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episode 535: Gregory D. Smithers, "Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal" (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)


Gregory D. Smithers effectively articulates the complex history of Native Southerners...


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 June 27, 2019  1h6m
 
 

episode 47: Nancy Mirabal, "Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957" (NYU Press, 2017)


Mirabal details New York Cuban diasporic history between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with keen attention to how political debates about the potential future, visibility, and belonging in Cuba played out along issues of race and gender...


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 June 27, 2019  51m
 
 

episode 4: Botakoz Kassymbekova, "Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2016)


Kassymbekova explores technologies of governance used in early Soviet Tajikistan in order to implement Soviet plans for industrialization and collectivization...


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 June 26, 2019  1h5m
 
 

episode 84: Morgan Marietta, "One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts in American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2019)


They introduce the concept of ‘dueling fact perceptions’ based on years of research, and for our interview, Morgan Marietta explains how they arrived at such conclusions and their implications for our country’s future...


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 June 26, 2019  47m
 
 

episode 533: Amanda Littauer, "Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties" (UNC Press, 2015)


Amanda Littauer traces the origins of the "sexual revolution" of the 1960s...


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 June 26, 2019  1h18m
 
 

episode 526: Kimberly Alexander, "Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)


A shoe molds to the foot and captures a facet of the physical characteristics of its wearer, as well as, by extension, an element of his or her personal history...


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 June 26, 2019  1h4m
 
 

episode 85: Candace L. Bailey, "Charleston Belles Abroad: The Music Collections of Harriet Lowndes, Henrietta Aiken, and Louisa Rebecca McCord" (U South Carolina Press, 2019)


Bailey uses a close reading of the music owned and performed by three prominent women in antebellum Charleston to demonstrate the varied experiences and perspectives of figures who also had much in common...


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 June 26, 2019  56m
 
 

episode 43: Jeanette M. Fregulia, "A Rich and Tantalizing Brew: A History of How Coffee Connected the World" (U Arkansas Press, 2019))


Fregulia examines the geographic movements of coffee beans through global trade as well as the social and cultural movements of coffee drinking from a medicine to an aid in religious ritual to an elite domestic drink to a public event in the coffee house...


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 June 26, 2019  47m
 
 

episode 67: Nina Boutsikaris, "I’m Trying to Tell You I’m Sorry: An Intimacy Triptych" (Black Lawrence Press, 2019)


It takes an apology like Boutsikaris gives to reveal that complexity and help us live with it and in it rather than reduce it to some simple—and false—truth...


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 June 26, 2019  46m
 
 

episode 532: Amy Lippert, "Consuming Identities: Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco" (Oxford UP, 2018)


Lippert explores the significance of the pictorial revolution in one of its vanguard cities: San Francisco, the revolving door of the gold rush...


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 June 25, 2019  1h58m