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Making of a Historian — 164 episodes

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Club Government with Seth Thévoz

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Fans, Love and Anime since 1963 with Dr. Andrea Horbinski

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The Forgotten Story of Feminism's Fight for Household Labor with Kirsten Swinth

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Love in the Thaw: Brendan McElmeel on Sex in Soviet Russia

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Empathy With Susan Lanzoni

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Sarah Anne Carter on Learning About Objects Through Object Lessons

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The Moral Contagion of Freedom in the Antebellum South With Professor Michael Schoeppner

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The Force that thru the Green Fuse Drives the Flower, a Deep History of Plants with David Beerling

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Working Like A Dog, and a Horse, and a Cow in 18th Century London with Tom Almeroth-Williams

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Tress Seas Ocean Breeze (and Salmon): The History of the Oregon Coast with Joseph E Taylor III

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Brent S. Sirota on Church History and the End of the World

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Immunocapital and Yellow Fever with Prof Kathryn Olivarius (Historians in the Time of COVID 4)

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The Time of Monsters With Craig Johnson (Historians in the Time of COVID Episode 3)

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Historians In The Time of COVID: Three Starts To The USA with Kyle Jackson

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Historians In The Time Of COVID-19: Decolonization with Varsha Venkatasubramanian

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Work And Play 12: Sex

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Work And Play 11: Sports

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Work And Play 10: Beer

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Work And Play 9: Clubs

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Work And Play 8: The Problem of Child Unemployment

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Work And Play 6: Women, Households, Service and Emotional Labor

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Work And Play 6: Vacations!

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Work And Play 5: The Decline Of Work Time

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Work and Play 4: Hands and Minds

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Work and Play in the Industrial Revolution 3: The Times They Are A'Changing

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Work And Play 2: The Industrial Revolution

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Work and Play In The Industrial Revolution 1: Merrie England?

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Episode 137: On Friendship, with Professor Joshua Fogel

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Episode 136: Neoliberalism and Deindustrialisation with Christopher Lawson

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135: Chinese Political Culture With Shoufu Yin

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134: The Modernity of the Mexican Family, with Amada Beltran

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133: Development and Politics in Indonesia with B. K. Williams

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132: The Lebanese Civil War With Emily Whalen

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131: An Introduction to the History of Right Wing Politics

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Episode 130: Battle Raps of the High Middle Ages

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Episode 129: The History of Literature With Ted Underwood

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128: The Siege of Havana With Professor Elena A. Schneider

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127: Nitrogen History With Henry Schmidt

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126: When Time Was Human-Sized With S. Prashant Kumar

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125: You Can Make It Work: Working Parents in Britain with Sarah Stoller

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Episode 124: Indian Dams, the World Bank, and Environmentalism with Varsha Venkatasubramanian

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123: Queenship and Royal Babies with Dr. Michelle Beer

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121: Canal Mania with Kyle Jackson

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121: Interview With Peter Zinoman

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120: Just What Is Digital Humanities?

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Anthropocene 108: The Scale of the Modern World

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Anthropocene 107: Income Inequality and Climate Change

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Anthropocene 106: Infrastructure and Empire

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Anthropocene 105: Consuming Things, Bird Hats, Railroads, Restaurants

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Anthropocene 104: Was It... Good?

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Anthropocene 103: Industrial Revolution, Brain Vs Coal

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Anthropocene 102: Pigs, Potatoes, Starch and Slavery

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Anthropocene 101: What On Earth Is The Anthropocene?

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Episode 111: Amy Froide on the Female Stockbrokers of the Financial Revolution

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110: Ringing The Changes

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Episode 109: The Guilded Age

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History of Coal 5: Coal Power

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History of Coal 4: Coal and Iron BFFs

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History of Coal 3: How Coal Stayed Cheap

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History of Coal 2: Before the Revolution

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History of Coal 1: Coalification

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Episode 102: I Passed!

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Episode 101: Energy and Technology

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Episode 100: Climate History

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Episode 99: Cheap Energy

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Episode 98: City Versus Night

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Episode 97: Energy and Freedom

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Episode 96: Dense and Strange

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Episode 95: Not Natural

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Episode 94: Non Humans In History

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Episode 93: A Century of Civil Society

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Episode 92: Home, Work, Christmas

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Episode 91: A New World of Information

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Episode 90: Industry or Finance

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Episode 89: Is the 18th Century Modern?

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Episode 88: Parliament, King, War

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Episode 87: Politeness, Class and Culture

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Episode 86: Economic Revolutions

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Episode 85: As Sociology Meets History

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Episode 84: Actors Create Relations, Relations Create Actors

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Episode 83: History and Organizations

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Episode 82: History of Modern Management

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Episode 81: Real Classy (First Modern Century 9)

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Episode 80: Consumer Society (The First Modern Century 8)

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Episode 79: Stumbling Over Civil Society (First Modern Century 7)

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Episode 78: The End of the Ancien Regime (First Modern Century 6)

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Episode 77: Industrial Revolution Revisions (First Modern Century 5)

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Episode 76: Credit Is Due (First Modern Century 4)

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Episode 75: The Century Of War (The First Modern Century 3)

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Episode 74: The Murder of Tradition, Reconsidered (The First Modern Century 2)

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Episode 73: Birth, Death and Fen Drainage (The First Modern Century 1)

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Episode 72: Circadian Rhythms (Social Life in the Anthropocene 9)

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Episode 71: Vistas (Social Life in the Anthropocene 8)

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Episode 70: Unwanted Visitors (Social Life in the Anthropocene 8)

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Episode 69: Craig Part II

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Episode 68: City of Darkness, City of Light (Social Life in the Anthropocene 7)

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Episode 67: Strangers in the City (Social Life in the Anthropocene 6)

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Episode 66: Technologies of Distance (Social Life in the Anthropocene 5)

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Episode 65: The Organized Society (Social Life in the Anthropocene 4)

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Episode 64: Intimate Things (Social Life in the Anthropocene 3)

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Episode 63: Fine Dining, Fast Food, Freedom (Social Life in the Anthropocene 2)

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Episode 62: Food and Energy (Social Life in the Anthropocene 1)

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Episode 61: 1832 And All That

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Episode 60: 1688 And All That

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Episode 59: Can Organizations Save the World?

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Episode 58: World Time

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Episode 57: Can Coal Smoke Change History?

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Episode 56: Can Pets Change History? Can People?

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Episode 55: Buffet of Capitalism

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Episode 54: Enlightenment and All That

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Episode 53: Entrepreneurs, Innovation, Disruption

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Episode 52: Before The Flood

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Episode 51: Was Britain a Confessional State?

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Episode 50: The Third Rail of 18th Century Politics

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Episode 49: History on Holiday

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Episode 48: How Bulldogs Lost Their Jobs

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Episode 47: Spooky Spaces

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Episode 46: Do People Matter in History?

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Episode 45: The Environmental History of Iron

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Episode 44: Chandlerian Variations

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Episode 43: What Businesses Want

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Episode 42: Volcanoes, Mosquitos, Frankenstein

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Episode 41: The Infrastructure Revolution

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Episode 40: Rise of the Expert

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Episode 39: the Company That Captured a Continent

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Episode 38: Modern Women, Modern Cities, Modern Homes

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Episode 37: Modern World, Modern People, Modern City

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Episode 36: Politeness Is High Tech

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Episode 35: Capitalism, Carbon, Democracy

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Episode 34: Information Ages

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Episode 33: A Tale of Two Islands

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Episode 32: Beef, Leather and Loans-Britain and Argentina with Special Guest Craig

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Episode 31: People Are Strange, When You're A Stranger

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Episode 30: What We Talk About When We Talk About Historical Sociology

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Episode 29: In The Club

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Episode 28: The British World

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Episode 27: New Boss, Same As The Old Boss

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Episode 26: Work and Weekend

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Episode 25: Women Versus Machines

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Episode 24: The Making of the Middle

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Episode 23: Cotton, Slavery, Technology

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Episode 22: Dress For Success

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Episode 21: Eating Out, Eating In

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Episode 20: A Revolution of Commemorative Plates (And Other Consumer Goods)

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Episode 19: The Slow, Strange, Brutal, World-Changing Industrial Revolution

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Episode 18: What Was The Industrial Revolution?

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Episode 17: Histories of Capitalism

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Episode 16: War and Taxes

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Episode 15: A World History Through Drugs

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Episode 14: No, TECHNOLOGY Makes the World Go Round

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Episode 13: Money Makes the World Go Round

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Episode 12: War and Money

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Episode 11: Rise of the Machines

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Episode 10: Global, Global, Gone

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Episode 9: You Can Never Go Home Again

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Episode 8: Making A Historian Nights

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Episode 7: Angels in the House

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Episode 6: A Whole World Of Stuff

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Episode 5: Please Sir, Can I Have Some More?

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Episode 4: There's Something About Victorians

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Episode 3: Think of the Children!

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Episode 2: The Counted Colony

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Episode 1: the Counted World

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