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From being a fringe political party in 2013 to sweeping nearly half of the state s forty-two Lok Sab
Jana Byars talks to Erika Graham-Goering of the University of Oslo about Lordship and the Decentrali
Pamela Allen Brown joins Jana Byars to talk about The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage (Oxford
Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance
Our book is: The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn (University of North Ca
Ada Palmer joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Inventing the Renaissance (U Chicago Press,
Four years ago, on Feb. 1 2021, the Burmese military overthrew the fledgling democratic government i
The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite
In November 1839, a group of young women in Boston formed a conversation society "to answer the grea
In The Ideological Scramble for Africa, Frank Gerits examines how African leaders in the 1950s and 1
The pub is an English institution. Yet its history has been obscured by myth and nostalgia. In Pub (
Recognized for his work on philosophy, religion and politics, Dr. Sweet talks at length about Before
At a moment when the nuclear nonproliferation regime is under duress, Rebecca Davis Gibbons provides
Two centuries ago, London school reformer Joseph Lancaster swept into New York City to revolutionize
Contested Childhoods: Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala (Cambridge UP, 2024) traces a complex h
In this episode, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press) sat down with Andrea Chandler to talk about her new
In 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived on the Caribbean Island of Guanahaní to find an Edenic scene t
A companion piece to Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology and Elysium: A Visual History of An
Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum: Textiles, history and ethnography at the Museum of European Cul
The asylum--at once a place of refuge, incarceration, and abuse--touched the lives of many Americans
