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The Trans-Atlanticist — 150 episodes
Why Did Some German Immigrants Support the American Revolution and Others Oppose It?
The Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution
Cypriot Independence and the Declaration of Independence
The Scots, the Scotch-Irish, and the Declaration of Independence
The Age of Revolutions in Spanish America and the US Declaration of Independence
Natural Law, Natural Rights, and the Historical Origins of the Declaration of Independence
The Meaning of Happiness in the Declaration of Independence
Rum, Slavery, Piracy, and the Declaration of Independence
Who Were the Loyalists? Revolutionary Politics in New York City
The Revolution 250 Exhibition at the National Archives
The Continental Army
A Hessian's Memoir of the War for Independence: Johann Ewald's American War Diaries
Military Perspectives from Lexington and Concord to the Declaration of Independence
Infrastructure and the Declaration of Independence
The Dutch Republic and the Declaration of Independence
France and the Declaration of Independence
Abigail Adams: Founding Parent
"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
Privateering, Boycotts, and the Slave Trade in the Declaration of Independence
Impressment, Naval History, and the Declaration of Independence
Understanding the Patriots' Opposition to Standing Armies in Their Cities
"Enemies in War, in Peace Friends": Was the Revolutionary War the First American Civil War?
Mark Twain: An American Classic in Europe
Money and the Declaration of Independence: How Revolutionary Financial Ideas Won the Revolutionary War
Wales and the Declaration of Independence
Irish Perspectives on the Declaration of Independence
Creating ONE PEOPLE: Whig Legal Theory Plus Comparisons with Ireland and Spanish America
Spanish Florida, African-Americans, and the Declaration of Independence
Canada and The Declaration of Independence, Part 2: The Invasion (or Liberation) of Canada
Canada and the Declaration of Independence, Part 1: The First Two Letters to the Oppressed Inhabitants of Canada
Early American Diplomacy, Saint-Domingue, and the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, and the Declaration of Independence
Hessian Mercenaries plus German Reactions to the Declaration of Independence
Chicagoland and the Declaration of Independence
Jewish Life in Colonial America
Revolutionary Women and the Declaration of Independence
The Quartering Act of 1774 and Homosexuality in the Colonies
The Role of Religion in The Declaration of Independence
Immigration and Free Trade in the Declaration of Independence
Native America and the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson and the Composition of the Declaration of Independence
Introducing Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 250 Years of the Declaration of Independence
Ambassador Doug Lute on The Future of the Trans-Atlantic Relationship
Analysis of the 2025 German Elections
2024 Review and 2025 Preview
The German Architects Who Built Chicago: From Mies van der Rohe to Dirk Lohan
Germany's Reaction to the US Elections PLUS The Collapse of Germany's Government
A German Immigrant's Story: Walter Heinsen's Journey from WWI Battlefields to Chicago
Edgar Allan Poe: 175 Years after His Death
The Diversity of Hispanic Chicago
US Election Series: Migration, the Border, and the Latino Electorate
AfD & BSW Success in Thuringia and Saxony PLUS Who Are Björn Höcke and Sahra Wagenknecht?
Analysis of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
An Eye-Witness Account of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, 1968
A Republic If We Can Keep It - Democracy on the Ballot Since the Very Beginning
A Short History of Organized Crime in Chicago
Literature of Chicago: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906)
The 2024 European Union Parliamentary Elections
Queer Chicago
The History and Culture of Jewish Chicago
Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian Chicago and the Hamburg-America Line
The History and Culture of Black Chicago
The Politics Podcast: 2024 European and US Preview
The Politics Podcast: 2023 European Year in Review
Jane Addams, Advocate for All Part 2: Ideas that Shaped Chicago, the US, and the World
Jane Addams, Advocate for All Part 1: Early Life to the Founding of Hull House
LadyFiction #21: Solastalgia-The Feeling in the Anthropocene
History of Chicago Part 4: The Rise and Fall of Germanic Culture (1865-1917)
History of Chicago Part 3: The First German Immigrants (1833-1865)
History of Chicago Part 2: Resistance, Removal, Erasure
History of Chicago Part 1: Native Ground
LadyFiction #20: My Body Is Not Your Battleground
The Politics Podcast: Unrest in France, an AFD Election Win, and 500 Days of War in Ukraine
LadyFiction #19: Cultivating Democracy Now: A Conversation with Nora Krug
Lady Fiction #18: Oksana Marafioti on Immigration and Belonging in her Memoir "All of Us Fragile and Brave"
Lady Fiction #17: Oline Eaton on Her Biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, "Finding Jackie"
NovelRomantics: Literature of Chicago Series: The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks
US Blunders in Iraq and Afghanistan and Hope for Ukraine
The Politics Podcast: Mass Shooting in Hamburg, Feminist Foreign Policy and Ukraine War Update
LadyFiction #16: Gasp! Gossip's Public Intimacies in the 19th Century
A Better Democracy Is Possible Part 2: From Theory to Real World Application
A Better Democracy Is Possible Part 1: An Introduction to Sortition and Deliberation
Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents
The Politics Podcast: 2022 Year in Review
NovelRomAntics: Literature of Chicago Series: Stuart Dybek's The Coast of Chicago
NovelRomAntics: Literature of Chicago Series: Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems
The Reichsbürger Conspiracy: Understanding Extremism in Modern Germany
The US Mid-Term Elections: Republican Failure or Democratic Success?
Lady Fiction #15: Gone with the Wind vs. The Wind Done Gone: The Demolition of an American Classic
Novel RomAntics: Literature of Chicago Series #5: Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project
LadyFiction #14: Kiss, Kick, Kiss: Indigenous Erotica and Body Sovereignty
Novel RomAntics: Literature of Chicago Series #4: The House on Mango Street by S. Cisneros
Reading Slaughterhouse-Five on Kurt Vonnegut's 100th Birthday
The Politics Podcast: The Energy War in Europe
The Politics Podcast: The Triumph of the Far Right in Sweden and Italy
Novel RomAntics Literature of Chicago Series #3: Nelson Algren's The Man with the Golden Arm (1949)
Novel RomAntics Literature of Chicago Series #2: Richard Wright's Native Son (1940)
Novel RomAntics Literature of Chicago Series #1: Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900)
Transatlantic Wisdom Finale: The Meaning of Meaning: Friedrich Nietzsche and Wallace Stevens Redux
Transatlantic Wisdom #5: Feeling and Thought Together: Bierce, Woolf, Parker, and Canetti
Transatlantic Wisdom #4: Solutions Are Dangerous: Karl Kraus and H. L. Mencken
Transatlantic Wisdom #3: An Entire Book, An Entire Life: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Sarah Manguso
Transatlantic Wisdom #2: The Image of Our Mind: Pope, Schlegel, Franklin, and Blake
Transatlantic Wisdom #1: Wiping Away the Horizon: Friedrich Nietzsche and Wallace Stevens
Introducing Transatlantic Wisdom
Gratitude, Guilt, and Greed: Understanding Germany’s Relationship with Russia
Lady Fiction #13: Where Are the Men? Same-Sex Societies in American Literature
French Presidential Elections and Parliamentary Elections in Hungary
LadyFiction #12: Art, Science, and the Legacies of Slavery in Esi Edugyan's Washington Black
Ukraine, Russia, and the Future of Europe
LadyFiction #11: From Beyoncé to Sarah Baartman and Back: Celebrity Performance and Black Feminism
LadyFiction #3: NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names
The Politics Podcast: Europe in 2022
LadyFiction #10: (Re)reading Little Women for the Holiday Season
Novel RomAntics #10: Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom
LadyFiction #9: The American Home in Flames: Art vs. Motherhood in Little Fires Everywhere
Novel RomAntics #9: Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive
LadyFiction #8:Thinking Post-Pandemic Futures in Women’s Novels: The Tiger Flu (2018) and Station Eleven (2014)
NovelRomAntics #8: Nghi Vo's The Chosen and the Beautiful
German Election Preview
9/11 Literature and the Art of the Present in Ottessa Moshfegh's "My Year of Rest and Relaxation"
Introduction to US Foreign Policy 20 Years after 9/11
Novel RomAntics #7: "No One Is Coming to Save Us" by Stephanie Powell Watts
Norwegian Election Preview & the 10-Year Anniversary of the July 22 Terrorist Attack
Novel RomAntics #6: Willy Vlautin's The Night Always Comes
LadyFiction Goes to the Movies: Chloe Zhao‘s "Nomadland“
LadyFiction #5: On Electric Women: Reading Margaret Fuller's "Woman in the 19th Century"
Novel RomAntics #5: Lesley Nneka Arimah's What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
LadyFiction#4: Poetry by Elizabeth Alexander, Marilyn Nelson and Bettina Judd
Novel RomAntics #4: Madeline Miller's Circe
Europe's COVID Vaccine Crisis
Novel RomAntics #3: Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future
LadyFiction #2: Curtis Sittenfeld's American Wife
NovelROMANtics #2: Colum McCann's Apeirogon
LadyFiction#1: Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents
NovelROMANtics #1: Attica Locke's Bluebird,Bluebird and Heaven, My Home
Michele Obama and FLOTUS Studies with Dr. Stefanie Schäfer
Explaining Trump's Economic Policies with Gabriel Felbermayr
The US Mid-Term Elections: The View from Germany with Stephan Bierling
The Prague Spring after 50 Years with Historian Thomas Murphy
Introduction to Ecocriticism with Alexander Phillips
This Month at the EU with Guenter Danner
This Month at the EU with Guenter Danner
Thoreau and Civil Disobedience with Dieter Schulz
Life Lessons from Wilber Olinde
This Month at the EU with Guenter Danner
Start-up Advice from Silicon Valley Insider Gideon Marks
Poster Double Happiness: Gig Posters
Reflections on Trump's First Year (from February 2018)
The Capitol Riots