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Randy Grigsby, "This Labyrinth of Darkness and Light: Henrietta Szold, the Rescue of Children from Hitler's Europe and Her Palestine Experience" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)
54 mins; June 08, 2023
James H. Meyer, "Red Star over the Black Sea: Nazim Hikmet and His Generation" (Oxford UP, 2023)
61 hours 14 mins; June 03, 2023
Perry Mehrling, "Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
58 mins; June 02, 2023
Monica Macias, "Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity" (Duckworth, 2023)
38 mins; June 01, 2023
Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar" (Navayana, 2023)
36 mins; May 30, 2023
Learning for Liberation: The Life and Legacy of Paulo Freire
65 hours 30 mins; May 29, 2023
Joel Lafayette Fletcher III, "With Hawks and Angels: Episodes from a Southern Life" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
30 mins; May 28, 2023
Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden: A Girl's Life in the Incredible String Band
64 hours 55 mins; May 22, 2023
Christopher H. Evans, "Do Everything: The Biography of Frances Willard" (Oxford UP, 2022)
59 mins; May 21, 2023
Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully
57 mins; May 19, 2023
America & Democracy Ep. 5: Brandon Terry on MLK
46 mins; May 19, 2023
Catherine Russell, "The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: Twenty-Six Short Essays on a Working Star" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
42 mins; May 17, 2023
Pharmacological Histories Ep. 4: Andy Roberts on LSD's Cosmic Courier
65 hours 5 mins; May 16, 2023
The Life and Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo
80 hours 55 mins; May 16, 2023
Matthew Jagel, "Khmer Nationalist: SÆĄn Ngc ThĂ nh, the CIA, and the Transformation of Cambodia" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
61 hours 14 mins; May 15, 2023
Kim E. Nielsen, "Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
14 mins; May 14, 2023
Bill Steigerwald, "30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South" (Lyons Press, 2017)
46 mins; May 13, 2023
Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)
34 mins; May 10, 2023
Harry V. Jaffa and the Fight for America: A Conversation with Glenn Ellmers
48 mins; May 09, 2023
Jonathan Eig, "King: A Life" (FSG, 2023)
39 mins; May 07, 2023
Chad Williams, "The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War" (FSG, 2023)
56 mins; May 05, 2023
Francis Xavier Clooney, "Saint Joseph in South India: Poetry, Mission and Theology in Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi's Tēmpāvaáč‡i" (Brill, 2022)
62 hours 21 mins; May 04, 2023
Edgar Gomez, "High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir" (Soft Skull, 2022)
42 mins; May 03, 2023
John McCannon, "Nicholas Roerich: The Artist Who Would Be King" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
71 hours 54 mins; May 03, 2023
Brian Domitrovic, "The Emergence of Arthur Laffer: The Foundations of Supply-Side Economics in Chicago and Washington, 1966–1976" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
43 mins; May 01, 2023
Annie Zaleski, "Lady Gaga: Applause" (Palazzo Editions, 2022)
52 mins; April 30, 2023
Ian Hembrow, "Ralph Edwards: Rare Events--The Inside Story of a Worldwide Quest for Safer Medicines" (Springer, 2023)
55 mins; April 30, 2023
Paul R. Semendinger, "Roy White: From Compton to the Bronx" (Artemesia, 2023)
48 mins; April 26, 2023
Ferenc Hörcher, "Art and Politics in Roger Scruton's Conservative Philosophy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
37 mins; April 25, 2023
Tom Hutton, "Hitler's Maladies and Their Impact on World War II" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)
50 mins; April 23, 2023
Vanessa Wilkie, "A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England" (Atria Books, 2023)
81 hours 51 mins; April 22, 2023
John Lisle, "The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
62 hours 38 mins; April 21, 2023
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Pantheon Books, 2022)
62 hours 46 mins; April 17, 2023
Heidi Langbein-Allen, "Save the Last Bullet: Memoir of a Boy Soldier in Hitler's Army" (Pen & Sword Military, 2022)
55 mins; April 16, 2023
David Edmonds, "Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality" (Princeton UP, 2023)
34 mins; April 15, 2023
David Chrisinger, "The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II" (Penguin, 2023)
92 hours 39 mins; April 14, 2023
Jeremy Richey, "Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol" (Cult Epics, 2022)
61 hours 21 mins; April 13, 2023
Alfrid Bustanov and Vener Usmanov, "Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia" (Brill, 2022)
66 hours 24 mins; April 10, 2023
The Gospel According to Dorothy (with Kathryn Wehr)
63 hours 39 mins; April 06, 2023
Hope Williard, "Friendship in the Merovingian Kingdoms: Venantius Fortunatus and His Contemporaries" (ARC Humanities Press, 2022)
59 mins; April 06, 2023
Stuart Elden, "The Archaeology of Foucault" (Polity, 2022)
49 mins; April 05, 2023
Laura Arnold Leibman, "Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family" (Oxford UP, 2021)
50 mins; April 05, 2023
Eva Hagberg, "When Eero Met His Match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect" (Princeton UP, 2022)
46 mins; April 01, 2023
David Horgan, "Helmi's Shadow: A Journey of Survival from Russia to East Asia to the American West" (U Nevada Press, 2021)
89 hours 6 mins; April 01, 2023
Incognito: The Astounding Life of Alexandra David-Neel
48 mins; April 01, 2023
Wolfgang Marx, "I Don't Belong Anywhere: Gyorgy Ligeti At 100" (Brepols Publishers, 2022)
42 mins; March 29, 2023
Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt, eds., "Class Warrior: The Selected Works of E. T. Kingsley" (Athabasca UP, 2022)
55 mins; March 28, 2023
Christina Rice, "Mean...Moody...Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)
41 mins; March 28, 2023
Andrea Friederici Ross, "Edith: The Rogue Rockefeller McCormick" (Southern Illinois UP, 2020)
58 mins; March 27, 2023
Kieron Pim, "Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth" (Granta Books, 2022)
61 hours 13 mins; March 26, 2023
Jacob Norris, "The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub: Or, How the Bethlehemites Discovered Amerka" (Stanford UP, 2023)
78 hours 25 mins; March 25, 2023
Rose Marshack, "Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
54 mins; March 20, 2023
From China's Lost Generation to American Private Equity Professor
79 hours 11 mins; March 19, 2023
Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile" (Duke UP, 2009)
61 hours 51 mins; March 18, 2023
Book Talk 58: Vivian Gornick on Emma Goldman
64 hours 10 mins; March 17, 2023
Sherine Tadros, "Taking Sides: A Memoir about Love, War, and Changing the World" (Scribe, 2023)
78 hours 6 mins; March 16, 2023
R. J. M. Blackett, "Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle" (Yale UP, 2023)
61 hours 6 mins; March 15, 2023
Stephen Prothero, "God, the Bestseller: How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time" (HarperOne, 2023)
46 mins; March 14, 2023
Illuminations Episode 1: Experimental Methods
35 mins; March 12, 2023
Megan Buskey, "Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet: A Family Story of Exile and Return" (Ibidem-Verlag, 2023)
57 mins; March 12, 2023
Kelsey Klotz, "Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness" (Oxford UP, 2023)
70 hours 36 mins; March 12, 2023
Brian Harker, "Sportin' Life: John W. Bubbles, an American Classic" (Oxford UP, 2022)
72 hours 2 mins; March 11, 2023
Robin L. Owens, "'My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole': Barbara Jordan and the Politics of Scriptures" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
32 mins; March 11, 2023
Hilbourne A. Watson, "Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Late Colonial Period" (U The West Indies Press, 2019)
124 hours 34 mins; March 09, 2023
Lillian Colon, "Lilly: The First Latina Rockette" (Lilly Enterprises, 2021)
55 mins; March 07, 2023
Hilbourne A. Watson, "Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Independence Period, 1966-1976" (U West Indies Press, 2020)
103 hours 36 mins; March 04, 2023
Francine Lazarus, "A Hidden Jewish Child from Belgium: Survival, Scars and Healing" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2017)
101 hours 43 mins; March 03, 2023
Priscilla Gilman, "The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir" (Norton, 2023)
50 mins; March 03, 2023
Steve Kemper, "Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor" (Mariner Books, 2022)
44 mins; March 02, 2023
Marilyn Migiel, "Veronica Franco in Dialogue" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
78 hours 22 mins; March 02, 2023
Margaret Hall, "Gemignani: Life and Lessons from Broadway and Beyond" (Applause Books, 2022)
46 mins; March 01, 2023
Lara Gabrielle, "Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies" (U California Press, 2022)
49 mins; February 27, 2023
Jonathan W. White and Lydia J. Davis, ed., "My Work Among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss" (U Virginia Press, 2021)
41 mins; February 26, 2023
Anthony Bale, "Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
81 hours 10 mins; February 25, 2023
Joseph T. Stuart, "Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War" (Catholic U of America Press, 2022)
84 hours 23 mins; February 24, 2023
Leonard C. Spitale, "Victorine Du Pont: The Force Behind the Family" (U Delaware Press, 2022)
49 mins; February 24, 2023
Jeffrey J. Matthews, "Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)
54 mins; February 24, 2023
Ashley Brown, "Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson" (Oxford UP, 2023)
45 mins; February 24, 2023
Deborah Holt Larkin, "A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of California's Most Notorious Killer" (Pegasus Crime, 2022)
47 mins; February 22, 2023
Lynn Cullen, "The Woman with the Cure" (Berkley Books, 2023)
40 mins; February 19, 2023
Patrick Bixby, "Unaccompanied Traveler: The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
54 mins; February 18, 2023
Stephen F. Knott, "Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
48 mins; February 16, 2023
Nic Brown, "Bang Bang Crash: A Memoir" (Counterpoint, 2023)
42 mins; February 14, 2023
Mike Westhoff, "Figure It Out: My Thirty-Two-Year Journey While Revolutionizing Pro Football's Special Teams" (Mascot Books, 2022)
73 hours 4 mins; February 11, 2023
Winston James, "Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik" (Columbia UP, 2022)
113 hours 22 mins; February 11, 2023
“Tech” Journalism and the Many Lives of Stewart Brand
68 hours 6 mins; February 07, 2023
Ben Burgis, "Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters" (Zero Books, 2022)
68 hours 40 mins; February 07, 2023
Alan Verskin, "Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni Through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe" (Stanford UP, 2023)
73 hours 29 mins; February 06, 2023
Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)
77 hours 26 mins; February 06, 2023
Otherness, Disability, and Beauty: A Conversation with Pulitzer finalist Chloé Cooper Jones
62 hours 34 mins; January 31, 2023
Book Talk 57: Anne Fernald and Rajgopal Saikumar on Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" (1938)
69 hours 35 mins; January 30, 2023
Vona Groarke, "Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara" (NYU Press, 2022)
48 mins; January 29, 2023
George Anton Kiraz, "Water the Willow Tree: Memoirs of a Bethlehem Boyhood" (Gorgias Press, 2022)
57 mins; January 29, 2023
Oline Eaton, "Finding Jackie: The Second Act of America's First Lady" (Diversion Books, 2023)
57 mins; January 24, 2023
Dick Weissman, "Bob Dylan's New York: A Historic Guide" (SUNY Press, 2022)
38 mins; January 22, 2023
Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
73 hours 9 mins; January 20, 2023
The Thought of Ivan Illich
85 hours 55 mins; January 20, 2023
We Shall Overcome: Sister Thea Bowman and the Black Catholic Experience
59 mins; January 18, 2023
On Émile Durkheim's "The Elementary Forms of Religious Life" (1912)
59 mins; January 15, 2023
Elia Meghnagi, "Escape from Benghazi: Diary of an Imposter" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)
113 hours 26 mins; January 15, 2023
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