Dig: A History Podcast
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Feb 22, 2022
Ann
Jul 23, 2019
Love this podcast - it's great to get a feminist and inclusive view of a wide variety of historical events.
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Four women historians, a world of history to unearth. Can you dig it?
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The Sentimental State: Book Talk
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May 06, 2024 |
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The Leaky Body: Fluids, Disease, and the Millennias-Long Endurance of Humoral Medicine
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Continuity & the Gender Wage Gap: Or, How Patriarchy Ruins Everything Part II
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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From Slave Patrol to Street Patrol: Police Brutality in America
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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The Invisible Engine: Capitalism's Reliance on Reproductive Labor and a Gendered Wage
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Islam and the Frankish “Wall of Ice”: Contingency and the Battle of Tours, or Poitiers, or Whatever…
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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How the Homophile Movement Could Have Been Intersectional and Antiracist, But Wasn’t: Magnus Hirschfeld and Li Shui Tong’s Love and Loss Story
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Rise and Fall in the Queen City: Contingent Moments in Buffalo, New York
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Crappy Healthcare is Not Natural: the U.S. Health System is Contingent on a Lot of Bad Decisions
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Chinese Medicine: The Complex Balance of Individual, State, and Cosmos
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Puerto Rican Citizenship: A Complex Status
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Vaudevillian, Countess, Spy, Activist: The Complicated Life of Josephine Baker
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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The History of Fat: The Complex Attitudes Toward Fatness in the Pre-Modern West
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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From Orality to Literacy: A Global History of Writing
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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Feminisms: The Interconnected Rights Revolution
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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The History of America's Changing Political Parties
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Irish Hero, Queer Traitor, Gay Icon: Roger Casement Over Time
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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The Equal Rights Amendment: Gender Equality? Nah...
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May 29, 2023 |
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Irrepressible Conflict, or Failure to Compromise? The Causes of the American Civil War
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May 22, 2023 |
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The Fall of Rome: Debating Causality and the Collapse of the Western Empire
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May 15, 2023 |
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For King, Country, and… Opium?: Thinking About Causality, Empire, and Historiography in the First Opium War, 1839-42
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May 08, 2023 |
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For F*ck’s Sake: A History of English-Language Swearing
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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The Controversial Life and Legacy of Margaret Sanger
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Anne Moody: Context and Conflict in Coming of Age in Mississippi
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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The Women’s War of 1929: Igbo and Ibibio Resistance to British Colonialism
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Race and Nation in Latin America: Whitening, Browning, and the Failures of Mestizaje
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Nina Otero-Warren: Suffrage and Strategy in New Mexico
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Little Laborers: Child Indenture in 18th- and 19th- Century America
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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A Spot of Tea: Empire, Commodities, and the Opportunities in Britain’s Tea Trade
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Omm Sety and Bridey Murphy: A History of Reincarnation and Past Lives in Britain and America
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Anna Howard Shaw: Doctor, Reverend, Suffragist Leader
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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The Kingdom of Matthias: Sex, Gender and Alternative Belief in the Second Great Awakening
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Spectacle and Spiritualism in the Lives of Maggie and Kate Fox
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Ghosting the Patriarchy: Spiritualism and the Nineteenth-Century Women’s Rights Movement
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Plastic Shamans and Spiritual Hucksters: A History of Peddling and Protecting Native American Spirituality
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Julia’s Bureau: The Temperance Virtuoso, the Father of Journalism, and Life after Death in the Spiritualist Anglo-Atlantic
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Cheesecloth, Spiritualism, and State Secrets: Helen Duncan’s Famous Witchcraft Trial
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Domesticity and Depression: Kentucky Coal Mining, Song, and Organizing During Bloody Harlan
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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One Medicine: Animal Experiments and the Making of Modern Medical Science
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May 23, 2022 |
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Canary in a Coal Mine - Literally
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May 16, 2022 |
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Remember Rutterkin? Witch’s Familiars, Religious Reformation, and Sexy Beasts in Early Modern Europe
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May 09, 2022 |
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War Elephants from Ancient India to World War II
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May 02, 2022 |
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Race in 1920s America: Hellfighters, Red Summer, and Restrictive Immigration
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Apartheid in South Africa: A History
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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The Long History of Abolition in America
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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The Windrush Generation and the Mystique of British Anti-Racism
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Rosa Parks: Myth & Memory in the American Civil Rights Movement
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Dec 26, 2021 |
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Tituba, The "Black Witch" of Salem
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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“La lengua”: Malintzin, the Spanish Conquest of Mesoamerica, and the Legacy of the Translator in Mexico
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Dragon Lady of the South China Sea: Cheng I Sao, Woman Commander of China's Pirate Confederacy
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Aunt Jemima: American Racism on Your Grocery Shelf
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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Marie Laveau: The Voodoo Queen and the Laveau Legend
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Werewolves, Vampires, and the Aryans of Ancient Atlantis: The Occultic Roots of the Nazi Party
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Mizuko: The History behind Vengeful Aborted Fetus Hauntings in 1980s Japan
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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The Demonologist and the Clairvoyant: Ed and Lorraine Warren, Paranormal Investigation, and Exorcism in the Modern World
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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None of Woman Born: Cesarean Birth before 1900, A Pre-History
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Aug 22, 2021 |
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A History of Childbirth in America
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Birth of a Nation: Everyday Racism in 20th-Century America
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Obstetric Violence: Childbirth and Symphysiotomy in Catholic Ireland
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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France's League of Nations Mandate in Syria and Lebanon
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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LULAC, Adela Sloss-Vento, and the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Gender, Psychiatry, and Borderline Personality Disorder
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Lost! Cabeza de Vaca Stumbles Through Southwestern North America in the "Age of Exploration"
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Early American Family Limitation
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Bodies of Evidence: Modern Policing, Sex, and the Intricacies of Authorized Crime and Deception
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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The OG Vaccine: Smallpox, Cowpox, and the Procedure that Changed the World
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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A History of Racial Passing in the United States
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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American Exceptionalism at Its Most Disturbing: The "1776 Report"
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Yes! Same-Sex Marriage and History-Making in Ireland
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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1968: A Tumultuous American Year
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Race, Politics, and Chaos in the Capitol: The Election of 1876
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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The Papal Election of 1492: Rodrigo Borgia and the Conclave that Made him Pope Alexander VI
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Mother’s Little Helper: Psychiatry, Gender, and the Rise of Psychopharmaceuticals
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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"More like a dust heap than a nose": The Global History of Smokeless Tobacco
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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“The Americans Can Fix Nothing without a Drink”: Alcohol in Early America
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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The Sacred Bark: A History of Quinine
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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W.I.T.C.H.: Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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“Wicked Practises and Sorcerye”: Cunning Folk, Witch Trials, and the Tragedy of Joan Flower and Her Daughters
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Both Man and Witch: Uncovering the Invisible History of Male Witches
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Doctor, Healer, Midwife, Witch: How the the Women’s Health Movement Created the Myth of the Midwife-Witch
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Slavery & Soul Food: African Crops and Enslaved Cooks in the History of Southern Cuisine
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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The Black Panther Party and the Free Breakfast Program: Feeding a Movement
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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A History of Medicinal Cannibalism: Therapeutic Consumption of Human Bodies, Blood, and Excrement in “Civilized” Societies
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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Hot for Chocolate: Aphrodisiacs, Imperialism, and Cacao in the Early Modern Atlantic
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Jul 05, 2020 |
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Sex & Soldiers: Combating Sexually Transmitted Infection in the US Military
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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Steaming the “Nefarious Sin”: Bathhouses and Homosexuality from the Victorian Era to the AIDS Epidemic
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May 24, 2020 |
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Recogimiento: Virginity, Enclosure, and Female Virtue in Colonial Latin America
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May 18, 2020 |
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Honeymoon in Niagara Falls: Heterosexuality and Place
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May 11, 2020 |
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Three Years DIGGING! Live Recording
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May 04, 2020 |
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79 and Counting: Women of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Blood on the Ravenstone: Judicial Torture, Penal Violence, and Capital Punishment in Early Modern Europe
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Honor, Manhood, Slavery: Political Violence from Alexander Hamilton to John Brown
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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Anti-Mexican Mob Violence in the Borderlands: A Lynching in Rocksprings, Texas
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Mar 08, 2020 |
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Slave, Contraband, Refugee: The Complicated Story of the End of Slavery in the United States
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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Bittersweet: Sugar, Slavery, Empire and Consumerism in the Atlantic World
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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Frankenstein's Monster: Science, Revolution and Romanticism in the Age of the Enlightenment
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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100 Years of Woman Suffrage
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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La Petite Mort: Investigating the History of Orgasm, aka The Little Death
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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Amy Robsart, Lady Dudley: The Death that Launched a Thousand Rumors
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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The Black Death: Dancing with Death in the Medieval World
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Nov 24, 2019 |
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Cult of the Dead: Anglo American Death Practices, Spiritualism, and Speaking with the Dead
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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For Heart and Hearth… and the Rights of Women: Radical Christianity in Pursuit of Conservative Ends in the Nineteenth Century
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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Dancing Toward Wounded Knee: The Hope and Tragedy of the Ghost Dance Religion
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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Duggie Mack, the Jamaican Delegation to Ethiopia, and the Rastafarian Movement
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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Wound Worship, “Enthusiasts" and "Sodomites”: A History of Radical Moravians
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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What’s In a Name? : North American Naming Conventions and the “Death” of Patrilineal Lines
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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Masculinity, Magic & the Meaning of Impotence in Patriarchal Societies of the Past
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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Papa Can You Hear Me? Fatherhood in 19th century US and Britain
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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Patriarchs, Brawlers, and Gentlemen: Manhood in the Civil War Era
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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Secret Societies of Sapphos: Faro Ladies, Bluestockings, and Gendered Insults of Women’s Societies in 18th- and 19th-Century Britain
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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Fragile Masculinity, Playing Indian, and Mechanical Goats: Fraternal Orders in the 19th Century US
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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Who Else but the Illuminati? Conspiracy Theories, French Revolutions, and Historian Heroes
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Order of Assassins: Myth & Memory of the Nizari in Medieval Iran and Syria
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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Life Unworthy of Life: The Nazi Programs to Kill People with Disabilities
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May 20, 2019 |
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Choice, Sterilization, and Eugenics in Twentieth Century Puerto Rico
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May 13, 2019 |
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At the Crossroads of Modernity: Japan, the Blood-Type Fad, and Eugenic Science in the 20th Century
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May 06, 2019 |
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Eugenics in the Making: Human Typologies, Population Hygiene, and Racial Science in the 18th Century
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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Seduction, Prostitution, Bastardy, and Child Abandonment in Georgian London
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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Anthony Comstock: Sex, Censorship, and the Power of Policing the Subjective
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Mar 25, 2019 |
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Rape and Race in Early America
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Mar 17, 2019 |
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Locked Up and Poxxed: THE Venereal Disease and Women who Sold Sex in the Victorian British Empire
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Mar 10, 2019 |
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Miscarriage in Nineteenth Century America
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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Skull Collectors: Race, Pseudoscience, and Native American Bodies
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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Syphilis: Origin Story. Or, Early Modern Europeans Don’t Know Where It Came From, Current Scholars Don’t Know Where It Came From, and a Lot of Poxy Penises and Vulvas Suffered in Between
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Jan 27, 2019 |
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“Walking Corpses”: Life as a Leper in Medieval Eurasia
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Jan 20, 2019 |
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Hearts of Darkness: Victorian Imperialism and Travel of the African Continent
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Dec 30, 2018 |
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Black Cowboys: People of Color in the American West
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Dec 17, 2018 |
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The Final Frontier: History, Science, and Space Exploration
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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Fur Trading and Frontier Life in French Canada
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Dec 02, 2018 |
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Cannibalism, Frostbite, and The Quest for the Northwest Passage
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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Haunted Slavery: The Lalaurie Mansion
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Oct 29, 2018 |
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Witches Brew: How the Patriarchy Ruins Everything for Women, Even Beer
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Oct 21, 2018 |
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Forensic Pathology and the History of Death Investigation
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Oct 14, 2018 |
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Rebel Slaves and Resistance in the Revolutionary Caribbean
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Sep 17, 2018 |
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Slavery and Freedom in New York City
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Sep 10, 2018 |
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Slave Codes, Black Codes & Jim Crow: Codifying the Color Line
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Sep 03, 2018 |
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Devşirme: The Tribute of Children, Slavery and the Ottoman Empire
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Aug 26, 2018 |
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The Age of Crime! Civil War Veterans and Crime in America
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Aug 05, 2018 |
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The United States Children's Bureau: An Attempt to Curb Infant Mortality
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Jul 30, 2018 |
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Queer Politics: The Dublin Castle Scandal of 1884
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Jul 22, 2018 |
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Employment Agencies in 18c London... and Boobs
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Jul 16, 2018 |
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Underwear: A History of Intimate Apparel
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Jun 25, 2018 |
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Struggle for the Breeches: Pants, Women, and Power
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Jun 17, 2018 |
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Suit Up: Class, Economics, Manhood, and Menswear
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Jun 11, 2018 |
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The Labor of Fashion: Shirtwaists and the Labor Movement in the Early 20th Century
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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Tuberculean Chic: How White Plague Shaped Beauty Standards in the 18c & 19c
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May 27, 2018 |
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Trees that Fight Back: Shinto & the Environment in Japan
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May 20, 2018 |
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Mt. Tambora & The Year Without a Summer
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May 14, 2018 |
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National Parks in America: Health, Manhood, and Wilderness
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May 07, 2018 |
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The Rise of Natural History Museums
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Apr 30, 2018 |
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“No peace, No p*ssy”: Sex Strikes and the Recent History of Global Feminist Protest
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Apr 15, 2018 |
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Victoria Woodhull: Free Love, Feminism & Finance
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Apr 08, 2018 |
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Marriage in America: A Brief History
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Apr 01, 2018 |
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King Ahebi Ugbabe: Sex, Gender, and Power in Colonial Nigeria
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Mar 25, 2018 |
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Auburn System: Prisons & Punishment in 19c U.S.
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Mar 11, 2018 |
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Nuremberg Laws and Nazi Discrimination against Jewish Germans
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Mar 04, 2018 |
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Coverture: Married Women and Legal Personhood in Britain
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Feb 26, 2018 |
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Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
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Feb 18, 2018 |
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Jane Roe and The Pill
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Feb 11, 2018 |
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Suitcase Murder: Abortion, Mystery and Murder in 20th Century America
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Feb 05, 2018 |
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Celia, A Slave: The True Crime Case that Rocked the American Slave Power
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Jan 28, 2018 |
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Child Abuse, Murder & Execution in Georgian London: Case of Elizabeth Brownrigg
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Jan 21, 2018 |
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Brutal Murder of Bridget Cleary in 1895 Ireland
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Jan 14, 2018 |
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Abortion and Birth Control before Roe v. Wade
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Jan 07, 2018 |
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Early American Family Limitation
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Jan 01, 2018 |
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Charles Dickens and Scary Winter Stories
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Dec 18, 2017 |
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Great White Hurricane of 1913
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Dec 11, 2017 |
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Heating and Illuminating Homes in Victorian Britain
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Dec 03, 2017 |
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Little Ice Age: Weird Weather, Witchcraft, Famine & Fashion
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Nov 27, 2017 |
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Death, Religion, and Euro-Native Encounters
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Nov 12, 2017 |
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Cock Lane Ghost: 18c London’s Haunting Hoax
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Nov 05, 2017 |
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Halloween, Samhain, and Moral Panics in the 1980s
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Oct 29, 2017 |
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Photos of the Dead: Victorian Postmortem Photography and the Case of the Standing Corpse
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Oct 22, 2017 |
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The Lost Cause: Texas Independence, Slavery and Historical Memory
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Oct 08, 2017 |
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Guerrilla Warfare: The American Civil War and Irregular Soldiers
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Oct 01, 2017 |
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Death, Mud & Guns II: Military Rev and Birth of Bureaucracy
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Sep 25, 2017 |
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Death, Mud & Guns I: Military Rev and Birth of Bureaucracy
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Sep 25, 2017 |
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George McGovern and the Elusive Christian Left
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Sep 17, 2017 |
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Puritan Sex: The Surprising History of Puritans and Sexual Practices
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Sep 11, 2017 |
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Selling Sex in 19th C. NYC
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Sep 04, 2017 |
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Marie Stopes’ Sex Guide for Marital Bliss
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Sep 03, 2017 |
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Sadism, Sex & the French Rev
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Sep 03, 2017 |
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Vietnam Protest and the Buffalo 9
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Aug 28, 2017 |
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Communism and Uteruses
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Aug 21, 2017 |
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Black Athena and the Battle of Historians
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Aug 13, 2017 |
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War of 1812 and the Burning of Buffalo
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Aug 13, 2017 |
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Founding of AIDS Project of the Ozarks
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Aug 13, 2017 |