The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World

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The Slave Ship: A Human History

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Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage

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A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920

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White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

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White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

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The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s

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The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition

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Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

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The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition

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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class

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1968: The Rise and Fall of the New American Revolution

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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

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Hard White: The Mainstreaming of Racism in American Politics

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The Paranoid Style in American Politics

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One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

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This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy

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The Age of Reform

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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

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War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918

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The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies

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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

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Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power

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River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom

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Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction

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American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News--From The Revolutionary War to The War on Terror

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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

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What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party

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Freedom From the Market: America's Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand

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The Enigma of Clarence Thomas

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Wicked New Orleans: The Dark Side of the Big Easy

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The Dark History of American Presidents: Digitally Narrated Using a Synthesized Voice

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Underwater Ghost Towns of North Georgia

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American History: An Enthralling Overview of Major Events that Shaped the United States of America

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Summary of John Adams by David McCullough

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The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President

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African American History: Slavery, Underground Railroad, People including Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass and Rosa Parks (Black History Month)

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Summary of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

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The Haitian Revolution: The History and Legacy of the Slave Uprising that Led to Haiti’s Independence

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The Tainos and Caribs: The History of the Indigenous Natives Who Encountered Christopher Columbus in 1492

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The Killing of Uncle Sam: The Demise of the United States of America

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Who Discovered America?: The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas

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Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South

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Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography

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The Odd Fellows' Primer

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The Constitution of the United States of America

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Zora Hurston and the Strange Case of Ruby McCollum

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America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I): From the Age of Discovery to a World at War

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The Lost Empire of Atlantis: History's Greatest Mystery Revealed

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Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples

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100 Bible Verses That Made America: Defining Moments That Shaped Our Enduring Foundation of Faith

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History of the Conquest of Mexico

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The Maya: A Very Short Introduction

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The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution

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And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails

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American Slavery: History in an Hour

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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The Waco Siege: An American Tragedy: An American Tragedy

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Valley Forge

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Champlain's Dream

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In Defense Of Looting Feat. Vicky Osterweil: Vicky Osterweil joins the Beyond Prisons podcast to discuss her new book, “In Defense Of Looting: A Riotous History Of Uncivil Action.” Our wide-ranging conversation includes Vicky’s analysis of the claim that “real” and legitimate protests...

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Reign of Terror: Spencer Ackerman joins Matt to discuss the War on Terror, tying its roots to the Oklahoma City bombing and its legacy to Trump’s presidency

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Steven Higashide, "Better Buses, Better Cities : How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit" (Island Press, 2019): Higashide shows us what a successful bus system looks like with real-world stories of reform—such as Houston redrawing its bus network overnight,

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The Principal Contradiction: Applying Dialectical Materialism: Torkil Lauesen joins Breht to discuss his newest book "". In this discussion, Torkil and Breht discuss dialectical materialism, how it is applied in real world situations, and the role that contradiction plays in it all.  In the 1970s and 80s,...

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297 Claudio Saunt, Indian Removal Act of 1830: The history of Native American land dispossession is as old as the story of colonization. European colonists came to the Americas, and the Caribbean, wanting land for farms and settlement so they found ways to acquire lands from indigenous peoples by...

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Jodi A. Byrd, “The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism” (University of Minnesota Press, 2011): In a world of painfully narrow academic monographs, rare is the work that teams with ideas, engagements, and interventions across a wide terrain of social life. In The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (University of Minnesota Pres...

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Wendy Brown, "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West" (Columbia UP, 2019): Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...

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‘Gangsters of Capitalism’ with Jonathan Katz: Smedley Butler was one of the most decorated warfighters in history. From an early age, “The Fighting Quaker” played a pivotal role in America’s path to global power. Yet in retirement, Butler turned into a warrior against war, imperialism and big business, declaring that he was a “racketeer for capitalism." Award-winning author Jonathan Katz writes about his life in a new book, “Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire.” Katz joins to discuss efforts throughout history to establish a fascist dictatorship, parallels between the January 6th insurrection and an attempted coup in 1934 and the role of globalism in capitalism.

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Michael Parenti: "Inventing Reality" (1993): Source   Special thanks to Ian Anderson

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The Revolutionary Life of Paul Robeson: Scholar Gerald Horne on the Great Antifascist Singer, Artist and Rebel: As Trump vows to smash leftist movements, we take a comprehensive look at the life of the revolutionary Black socialist, antifascist, and artist Paul Robeson. University of Houston historian Dr. Gerald Horne, author of “Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revo...

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The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border

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Laura Gómez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism" (The New Press, 2020): Gomez illuminates the fascinating race-making, unmaking, and re-making of Latino identity that has spanned centuries, leaving a permanent imprint on how race operates in the United States today...

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The Essential Kerner Commission Report: In 1968, the Kerner Commission wrote, "white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto." Here's how they reached a conclusion that still rings true today.

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Interview: Kyla Schuller on Race Science and the Biopolitics of Feeling – Epistemic Unruliness 22: Join John as he interviews Kyla Schuller (Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers) about her new book The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century (Duke UP, 2017). The book develops concepts of impressibility and sentimen

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Edward E. Baptist, “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism” (Basic Books, 2014): An unflinching examination of the trauma, violence, opportunism, and vision that combined to create the empire for slavery that was the Old South, Ed Baptist‘s new book The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic ...

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Allan Greer, “Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America” (Cambridge UP, 2018): In his Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Allan Greer, Canada Research Chair in Colonial North America at McGill University in Montréal,

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552- Blood in the Machine: Who were the real Luddites?

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A Slow Civil War with Jeff Sharlet: Host Reed Galen is joined by journalist and New York Times bestselling author, Jeff Sharlet. Jeff shares scenes from his travels across the United States which exemplify the convergence of MAGA, religion, militias, and fascism. The aftermath of...

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Tragedy in Texas (w/ Ryan Busse)

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The Absurdities of Race: Adam Shatz talks to Paul Gilroy about his intellectual background and the recent anti-racist protests in the UK and US. They discuss Gilroy’s experience growing up in North London in the 1950s and 1960s, the influence of African-American culture on his...

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Matt Christman and Daniel Bessner, "Hinge Points: A Podcast About Historical Contingency"

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Ep. 70 – Audra Simpson, Mohawk Interruptus: John is joined by friends-of-the-show Tyler Tully and Danielle Hanley to discuss Audra Simpson‘s Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Duke UP, 2014). The book — simultaneously a work of political theory, eth

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Vincent Bevins, "The Jakarta Method" (Public Affairs, 2020): The Jakarta Method joins a growing body of scholarly work on what some call a “political genocide” and what a 1968 CIA report deemed “one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century”.

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MKREWIND: History of Hispaniola (EP262): On this Minority Korner Rewind, we revisit episode 3's Korner on Hispanola, the first successful slave rebellion, and the ramifications from that still felt today, in what is now called Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and in their relationship with the US, and around the world.

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Michael Joseph Roberto, "The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920-1940" (Monthly Review Press, 2018): An interview with Michael Joseph Roberto

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Race and Guns in a Divided America, with Carol Anderson and Mark Mardell: Throughout history, the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States has protected the right to bear arms. For Black Americans, this has come with the understanding that the moment they exercise this right (or the moment that they don...

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Modern Monetary Theory and its challenge to Neoliberalism: After more than four decades of dominance, free-market capitalism is facing a challenge. Its rival, the rather blandly named Modern Monetary Theory, promises to return economic planning to a less ideological footing. It’s also keen to strike a blow against the “surplus fetish” that many economists now blame for declining public services and growing inequality.

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W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction in America: Dr. Gerald Horne joins Breht and to launch our new series on the life and work of W.E.B. Du Bois, the famous American sociologist, Marxist socialist, esteemed historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist, starting with his major work Black...

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Matthew Desmond On America’s Addiction to Poverty: According to the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University, 14.3 percent of Americans — nearly 50 million people — were living in poverty in December. The scale of poverty in the U.S. dwarfs that of most of our peer countries. And it raises the question: Why does so much poverty persist in one of the richest countries in the world? For the Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond, the answer is simple: Poverty is a policy choice. It persists because we allow it to. And we allow it to persist because so many of us — whether we realize it or not — benefit from the exploitation of the poor. Desmond’s 2016 book, the Pulitzer Prize winner “Evicted,” was a powerful ethnographic account of what it means to experience the depths of poverty. But his new book, “Poverty, by America,” is less about the poor than it is about the rest of us. It is about the people who are more comfortable with the perpetuation of poverty than with th

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Ned Blackhawk on ‘The Rediscovery of America’: In this conversation first recorded for Washington Post Live on April 27, Yale University professor Ned Blackhawk discusses his new book, “The Rediscovery of America: Natives Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History,” which explores the foundational role Native Americans have played in U.S. history, including in the formulation of our country’s Constitution, and how their presence and contributions are frequently overlooked, or worse, erased.