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Danielle Bainbridge, "Currencies of Cruelty: Slavery, Freak Shows, and the Performance Archive" (NYU Press, 2026)

59 mins; April 03, 2026

The Club: Where American Artists Found Refuge in Belle Epoque Paris

51 mins; April 02, 2026

Amelia Frank-Vitale, "Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds" (U California Press, 2026)

38 mins; April 02, 2026

Lee Ann S. Wang, "The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women" (Duke UP, 2026)

70 hours 7 mins; April 01, 2026

Tyesha Maddox, "A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

38 mins; March 31, 2026

Nick Juravich, "Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education" (U Illinois Press, 2024)

59 mins; March 30, 2026

Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese Food

45 mins; March 30, 2026

Matthew Guariglia and Brian Hochman, "The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation into the National Security State" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2026)

45 mins; March 30, 2026

Erica Morawski, "Development Design: Hotels and Politics in the Hispanic Caribbean" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025)

44 mins; March 29, 2026

Mark Hlavacik, "Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

29 mins; March 29, 2026

On Our Continuing Age of Oil with Journalist Stanley Reed

46 mins; March 28, 2026

Nicholas W. Gentile, "Enemies to Their Country: The Marblehead Addressers and Consensus in the American Revolution" (U Mass Press, 2025)

114 hours 47 mins; March 28, 2026

Tom Wells, "The Kissinger Tapes: Inside His Secretly Recorded Phone Conversations" (Oxford UP, 2026)

34 mins; March 27, 2026

Cathryn J. Prince, "For the Love of Labor: The Life of Pauline Newman" (U Illinois Press, 2026)

52 mins; March 27, 2026

Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, "The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War" (Oxford UP, 2025)

70 hours 54 mins; March 26, 2026

Joanna Siekiera ed., "NATO Stability Policing: Beneficial Tool in Filling the Security Gap and Establishing the Rule of Law, and a Safe and Secure Environment" (NATO Stability Policing Centre Of Excellence, 2024)

69 hours 45 mins; March 26, 2026

Maya L. Kornberg, "Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress" (JHU Press, 2026)

49 mins; March 26, 2026

Sarah Jaffe, "Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone" (Bold Type Books, 2021)

68 hours 51 mins; March 25, 2026

On Trump as a “World Historical Individual” with author John B. Judis

34 mins; March 25, 2026

Steven Pinker, "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life" (Scribner, 2025)

34 mins; March 23, 2026

Elizabeth Mitchell Elder, "Company Towns: Industry Power and the Historical Foundations of Public Mistrust" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

32 mins; March 22, 2026

Doug Crandell, "Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages" (Cornell UP, 2022)

63 hours 10 mins; March 21, 2026

Gabrielle Oliveira, "Now We Are Here: Family Migration, Children’s Education, and Dreams for a Better Life" (Stanford UP, 2025)

27 mins; March 21, 2026

Imagining Independence; or, Why Does Rip Van Winkle Sleep Through the Revolution?

58 mins; March 20, 2026

Sunmin Kim, "The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

74 hours 1 min; March 19, 2026

A.J. Bauer, "Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against The Press" (Columbia UP, 2026)

75 hours 43 mins; March 18, 2026

Lisa Nakamura, "The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)

43 mins; March 18, 2026

Entrepreneurial Work Ethic

15 mins; March 17, 2026

Abe Walker, "Reassembling the UAW: Insurgency, Contention, and the Struggle for Unionism in the American South" (Temple UP, 2026)

61 hours 41 mins; March 17, 2026

Eurie Dahn, "Snack" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

43 mins; March 16, 2026

Courtney Humphries, "Climate Change and the Future of Boston" (Anthem Press, 2026)

36 mins; March 16, 2026

Ethelene Whitmire, "The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram" (Viking, 2026)

28 mins; March 15, 2026

Tristan J. Rogers, "Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction" (Routledge, 2025)

74 hours 49 mins; March 14, 2026

Suzanne Mettler and Trevor E. Brown, "Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)

40 mins; March 14, 2026

An Evening with Philip Roth: A Conversation with Bernard Avishai, Igor Webb, and Steven Zipperstein

67 hours 3 mins; March 13, 2026

Katelyn E. Stauffer, "The Politics of Perception: How Beliefs About Women’s Inclusion Shape Democratic Legitimacy in the U.S." (Oxford UP, 2025)

35 mins; March 12, 2026

Michelle Adams, "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North" (FSG Press, 2025)

36 mins; March 11, 2026

Austin McCoy, "Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made" (Atria/One Signal, 2026)

50 mins; March 11, 2026

Dana A. Williams, "Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship" (Amistad, 2025)

50 mins; March 10, 2026

George Frazier, "Riverine Dreams: Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

41 mins; March 10, 2026

The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City with Henry Sapoznik

64 hours 26 mins; March 08, 2026

Danielle Wiggins, "Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

62 hours 59 mins; March 08, 2026

Patrick Chung, "Standardizing Empire: The US Military, Korea, and the Origins of Military-Industrial Capitalism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)

61 hours 53 mins; March 06, 2026

Catherine Boland Erkkila, "Spaces of Immigration: American Ports, Railways, and Settlements" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025)

39 mins; March 06, 2026

Michael James Roberts et al., "Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing" (San Diego State UP, 2024)

60 hours 59 mins; March 05, 2026

Jennifer Randles, "Living Diaper to Diaper: The Hidden Crisis of Poverty and Motherhood" (U California Press, 2026)

41 mins; March 05, 2026

Elizabeth Suhay, "Debating the American Dream: How Explanations for Inequality Polarize Politics" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2025)

53 mins; March 04, 2026

Seth S. Tannenbaum, "Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites: Democracy and Division at the Twentieth-Century Ballpark" (U Illinois Press, 2026)

60 hours 9 mins; March 03, 2026

Helen Redmond, "Liquid Handcuffs: Policing and Punishment in Methadone Clinics and the Future of Opioid Addiction Treatment" (North Atlantic Books, 2026)

56 mins; March 03, 2026

Coming Out as Dalit with Yashica Dutt

57 mins; March 02, 2026

James Giesler, "Francisco de Saavedra's American Revolutionary War, The Spanish Contribution to the Battle of Yorktown" (James Giesler, 2025)

59 mins; March 01, 2026

Jonathan D. Sarna and Benjamin Shapell, "Lincoln and the Jews: A History" (NYU Press, 2025)

48 mins; February 28, 2026

Clarissa E. Francis, "Black Women's Bodily Autonomy, Sexual Freedom, and Pleasure: Explorations of the Hot Girl Movement" (Routledge, 2025)

66 hours 47 mins; February 28, 2026

Sarah Jones Weicksel, "A Nation Unraveled: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era" (UNC Press, 2026)

55 mins; February 27, 2026

Cynthia Miller-Idriss, "Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)

47 mins; February 27, 2026

Dorothy Denetclaw and Matt Fitzsimons, "The Sons of Gunshooter: A Navajo Resistance Story" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

29 mins; February 26, 2026

Fred Turner on Countercultures, Cybercultures, and Californian and Texan Ideologies

79 hours 2 mins; February 25, 2026

Jamila Michener and Mallory E. Sorelle, "Uncivil Democracy: How Access to Justice Shapes Political Power" (Princeton UP, 2026)

55 mins; February 25, 2026

Stephen Stacks, "The Resounding Revolution: Freedom Song After 1968" (U Illinois Press, 2025)

67 hours 12 mins; February 24, 2026

Josh Seim, "The Welfare Assembly Line: Public Servants in the Suffering City" (U California Press, 2026)

40 mins; February 24, 2026

Zalman Newfield, "Brooklyn Odyssey: My Journey Out of Hasidism" (Temple UP, 2026)

78 hours 55 mins; February 23, 2026

Allison Powers, "Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law" (Oxford UP, 2024)

44 mins; February 23, 2026

American Masterpiece: The Civil War Diaries of George Templeton Strong with Brenda Wineapple and Geoff Wisner

60 hours 29 mins; February 23, 2026

Cecilia Márquez, "Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation" (UNC Press, 2023)

48 mins; February 22, 2026

Mark Thomas Edwards, "Walter Lippmann: American Skeptic, American Pastor" (Oxford UP, 2023)

53 mins; February 21, 2026

Mark D. Steinberg, "Moral Storytelling in 1920s New York, Odessa, and Bombay: Sex, Crime, Violence, and Nightlife in the Modern City" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

63 hours 55 mins; February 21, 2026

Erick Guerra, "Overbuilt: The High Costs and Low Rewards of US Highway Construction" (Island Press, 2025)

36 mins; February 20, 2026

Kenneth Lowande, "False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

44 mins; February 19, 2026

David M. Henkin, "Out of the Ballpark: How to Think about Baseball" (Oxford UP, 2026)

63 hours 14 mins; February 19, 2026

Emily Dufton, "Addiction, Inc: Medication-assisted Treatment and America's Forgotten War on Drugs" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

60 hours 16 mins; February 18, 2026

John Drabinski, "So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic" (Northwestern UP, 2025)

59 mins; February 18, 2026

Brian Hallstoos, "Sol Butler: An Olympian's Odyssey through Jim Crow America" (U Illinois Press, 2026)

59 mins; February 17, 2026

Cassandra Shepard, "Settler Colonialism is the Disaster: A Critique of New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina and During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (U Illinois Press, 2026)

49 mins; February 15, 2026

Marc James Carpenter, "The War on Illahee: Genocide, Complicity, and Cover-Ups in the Pioneer Northwest" (Yale UP, 2025)

54 mins; February 14, 2026

Laura K. Field, "Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right" (Princeton UP, 2025)

43 mins; February 13, 2026

Digestive Belonging, Trans-Species Sensing & Care in America’s Dairyland

58 mins; February 13, 2026

Zaid Adhami, "Dilemmas of Authenticity: The American Muslim Crisis of Faith" (UNC Press, 2025)

106 hours 27 mins; February 12, 2026

Heather Ann Thompson, "Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage" (Pantheon, 2026)

56 mins; February 12, 2026

Ron Hayduk, "Untangling the Political Roots of Immigration and Inequality in the United States" (Routledge, 2026)

30 mins; February 11, 2026

Joshua Clark Davis, "Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back" (Princeton UP, 2025)

57 mins; February 11, 2026

Jameson R. Sweet, "Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

58 mins; February 10, 2026

Nicholas Boggs, "Baldwin: A Love Story" (FSG, 2025)

38 mins; February 10, 2026

Charles Alistair McCrary, "Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

55 mins; February 09, 2026

Gloria Browne-Marshall, "A Protest History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2026) Revisited

60 hours 33 mins; February 09, 2026

Ashlyn Hand, "Prioritizing Faith: International Religious Freedom and U.S. Foreign Policy" (NYU Press, 2025)

43 mins; February 08, 2026

Isaac Butler, "The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

91 hours 52 mins; February 08, 2026

Garrett Felber, "A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre" (AK Press, 2025)

54 mins; February 06, 2026

Nina Bandelj, "Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting" (Princeton UP, 2026)

60 hours 49 mins; February 05, 2026

Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson, "A Black Woman for President: Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris" (UP of Mississippi)

60 hours 48 mins; February 04, 2026

Dafeng Xu, "Chinatown: San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake and the Paradox of American Immigration Policy" (JHU Press, 2026)

53 mins; February 04, 2026

Luca Cottini, "The Rise of Americanism in Italy, 1888-1919" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

59 mins; February 02, 2026

Jens Ludwig, "Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

63 hours 36 mins; February 02, 2026

Michael Casiano, "Let Us Alone: The Origins of Baltimore's Police State" (U Illinois Press, 2025)

80 hours 15 mins; February 01, 2026

Rolando Pujol, "The Great American Retro Road Trip: A Celebration of Roadside Americana" (Artisan Publishers, 2025)

58 mins; January 31, 2026

Stephen Bezruchka, "Born Sick in the USA: Improving the Health of a Nation" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

35 mins; January 30, 2026

Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine

44 mins; January 30, 2026

Mark Anthony Neal, "New Black Man" (Routledge, 2015)

33 mins; January 29, 2026

LiLi Johnson, "Technologies of Kinship: Asian American Racialization and the Making of Family" (NYU Press, 2025)

71 hours 59 mins; January 29, 2026

Betty Boyd Caroli, "A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Dream of Affordable Housing" (Oxford UP, 2026)

59 mins; January 28, 2026

Terry Williams, "Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York" (Columbia UP, 2024)

27 mins; January 28, 2026

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