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Children's Literature January 13, 2022

Making Their Voices Heard

The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe

Vivian Kirkfield

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
Today I talked to Vivian Kirkfield about her book Making Their Voices Heard: The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe (Little Bee Books, 2020). Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. On …

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LGBTQ+ Studies January 12, 2022

The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse

Taking Risks in the Service of Truth

Andrew J. Kunka

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
In this episode of QUEER VOICES OF THE SOUTH, I talk with ANDREW J. KUNKA, who is a professor of English and division chair at the University of South Carolina …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast January 6, 2022

The January 6th Capitol Insurrection One Year On

A Discussion of the Far Right with Cynthia Miller-Idriss

Cynthia Miller-Idriss

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us, and communities across America and around the globe are struggling to …
Music January 5, 2022

Chapel of Love

The Story of New Orleans Girl Group the Dixie Cups

Rosa Hawkins and Steve Bergsman

Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
In 1963, sisters Barbara Ann and Rosa Hawkins and their cousin Joan Marie Johnson traveled from the segregated South to New York City under the auspices of their manager, former …
African American Studies January 5, 2022

Metaphysical Africa

Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community

Michael Muhammad Knight

Hosted by Adam Bobeck
The Ansaru Allah Community, also known as the Nubian Islamic Hebrews (AAC/NIH) and later the Nuwaubians, is a deeply significant and controversial African American Muslim movement. Founded in Brooklyn in …
General History January 4, 2022

The Transcendentalists and Their World

Robert A. Gross

Hosted by Ryan Tripp
In The Transcendentalists and Their World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021), Robert A. Gross offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact on philosophy and literature would spread from tiny Concord …
Grinnell College: Authors and Artists January 3, 2022

Spectacle of Grief

Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era

Sarah J. Purcell

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era (UNC Press, 2022) examines how the public funerals of major figures from the Civil War era shaped public memories …
Food December 31, 2021

A Recipe for Gentrification

Food, Power, and Resistance in the City

Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato, and Joshua Sbicca

Hosted by Aubrey Thamann
A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City (NYU Press, 2020), edited by Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato, and Joshua Sbicca, is a collection of essays examining how …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel December 29, 2021

American Schism

How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing our Nation

Seth David Radwell

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Why are Americans so angry? American Schism: How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing our Nation (Greenleaf, 2021) explores history to find the answer to a divided America …
Education December 27, 2021

Schools Under Siege

The Impact of Immigration Enforcement on Educational Equity

Patricia Gándara and Jongyeon Ee

Hosted by Pengfei Zhao
Much has been reported and discussed about the hotly debated issue of immigration enforcement, yet a question is still to be explored: What is the impact of the immigration enforcement …
General History December 27, 2021

The Cause

The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783

Joseph J. Ellis

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in decades, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Joseph J. Ellis offers an epic account of the …
Islamic Studies December 24, 2021

Intersectionality in the Muslim South Asian-American Middle Class

Lifestyle Consumption Beyond Halal and Hijab

Farha Bano Ternikar

Hosted by Shehnaz Haqqani
In Intersectionality in the Muslim South Asian-American Middle Class: Lifestyle Consumption beyond Halal and Hijab (Lexington Books, 2021), wherein Ternikar theorizes the everyday consumption of South Asian Muslim American women …
Asian Review of Books December 23, 2021

Concepcion

An Immigrant Family's Fortunes

Albert Samaha

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
One of the first members of Albert Samaha’s family introduced in his memoir Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes (Riverhead Books, 2021) is his uncle Spanky: a baggage handler in San Francisco’s …
Law December 23, 2021

What Oath (if any) did Jacob Henry take in 1809?

Deconstructing the Historical Myths

Seth Barrett Tillman

Hosted by Ian Drake
Seth Barrett Tillman, an associate professor of law at Maynooth University in Ireland, has written two revisionist articles about an incident from 1809 in North Carolina. In November of that …
Architecture December 22, 2021

Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture

Paul Kidder

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Few figures in the American arts have stories richer in irony than does architect Minoru Yamasaki. While his twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center are internationally iconic, few …
Literary Studies December 20, 2021

Infrastructures of Apocalypse

American Literature and the Nuclear Complex

Jessica Hurley

Hosted by Christian Long
Since 1945, America has spent more resources on nuclear technology than any other national project. Although it requires a massive infrastructure that touches society on myriad levels, nuclear technology has …
General History December 16, 2021

Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain

Migration and the Making of the United States

Samantha Seeley

Hosted by Derek Litvak
Samantha Seeley is the author of Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States, published by the University of North Carolina Press in …
General History December 16, 2021

Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand

Russian Nihilism Travels to America

Aaron Weinacht

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian Nihilism Travels to America (Lexington, 2021) argues that the core commitments of the nihilist movement of the 1860's made their way to 20th century America …
Political Science December 16, 2021

The Civil Rights Lobby

The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Second Reconstruction

Shamira Gelbman

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Historically, how have marginalized and minority groups pushed the boundaries of representative government to pass legislation that benefits them? Political Scientist Shamira Gelbman, the Daniel F. Evans Associate Professor in …
Recall This Book December 16, 2021

"Studying Up" with Daniel Souleles (EF, JP)

Recall this Buck 5

Daniel Souleles

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
John and Elizabeth continue their conversation with Daniel Souleles, anthropologist at the Copenhagen Business School and author of Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss: Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality (Lincoln …