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Francis Fukuyama: "The Origins of the State: China and India"
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Africa: States of independence - the scramble for Africa
Seventeen African nations gained their independence in 1960, but the dreams of the independence era were short-lived. Africa states of independence tells the ...
Al Jazeera English
Conversations With History - Francis Fukuyama
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Francis Fukuyama for a discussion of his new book, The Origins of Political Order. Fukuyama traces his intellectual ...
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Frankel Institute Symposium - Session 6: Medieval Myths and Modern Nationalism - 03/28/19
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University of Michigan
HOW TO SEE | Silent Films: Restoring Mary Pickford's Lost Film “Rosita”
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FilmRise Documentaries
Jill Lepore, "These Truths"
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Why slavery still exists | VPRO Documentary
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The Legacy of St. Augustine: Myth, History & the Story of America's Oldest City
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Library of Congress
Samurai, Daimyo, Matthew Perry, and Nationalism: Crash Course World History #34
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Fidel Castro brought revolution to Cuba in 1959. But the country has been stuck between nostalgia and new beginnings ever since. With its vintage cars and ...
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Thomas Pavel, "The History of the Novel"
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Murder & Martyrdom in Spanish Florida: Don Juan & the Guale Uprising of 1597
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Mark Mazower - Fascism and Democracy Today: What Use is the Study of History in the Current Crisis?
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CRASSH Cambridge
The Black Death - Professor Sir Richard J. Evans FBA
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Gresham College
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Christopher D. Johnson: On Encyclopedic “Chaos”
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Trap Fishing for Cuttlefish (1996)
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