Friday, April 29, 2016

Scott Bukatman's "Hellboy's World"

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Scott Bukatman is Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. He is author of Matt...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Kevin J. McNamara's "Dreams of a Great Small Nation"

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Kevin J. McNamara followed the path taken by the Czecho-Slovak Legion shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, traveling almost 2,000 mi...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Marcela Iacub's "Through the Keyhole"

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Marcela Iacub is a jurist and researcher at the Centre de recherches historiques, Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Director o...
Sunday, April 24, 2016

Steve Olson's "Eruption"

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Steve Olson is the author of Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins , Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World’s...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Howard Means's "67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence"

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Howard Means is the author or coauthor of many books, including Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story , the first biograp...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Michael F. Robinson's "The Lost White Tribe"

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Michael F. Robinson is professor of history at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. He is the author of The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Ex...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Eric Jay Dolin's "Brilliant Beacons"

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Eric Jay Dolin is the best-selling author of the award-winning Fur, Fortune, and Empire ; Leviathan , which was chosen by the Los Angeles T...
Monday, April 18, 2016

Diana Tietjens Meyers's "Victims’ Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights"

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Diana Tietjens Meyers is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights , which she ed...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

Robert Schmuhl's "Ireland's Exiled Children"

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Robert Schmuhl is the Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Chair of American Studies and Journalism at the University of Notre Dame, and the...
Friday, April 15, 2016

Joseph Mazur's "Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence"

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Joseph Mazur is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Marlboro College, and the author of several popular mathematics books, including ...