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Hajar Yazdiha, "The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement" (Princeton UP, 2023)
44 mins; January 30, 2024
Colorblindness and the Classics: A Conversation with Andre Archie
49 mins; January 30, 2024
On Authoritarianism: A Discussion with Author and Political Scientist Matthew C. MacWilliams
55 mins; January 29, 2024
Sarah Diefendorf, "The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety Among White Evangelicals" (U California Press, 2023)
53 mins; January 29, 2024
Sandro Galea, "Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
28 mins; January 28, 2024
Caleb Wellum, "Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
57 mins; January 26, 2024
Ethel Morgan Smith, "Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
31 mins; January 26, 2024
Mark Zachary Taylor, "Presidential Leadership in Feeble Times: Explaining Executive Power in the Gilded Age" (Oxford UP, 2023)
53 mins; January 25, 2024
Damon Scott, "The City Aroused: Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco" (U Texas Press, 2024)
69 hours 59 mins; January 25, 2024
James R. Fichter, "Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773–1776" (Cornell UP, 2023)
63 hours 5 mins; January 24, 2024
Kareem R. Muhammad, "The Fight for Black Empowerment in the USA: America’s Last Hope" (Routledge, 2023)
58 mins; January 22, 2024
On Zionism and the Left: A Discussion with Author and Cultural Critic Susie Linfield
65 hours 33 mins; January 22, 2024
Robert C. Post, "The Taft Court (10): Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
67 hours 0 mins; January 19, 2024
Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan, "The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929" (Cornell UP, 2023)
45 mins; January 18, 2024
Scott Gac, "Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
39 mins; January 18, 2024
Neall W. Pogue, "The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement" (Cornell UP, 2022)
56 mins; January 18, 2024
Geoffrey Levin, "Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978" (Yale UP, 2023)
68 hours 39 mins; January 16, 2024
Dana R. Fisher, "Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action" (Columbia UP, 2024)
32 mins; January 15, 2024
Alexandra Filindra, "Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
53 mins; January 15, 2024
Jeffrey A. Friedman, "The Commander-in-Chief Test: Public Opinion and the Politics of Image-Making in US Foreign Policy" (Cornell UP, 2023)
40 mins; January 14, 2024
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)
68 hours 14 mins; January 13, 2024
Sam Lebovic, "State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime" (Basic Book, 2023)
58 mins; January 12, 2024
Jennifer Thomson, "The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health" (UNC Press, 2019)
47 mins; January 10, 2024
Steven Rogers, "Accountability in State Legislatures" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
49 mins; January 08, 2024
Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle, "Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives" (NYU Press, 2021)
58 mins; January 02, 2024
Gregg L. Frazer, "God against the Revolution: The Loyalist Clergy’s Case Against the American Revolution" (UP of Kansas, 2018)
36 mins; December 31, 2023
Claudia Smith Brinson, "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)
67 hours 15 mins; December 29, 2023
D. B. Maroon, "Black Lives, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience" (Lawrence Hill Books, 2023)
64 hours 59 mins; December 28, 2023
Julia F. Irwin, "Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century" (UNC Press, 2023)
56 mins; December 27, 2023
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)
61 hours 37 mins; December 27, 2023
Thomas A. Schwartz, "Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography" (Hill and Wang, 2020)
45 mins; December 26, 2023
James M. Lawson Jr. et al., "Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom" (U California Press, 2022)
21 mins; December 24, 2023
Laurence Jurdem, "The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship that Changed American History" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
53 mins; December 24, 2023
David Craig, "Apocalypse Television: How The Day After Helped Save the World" (Applause Books, 2023)
51 mins; December 20, 2023
Katlyn Marie Carter, "Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions" (Yale UP, 2023)
51 mins; December 19, 2023
Speech Unbound: A Conversation with Nadine Strossen
58 mins; December 19, 2023
Sara Chatfield, "In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage" (Columbia UP, 2023)
55 mins; December 18, 2023
Jack D. Noe, "Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South" (LSU Press, 2021)
32 mins; December 18, 2023
Sisterhood
20 mins; December 16, 2023
Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023)
31 mins; December 15, 2023
Troels Burchall Henningsen, "Western Intervention and Informal Politics: Simulated Statebuilding and Failed Reforms" (Routledge, 2021)
66 hours 18 mins; December 15, 2023
Melinda N. Ritchie, "Backdoor Lawmaking: Evading Obstacles in the US Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)
42 mins; December 12, 2023
David Steele, "It Was Always a Choice: Picking Up the Baton of Athlete Activism" (Temple UP, 2022)
68 hours 10 mins; December 12, 2023
Michael W. Doyle, "Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War" (Liveright, 2023)
51 mins; December 12, 2023
Matthew Dennis, "American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
54 mins; December 10, 2023
Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Threats to Democracy and H.L. Mencken’s "Notes on Democracy"
57 mins; December 09, 2023
Katharine M. Millar, "Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community" (Oxford UP, 2022)
65 hours 57 mins; December 08, 2023
The Future of the State: A Discussion with Graeme Garrard
38 mins; December 04, 2023
Tracy E. Perkins, "Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism" (U California Press, 2022)
66 hours 50 mins; December 03, 2023
Chhaya Kolavalli, "Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
32 mins; December 02, 2023
On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen
62 hours 29 mins; November 30, 2023
Russ Castronovo, "American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability" (Princeton UP, 2023)
76 hours 2 mins; November 30, 2023
Charles S. Maier, "The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries" (Harvard UP, 2023)
50 mins; November 29, 2023
Salim Yaqub, "Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
64 hours 56 mins; November 28, 2023
Brian D. Blankenship, "The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics" (Cornell UP, 2023)
68 hours 16 mins; November 26, 2023
Diane Carol Fujino, "Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake" (U Washington Press, 2020)
59 mins; November 25, 2023
Edward L. Ayers, "American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860" (Norton, 2023)
67 hours 23 mins; November 25, 2023
Daniel Shea and Nicholas F. Jacobs, "The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America" (Columbia UP, 2023)
53 mins; November 24, 2023
William S. Kiser, "Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
54 mins; November 23, 2023
Boris Heersink, "National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2023)
50 mins; November 23, 2023
The US State Department and Ever-Changing Global Politics
32 mins; November 21, 2023
Cody D. Ewert, "Making Schools American: Nationalism and the Origin of Modern Educational Politics" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
56 mins; November 21, 2023
The Future of the Rural-Urban Divide: A Discussion with Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea
43 mins; November 20, 2023
Seán Creagh, "The Wolfhounds of Irish-American Nationalism: A History of Clan Na Gael, 1867-Present" (Peter Lang, 2023)
30 mins; November 20, 2023
Leonard Grob and John K. Roth, "Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy" (Cascade Books, 2023)
66 hours 27 mins; November 20, 2023
Chris Cutrone, "The Death of the Millennial Left: Interventions: 2006-2022" (Sublation Media, 2023)
66 hours 7 mins; November 19, 2023
Robert P. George's 'Making Men Moral': A 30th Anniversary Conference
61 hours 16 mins; November 18, 2023
Political Polarisation: Have We Got It Wrong?
28 mins; November 17, 2023
Charisse Burden-Stelly, "Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
48 mins; November 17, 2023
Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
60 hours 26 mins; November 16, 2023
Brigid Cohen, "Musical Migration and Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
63 hours 14 mins; November 15, 2023
Jeffrey Scholes, "Christianity, Race, and Sport" (Routledge, 2021)
32 mins; November 14, 2023
The Future of World Disorder: A Discussion with Peter R. Neumann
36 mins; November 14, 2023
Jennifer Burns on the Life and Lasting Influence of Milton Friedman
43 mins; November 14, 2023
Brendan J. Doherty, "Fundraiser in Chief: Presidents and the Politics of Campaign Cash" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
50 mins; November 13, 2023
Elizabeth Anderson, "Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
56 mins; November 13, 2023
David Myer Temin, "Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
82 hours 8 mins; November 13, 2023
Juliet Hooker, "Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss" (Princeton UP, 2023)
57 mins; November 13, 2023
Eric M. Patashnik, "Countermobilization: Policy Feedback and Backlash in a Polarized Age" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
37 mins; November 12, 2023
Shelley Fraser Mickle, "White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America" (Imagine, 2023)
33 mins; November 11, 2023
Steven Simon, "Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East" (Penguin, 2023)
60 hours 42 mins; November 11, 2023
Daniel Macfarlane, "Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US-Canada Relations" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
48 mins; November 11, 2023
Xaq Frohlich, "From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age" (U California Press, 2023)
47 mins; November 10, 2023
Speak Freely: The Princeton Principles
59 mins; November 07, 2023
Matthew J. Clavin, "Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War" (NYU Press, 2023)
36 mins; November 07, 2023
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young, "Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
64 hours 7 mins; November 06, 2023
Shannon McKenna Schmidt, "The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back" (Sourcebooks, 2023)
34 mins; November 06, 2023
Drew A. Swanson, "A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction" (UNC Press, 2023)
61 hours 0 mins; November 04, 2023
Alexandra Hudson, "The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
33 mins; November 02, 2023
The Future of Cancelling: A Conversation with Greg Lukianoff
39 mins; November 01, 2023
Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
68 hours 35 mins; November 01, 2023
Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
55 mins; October 31, 2023
Woodrow Wilson: Patrick Weil’s "The Madman in the White House"
40 mins; October 31, 2023
Dara Z. Strolovitch, "When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
63 hours 44 mins; October 31, 2023
Claire Jean Kim, "Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
65 hours 29 mins; October 30, 2023
Norman Solomon, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine" (New Press, 2023)
65 hours 46 mins; October 28, 2023
Denise D. Meringolo, "Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism" (Amherst College Press, 2021)
62 hours 14 mins; October 26, 2023
Greg Glasgow and Kathryn Mayer, "Disneyland on the Mountain: Walt, the Environmentalists, and the Ski Resort That Never Was" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
45 mins; October 25, 2023
Scott Kamen, "From Union Halls to the Suburbs: Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
65 hours 38 mins; October 25, 2023
Jeff Kosseff, "Liar in a Crowded Theater: Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
64 hours 19 mins; October 24, 2023
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