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The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades – to the point
In Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign that Broke the Confederacy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Donald L. Mi
Black women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement with internationalism from the late
Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution (Verso, 2020), Breanne Fahs has curated a compr
The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space--an object of imperial ambitions, national antagoni
Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems (University of California Press, 2024)
Yanagawa Seigan (1789–1858) and his wife Kōran (1804–79) were two of the great poets of nineteenth-c
The names of Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse are often readily recognized among many Americ
Approaching translations of Tolkien's works as stories in their own right, Reading Tolkien in Chines
In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt
In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revoluti
What do universal rights to public goods like education mean when codified as individual, private ch
An influential eighth-century Buddhist text, Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra, or Guide to the Practices
In the late fifth century, a girl whose name has been forgotten by history was born at the edge of t
Operating on the premise that our failure to recognize our interconnected relationship to the rest o
In Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (U Pennsylvania Press, 202
Original and deeply researched, The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York: A Cultural, Economic, a
Why did José de León Toral kill Álvaro Obregón, leader of the Mexican Revolution? So far, historians
In this week's episode, David and Modya speak with Rebecca Schliser, a core faculty member at the In
Inequality is America's biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people ha