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George Fisher, "Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)

63 hours 6 mins; January 27, 2026

Karin Wulf, "Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America" (Oxford UP, 2025)

40 mins; January 27, 2026

Kong Pheng Pha, "Queering the Hmong Diaspora: Racial Subjectivity and the Myth of Hyperheterosexuality" (U Washington Press, 2025)

55 mins; January 26, 2026

Justin Owen Rawlins, "Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance" (U Texas Press, 2024)

56 mins; January 26, 2026

Damon Scott, "The City Aroused: Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco" (U Texas Press, 2024)

69 hours 59 mins; January 26, 2026

Kimberley Johnson, "Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis" (Cornell UP, 2025)

49 mins; January 25, 2026

Gerald F. Goodwin, "Race in the Crucible of War: African American Servicemen and the War in Vietnam" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)

52 mins; January 25, 2026

Elizabeth Kelly Gray, "Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914" (Oxford UP, 2023)

58 mins; January 24, 2026

Andrew Burstein, "Being Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

54 mins; January 23, 2026

Ryan Donovan, "Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity" (Oxford UP, 2023)

73 hours 4 mins; January 23, 2026

Emilie Connolly, "Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States" (Princeton UP, 2025)

50 mins; January 22, 2026

Oline Eaton, "Finding Jackie: The Second Act of America's First Lady" (Diversion Books, 2023)

56 mins; January 22, 2026

Brian D. Behnken, "Brown and Blue: Mexican Americans, Law Enforcement, and Civil Rights in the Southwest, 1935-2025" (UNC Press, 2025)

59 mins; January 21, 2026

Kendra D. Boyd, "Freedom Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

57 mins; January 21, 2026

O. Jennifer Dixon-McKnight, "We Paved the Way: Black Women and the Charleston Hospital Workers' Campaign" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)

34 mins; January 20, 2026

Kellen Hoxworth, "Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance" (Northwestern UP, 2024)

44 mins; January 20, 2026

John Samuel Harpham, "Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2025)

95 hours 17 mins; January 19, 2026

Mark Christian Thompson, "Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

62 hours 9 mins; January 19, 2026

Christopher Lynch, "Formulating Foster: Stephen C. Foster and the Creation of a National Musical Myth" (Oxford UP, 2025)

61 hours 38 mins; January 19, 2026

Sonya Lea, "American Bloodlines: Reckoning with Lynch Culture" (UP of Kentucky, 2025)

48 mins; January 18, 2026

Zeke Hernandez, "The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)

60 hours 2 mins; January 18, 2026

A. Mechele Dickerson, "The Middle-Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream" (U California Press, 2026)

55 mins; January 17, 2026

Keidrick Roy, "American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism" (Princeton UP, 2024)

51 mins; January 17, 2026

Lottie Whalen, "Radicals & Rogues: The Women Who Made New York Modern" (Reaktion, 2023)

38 mins; January 17, 2026

Jose Eos Trinidad, "Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)

54 mins; January 16, 2026

Emily Walton, "Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England" (Stanford UP, 2025)

56 mins; January 16, 2026

T. R. Johnson, "New Orleans: A Writer's City" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

38 mins; January 16, 2026

Michael J. Illuzzi, "Mending the Nation: Reclaiming We The People in a Populist Age" (UP of Kansas, 2025)

42 mins; January 15, 2026

Lukas Foss: A "New American Music Series" Gallatin Lecture, April 15, 1982

41 mins; January 15, 2026

Mary E. Stuckey, "Remembering Jefferson: Who He Was, Who We Are" (UP of Kansas, 2025)

41 mins; January 15, 2026

Theodore J. Karamanski, "Great Lake: An Unnatural History of Lake Michigan" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

38 mins; January 14, 2026

Steven J. Brady, "Less Than Victory: American Catholics and the Vietnam War" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

56 mins; January 13, 2026

Fernando Luiz Lara, "Spatial Theories for the Americas: Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2024)

53 mins; January 13, 2026

Robert D. Bland, "Requiem for Reconstruction: Black Countermemory and the Legacy of the Lowcountry's Lost Political Generation" (UNC Press, 2026)

60 hours 23 mins; January 13, 2026

Adam S. Ferziger. "Agents of Change: American Jews and the Transformation of Israeli Judaism" (NYU Press, 2025)

57 mins; January 12, 2026

Brooke Kroeger, "Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism" (Knopf, 2023)

45 mins; January 11, 2026

Chris Boucher, "Harry "Bucky" Lew: A Biography of the First Black Professional Basketball Player" (McFarland, 2026)

46 mins; January 11, 2026

Book Talk 69: American Medium, with Eyal Peretz

88 hours 14 mins; January 10, 2026

Jason Isralowitz, "Nothing to Fear: Alfred Hitchcock and the Wrong Men" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2023)

60 hours 12 mins; January 09, 2026

Paul J. Gutacker, "The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)

43 mins; January 08, 2026

Mary M. Burke, "Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History" (Oxford UP, 2023)

43 mins; January 07, 2026

W. Ralph Eubanks, "When It's Darkness on the Delta: How America's Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land" (Beacon Press, 2026)

64 hours 39 mins; January 07, 2026

Kelsey Klotz, "Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness" (Oxford UP, 2023)

69 hours 36 mins; January 06, 2026

Ashley Brown, "Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson" (Oxford UP, 2023)

45 mins; January 05, 2026

Matthew Davis, "A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)

66 hours 5 mins; January 04, 2026

Philip A. Wallach, "Why Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)

49 mins; January 03, 2026

Scott A. Mitchell, "The Making of American Buddhism" (Oxford UP, 2023)

58 mins; January 02, 2026

Jean Pfaelzer, "California, a Slave State" (Yale UP, 2023)

54 mins; January 01, 2026

Anna Zeide, "US History in 15 Foods" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

38 mins; December 31, 2025

Kathryn Cornell Dolan, "Breakfast Cereal: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

67 hours 58 mins; December 30, 2025

Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

72 hours 9 mins; December 29, 2025

Helle Strandgaard Jensen, "Sesame Street: A Transnational History" (Oxford UP, 2023)

57 mins; December 29, 2025

Andrew Porwancher, "American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews" (Princeton UP, 2025)

30 mins; December 28, 2025

Jack Z. Bratich, "On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death" (Common Notions, 2022)

65 hours 45 mins; December 28, 2025

Ruby Oram, "Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

57 mins; December 27, 2025

Joel S. Wit, "Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea" (Yale UP, 2025)

49 mins; December 26, 2025

Trymaine Lee, "A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America" (St. Martins, 2025)

52 mins; December 26, 2025

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

31 mins; December 26, 2025

Sustainability, Identity, Artisans and Designers

55 mins; December 25, 2025

Colin Williamson, "Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

51 mins; December 25, 2025

Brittany Michelle Friedman, "Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons" (UNC Press, 2025)

64 hours 30 mins; December 24, 2025

Liberation & the Literature of the Women’s Movement with Bess Wohl and Honor Moore

56 mins; December 23, 2025

Christian Smith, "Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)

36 mins; December 22, 2025

David Fleming, "A Big Mess in Texas: The Miraculous, Disastrous 1952 Dallas Texans and the Craziest Untold Story in NFL History" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)

52 mins; December 22, 2025

Leo R. Chavez, "The Latino Threat: How Alarmist Rhetoric Misrepresents Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation" (Stanford UP, 2025)

73 hours 42 mins; December 21, 2025

Terry Kirby, "The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

52 mins; December 20, 2025

Amy Erdman Farrell, "Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA" (UNC Press, 2025)

57 mins; December 19, 2025

Jeff Roche, "The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right" (U Texas Press, 2025)

80 hours 52 mins; December 18, 2025

Peter Mancina, "On the Side of ICE: Policing Immigrants in a Sanctuary State" (NYU Press, 2025)

26 mins; December 17, 2025

David Nasaw, "The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II" (Penguin, 2025)

55 mins; December 16, 2025

Joseph L Graves, "Why Black People Die Sooner: What Medicine Gets Wrong about Race and How to Fix It" (Columbia UP, 2025)

27 mins; December 14, 2025

Mirya Holman, "The Hidden Face of Local Power: Appointed Boards and the Limits of Democracy" (Temple UP, 2025)

44 mins; December 14, 2025

Matt Sleat, "Post-Liberalism" (Polity, 2025)

42 mins; December 12, 2025

Julian Schmid, "Marvel, DC and US Security: The Superhero Genre and Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

44 mins; December 12, 2025

René Esparza, "From Vice to Nice: Midwestern Politics and the Gentrification of AIDS" (UNC Press, 2025)

52 mins; December 11, 2025

Caitlin Wiesner, "Between the Street and the State: Black Women’s Anti-Rape Activism Amid the War on Crime" (U Pennsylvania, 2025)

75 hours 8 mins; December 11, 2025

Michael D. Dwyer, "Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt" (Oxford UP, 2025)

71 hours 48 mins; December 10, 2025

James Sears, "Queering Rehoboth Beach: Beyond the Boardwalk" (Temple UP, 2024)

56 mins; December 09, 2025

Benjamin Schneider, "The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution" (Island Press, 2025)

73 hours 3 mins; December 09, 2025

David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)

64 hours 47 mins; December 08, 2025

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

66 hours 22 mins; December 08, 2025

Sylvia D. Hoffert, "Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle: Gossip, Rumor, and Reputation in a Small Southern Town" (U Georgia Press, 2025)

46 mins; December 08, 2025

José Blanco F. and Raúl J. Vázquez-López, "Dress, Fashion, and National Identity in Puerto Rico: Taínos to Beauty Queens" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

60 hours 14 mins; December 07, 2025

Gwyneth Mellinger, "Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)

24 mins; December 06, 2025

Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

43 mins; December 04, 2025

Jonathan S. Jones, "Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis" (UNC Press, 2025)

38 mins; December 03, 2025

Brooke Barbier, "King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father" (Harvard UP, 2023)

49 mins; December 02, 2025

Julia Wagner, "Hester Street" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

40 mins; December 02, 2025

Stefania Marghitu, "Teen TV" (Routledge, 2021)

84 hours 28 mins; November 30, 2025

Michael McCulloch, "Building a Social Contract: Modern Workers’ Houses in Early Twentieth-Century Detroit" (Temple UP, 2023)

56 mins; November 30, 2025

Benjamin Balthaser, "Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left" (Verso Books, 2025)

76 hours 59 mins; November 30, 2025

Sabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023)

54 mins; November 28, 2025

Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)

61 hours 21 mins; November 28, 2025

Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)

67 hours 36 mins; November 28, 2025

Deborah Carr, "Aging in America" (U California Press, 2023)

56 mins; November 28, 2025

Jonathan Eig, "King: A Life" (FSG, 2023)

39 mins; November 27, 2025

Philip Rocco, "Counting Like a State: How Intergovernmental Partnerships Shaped the 2020 US Census" (UP Kansas, 2025)

53 mins; November 27, 2025

Christina Cecelia Davidson, "Dominican Crossroads: H.C.C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation" (Duke UP, 2024)

40 mins; November 26, 2025

Renata Keller, "The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War" (UNC Press, 2025)

37 mins; November 25, 2025

Eric King, "A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon" (PM Press, 2025)

60 hours 55 mins; November 25, 2025

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