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In this episode of Madison’s Notes, host Laura Laurent sits down with historian Benjamin Nathans to
Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons (Wesleyan UP, 2024) recasts the birth of
The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea (University of C
In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the de
Over the past fifty years, debates concerning race and college admissions have focused primarily on
In Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), Dr
In 1708, the governor of South Carolina responded to a request from London to provide a detailed acc
What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal st
In The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass Ceiling (2023), Connie DeNave shares her experi
Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernisation, and the Information Age Behind the Iron
The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambiti
When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became First Lady of the United States over sixty years ago, she ste
By the end of the twentieth century, the idea of self-esteem had become enormously influential. A st
General He Yingqin: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China (Cambridge UP, 2016) is a revisionist stu
In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters (Harvard University Pre
Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism (University of California Press, 2024)
In this episode, Alisa talks with Lewis H. Siegelbaum, who, along with J. Arch Getty, edited Reflect
In Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire (Duke UP, 2024), Samuel Fury Childs Daly te
Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and
In The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java (Duke UP, 2023), Adam Bobbette tells the story
