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Amy Hughes, "An Actor's Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
64 hours 14 mins; November 24, 2025
Jim Cullen, "1980: America's Pivotal Year" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
41 mins; November 23, 2025
John Bodnar, "Divided by Terror: American Patriotism after 9/11" (UNC Press, 2021)
68 hours 6 mins; November 22, 2025
Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, "Videotape" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
44 mins; November 22, 2025
Julie Dobrow, "Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage" (NYU Press, 2025)
44 mins; November 22, 2025
Yanqiu Zheng, "In Search of Admiration and Respect: Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
72 hours 18 mins; November 21, 2025
Can America Still Lead? Foreign Policy in an Age of Division with Joel Rubin
60 hours 55 mins; November 21, 2025
Simon Appleford, "Drawing Liberalism: Herblock's Political Cartoons in Postwar America" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
56 mins; November 21, 2025
160* Hannah Arendt's Refugee Politics (JP)
21 mins; November 20, 2025
Karen Auman, "The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for Georgia" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
50 mins; November 20, 2025
Ana Patricia Rodríguez, "Avocado Dreams: Remaking Salvadoran Life and Art in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area" (University of Arizona Press, 2025)
33 mins; November 20, 2025
Nicholas Buccola, "One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle Over an American Ideal" (Princeton UP, 2025)
75 hours 40 mins; November 19, 2025
Tim Seiter, "Wrangling Pelicans: Military Life in Texas Presidios" (U Texas Press, 2025)
39 mins; November 19, 2025
Vanessa S. Williamson, "The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History" (Basic Books, 2025)
53 mins; November 18, 2025
Heath Pearson, "Life Beside Bars: Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town" (Duke UP, 2024)
65 hours 1 min; November 18, 2025
Doug MacCash, "Mardi Gras Beads" (Louisiana UP, 2022)
38 mins; November 17, 2025
Ethan W. Ris, "Other People's Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
66 hours 7 mins; November 17, 2025
Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
39 mins; November 17, 2025
Lester D. Friedman, "Citizen Spielberg" (U of Illinois Press, 2022)
48 mins; November 17, 2025
Joe Allen, "The Package King: A Rank and File History of UPS" (Haymarket Books, 2020)
61 hours 15 mins; November 16, 2025
Christina Lane, "Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock" (Chicago Review Press, 2020)
61 hours 36 mins; November 16, 2025
Miranda S. Spivack, "Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back" (The New Press, 2025)
44 mins; November 15, 2025
Carolyn T. Adams et. al, "Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century" (Penn Press, 2025)
37 mins; November 14, 2025
David Kieran, "Signature Wounds: The Untold Story of the Military's Mental Health Crisis" (NYU Press, 2019)
50 mins; November 14, 2025
David Garland, "Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment" (Princeton UP, 2025)
62 hours 27 mins; November 14, 2025
Ronald Angelo Johnson, "Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy During the American Revolution" (Cornell UP, 2025)
85 hours 55 mins; November 13, 2025
Caroline Jack, "Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
70 hours 38 mins; November 13, 2025
Joseph P. Viteritti, "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)
41 mins; November 11, 2025
Lars Cornelissen, "Neoliberalism and Race" (Stanford UP, 2025)
77 hours 23 mins; November 11, 2025
Jason A. Higgins, "Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
62 hours 26 mins; November 10, 2025
Clint Smith, "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America" (Little, Brown and Company, 2021)
87 hours 27 mins; November 09, 2025
Shoshana Walter, "Rehab: An American Scandal" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
40 mins; November 08, 2025
David T. Beito, "FDR: A New Political Life" (Open Universe, 2025)
32 mins; November 07, 2025
Diane T. Feldman, "Borrowed Land, Stolen Labor, and the Holy Spirit: The Struggle for Power and Equality in Holmes County, Mississippi" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
65 hours 9 mins; November 06, 2025
House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr.
55 mins; November 06, 2025
Carol Mason, "From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary" (U California Press, 2025)
57 mins; November 05, 2025
Jack B. Greenberg and John A. Dearborn, "Congressional Expectations of Presidential Self-Restraint" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
48 mins; November 05, 2025
Mimi Abramovitz, "Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present" (Routledge, 2025)
29 mins; November 04, 2025
Rebecca L. Davis, "Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America" (Norton, 2024)
59 mins; November 03, 2025
Eram Alam, "The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare" (JHU Press, 2025)
51 mins; November 03, 2025
Shaul Kelner, "A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized To Free Soviet Jews" (NYU Press, 2025)
36 mins; November 02, 2025
Linda Upham-Bornstein, "'Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender': Taxpayers’ Associations, Pocketbook Politics, and the Law during the Great Depression" (Temple UP, 2023)
45 mins; November 02, 2025
Rob Wells, "The Insider: How the Kiplinger Newsletter Bridged Washington and Wall Street" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
23 mins; October 31, 2025
Joshua Clark Davis, "Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back" (Princeton UP, 2025)
85 hours 36 mins; October 28, 2025
Democratic Dialogues: Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries
42 mins; October 28, 2025
Patrick Parr, "Malcolm Before X" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
26 mins; October 26, 2025
Javier Wallace, "Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams" (Duke UP, 2025)
66 hours 41 mins; October 26, 2025
Sarah Smarsh, "Bone of the Bone: Essays on America from a Daughter of the Working Class" (Scribner, 2024)
64 hours 56 mins; October 25, 2025
Hector Vera, "Yardstick Nation: The Metric System in America" (Vanderbilt UP, 2025)
57 mins; October 25, 2025
Tami Parr, "Goats in America: A Cultural History" (Oregon State UP, 2025)
49 mins; October 23, 2025
Becky M. Nicolaides, "The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles After 1945" (Oxford UP, 2024)
38 mins; October 22, 2025
Aileen Teague, "Policing on Drugs: The United States, Mexico, and the Origins of the Modern Drug War, 1969-2000" (Oxford UP, 2025)
55 mins; October 22, 2025
Peter D. Blackmer, "Unleashing Black Power: Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers" (UVA Press, 2025)
81 hours 23 mins; October 21, 2025
Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
56 mins; October 20, 2025
Ada Ferrer, "Cuba: An American History" (Scribner, 2021)
53 mins; October 19, 2025
Nancy Newman, "Songs and Sounds of the Anti-Rent Movement in Upstate New York: Including Twenty-Two New Settings of Period Tunes" (SUNY Press, 2025)
53 mins; October 18, 2025
Andrea Freeman, "Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: America’s Politics of Food, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch" (Metropolitan Books, 2024)
60 hours 44 mins; October 17, 2025
Michael T. Bertrand, "Southern History Remixed: On Rock 'n' Roll and the Dilemma of Race" (UP Florida, 2024)
64 hours 12 mins; October 17, 2025
Francis L. Sampson, "Look Out Below!: A Story of the Airborne by a Paratrooper Padre" (Catholic U of America Press, 2023)
48 mins; October 16, 2025
Darren Mueller, "At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz" (Duke UP, 2024)
74 hours 40 mins; October 15, 2025
Gustav Meibauer, "The No-Fly Zone in US Foreign Policy: The Curious Persistence of a Flawed Instrument" (Policy Press, 2025)
48 mins; October 14, 2025
Lawrence Grossman, "Living in Both Worlds: Modern Orthodox Judaism in the United States, 1945-2025" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
55 mins; October 13, 2025
Naomi R. Williams, "A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community in Wisconsin" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
45 mins; October 12, 2025
Jason Schneider, "That Gun in Your Hand: The Strange Saga of Hey Joe' and Popular Music's History of Violence" (Anvil Press, 2025)
57 mins; October 12, 2025
Melissa M. Matthes, "When Sorrow Comes: The Power of Sermons from Pearl Harbor to Black Lives Matter" (Harvard UP, 2021)
67 hours 46 mins; October 12, 2025
Aaron Sheehan-Dean, "Fighting with the Past: How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War" (UNC Press, 2025)
55 mins; October 12, 2025
David Singerman, "Unrefined: How Capitalism Reinvented Sugar" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
68 hours 28 mins; October 11, 2025
Anthony J. Knowles, "Driving Productivity: Automation, Labor, and Industrial Development in the United States and Germany" (Brill, 2025)
46 mins; October 11, 2025
Kevin M. Schultz, "Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
86 hours 39 mins; October 10, 2025
Meghan Crnic, "The Beach Cure: A History of Healing on Northeastern Shores" (U Washington Press, 2025)
45 mins; October 10, 2025
Maria Fedorova, "Seeds of Exchange: Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in Agriculture, 1921–1935" (Northern Illinois UP, 2025)
49 mins; October 09, 2025
John Minton, "Folk Music and Song in the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
63 hours 20 mins; October 09, 2025
Clay Risen, "Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
69 hours 37 mins; October 08, 2025
Zara Anishanslin, "The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution" (Harvard UP, 2025)
49 mins; October 07, 2025
Michael Glass, "Cracked Foundations: Debt and Inequality in Suburban America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
62 hours 29 mins; October 07, 2025
Vartan Matiossian, "The Color of Choice: The Armenians and the Politics of Race in the United States and Germany (1890-1945)" (Brill, 2025)
79 hours 9 mins; October 06, 2025
Marion Orr, "House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr." (UNC Press, 2025)
59 mins; October 06, 2025
Jill Elaine Hasday, "We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality" (Oxford UP, 2025)
24 mins; October 05, 2025
Emma Ashford, "First Among Equals: U. S. Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World" (Yale UP, 2025)
35 mins; October 05, 2025
Raymond J. McKoski, "David Davis, Abraham Lincoln's Favorite Judge" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
57 mins; October 03, 2025
Kathleen B. Casey, "The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
52 mins; October 02, 2025
Robert F. Williams, "The Airborne Mafia: The Paratroopers Who Shaped America's Cold War Army" (Cornell UP, 2025)
41 mins; October 01, 2025
Disco Sucks
61 hours 40 mins; September 30, 2025
Scott Beekman, "The Last Gladiator: William Muldoon and the Making of American Sports" (U Texas Press, 2025)
41 mins; September 27, 2025
John L. Campbell, "Pay Up!: Conservative Myths about Tax Cuts for the Rich" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
34 mins; September 26, 2025
Aaron Cayer, "Incorporating Architects: How American Architecture Became a Practice of Empire" (U California Press, 2025)
34 mins; September 26, 2025
Ecodefense: Dave Foreman and Earth First!’s Deep Ecology
59 mins; September 25, 2025
Debra Michals, "She's the Boss: The Rise of Women’s Entrepreneurship since World War II" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
43 mins; September 25, 2025
Mark Archuleta, "The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr: From Gentleman Bandit to Movie Star and Back Again" (U North Texas Press, 2025)
39 mins; September 24, 2025
Constance Bailey, "Conversations with Kiese Laymon" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
67 hours 26 mins; September 24, 2025
Kate Haulman, "The Mother of Washington in Nineteenth-Century America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
39 mins; September 23, 2025
Tim Weiner, "The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century" (Mariner Books, 2025)
51 mins; September 22, 2025
Bob Wyss, "Black Gold: The Rise, Reign, and Fall of American Coal" (University of California Press, 2025)
47 mins; September 22, 2025
Nicholas Jacobs and Sidney M. Milkis, "Subverting the Republic: Donald J. Trump and the Perils of Presidentialism" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
61 hours 30 mins; September 21, 2025
Calvin Schermerhorn, "The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made" (Yale UP, 2025)
64 hours 55 mins; September 21, 2025
Jonathan White and Lucas Morel, "Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln" (Reedy Press, 2025)
38 mins; September 20, 2025
Marcus Rediker, "Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea" (Penguin Group, 2025)
64 hours 57 mins; September 20, 2025
Rebecca Nagle, "By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land" (Harper, 2024)
39 mins; September 17, 2025
Michael Poznansky, "Great Power, Great Responsibility: How the Liberal International Order Shapes US Foreign Policy" (Oxford UP, 2025)
32 mins; September 16, 2025
Jessica B. Harris, "Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine" (Clarkson Potter, 2025)
37 mins; September 16, 2025
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