Alonso S. Perales" (Arte Publico Press, 2020)
Aug 18, 2022 • 36m
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