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Out of One, Many

by Jennifer T. Roberts; read by Petrea Burchard

A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversity. Learn More

In a magisterial work, Jaan Puhvel unravels the prehistoric Indo-European origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs. Utilizing the methodologies of historical linguistics and archaeology, he reconstructs a shared religious, mythological, and cultural heritage. Separate chapters on individual traditions as well as on recurrent themes give life to Comparative Mythology as both a general introduction and a detailed reference. Learn More

Fighting Mad

edited by Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger; read by Deanna Anthony

Fighting Mad is a book about what "reproductive justice" means and what it looks like to fight for it. Editors Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger bring together many of the strongest, most resistant voices in the country to describe the impacts of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision on abortion access and care. Learn More

Frontline Bodies

by Nicolas Martin-Breteau; translated by Lucy Garnier; foreword by Damion L. Thomas; read by Amir Abdullah

A captivating exploration of Black American civil rights activism through the lens of sport. Learn More

The Race to the Future

by Kassia St. Clair; read by Kassia St. Clair

The rise of the automobile as told through its Rubicon moment—a sensational, high-risk race across two continents on the verge of revolution. Learn More

Violence and the Sacred

by René Girard; read by Peter Noble

Violence and the Sacred is René Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature, and myth. Learn More

When Left Moves Right

by Maria Snegovaya; read by Teri Schnaubelt

Over the past two decades, postcommunist countries have witnessed a sudden shift in the electoral fortunes of their political parties: previously successful center-left parties suffered dramatic electoral defeats and disappeared from the political scene, while right-wing populist parties soared in popularity and came to power. This dynamic echoed similar processes in Western Europe and raises a question: Were these dynamics in any way connected? Learn More

American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon

by Elizabeth Duquette; read by Diana Blue

What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book. While some nineteenth-century Americans informed their thinking with reference to classical texts, which comprehensively consider tyranny's dangers, most drew on a more contemporary source—Napoleon Bonaparte, the century's most famous man and its most notorious tyrant. Learn More

My Brother's Keeper

by Ari Harrow; read by Josh Bloomberg

My Brother's Keeper tells the behind-the-scenes story of how the American president and the Israeli prime minister clashed about peace, war, and the future of the region. Learn More

Combee

by Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black; read by Machelle Williams

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The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants. Learn More

The Eagle in the Mirror

by Jesse Fink; read by Jerome Pride

Internationally bestselling author Jesse Fink unravels a gripping real-life international whodunit in this long-overdue biography of the unheralded Dick Ellis, one of the most consequential figures in modern history. Learn More

Love and the Working Class

by Karen Lystra; read by Lisa S. Ware

Using letters written to parents, siblings, husbands, wives, friends, and potential mates between 1830 and 1880, Karen Lystra identifies the shared conceptions of love and practices of courtship and marriage within a racially diverse population of free working-class people born in America. Learn More

The Religion of Whiteness

by Michael O. Emerson and Glenn E. Bracey II; read by Tom Parks

Using national survey data, in-depth interviews, and focus group results gathered over several years, Michael O. Emerson and Glenn E. Bracey II show how the Religion of Whiteness shapes the practice of Christianity for millions of Americans—and what can be done to confront it. Learn More

Reluctant Race Men

by Joan L. Bryant; read by Deanna Anthony

Reluctant Race Men traces a history of the disparate challenges nineteenth-century Black American reformers lodged against the concept of race. Learn More

Imagination

by Ruha Benjamin; read by Janina Edwards

In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future. Learn More

Revolution and Terror

by Graeme Gill; read by Julian Elfer

Graeme Gill argues that in order to understand the relationship between revolution and terror, it is necessary to distinguish between different types of terror. There are three such types: revolutionary terror, in which the aim is to destroy enemies and thereby consolidate the regime; transformational terror, designed to drive the politico-socio-economic transformation of society that is the purpose of the 'great' revolutions; and inverted terror, which is when terror is turned against part of the elite and regime more broadly. Revolution and Terror explains how these different types of terror are related to the revolutionary seizure of power. Learn More

Liberty Equality Fashion

by Anne Higonnet; read by Elisabeth Lagelee and Anne Higonnet

This is a story for our time: of a revolution that demanded universal human rights, of self-creation, of women empowering each other, and of transcendent glamor. Learn More

Reproductive Justice

by Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger; read by Julienne Irons and Holly Adams

Reproductive Justice is a first-of-its-kind primer that provides a comprehensive yet succinct description of the field. Written by two legendary scholar-activists, Reproductive Justice introduces students to an intersectional analysis of race, class, and gender politics. Learn More

FDR's Mentors

by Michael J. Gerhardt; read by Danny Campbell

A unique and illuminating exploration of the key relationships that shaped Franklin Delano Roosevelt into one of America's most definitive leaders and impacted his influence on the world stage, from presidential historian Michael J. Gerhardt, the acclaimed author of Lincoln's Mentors and principal adviser in the official annotation of the Constitution at the Library of Congress. Learn More

Mythologies Without End

by Jerome Slater; read by Christopher Grove

Focusing on US role in the conflict, where relevant, Mythologies Without End exposes the self-defeating policies of both the US and Israel, which have served to prolong the conflict far beyond when it should have been resolved. Learn More

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