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Deondra Rose, "The Power of Black Excellence: HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
57 mins; December 07, 2024
Jonathan Conlin, "The Met: A History of a Museum and Its People" (Columbia UP, 2024)
57 mins; December 07, 2024
Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
78 hours 52 mins; December 05, 2024
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
56 mins; December 05, 2024
Caroline Alexander, "Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World" (Viking, 2024)
47 mins; December 05, 2024
Matthew Gardner Kelly, "Dividing the Public: School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity" (Cornell UP, 2024)
80 hours 14 mins; December 04, 2024
Carrie N. Baker, "Abortion Pills: US History and Politics" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
64 hours 2 mins; December 03, 2024
Terry H. Anderson, "Why the Nineties Matter" (Oxford UP, 2024)
52 mins; December 03, 2024
Rachel Hope Cleves, "Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex" (Polity, 2024)
52 mins; December 03, 2024
Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, "How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America" (Harvard Education Press, 2024)
41 mins; December 03, 2024
Amy J. Binder and Jeffrey L. Kidder, "The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
73 hours 41 mins; December 02, 2024
Corey Brettschneider, "The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It" (W. W. Norton, 2024)
75 hours 17 mins; December 02, 2024
Voices Part 1: Hut-Hut-Hike
31 mins; December 02, 2024
Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain, "How Government Built America" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
88 hours 49 mins; December 01, 2024
Olivia Chilcote, "Unrecognized in California: Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians" (U Washington Press, 2024)
83 hours 54 mins; November 30, 2024
Karen Lystra, "Love and the Working Class: The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans" (Oxford UP, 2024)
68 hours 55 mins; November 30, 2024
Mary Ellen Curtin, "She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan's Life and Legacy in Black Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
72 hours 57 mins; November 28, 2024
Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan: Can He Really Do It?
30 mins; November 28, 2024
Daniel J. Mallinson and A. Lee Hannah, "Green Rush: The Rise of Medical Marijuana in the United States" (NYU Press, 2024)
54 mins; November 28, 2024
Yii-Jan Lin, "Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration" (Yale UP, 2024)
48 mins; November 28, 2024
Disabled Ecologies: Lessons From a Wounded Desert
69 hours 9 mins; November 27, 2024
Sabrina Strings, "The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance" (Beacon Press, 2024)
37 mins; November 27, 2024
W. Paul Reeve, et al., "This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah" (Oxford UP, 2024)
57 mins; November 26, 2024
Osamah F. Khalil, "A World of Enemies: America's Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden" (Harvard UP, 2024)
77 hours 39 mins; November 26, 2024
Daniel S. Goldberg, "Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries: Law, Ethics, and Public Health" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
63 hours 15 mins; November 25, 2024
David Suisman, "Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's Soldiers" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
65 hours 3 mins; November 25, 2024
Beverly Tomek and Matthew J. Hetrick, "New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization" (UP of Florida, 2017)
53 mins; November 24, 2024
Elizabeth Garner Masarik, "The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
66 hours 22 mins; November 24, 2024
Kevin B. Smith, "The Jailer's Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration Is Damaging America" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
52 mins; November 24, 2024
Katherine C. Epstein, "Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
67 hours 34 mins; November 24, 2024
Liliana M. Naydan, "Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
52 mins; November 23, 2024
Travis A. Weisse, "Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness" (UNC Press, 2024)
53 mins; November 23, 2024
138c Herbert Hoover gave us Woody Guthrie (with David Cunningham)
24 mins; November 23, 2024
Lauren D. Olsen, "Curricular Injustice: How U.S. Medical Schools Reproduce Inequalities" (Columbia UP, 2024)
53 mins; November 23, 2024
Timothy E. Nelson, "Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)
54 mins; November 22, 2024
138b Ronald Reagan Gave Us Punk Rock (with Vincent Brown)
21 mins; November 22, 2024
Jordan S. Carroll, "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
47 mins; November 22, 2024
Debra Bruno, "A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family" (Cornell UP, 2024)
40 mins; November 21, 2024
Peter Singer, "Consider the Turkey" (Princeton UP, 2024)
47 mins; November 21, 2024
Joan L. Bryant, "Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-century America" (Oxford UP, 2024)
37 mins; November 21, 2024
Christopher Bell, "Walking East Harlem: A Neighborhood Experience" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
37 mins; November 20, 2024
Carrie J. Preston, "Complicit Participation: The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
53 mins; November 19, 2024
Benjamin Barson, "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)
67 hours 44 mins; November 19, 2024
Domingo Morel, "Developing Scholars: Race, Politics, and the Pursuit of Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2023)
50 mins; November 19, 2024
Andrew Stone Higgins, "Higher Education for All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan" (UNC Press, 2023)
63 hours 30 mins; November 18, 2024
Laura F. Edwards, "Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (Oxford UP, 2022)
55 mins; November 18, 2024
D. Andrew Johnson, "Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
41 mins; November 18, 2024
Connie DeNave, "The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass" (2023)
54 mins; November 18, 2024
Ian Miller, "Self-Esteem: An American History" (Polity Press, 2024)
42 mins; November 17, 2024
Karen M. Dunak, "Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life" (NYU Press, 2024)
37 mins; November 17, 2024
Risk
20 mins; November 16, 2024
Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)
58 mins; November 16, 2024
Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
68 hours 2 mins; November 16, 2024
D. M. Giangreco, "Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story" (Potomac Books, 2023)
71 hours 48 mins; November 15, 2024
Agustina Paglayan, "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" (Princeton UP, 2024)
26 mins; November 15, 2024
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
55 mins; November 14, 2024
Postscript: Reflections on the 2024 American Presidential Election
63 hours 22 mins; November 14, 2024
Sara Glass, "Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir" (Atria, 2024)
62 hours 57 mins; November 13, 2024
The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics
70 hours 21 mins; November 13, 2024
Hunter Hargraves, "Uncomfortable Television" (Duke UP, 2024)
83 hours 47 mins; November 12, 2024
Anthony Grasso, "Dual Justice: America's Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
58 mins; November 11, 2024
Paul M. Renfro, "The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America" (UNC Press, 2024)
33 mins; November 10, 2024
Donna J. Nicol, "Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action" (U Rochester Press, 2024)
64 hours 57 mins; November 09, 2024
James M. Bradley, "Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician" (Oxford UP, 2024)
96 hours 59 mins; November 08, 2024
Andrew Stravers et al., "Beyond the Wire: US Military Deployments and Host Country Public Opinion" (Oxford UP, 2022)
42 mins; November 07, 2024
Why Can’t the US Compete with China in Infrastructure?
48 mins; November 07, 2024
Aran Robert Shetterly, "Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul" (Amistad, 2024)
57 mins; November 06, 2024
The Impeachment Power: A Conversation with Keith Whittington
49 mins; November 06, 2024
Elia Powers, "Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
59 mins; November 06, 2024
Matthew Ferrence, "I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me: Essays on Rural Political Decay" (West Virginia UP, 2024)
38 mins; November 04, 2024
Anne M. Whitesell, "Living Off the Government?: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Welfare" (NYU Press, 2024)
31 mins; November 03, 2024
Justene Hill Edwards, "Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank" (Norton, 2024)
42 mins; November 03, 2024
Sanaullah Khan, "Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self" (Lexington Books, 2023)
54 mins; November 03, 2024
Mirin Fader, "Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon" (Hachette, 2024)
46 mins; November 02, 2024
Phuc Tran, "Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In" (Flatiron Books, 2020)
38 mins; November 02, 2024
Richard Schoch, "How Sondheim Can Change Your Life" (Atria Books, 2024)
59 mins; November 01, 2024
Ben Yagoda, "Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English" (Princeton UP, 2024)
48 mins; November 01, 2024
From Rubinomics to Bidenomics: On the Democratic Party’s Shifting Trade & Industrial Policy
60 hours 1 min; November 01, 2024
Ronald Drabkin, "Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor" (William Morrow, 2024)
42 mins; October 31, 2024
Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson, "The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
67 hours 19 mins; October 31, 2024
Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre, "Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience" (U South Carolina Press, 2024)
59 mins; October 31, 2024
Friederike Baer, "Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War" (Oxford UP, 2022)
63 hours 7 mins; October 30, 2024
Lennard J. Davis, "Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It" (Duke UP, 2024)
32 mins; October 30, 2024
Michael Hardt, "The Subversive Seventies" (Oxford UP, 2023)
86 hours 54 mins; October 29, 2024
Eric Helleiner, "The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History" (Cornell UP, 2021)
52 mins; October 29, 2024
Nicolas Delsol, "Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study" (UP of Florida, 2024)
59 mins; October 28, 2024
Melissa Deckman, "The Politics of Gen Z: How the Youngest Voters Will Shape Our Democracy" (Columbia UP, 2024)
65 hours 24 mins; October 28, 2024
Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva, "The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game" (UNC Press, 2024)
70 hours 5 mins; October 27, 2024
Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy
65 hours 56 mins; October 27, 2024
Eve Dunbar, "Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
46 mins; October 27, 2024
Megan Steigerwald Ille, "Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
51 mins; October 25, 2024
The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide
76 hours 40 mins; October 24, 2024
Alexis Peri, "Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence Between American and Soviet Women" (Harvard UP, 2024)
73 hours 44 mins; October 24, 2024
Bob Frishman, "Edward Duffield: Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803" (APS Press, 2024)
46 mins; October 23, 2024
S4E11 Religion and Republic: A Conversation with Miles Smith
52 mins; October 23, 2024
Steven Levitsky, "Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All" (Crown, 2024)
44 mins; October 22, 2024
Ashawnta Jackson, "Soul-Folk" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
70 hours 55 mins; October 19, 2024
E. L. Gaston, "Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria" (Columbia UP, 2024)
62 hours 7 mins; October 19, 2024
Michael J. Alarid, "Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860" (U New Mexico Press, 2022)
42 mins; October 19, 2024
Lois Peters Agnew, "Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric" (U Alabama Press, 2024)
25 mins; October 19, 2024
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