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Thor Rydin, "The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872-1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
59 mins; April 17, 2024
Kerry Wallach, "Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit" (Penn State UP, 2024)
60 hours 26 mins; April 16, 2024
Traian Sandu, "Ceausescu: The Ambiguous Dictator" (Perrin, 2023)
80 hours 58 mins; April 10, 2024
Hume, the Epicureans, and the Origins of Liberalism
59 mins; April 10, 2024
Sarah Horowitz, "The Red Widow: The Scandal That Shook Paris and the Woman Behind It All" (Sourcebooks, 2022)
63 hours 41 mins; April 05, 2024
Patrick Olivelle, "Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King" (Yale UP, 2024)
52 mins; April 04, 2024
Marie de Vignerot, Richelieu's Forgotten Advisor and Heiress
52 mins; April 02, 2024
Paul Carter, "Richard Nixon: California's Native Son" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
119 hours 32 mins; March 28, 2024
Jamie Goodall, "Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy: From Cape Cod to the Caribbean" (History Press, 2023)
42 mins; March 28, 2024
Robin Waterfield, "Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
50 mins; March 28, 2024
Adam Lazarus, "The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams" (Citadel Press, 2023)
53 mins; March 27, 2024
Brent M. Rogers, "Buffalo Bill and the Mormons" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
30 mins; March 24, 2024
Paul Bew, "Ancestral Voices in Irish Politics: Judging Dillon and Parnell" (Oxford UP, 2023)
67 hours 11 mins; March 22, 2024
David Ostrowsky, "Roberto Alomar: The Complicated Life and Legacy of a Baseball Hall of Famer" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
43 mins; March 22, 2024
Amy Absher, "Fritzie: The Invented Life and Violent Murder of a Flapper" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
31 mins; March 21, 2024
The Pioneering Life of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
46 mins; March 18, 2024
Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar" (Navayana Press, 2023)
123 hours 25 mins; March 18, 2024
Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa, "The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust" (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
74 hours 0 mins; March 17, 2024
Rebecca Rego Barry, "The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells" (Post Hill Press, 2024)
44 mins; March 12, 2024
Ilyon Woo, "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
52 mins; March 09, 2024
Patrick Olivelle, "Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King" (Yale UP, 2024)
63 hours 56 mins; March 08, 2024
Edda Fields-Black, "Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
95 hours 41 mins; March 07, 2024
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You
57 mins; March 07, 2024
Ben Rothenberg, "Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice" (Dutton, 2024)
43 mins; March 07, 2024
Jessica Hooten Wilson, "Flannery O'Connor's 'Why Do the Heathen Rage?' A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress" (Brazos Press, 2024)
35 mins; March 05, 2024
Jean-Manuel Roubineau, "The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic" (Oxford UP, 2023)
30 mins; March 04, 2024
Yaniv Feller, "The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
63 hours 12 mins; March 03, 2024
Peter Harmsen, "Bernhard Sindberg: The Schindler of Nanjing" (Casemate, 2024)
74 hours 53 mins; February 28, 2024
Judith Pearson, "Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker" (Mayo Clinic Press, 2023)
58 mins; February 27, 2024
Stanley Wells, "What Was Shakespeare Really Like?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
36 mins; February 26, 2024
Neema Avashia, "Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place" (West Virginia UP, 2022)
48 mins; February 25, 2024
Norman Hill and Velma Murphy Hill, "Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain: The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism" (Regalo Press, 2023)
65 hours 54 mins; February 17, 2024
Deborah Taffa, "Whiskey Tender: A Memoir" (Harper, 2024)
63 hours 16 mins; February 15, 2024
Josh Fernandez, "The Hands That Crafted the Bomb: The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist" (PM Press, 2024)
47 mins; February 13, 2024
Andrius Galiťanka, "John Rawls: The Path to a Theory of Justice" (Harvard UP, 2019)
74 hours 41 mins; February 12, 2024
Paul Mendes-Flohr, "Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent" (Yale UP, 2019)
50 mins; February 12, 2024
Gregory Wallance, "Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
54 mins; February 08, 2024
Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams, "Kubrick: An Odyssey" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
57 mins; February 06, 2024
Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer, "Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
74 hours 34 mins; February 05, 2024
Elizabeth Varon, "Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
28 mins; February 04, 2024
Michael O'Malley, "The Beat Cop: Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
59 mins; February 03, 2024
John J. Michalczyk et al.. "Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and the Holocaust: A Prelude to Genocide" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
115 hours 32 mins; January 27, 2024
Gregor Gall, "Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero " (Manchester UP, 2024)
66 hours 56 mins; January 27, 2024
Paul D. Barclay, "Kondo the Barbarian: A Japanese Adventurer and Indigenous Taiwan's Bloodiest Uprising" (Eastbridge Books, 2023)
59 mins; January 22, 2024
Catherine Powell-Warren, "Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science: Agnes Block, Botany, and Networks in the Dutch 17th Century" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
49 mins; January 22, 2024
Simon Shuster, "The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky" (William Morrow, 2024)
43 mins; January 20, 2024
Jessica Goethals, "Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
64 hours 26 mins; January 20, 2024
On Henry Einspruch's 1941 Yiddish Translation of the Christian Bible
59 mins; January 17, 2024
Matt Singer, "Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
59 mins; January 13, 2024
Con Coughlin, "Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny" (Picador, 2023)
33 mins; January 12, 2024
Matthew Kennedy, "On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2024)
67 hours 28 mins; January 10, 2024
Peter J. Williamson, "Duce: The Contradictions of Power: The Political Leadership of Benito Mussolini" (Oxford UP, 2023)
91 hours 42 mins; January 09, 2024
Sandro R. Barros et al., "The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas: Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Curriculum" (U Florida Press, 2022)
61 hours 35 mins; January 09, 2024
Eileen Botting, "The Wollstonecraftian Mind" (Routledge, 2019)
68 hours 46 mins; January 06, 2024
Amy Von Lintel, "Georgia O'Keeffe's Wartime Texas Letters" (Texas A&M UP, 2020)
42 mins; January 06, 2024
Kate Kirkpatrick, "Becoming Beauvoir: A Life" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
56 mins; January 05, 2024
Colin Jones, "The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris" (Oxford UP, 2021)
56 mins; January 05, 2024
Claire Myers Owens and the Banned Book
60 hours 53 mins; January 04, 2024
Jack Glazier, "Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race" (MSU Press, 2020)
64 hours 27 mins; January 03, 2024
W. K. Stratton, "The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
58 mins; January 03, 2024
Margaret M. McGuinness, "Katharine Drexel and the Sisters Who Shared Her Vision" (Paulist Press, 2023)
67 hours 56 mins; January 03, 2024
James O'Toole, "The Enlightened Capitalists: Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good" (HarperBusiness, 2019)
52 mins; January 01, 2024
Khurram Hussain, "Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
62 hours 33 mins; January 01, 2024
Craig Keener, "Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels" (Eerdmans, 2019)
41 mins; December 31, 2023
Erika Dyck, "Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)
56 mins; December 30, 2023
Michael Braddick, "The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2018)
28 mins; December 30, 2023
Ralph H. Craig, "Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner" (Eerdmans, 2023)
63 hours 56 mins; December 29, 2023
Joseph Vogel, "James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
41 mins; December 28, 2023
David T. Beito, "The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance" (Independent Institute, 2023)
61 hours 37 mins; December 27, 2023
Thomas A. Schwartz, "Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography" (Hill and Wang, 2020)
45 mins; December 26, 2023
Alice Collett, "Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History" (Oxford UP, 2016)
66 hours 48 mins; December 26, 2023
Jordana M. Saggese, "The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader" (U California Press, 2021)
62 hours 45 mins; December 26, 2023
Stuart Elden, “Foucault: The Birth of Power” (Polity Press, 2017)
46 mins; December 26, 2023
Matt Garcia, "Eli and the Octopus: The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World’s Most Notorious Corporations" (Harvard UP, 2023)
54 mins; December 25, 2023
Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
53 mins; December 25, 2023
Laurence Jurdem, "The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship that Changed American History" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
53 mins; December 24, 2023
Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently" (Oxford UP. 2023)
33 mins; December 22, 2023
Peter Richardson, "Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo" (U California Press, 2022)
72 hours 30 mins; December 15, 2023
Ronald C. White, "On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain" (Random House, 2023)
60 hours 46 mins; December 15, 2023
Peter Brown, "Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
64 hours 37 mins; December 14, 2023
Sean Howe, "Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s" (Hachette Books, 2023)
51 mins; December 10, 2023
Jeffrey S. Gurock, "Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend" (NYU Press, 2023)
39 mins; December 09, 2023
Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, "Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine" (Callaway, 2023)
50 mins; December 09, 2023
Burkhard Bilger, "Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets" (Random House, 2023)
63 hours 56 mins; December 08, 2023
Susan Blumberg-Kason, "Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China" (Post Hill Press, 2023)
39 mins; December 07, 2023
Emma K. Sutton, "William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
37 mins; December 05, 2023
Ramsey Lewis and Aaron Cohen, "Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music" (Blackstone, 2023)
49 mins; December 04, 2023
Barbara D. Savage, "Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar" (Yale UP, 2023)
34 mins; December 03, 2023
On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen
62 hours 29 mins; November 30, 2023
Ian Probstein, trans., "Centuries Encircle Me with Fire: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
64 hours 22 mins; November 29, 2023
Henrietta Harrison, "The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2021)
61 hours 3 mins; November 28, 2023
Roslyn Weiss, "Hasdai Crescas: Collected Writings" (Library of the Jewish People, 2023)
71 hours 50 mins; November 27, 2023
E. T. Dailey, "Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen" (Oxford UP, 2023)
66 hours 0 mins; November 26, 2023
Diane Carol Fujino, "Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake" (U Washington Press, 2020)
59 mins; November 25, 2023
Paul Le Blanc, "Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution" (Pluto Press, 2023)
92 hours 10 mins; November 23, 2023
Amy Harris, "Being Single in Georgian England: Families, Households, and the Unmarried" (Oxford UP, 2023)
70 hours 47 mins; November 21, 2023
Kawika Guillermo, "Nimrods: A Fake-Punk Self-Hurt Anti-Memoir" (Duke UP, 2023)
74 hours 26 mins; November 21, 2023
Greil Marcus, "Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs" (Yale UP, 2022)
54 mins; November 20, 2023
Christopher Lazarski, "Lord Acton for Our Time" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
55 mins; November 18, 2023
Warren Zanes, "Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska' (Crown, 2023)
58 mins; November 17, 2023
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