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A gritty ride through Toronto's immigrant neighbourhoods, Christie Pits (Dirty Water Comics, 2019) t
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with MacArthur “Genius Prize” winning historian Pamela
Writing in the 1920s, Winston Churchill argued that the First World War on the Eastern Front was "in
In 1939, when John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was published, it became an instant bestseller an
The Great War haunted the British Empire. Shell shocked soldiers relived the war's trauma through wa
Today I talked to Christopher Paul Clohessy about Half of My Heart: The Narratives of Zaynab, Daught
Serena Laiena joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, The Theater Couple in Early Modern Italy:
When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great
In 1857, the Meskwaki Nation began the long process of piecing their homelands back together. After
Underground Leviathan: Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas (U Nevada Press, 2024) explo
Today I talked to Anat Geva about The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s-1960s (Texas
When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades
From the spring of 1942 until the summer of 1944, some 45,000 Jewish men were forced to accompany Hu
Pakistan, founded less than a decade after a homeland for India's Muslims was proposed, is both the
Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America (NYU Press, 2024) argues that t
Today’s book is: Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fig
The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture (Cornell UP, 2023) tel
Today, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detains an average of 37,000 migrants each n
They certainly were not soldiers, yet they suddenly found themselves in uniform, in a foreign land.
There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on F
