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Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Joshua Brinkman, Assistant Teaching Professor of S
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John Eglin talks with Jana Byars about The Gambling Century: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Resto
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In popular memory the repeal of US Prohibition in 1933 signaled alcohol’s decisive triumph in a deca
As writers, musicians, online content creators, and other independent workers fight for better labor
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Domestic Service in the Soviet Union: Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor (Camb
The engaging story of Intellivision, an overlooked videogame system from the late 1970s and early 19
This study of organizing and decluttering professionals helps us understand—and perhaps alleviate—th
During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, more than twelve million enslaved Africans were forcibly
Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s: The Intimate Life of Computers (U Minnesota Press, 2024) shows
