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Back to SearchUniversity Keywords with Andy Hines
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Andy Hines, ed. 2025. University Keywords. Johns Hopkins University Press. Alyssa Battistoni. 2025. Free Gifts: Cap…8 months, 1 week ago
Goldwater, King, and the college with Nicholas R. Buccola
As a student, she was a proud "Goldwater girl, right down to my cowgirl outfit and straw cowboy hat emblazoned with the slogan 'AuH20." -Hillary Clin…
8 months, 1 week ago
Gunnar Myrdal and the white world order with Maribel Morey
The money behind truth.
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Maribel Morey. 2021. White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation's An American Dilemma and the …8 months, 2 weeks ago
Lab Dog with Brad Bolman
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Brad Bolman. 2025. Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles. University of Chicago Press. Benjamin Albert…8 months, 2 weeks ago
How dark money shapes the vernaculars of the culture war with Isaac Kamola
A lesson on dark money influence in campus culture wars
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Isaac Kamola. Spring 2025. Understanding the Evolving Cultur…8 months, 3 weeks ago
Scopes and the creationists with John K. Wilson
From a student of Saul Bellow and Barack Obama.
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John K Wilson. August 2025. “100 Years Ago, the Scopes Monkey Trial …8 months, 3 weeks ago
Beware of FIRE (and institutional neutrality) with Mary Anne Franks
On the rightwing origins of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
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Mary Anne Franks. 2024. Fearless Sp…8 months, 4 weeks ago
Looting, murder, and the evolution of American archaeology with Rachel Morgan
ft. Geronimo, both Roosevelt presidents, Franz Boas, and the phrenologists
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Rachel Morgan. 2024. Sins of the Shovel: …9 months ago
The university’s creditors with Sofya Aptekar
On hedge funds, private equity, and the financialization of public colleges.
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The Coalition Against Campus Debt. 2024…9 months ago
How universities created NPR and PBS with Josh Shepperd
How public universities gave rise to public media
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Josh Shepperd. 2023. Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public…9 months, 1 week ago