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May 13, 2021

Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

April 22, 2021

Cristina Viviana Groeger, The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston

View the book talk with Cristina Viviana Groeger here.

March 18, 2021 

Deborah Willis, The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship

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February 18, 2021

Toni Gilpin, The Long Deep Grudge A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland

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January 21, 2021

Alexandra Finley, An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade.

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December 17, 2020

Jarod Roll, Poor Man’s Fortune: White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950

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November 19, 2020

Robert Chase, We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postwar America

 

October 15, 2020

Touré Reed, Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism

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September 17, 2020

Marjoleine Kars, Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast

 

August 20, 2020

Michael Goldfield, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s

 

July 16, 2020

Verónica Martínez-Matsuda, Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the Farm Labor Camp Program

 

June 18, 2020

Frank Stricker, American Unemployment: Past, Present, and Future

 

May 21, 2020

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America