Podcast Episodes

Hearts of Darkness w/ Allan Cooper

Season 3 Episode 280

Allan Cooper is a professor of political science at North Carolina Central University. He joins us to discuss his latest book, Africa and the Global…

4 years, 9 months ago

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NAM-TV S1 E3: Never Heard the Word Impossible (PREVIEW)

Season 1 Episode 3

On this week's episode of NAM-TV, we continue our story with a look at the First Indochina War (1946-1954), in which France attempted to reconquer Vi…

4 years, 10 months ago

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Love's Next Meeting w/ Aaron Lecklider

Season 3 Episode 278

Aaron Lecklider is a professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the author of Love's Next Meeting: The Forgotten Hi…

4 years, 10 months ago

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Working Girls w/ Claudia Moreno Parsons (PREVIEW)

Season 3 Episode 277

This week Claudia and I continue our movie series with two 1980s Hollywood comedies about the lives of working class women, Pretty in Pink (1986) and…

4 years, 10 months ago

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NAM-TV S1 E2: Lose Yourself (PREVIEW)

Here's a quick look at Episode 2 of NAM-TV, our new video lecture series on the Vietnam War and American historical memory. Available now for subscri…

4 years, 10 months ago

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Livestream 5.27.2021: War Pigs w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)

Season 3 Episode 420

A quick clip from this week's livestream with Justin Rogers-Cooper providing some historical context and analysis to ongoing horrors in Ethiopia, Mya…

4 years, 10 months ago

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Neighborhood of Fear w/ Kyle Riismandel

Season 3 Episode 276

Kyle Riismandel teaches American history at the New Jersey Institute of Technology/Rutgers-Newark, and is the author of Neighborhood of Fear: The Su…

4 years, 10 months ago

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The Murder is the Message w/ Danny Bessner (PREVIEW)

Season 3 Episode 275

This week we talk about the political and social economy of "first person shooter" video games with Danny Bessner, whose recent piece in The Drift in…

4 years, 10 months ago

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The Defund Moment w/ Alex Vitale

Season 3 Episode 274

Alex Vitale is a professor of sociology and Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. His 2017 book, The End of Po…

4 years, 10 months ago

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Nostalgia Trap - NAM-TV - S1 E1 (PREVIEW)

Season 1 Episode 1

Here's a quick look at our new video lecture series NAM-TV, our new video lecture series on the Vietnam War and American historical memory. Episode O…

4 years, 10 months ago

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