The Trans-Atlanticist
By Andrew Sola
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Andrew Sola explores the past, present, and future of relations between Europe and the United States with scholars, artists, authors, politicians, journalists, and business leaders. Based at the Amerikazentrum in Hamburg, the Trans-Atlanticist provides you with insights from the thought leaders who are shaping the trans-Atlantic relationship every single day.
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The Meaning of Happiness in the Declaration of Independence
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Jul 03, 2026 |
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Rum, Slavery, Piracy, and the Declaration of Independence
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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Who Were the Loyalists? Revolutionary Politics in New York City
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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The Revolution 250 Exhibition at the National Archives
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May 21, 2026 |
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The Continental Army
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May 15, 2026 |
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A Hessian's Memoir of the War for Independence: Johann Ewald's American War Diaries
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May 02, 2026 |
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Military Perspectives from Lexington and Concord to the Declaration of Independence
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Infrastructure and the Declaration of Independence
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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The Dutch Republic and the Declaration of Independence
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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France and the Declaration of Independence
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Abigail Adams: Founding Parent
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Privateering, Boycotts, and the Slave Trade in the Declaration of Independence
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Impressment, Naval History, and the Declaration of Independence
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Understanding the Patriots' Opposition to Standing Armies in Their Cities
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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"Enemies in War, in Peace Friends": Was the Revolutionary War the First American Civil War?
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Dec 21, 2025 |
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Mark Twain: An American Classic in Europe
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Money and the Declaration of Independence: How Revolutionary Financial Ideas Won the Revolutionary War
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Wales and the Declaration of Independence
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Irish Perspectives on the Declaration of Independence
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Creating ONE PEOPLE: Whig Legal Theory Plus Comparisons with Ireland and Spanish America
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Spanish Florida, African-Americans, and the Declaration of Independence
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Canada and The Declaration of Independence, Part 2: The Invasion (or Liberation) of Canada
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Canada and the Declaration of Independence, Part 1: The First Two Letters to the Oppressed Inhabitants of Canada
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Early American Diplomacy, Saint-Domingue, and the Declaration of Independence
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Thomas Paine, Common Sense, and the Declaration of Independence
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Hessian Mercenaries plus German Reactions to the Declaration of Independence
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Chicagoland and the Declaration of Independence
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Jewish Life in Colonial America
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Revolutionary Women and the Declaration of Independence
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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The Quartering Act of 1774 and Homosexuality in the Colonies
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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The Role of Religion in The Declaration of Independence
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Immigration and Free Trade in the Declaration of Independence
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May 29, 2025 |
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Native America and the Declaration of Independence
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May 19, 2025 |
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Thomas Jefferson and the Composition of the Declaration of Independence
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May 14, 2025 |
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Introducing Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 250 Years of the Declaration of Independence
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Ambassador Doug Lute on The Future of the Trans-Atlantic Relationship
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Analysis of the 2025 German Elections
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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2024 Review and 2025 Preview
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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The German Architects Who Built Chicago: From Mies van der Rohe to Dirk Lohan
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Germany's Reaction to the US Elections PLUS The Collapse of Germany's Government
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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A German Immigrant's Story: Walter Heinsen's Journey from WWI Battlefields to Chicago
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Edgar Allan Poe: 175 Years after His Death
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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The Diversity of Hispanic Chicago
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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US Election Series: Migration, the Border, and the Latino Electorate
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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AfD & BSW Success in Thuringia and Saxony PLUS Who Are Björn Höcke and Sahra Wagenknecht?
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Analysis of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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An Eye-Witness Account of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, 1968
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Aug 10, 2024 |
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A Republic If We Can Keep It - Democracy on the Ballot Since the Very Beginning
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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A Short History of Organized Crime in Chicago
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Literature of Chicago: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906)
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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The 2024 European Union Parliamentary Elections
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Queer Chicago
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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The History and Culture of Jewish Chicago
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May 04, 2024 |
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Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian Chicago and the Hamburg-America Line
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May 02, 2024 |
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The History and Culture of Black Chicago
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May 01, 2024 |
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The Politics Podcast: 2024 European and US Preview
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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The Politics Podcast: 2023 European Year in Review
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Jane Addams, Advocate for All Part 2: Ideas that Shaped Chicago, the US, and the World
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Jane Addams, Advocate for All Part 1: Early Life to the Founding of Hull House
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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LadyFiction #21: Solastalgia-The Feeling in the Anthropocene
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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History of Chicago Part 4: The Rise and Fall of Germanic Culture (1865-1917)
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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History of Chicago Part 3: The First German Immigrants (1833-1865)
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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History of Chicago Part 2: Resistance, Removal, Erasure
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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History of Chicago Part 1: Native Ground
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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LadyFiction #20: My Body Is Not Your Battleground
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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The Politics Podcast: Unrest in France, an AFD Election Win, and 500 Days of War in Ukraine
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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LadyFiction #19: Cultivating Democracy Now: A Conversation with Nora Krug
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Lady Fiction #18: Oksana Marafioti on Immigration and Belonging in her Memoir "All of Us Fragile and Brave"
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Lady Fiction #17: Oline Eaton on Her Biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, "Finding Jackie"
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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NovelRomantics: Literature of Chicago Series: The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks
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May 06, 2023 |
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US Blunders in Iraq and Afghanistan and Hope for Ukraine
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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The Politics Podcast: Mass Shooting in Hamburg, Feminist Foreign Policy and Ukraine War Update
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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LadyFiction #16: Gasp! Gossip's Public Intimacies in the 19th Century
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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A Better Democracy Is Possible Part 2: From Theory to Real World Application
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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A Better Democracy Is Possible Part 1: An Introduction to Sortition and Deliberation
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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The Politics Podcast: 2022 Year in Review
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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NovelRomAntics: Literature of Chicago Series: Stuart Dybek's The Coast of Chicago
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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NovelRomAntics: Literature of Chicago Series: Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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The Reichsbürger Conspiracy: Understanding Extremism in Modern Germany
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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The US Mid-Term Elections: Republican Failure or Democratic Success?
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Lady Fiction #15: Gone with the Wind vs. The Wind Done Gone: The Demolition of an American Classic
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Novel RomAntics: Literature of Chicago Series #5: Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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LadyFiction #14: Kiss, Kick, Kiss: Indigenous Erotica and Body Sovereignty
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Novel RomAntics: Literature of Chicago Series #4: The House on Mango Street by S. Cisneros
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Reading Slaughterhouse-Five on Kurt Vonnegut's 100th Birthday
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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The Politics Podcast: The Energy War in Europe
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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The Politics Podcast: The Triumph of the Far Right in Sweden and Italy
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Novel RomAntics Literature of Chicago Series #3: Nelson Algren's The Man with the Golden Arm (1949)
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Novel RomAntics Literature of Chicago Series #2: Richard Wright's Native Son (1940)
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Novel RomAntics Literature of Chicago Series #1: Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900)
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Transatlantic Wisdom Finale: The Meaning of Meaning: Friedrich Nietzsche and Wallace Stevens Redux
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Transatlantic Wisdom #5: Feeling and Thought Together: Bierce, Woolf, Parker, and Canetti
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Transatlantic Wisdom #4: Solutions Are Dangerous: Karl Kraus and H. L. Mencken
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Transatlantic Wisdom #3: An Entire Book, An Entire Life: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Sarah Manguso
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Transatlantic Wisdom #2: The Image of Our Mind: Pope, Schlegel, Franklin, and Blake
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Transatlantic Wisdom #1: Wiping Away the Horizon: Friedrich Nietzsche and Wallace Stevens
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Introducing Transatlantic Wisdom
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Gratitude, Guilt, and Greed: Understanding Germany’s Relationship with Russia
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Lady Fiction #13: Where Are the Men? Same-Sex Societies in American Literature
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May 26, 2022 |
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French Presidential Elections and Parliamentary Elections in Hungary
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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LadyFiction #12: Art, Science, and the Legacies of Slavery in Esi Edugyan's Washington Black
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Ukraine, Russia, and the Future of Europe
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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LadyFiction #11: From Beyoncé to Sarah Baartman and Back: Celebrity Performance and Black Feminism
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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LadyFiction #3: NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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The Politics Podcast: Europe in 2022
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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LadyFiction #10: (Re)reading Little Women for the Holiday Season
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Novel RomAntics #10: Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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LadyFiction #9: The American Home in Flames: Art vs. Motherhood in Little Fires Everywhere
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Novel RomAntics #9: Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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LadyFiction #8:Thinking Post-Pandemic Futures in Women’s Novels: The Tiger Flu (2018) and Station Eleven (2014)
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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NovelRomAntics #8: Nghi Vo's The Chosen and the Beautiful
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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German Election Preview
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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9/11 Literature and the Art of the Present in Ottessa Moshfegh's "My Year of Rest and Relaxation"
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Introduction to US Foreign Policy 20 Years after 9/11
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Sep 11, 2021 |
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Novel RomAntics #7: "No One Is Coming to Save Us" by Stephanie Powell Watts
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Norwegian Election Preview & the 10-Year Anniversary of the July 22 Terrorist Attack
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Novel RomAntics #6: Willy Vlautin's The Night Always Comes
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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LadyFiction Goes to the Movies: Chloe Zhao‘s "Nomadland“
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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LadyFiction #5: On Electric Women: Reading Margaret Fuller's "Woman in the 19th Century"
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Novel RomAntics #5: Lesley Nneka Arimah's What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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LadyFiction#4: Poetry by Elizabeth Alexander, Marilyn Nelson and Bettina Judd
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May 20, 2021 |
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Novel RomAntics #4: Madeline Miller's Circe
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May 13, 2021 |
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Europe's COVID Vaccine Crisis
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Apr 10, 2021 |
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Novel RomAntics #3: Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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LadyFiction #2: Curtis Sittenfeld's American Wife
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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NovelROMANtics #2: Colum McCann's Apeirogon
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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LadyFiction#1: Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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NovelROMANtics #1: Attica Locke's Bluebird,Bluebird and Heaven, My Home
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Michele Obama and FLOTUS Studies with Dr. Stefanie Schäfer
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Explaining Trump's Economic Policies with Gabriel Felbermayr
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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The US Mid-Term Elections: The View from Germany with Stephan Bierling
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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The Prague Spring after 50 Years with Historian Thomas Murphy
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Introduction to Ecocriticism with Alexander Phillips
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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This Month at the EU with Guenter Danner
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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This Month at the EU with Guenter Danner
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Thoreau and Civil Disobedience with Dieter Schulz
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Life Lessons from Wilber Olinde
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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This Month at the EU with Guenter Danner
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Start-up Advice from Silicon Valley Insider Gideon Marks
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Poster Double Happiness: Gig Posters
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Reflections on Trump's First Year (from February 2018)
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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The Capitol Riots
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Jan 10, 2021 |