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Engage and Evade in 2025: Asad L. Asad on Latino Immigrants in America
51 mins; April 19, 2025
The Great Gatsby is an American Dystopia
107 hours 43 mins; April 18, 2025
James Davison Hunter, "Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis" (Yale UP, 2024)
38 mins; April 17, 2025
Lesley J. Gordon, "Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
41 mins; April 16, 2025
Rebecca Zorach, "Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial Enterprise" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
64 hours 41 mins; April 15, 2025
Martha S. Jones, "The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir" (Basic Books, 2025)
54 mins; April 14, 2025
Julie Malnig, "Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s" (Oxford UP, 2023)
48 mins; April 13, 2025
Jonathan Rauch, "Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy" (Yale UP, 2025)
53 mins; April 12, 2025
Megan Hunt, "Southern by the Grace of God: Religion, Race, and Civil Rights in Hollywood's American South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
49 mins; April 11, 2025
Tiffany D. Joseph, "Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
69 hours 4 mins; April 10, 2025
Bridget Kies, "Murder, She Wrote" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
51 mins; April 09, 2025
Kathleen Thelen, "Attention, Shoppers!: American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
50 mins; April 08, 2025
Walls, Warnings, and the War on Fentanyl: Peter Andreas on Trump’s Border Politics
35 mins; April 07, 2025
Jason Cannon, "A Time for Reflection: The Parallel Legacies of Baseball Icons Willie McCovery and Billy Williams" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
67 hours 24 mins; April 06, 2025
Peder Anker, "For The Love of Bombs: The Trail of Nuclear Suffering" (Anthem Press, 2025)
44 mins; April 05, 2025
Lincoln A. Mitchell, "Three Years Our Mayor: George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco" (U Nevada Press, 2025)
31 mins; April 04, 2025
James M. O’Toole, "For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
64 hours 25 mins; April 03, 2025
Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy, "Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism" (Princeton UP, 2025)
65 hours 44 mins; April 02, 2025
James Tejani, "A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America" (Norton, 2024)
56 mins; April 01, 2025
Making Radio History
67 hours 7 mins; March 31, 2025
Jason L. Newton, "Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest" (West Virginia UP, 2024)
55 mins; March 29, 2025
Tom Lynch, "Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
64 hours 17 mins; March 29, 2025
Jehanne Dubrow, "Civilians" (LSU Press, 2025)
34 mins; March 28, 2025
Michael Vorenberg, "Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War" (Knopf, 2025)
72 hours 13 mins; March 27, 2025
Heather Akou, "Afterthought: A Family Story" (Indiana U Libraries, 2025)
55 mins; March 26, 2025
Paul R. Laird and Elizabeth A. Wells, "The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
64 hours 50 mins; March 25, 2025
David D. Grafton, "Muhammad in the Seminary: Protestant Teaching about Islam in the Nineteenth Century" (NYU Press, 2024)
81 hours 43 mins; March 25, 2025
Postscript: Not a Matter of Left or Right: Historians Fighting Censorship
43 mins; March 24, 2025
Amanda M. Greenwell, "The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
41 mins; March 23, 2025
Tracie Canada, "Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football" (U California Press, 2025)
74 hours 16 mins; March 22, 2025
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, "The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It" (Basic Books, 2024)
62 hours 13 mins; March 21, 2025
Matt Lodder, "Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art" (Yale UP, 2024)
69 hours 31 mins; March 20, 2025
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us--A Conversation with Stephen Macedo (Part 2)
52 mins; March 19, 2025
Richard Buttny, "Unfracked: The Struggle to Ban Fracking in New York" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
48 mins; March 18, 2025
Douglas Field, "Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father and I" (Manchester UP, 2024)
64 hours 48 mins; March 18, 2025
Laurel Leff, "Well Worth Saving: American Universities' Life-And-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe" (Yale UP, 2019)
79 hours 25 mins; March 17, 2025
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2023)
65 hours 57 mins; March 16, 2025
Postscript: Donald Trump is Erasing History – What YOU Can Do about it
18 mins; March 15, 2025
Postscript: How Trump’s Executive Order Contradicts Birthright Citizenship
41 mins; March 14, 2025
Nima Bassiri, "Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
72 hours 2 mins; March 13, 2025
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us: A Conversation with Frances Lee
45 mins; March 12, 2025
Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall, "Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
75 hours 43 mins; March 11, 2025
"Steadfast Democrats" Five Years Later: A Conversation with Chryl N. Laird
64 hours 26 mins; March 10, 2025
Andrew C. Isenberg, "The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850" (UNC Press, 2025)
67 hours 40 mins; March 09, 2025
Kristin A. Olbertson, "The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
46 mins; March 09, 2025
Lina-Maria Murillo, "Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands" (UNC Press, 2025)
71 hours 27 mins; March 09, 2025
Gary Griggs, "California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State" (U California Press, 2024)
69 hours 18 mins; March 07, 2025
Richard Heppner, "Woodstock: From World War to Culture Wars" (SUNY Press, 2024)
26 mins; March 07, 2025
Rachelle Bergstein, "The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us" (Atria, 2024)
47 mins; March 07, 2025
Georgia Finnegan, "Grace & Grit: A History of Ballet in Minnesota" (Afton Historical Society, 2024)
52 mins; March 06, 2025
Arwen P. Mohun, "American Imperialist: Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa" (Chicago UP, 2023)
45 mins; March 05, 2025
Elizabeth T. Craft, "Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage" (Oxford UP, 2024)
50 mins; March 05, 2025
Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law--A Conversation with Janie Nitze
43 mins; March 05, 2025
Jack Dempsey, "Warriors for Liberty: William Dollarson & Michigan's Civil War African Americans" (Michigan Civil War Association, 2024)
38 mins; March 04, 2025
Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola, "Hollywood Unions" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
56 mins; March 04, 2025
Michael Visontay, "Noble Fragments: The Gripping Story of the Antiquarian Bookseller Who Broke Up a Gutenberg Bible" (Scribe, 2024)
60 hours 33 mins; March 04, 2025
Hallie Franks, "Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
59 mins; March 02, 2025
Erik Baker, "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
58 mins; March 02, 2025
Timothy P. R. Weaver, "Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City" (Temple UP, 2025)
29 mins; March 01, 2025
Dawn Day Biehler, "Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History" (U Washington Press, 2024)
54 mins; March 01, 2025
Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores
62 hours 39 mins; February 27, 2025
Jeffrey Thomas Perry, "Law in American Meetinghouses: Church Discipline and Civil Authority in Kentucky, 1780–1845" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
45 mins; February 27, 2025
Laureen D. Hom, "The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles" (U California Press, 2024)
86 hours 7 mins; February 27, 2025
Mike Sielski, "Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
58 mins; February 26, 2025
Linh Thuy Nguyen, "Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production" (Temple UP, 2024)
92 hours 23 mins; February 26, 2025
Religious Freedom: A Conversation on the Conservative Tradition with John D. Wilsey
45 mins; February 26, 2025
Aure Schrock on Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America
96 hours 9 mins; February 24, 2025
Postscript: How to Fight Back: Charting Opposition to the Actions of the Trump Administration
54 mins; February 24, 2025
Benjamin Heber Johnson, "Texas: An American History" (Yale UP, 2025)
70 hours 21 mins; February 23, 2025
Ilan Stavans, "Latino USA: A Cartoon History" (Basic Books, 2024)
94 hours 14 mins; February 22, 2025
The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker
55 mins; February 19, 2025
Adam R. Nelson, "Exchange of Ideas: The Economy of Higher Education in Early America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
67 hours 26 mins; February 18, 2025
Yoni Appelbaum, "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of Prosperity" (Random House, 2025)
28 mins; February 18, 2025
Lori A. Flores, "Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to Covid-19" (UNC Press, 2025)
79 hours 45 mins; February 18, 2025
Mary Frances Phillips, "Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins" (NYU Press, 2025)
38 mins; February 17, 2025
The Soundworld of Harriet Tubman
45 mins; February 17, 2025
Jessica A. Brockmole, "Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way Into the Driver's Seat" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
66 hours 58 mins; February 16, 2025
Hunter Price, "Sacred Capital: Methodism and Settler Colonialism in the Empire of Liberty" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
63 hours 24 mins; February 16, 2025
Allison Rank et al., "Civic Pedagogies: Teaching Civic Engagement in an Era of Divisive Politics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
51 mins; February 14, 2025
Randall Fuller, "Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
57 mins; February 13, 2025
Mountain Memories: A Conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Robert P. George
88 hours 31 mins; February 12, 2025
Jeff Copeland, "Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn" (Feral House, 2025)
57 mins; February 11, 2025
Adam Laats, "Mr. Lancaster's System: The Failed Reform That Created America's Public Schools" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
61 hours 48 mins; February 11, 2025
Rebecca Davis Gibbons, "The Hegemon's Tool Kit: US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime" (Cornell UP, 2022)
55 mins; February 11, 2025
American Higher Education Under the Second Trump Administration
32 mins; February 11, 2025
Peter J. Bowler, "Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
50 mins; February 09, 2025
Katie Beisel Hollenbach, "The Business of Bobbysoxers: Cultural Production in 1940s Frank Sinatra Fandom" (Oxford UP, 2024)
49 mins; February 09, 2025
Hiroshi Motomura, "Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair, Realistic, and Sustainable Immigration Policy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
68 hours 9 mins; February 08, 2025
Stan Bunger, "Mornings with Madden: My Radio Life With An American Legend" (Triumph, 2024)
67 hours 33 mins; February 08, 2025
Jeff Gomez, "There Was No Alternative: Generation X, AIDS, and the Making of a Classic Nineties Record" (McFarland, 2023)
56 mins; February 08, 2025
Martín Alberto Gonzalez, "Why You Always So Political?: The Experiences and Resiliencies of Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx Students in Higher Education" (Viva Oxnard, 2023)
78 hours 3 mins; February 08, 2025
Zai Liang. "From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States" (U California Press, 2023)
63 hours 16 mins; February 07, 2025
Samantha Ege, "South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
63 hours 31 mins; February 07, 2025
Corinne Mitsuye Sugino, "Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
47 mins; February 07, 2025
Anthony E. Kaye, "Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History" (FSG, 2024)
53 mins; February 06, 2025
Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2024)
65 hours 8 mins; February 05, 2025
Sophia Rosenfeld, "The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)
37 mins; February 05, 2025
Patricia A. Roos, "Surviving Alex: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Addiction" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
76 hours 12 mins; February 03, 2025
Derek W. Black, "Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy" (Yale UP, 2025)
41 mins; January 30, 2025
Edward Westermann, "Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest" (U Oklahoma Press, 2016)
97 hours 38 mins; January 29, 2025
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