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About Deidre Tyler

Deidre Tyler, PhD - Sociologist, Instructional Technologist.

NBN Episodes hosted by Deidre:

Women's History June 30, 2022

Subversive Habits

Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle

Shannen Dee Williams

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In Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle (Duke UP, 2022), Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the …
Native American Studies June 28, 2022

Conversations with LeAnne Howe

Kirstin L. Squint ed.

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Conversations with LeAnne Howe (UP of Mississippi, 2022) is the first collection of interviews with the groundbreaking Choctaw author, whose genre-bending works take place in the US Southeast, Oklahoma, and beyond …
Psychology June 28, 2022

Senior Sociopaths

How to Recognize and Escape Lifelong Abusers

Donna Andersen

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Senior Sociopaths: How to Recognize and Escape Lifelong Abusers (Anderly Publishing, 2022) is the first book to examine antisocial behavior in the over-50 crowd. This is a far bigger problem …
Historical Fiction June 17, 2022

Answering Liberty's Call

Anna Stone's Daring Ride to Valley Forge

Tracy Lawson

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Today I talked to Tracy Lawson about her novel Answering Liberty's Call: Anna Stone's Daring Ride to Valley Forge (Gray Lion Books, 2021). In 1778, war is men's business. That doesn't stop …
Asian American Studies June 17, 2022

Shadow Traces

Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic Archives

Elena Tajima Creef

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Images of Japanese and Japanese American women can teach us what it meant to be visible at specific moments in history. In Shadow Traces: Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic …
Urban Studies June 17, 2022

Vulnerable Communities

Research, Policy, and Practice in Small Cities

James J. Connolly, Dagney G. Faulk, and Emily J. Wornell

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Vulnerable Communities: Research, Policy, and Practice in Small Cities (Cornell UP, 2022) examines the struggles of smaller cities in the United States, those with populations between 20,000 and 200,000. Like …
Sociology June 16, 2022

A Primer for Teaching Digital History

Ten Design Principles

Jennifer Guiliano

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A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2022) is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching digital history for the first time or …
Women's History June 15, 2022

Female Genius

Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution

Mary Sarah Bilder

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In Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution (U Virginia Press, 2022), Mary Sarah Bilder looks to the 1780s—the Age of the Constitution—to investigate …
Literature June 7, 2022

Some of My Best Friends

Essays on Lip Service

Tajja Isen

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In this stunning debut collection, Catapult editor-in-chief and award-winning voice actor Tajja Isen explores the absurdity of living in a world that has grown fluent in the language of social …
General History June 7, 2022

Spaces of Enslavement

A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York

Andrea C. Mosterman

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In Spaces of Enslavement: A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York (Cornell UP, 2021), Andrea C. Mosterman addresses the persistent myth that the colonial Dutch system of …
Sociology June 3, 2022

Heritage Tourism

From Problems to Possibilities

Yujie Zhu

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As one of the world's fastest growing industries, heritage tourism is surrounded by political and ethical issues. Yujie Zhu's Heritage Tourism: From Problems to Possibilities (Cambridge UP, 2021) explores the …
Women's History June 1, 2022

She Being Dead Yet Speaketh

The Franklin Family Papers

Mary Franklin and Hannah Burton

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On Black Bartholomew's Day--August 24, 1662--nearly two thousand ministers denied the authority of the Church of England and were subsequently removed from their posts. Mary Franklin was the wife of …
Asian American Studies May 16, 2022

Our Laundry, Our Town

My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond

Alvin Eng

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Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond (Fordham UP, 2022) is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle …
Poetry May 13, 2022

Daughters of Harriet

Poems

Cynthia Parker-Ohene

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Drawing inspiration from the life of Harriet Tubman, Cynthia Parker-Ohene's poetic narratives follow a historical arc of consciousness of Black folks: mislaid in potters' fields and catalogued with other misbegotten …
General History May 12, 2022

Pandemic Re-Awakenings

The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu Of 1918-1919

Guy Beiner and Professor of Modern History Guy Beiner

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Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu Of 1918-1919 (Oxford UP, 2021), edited by Guy Beiner, offers a multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering …
Literature May 6, 2022

Mingo

W. Jeff Barnes

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Set against the backdrop of coal-rich, hard-scrabble West Virginia and "civilized," segregated Virginia, W. Jeff Barnes' Mingo (Little Star, 2021) reveals the deep divide between corporate might and those seeking …
Media May 6, 2022

History, Disrupted

How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past

Jason Steinhauer

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The Internet has changed the past. Social media, Wikipedia, mobile networks, and the viral and visual nature of the Web have inundated the public sphere with historical information and misinformation …
Women's History May 2, 2022

Mutinous Women

How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast

Joan DeJean

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In 1719, a ship named La Mutine (the mutinous woman), sailed from the French port of Le Havre, bound for the Mississippi. It was loaded with urgently needed goods for …
Policing, Incarceration, and Reform April 25, 2022

Indefinite

Doing Time in Jail

Michael L. Walker

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Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have been denied bail. Although jail sentences max out …
Gender Studies April 19, 2022

The Rise of Women and Wealth

Our Fight for Freedom, Equality, and Control of Our Financial Future

Cindy Couyoumjian

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Cindy Couyoumjian--founder of Cinergy Financial, with over thirty-six years of experience--is on a mission to empower women to stop being spectators and enter the financial arena; to stand up and …
Sociology April 13, 2022

Majority Minority

Justin Gest

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How do societies respond to great demographic change? This question lingers over the contemporary politics of the United States and other countries where persistent immigration has altered populations and may …
Children's Literature April 12, 2022

Melanie and the Box

James Michael Thibeault

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Today I talked to James Michael Thibeault, the author of the lovely children's book Melanie and the Box (2021). Melanie wants to be just like her mother: someone who wears a giant …
General History April 11, 2022

The Spirit of New York

Defining Events in the Empire State's History (2nd Edition)

Bruce W. Dearstyne

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In The Spirit of New York: Defining Events in the Empire State's History (2nd Edition; SUNY Press, 2022), Bruce W. Dearstyne presents New York State history through an exploration of …
Literature March 28, 2022

The Last Professional

Ed Davis

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This is a story of America! Lynden Hoover, a young man on the brink of a new beginning, cannot embrace it without confronting the traumas of his past. Help …