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The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction

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American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction

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Democracy: A Very Short Introduction

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Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction

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Refugees: A Very Short Introduction

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Demography: A Very Short Introduction

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Racism: A Very Short Introduction

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Socialism: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition

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The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction (2nd Edition)

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History: A Very Short Introduction

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Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd edition

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Prohibition: A Very Short Introduction

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Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction: 2nd Edition

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British Politics: A Very Short Introduction

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American Legal History: A Very Short Introduction

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African American History: A Very Short Introduction

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Demon Copperhead: A Novel

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The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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Leave the World Behind: A Novel

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All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel

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77 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists

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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

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Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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The Overstory

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

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Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): An American History

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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Small Mercies: A Novel

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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Razorblade Tears: A Novel

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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

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An American Marriage: A Novel

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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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The Book of Five Rings

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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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The Secret History of the World

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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

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Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception

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Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

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Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World

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Myths and Grossly Inaccurate Labels (aka "Millennials"): Gaby gets behind the snowflake, participation trophy bullshit and gets real about this generation. Kimberly Quick, senior policy associate at The Century Foundation breaks down the false labels that millennials get. You can read her piece about this topic here. Next, we get into the economic realities that the millennial generation faces today with Michael Hobbes, a reporter at Huffington Post. You can read his piece, Generation Screwed. And finally, writer and editor Nona Willis-Aronowitz has decided that after years of covering millennials for various news outlets, she's no longer using the term. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Lecture 21 - Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction: In this lecture, Professor Blight begins his engagement with Reconstruction. Reconstruction, Blight suggests, might best be understood as an extended referendum on the meaning of the Civil War. Even before the war's end, various constituencies in the North attempted to control the shape of the post-war Reconstruction of the South. In late 1863, President Abraham Lincoln offered his lenient "Ten Percent Plan." Six months later, Congressional Republicans concerned by Lincoln's charity rallied behind the more radical provisions of the Wade-Davis Bill. Despite their struggle for control over Reconstruction, Congressional Radicals and President Lincoln managed to work together on two vital pieces of Reconstruction legislation in the first months of 1865--the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery in the United States, and the Freedmen's Bureau bill. Transcript Lecture Page

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Fergus Bordewich: President Grant’s War Against the Ku Klux Klan: Join us for a special online-only program as Bordewich shares the stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil, as Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government to dismantle the KKK.

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141. Richard Kreitner — Break it Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union: The provocative thesis of is simple: The United States has never lived up to its name—and never will. The disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but as Break It Up shows, the seduction of secession wasn’t...

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#1572 Ten Things: The Post-Civil War Amendments: This week, Clay’s conversation with favorite guest Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky about the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. All ratified between December 1865 and February 1870, these three key amendments are in some respects...

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J. Douglas Smith, “On Democracy’s Doorstep” (Hill and Wang, 2014): This year we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a legal revolution with far-reaching cultural, political, and economic import. But as J. Douglas Smith argues in On Democracy’s Doorstep: The Inside Story of How the Supreme Cour...

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The Zinger That Saved America: Daniel Webster's Reply to Hayne: The Union threatened by legislative fiat, a Senator rose to reply to another. For Daniel Webster, it was a real comeback, What we might call a "zinger" today. "Not Liberty First and Union Afterwards! ...but Liberty and Union now and Forever One and Inseparable," Though since it was a 19th century zinger, it took 4 hours to deliver the line. Still it would become some of the most famous oratory in Senate history. When South Carolina's Senator Robert Hayne spoke in the Senate in 1830 to criticize Massachusetts and its Senator Daniel Webster, his comments were governmental but his intentions were personal. Haynes was an ally of John Calhoun, and he sought to reduce that Senator's reputation and the New England influence in federal government with a stunning interpretation of how the Constitution should work. A state could interpret any law the way it wished, he argued. . And although several friends told him not to, Hay

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Nadia Urbinati on the Resurgence of Populism, its History, and its Various Forms: Since populism became widespread in parts of Latin America, was it mistakenly seen as foreign to Euro-American liberal democracy, and has it in recent decades become more widespread than parliamentary democracy or liberal constitutionalism? Is the potential for populism inherent in democracy itself, especially when conceived in terms of a dialectic between the majority and the minority? Is it always accompanied by a suspicion against the elites? Should progressive political forces resort to populist tactics and rhetoric in order to win back the masses from the far-right demagogues? Or does this inevitably pose a risk to democratic ideals of pluralism and universalism? Could this then pave the way to an exclusionary, antagonistic, imaginary system, which would play into the hands of ethno-nationalist forces? Is populism still compatible with democracy by continually testing its limits? And what distinguish

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Kermit Roosevelt III, "The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story" (U Chicago Press, 2022): An interview with Kermit Roosevelt III

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Lecture 22 - Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President: Professor Blight continues his discussion of the political history of Reconstruction. The central figure in the early phase of Reconstruction was President Andrew Johnson. Under Johnson's stewardship, southern whites held constitutional conventions throughout 1865, drafting new constitutions that outlawed slavery but changed little else. When the Republican-dominated U.S. Congress reassembled late in 1865, they put a stop to Johnson's leniency and inaugurated Radical (or Congressional) Reconstruction, a process that resulted in the immediate passage of the Civil Rights bill and the Fourteenth Amendment, and the eventual passage of four Reconstruction Acts. The Congressional elections in 1866 and Johnson's disastrous "Swing Around the Circle" speaking tour strengthened Radical control over Congress. Each step of the way, Johnson did everything he could to obstruct Congressional Reconstruction, setting the stage for his i

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The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln ~ Full Audiobook: The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln audiobook. After having written and released an initial draft of this proclamation in September of 1862, minor changes were made and Lincoln signed it on January 1st, 1863. It declared free the slaves ...

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Matthew Kruer, "Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America" (Harvard UP, 2021): An interview with Matthew Kruer

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179 George Van Cleve, After the Revolution: Governance During the Critical Period: The Confederation period is one of the most neglected aspects of United States History. And yet, it’s a very important period. Between 1781 and 1789, the Confederation Congress established by the Articles of Confederation had to deal with war,...

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TSE 1232: Best Sellers In History Series 2 - "Abraham Lincoln": Best Sellers In History Series 2 - "Abraham Lincoln" This is the second episode from the Best Sellers in History series. This series talks about some of the most successful people and sellers in history. We’ll talk about who they are and what made...

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America’s First War On Terror with Fergus Bordewich

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Abraham Lincoln: The Outer Limits of Inner Truth proudly presents an unprecedented historical & metaphysical analysis on Abraham Lincoln

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INTERVIEW | The Constitution and Formation of America's Government, Independence Day Series Pt. 3