Lisa Napoli, Ellen Clegg, & Margaret Low, "Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Founding Mothers of NPR"
Lisa Napoli, Ellen Clegg, & Margaret Low, "Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Founding Mothers of NPR"
In the years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women in the workplace still found themselves relegated to secretarial ... Read more
22 Nov 2021
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56mins
Peter S. Canellos and Farah Stockman, "The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan"
Peter S. Canellos and Farah Stockman, "The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan"
They say that history is written by the victors. But not in the case of the most famous dissenter on the Supreme Court. ... Read more
22 Nov 2021
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56mins
Louis Menand and Maya Jasanoff, "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War"
Louis Menand and Maya Jasanoff, "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War"
The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense―economic and political, art... Read more
22 Nov 2021
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55mins
Ben Railton, "Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism"
Ben Railton, "Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism"
When we talk about patriotism in America, we tend to mean one form: the version captured in shared celebrations like the... Read more
9 Jul 2021
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56mins
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Akhil Reed Amar, "The Words that Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840"
Akhil Reed Amar, "The Words that Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840"
When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate argument ove... Read more
2 Jul 2021
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56mins
Martha S. Jones and Karen Holmes Ward, "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers"
Martha S. Jones and Karen Holmes Ward, "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers"
In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Ninetee... Read more
18 Jun 2021
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57mins
Robert Mrazek, "The Indomitable Florence Finch: The Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter"
Robert Mrazek, "The Indomitable Florence Finch: The Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter"
When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native wa... Read more
18 Jun 2021
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57mins
Diana Greenwald, "Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art"
Diana Greenwald, "Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art"
Painting by Numbers presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and social scientific methods to chart, for the fi... Read more
18 Jun 2021
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58mins
Don Hagist, "Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution"
Don Hagist, "Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution"
Redcoats. For Americans, the word brings to mind the occupying army that attempted to crush the Revolutionary War. There... Read more
21 May 2021
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1hr 6mins
Boston Art Song Society, "Art Songs of Black American Composers"
Boston Art Song Society, "Art Songs of Black American Composers"
Guest baritone Emery Stephens and pianist Ann Schaefer will perform a recital of works by African American composers. Th... Read more
21 May 2021
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1hr 26mins
