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Sonia C. Gomez, "Picture Bride, War Bride: The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America" (NYU Press, 2024)
63 hours 46 mins; July 15, 2025
Jeremy Black, "The Civil War" (Saint Augustine's Press, 2025)
30 mins; July 14, 2025
Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman, "Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany's March to Global War" (Basic Books, 2021)
47 mins; July 14, 2025
Elizabeth Popp Berman, "Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
52 mins; July 14, 2025
Alexander Lian, "Stereoscopic Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
38 mins; July 13, 2025
Andrew Herscher, "Under the Campus, the Land: Anishinaabe Futuring, Colonial Non-Memory, and the Origin of the University of Michigan" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
42 mins; July 12, 2025
Phil Tiemeyer, "Women and the Jet Age: A Global History of Aviation and Flight Attendants" (Cornell UP, 2025)
55 mins; July 11, 2025
Andrew S. Berish, "Hating Jazz: A History of Its Disparagement, Mockery, and Other Forms of Abuse" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
76 hours 3 mins; July 10, 2025
Elana Levine, "Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History" (Duke UP, 2020)
36 mins; July 07, 2025
Dennard Dayle, "How to Dodge a Cannonball: A Novel" (Henry Holt, 2025)
63 hours 30 mins; July 06, 2025
John Bardes, "The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930" (UNC Press, 2024)
48 mins; July 05, 2025
Ezra Glinter, "Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah" (Yale UP, 2024)
69 hours 40 mins; July 05, 2025
Andrew Hartman, "Karl Marx in America" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
50 mins; July 05, 2025
Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin, "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease" (U of California Press, 2025)
55 mins; July 04, 2025
153: What Hannah Arendt Has to Teach Us about Anticipatory Despair (JP)
26 mins; July 03, 2025
Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson, "Why America Didn't Become Great Again" (Routledge, 2025)
40 mins; July 02, 2025
Rebecca Jo Kinney, "Mapping AsiaTown Cleveland: Race and Redevelopment in the Rust Belt" (Temple UP, 2025)
73 hours 37 mins; July 02, 2025
Elisabeth Ă…sbrink, "1947: Where Now Begins" (Other Press, 2019)
64 hours 37 mins; July 01, 2025
Paul R. Beckett, "An Anatomy of Tax Havens: Europe, the Caribbean and the United States of America" (de Gruyter, 2023)
64 hours 21 mins; June 30, 2025
Matthew Wisnioski on the History of the Idea and Culture of “Innovation” in the United States
99 hours 16 mins; June 30, 2025
Sarah Gold McBride "Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
73 hours 20 mins; June 29, 2025
Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024)
80 hours 58 mins; June 28, 2025
Ross A. Kennedy, "The United States and the Origins of World War II in Europe" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)
87 hours 0 mins; June 28, 2025
Stacy Horn, "Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York" (Algonquin Books, 2019)
34 mins; June 27, 2025
Bryan D. Jones, The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History" (Oxford UP, 2025)
56 mins; June 27, 2025
How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America
46 mins; June 26, 2025
Louis P. Masur, "A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison, and the Forging of a Friendship" (Oxford UP, 2025)
38 mins; June 26, 2025
Philip Kadish, "The Great White Hoax: Frauds, Forgeries, and 200 Years of Selling Racism in America"
71 hours 14 mins; June 24, 2025
Kevin J. Hayes, "Undaunted Mind: The Intellectual Life of Benjamin Franklin" (Oxford UP, 2025)
40 mins; June 23, 2025
Michael Broyles, "Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades That Changed a Country and Its Sounds" (Norton, 2024)
70 hours 6 mins; June 21, 2025
Kevin Nguyen, "My Documents" (One World, 2025)
48 mins; June 20, 2025
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings" (Harper, 2025)
44 mins; June 20, 2025
Prema Kurien, "Claiming Citizenship: Race, Religion, and Political Mobilization Among New Americans" (Oxford UP, 2025)
39 mins; June 19, 2025
Howard A. Husock, "The Projects: A New History of Public Housing" (NYU Press, 2025)
39 mins; June 18, 2025
Leah Lax, "Not From Here: the Song of America" (Pegasus Elliot MacKenzie, 2024)
27 mins; June 17, 2025
Ana Hebra Flaster, "Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town" (She Writes Press, 2025)
63 hours 1 min; June 16, 2025
Maraam A. Dwidar, "Power to the Partners: Organizational Coalitions in Social Justice Advocacy" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
30 mins; June 13, 2025
David Zweig, "An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions" (MIT Press, 2025)
57 mins; June 12, 2025
Alexandria Russell, "Black Women Legacies: Public History Sites Seen and Unseen" (University of Illinois Press, 2024)
79 hours 10 mins; June 11, 2025
Myra Mendible, "American War Stories: Veteran-Writers and the Politics of Memoir" (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021)
57 mins; June 10, 2025
Jeffrey P. Rogg, "The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence" (Oxford UP, 2025)
64 hours 58 mins; June 09, 2025
Jonathan Tarleton, "Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons" (Beacon Press, 2025)
87 hours 5 mins; June 09, 2025
Sladja BlaĹľan, "Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America" (University of Virginia Press, 2025)
53 mins; June 08, 2025
Gwynne Kuhner Brown, "William L. Dawson" (University of Illinois Press, 2024)
68 hours 56 mins; June 08, 2025
Brando Simeo Starkey, "Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System" (Doubleday, 2025)
62 hours 39 mins; June 06, 2025
Questions: A Discussion with Leslie Butler and Holly Case
96 hours 39 mins; June 06, 2025
Brittany Friedman, "Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons" (UNC Press, 2025)
50 mins; June 05, 2025
Dionne Koller, "More Than Play: How Law, Policy, and Politics Shape American Youth Sport" (U California Press, 2025)
32 mins; June 04, 2025
Bonnie Yochelson, "Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen" (Fordham UP, 2025)
62 hours 25 mins; June 03, 2025
Robert Chernomas, Gregory Chernomas, and Ian Hudson, "The American Gene: Unnatural Selection Along Class, Race, and Gender Lines" (Routledge, 2025)
26 mins; June 03, 2025
Andy Oler, "Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature" (LSU Press, 2019)
53 mins; June 02, 2025
Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, "Burdens of Belonging: Race in an Unequal Nation" (NYU Press, 2025)
33 mins; June 02, 2025
Jon Shelton, "The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy" (Cornell UP, 2023)
71 hours 39 mins; June 02, 2025
Michael A. Meyer, "Above All, We Are Jews: A Biography of Rabbi Alexander Schindler" (CCAR Press, 2025)
44 mins; June 01, 2025
Victoria Bynum, "Deep Roots, Broken Branches: A History and Memoir" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
57 mins; June 01, 2025
Michael D. Gambone, "The New Praetorians: American Veterans, Society, and Service from Vietnam to the Forever War" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
51 mins; May 31, 2025
Jennifer Lynn Gross, "Sisterhood of the Lost Cause: Confederate Widows in the New South" (LSU Press, 2025)
59 mins; May 31, 2025
False Dawn: A Conversation with George Selgin on Recovering from the Great Depression
60 hours 16 mins; May 30, 2025
Nneka D. Dennie, "Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth Century Black Radical Feminist" (Oxford UP, 2023)
62 hours 32 mins; May 30, 2025
Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby, "Soon and Very Soon: The Transformative Music and Ministry of Andraé Crouch" (Oxford UP, 2025)
51 mins; May 29, 2025
William Haldeman, "Meeting the Moment: Inspiring Presidential Leadership That Transformed America" (SUNY Press, 2024)
25 mins; May 28, 2025
Karida L. Brown, "The Battle for the Black Mind" (Legacy Lit, 2025)
63 hours 53 mins; May 27, 2025
Ryan J. Vander Wielen et al., "The House that Fox News Built?: Representation, Political Accountability, and the Rise of Partisan News" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
30 mins; May 25, 2025
Pollyanna Rhee, "Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
44 mins; May 24, 2025
Constitutional Crisis or a Stalemate?
46 mins; May 23, 2025
Ken Conca, "After the Floods: The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City" (Oxford UP, 2024)
49 mins; May 22, 2025
Executive Power and the President Who Would Not Be King: A Conversation with Michael McConnell
52 mins; May 21, 2025
Mike Miley, "David Lynch’s American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
58 mins; May 21, 2025
Elyssa Ford and Rebecca Scofield, "Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo" (U Washington Press, 2023)
80 hours 41 mins; May 20, 2025
Daniel MacFarlane, "The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)
55 mins; May 19, 2025
Ruth Braunstein, "My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)
73 hours 18 mins; May 18, 2025
Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik, "Watching TV: American Television Season by Season, Fourth Edition" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
69 hours 10 mins; May 17, 2025
Becky Aikman, "Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger during World War II" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
34 mins; May 16, 2025
Katherine Stewart, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
57 mins; May 15, 2025
Claudia Rowe, "Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care" (Abrams Press, 2025)
71 hours 57 mins; May 14, 2025
Brian VanDeMark, "Kent State: An American Tragedy" (Norton, 2024)
52 mins; May 13, 2025
Aaron Robertson, "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" (FSG, 2024)
54 mins; May 12, 2025
Hasia R. Diner, "Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
73 hours 38 mins; May 11, 2025
Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin, "Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America" (Island Press, 2025)
47 mins; May 10, 2025
Benjamin Schrader, "Fight to Live, Live to Fight Veteran Activism after War: Veteran Activism after War" (SUNY Press, 2019)
55 mins; May 09, 2025
Chloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
36 mins; May 08, 2025
Lynn Downey, "American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
44 mins; May 07, 2025
Eunji Kim, "The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
39 mins; May 06, 2025
Stephen H. Legomsky, "Reimagining the American Union: The Case for Abolishing State Government" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
59 mins; May 05, 2025
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
55 mins; May 04, 2025
William Kiser, "The Business of Killing Indians: Scalp Warfare and the Violent Conquest of North America" (Yale UP, 2025)
66 hours 55 mins; May 03, 2025
Steven Hahn, "Illiberal America: A History" (Norton, 2024)
51 mins; May 02, 2025
Adam Kissel et al., "Slacking: A Guide to Ivy League Miseducation" (Encounter Books, 2025)
50 mins; May 01, 2025
Max Hastings, “Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975” (Harper, 2018)
55 mins; April 30, 2025
Reginald K. Ellis et al., "Black Citizens and American Democracy: Fighting for the Soul of a Nation" (UP of Florida, 2025)
27 mins; April 29, 2025
Frederick Knight, "Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
74 hours 3 mins; April 28, 2025
Katie Rose Hejtmanek, "The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon" (NYU Press, 2025)
68 hours 28 mins; April 28, 2025
Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences" (NYU Press, 2025)
76 hours 38 mins; April 27, 2025
Jonathan D. Cohen, "Losing Big: America's Dangerous Sports Gambling Boom" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
59 mins; April 26, 2025
Neil Kraus, "The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement" (Temple UP, 2023)
75 hours 23 mins; April 25, 2025
Henry Jenkins, "Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America" (NYU Press, 2025)
58 mins; April 24, 2025
Colleen A. Dunlavy, "Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the U.S.into a Manufacturing Powerhouse" (Polity Press, 2024)
42 mins; April 23, 2025
Ross Benes, "1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
48 mins; April 22, 2025
Maurice Jackson, "Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience: How Black Washingtonians Used Music and Sports in the Fight for Equality" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
57 mins; April 21, 2025
Davida Siwisa James, "Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries" (Fordham UP, 2024)
45 mins; April 20, 2025
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