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Digital Humanities November 18, 2020

Historical Atlas of Hasidism

Marcin Wodziński and Waldemar Spallek

Hosted by Marshall Poe
The Historical Atlas of Hasidism (Princeton UP, 2018) is the first cartographic reference book on one of the modern era’s most vibrant and important mystical movements. Featuring seventy-four large-format maps and a wealth of illustrations, charts, and tables, this one-of-a-kind atlas charts Hasidism’s emergence and expansion; its dynasties, courts, and prayer houses; its spread to the New World; the crisis of the two world wars and the Holocaust; and Hasidism’s …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast November 16, 2020

Conspiracy Theories are More Dangerous Than Ever

A Discussion with Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum

Nancy L. Rosenblum and Russell Muirhead

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Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new—conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast November 12, 2020

College Presidents and the Struggle for Integration

A Conversation with Eddie R. Cole

Eddie R. Cole

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Some of America's most pressing civil rights issues--desegregation, equal educational and employment opportunities, housing discrimination, and free speech--have been closely intertwined with higher education institutions. Although it is commonly known …
Scholarly Communications November 9, 2020

The Work and Value of University Presses

A Discussion with Niko Pfund

Niko Pfund

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What do university presses do? And how do they contributed to public discourse? November 9 is the beginning of University Press Week, and today I had the honor of talking …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast November 2, 2020

Conservatism is Always Evolving

A Discussion with Edmund Fawcett

Edmund Fawcett

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For two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity. By doing so, the Right has won long periods of …
African American Studies October 15, 2020

Why are Blacks Democrats?

An Interview with Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird

Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird

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Black Americans are by far the most unified racial group in American electoral politics, with 80 to 90 percent identifying as Democrats—a surprising figure given that nearly a third now …
Digital Humanities August 31, 2020

A Very Square Peg

A Discussion with Brian Collins

Dr. Brian Collins

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Today I talked with Dr. Brian Collins, the creator of "A Very Square Peg." We talked about: --How he discovered Eilser in a used bookstore in Ann Arbor --How he …
German Studies April 22, 2020

Learning From Franz L. Neumann

Law, Theory and the Brute Facts of Political Life

David Kettler and Thomas Wheatland

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Franz Neumann was a member of a generation that saw the end of the Kaiserreich and the beginnings of a democratic republic carried by the labor movement. In Neumann's case …
Education April 13, 2020

A Discussion with Kelly McFall about Using 'Reacting to the Past' in the College Classroom

Kelly McFall

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How best to teach history and, for that matter any social science subject, to college students? The traditional answer has been to lecture them. Given that the typical length of …
Architecture April 10, 2020

Age-Inclusive Public Space

Kristian Ly Serena

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Public spaces tend to over-represent facilities and spatial design for the young and the middle-aged, whereas elderly citizens are all too often neglected by contemporary urban design practice. Dominique Hauderowicz …
American Studies March 24, 2020

Fight House

Rivalries in the White House from Truman to Trump

Tevi Troy

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Washington Post best-selling presidential historian and former senior White House aide Tevi Troy examines some of the juiciest, nastiest, and most consequential internecine administration struggles in modern American history. In …
Literary Studies January 2, 2020

Second Slayings

The Binding of Isaac and the Formation of Jewish Cultural Memory

David N. Gottlieb

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In Second Slayings: The Binding of Isaac and the Formation of Jewish Cultural Memory (Gorgias Press, 2019), David N. Gottlieb explores the decisive - and, until now, under-appreciated - influence …