# colonial — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 17 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover colonial. Page: Feed: --- ## [Samory Touré: The African King Who Resisted French Conquest for 17 Years Before His Capture and Exile](https://talkafricana.com/samory-toure-the-african-king-who-resisted-french-conquest-for-17-years-before-his-capture-and-exile/) _2026-08-20 · Machi Onwubuariri · TalkAfricana_ Samory Touré was an African king who built the powerful Wassoulou Empire across parts of present-day Guinea, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso. For roughly 17 years, he resisted French colonial expansion through military resistance, diplomacy and guerrilla warfare. The French eventually captured him in 1898 and sent him into exile in Gabon. \[…\] TalkAfricana ## [Is Artificial Intelligence Politically Biased? The Debate Is Bigger Than Left vs. Right](https://christianortiz.substack.com/p/is-artificial-intelligence-politically) _2026-08-19 · ZacaTechO · Christian’s Substack_ Artificial intelligence is often described as politically biased, but that question is too narrow to explain what is really happening. ## [Josiah Henson: The Slave Who Escaped to Canada and Founded a Settlement for Those Fleeing Slavery](https://talkafricana.com/josiah-henson-the-slave-who-escaped-to-canada-and-founded-a-settlement-for-those-fleeing-slavery/) _2026-08-19 · Uzonna Anele · TalkAfricana_ On October 28, 1830, Josiah Henson crossed into Canada with his wife, Nancy, and their children, escaping slavery in the United States. But Henson’s journey did not end with his own freedom. He went on to help other Black people escape slavery and, near Dresden, Ontario, founded the Dawn Settlement, a community where formerly enslaved \[…\] TalkAfricana ## Taking The Scenic Route To High Quality Education For Indigenous Students _2026-08-19 · New Books in Australian and New Zealand Studies_ In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Agnes Bodis talks to Hannah Madin and Catherine White. Hannah is a Teaching and Learning Officer at the Department of Education in the Northern Territory (Australia), and Catherine White is a Teaching and Learning Coach in secondary education. We are zooming in on learning English as an additional language or dialect in remote communities in… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2642325901.mp3) ## Utathya Chattopadhyaya, "Ganja Matters: Empire and the Pursuits of Cannabis in British India" (U California Press, 2026) _2026-08-19 · New Books in British Studies_ Ganja is the popular name in Hindustani, Bengali, and other South Asian languages for intoxicating substances produced from the plant species Cannabis sativa L. Starting in the eighteenth century, British India's colonial administrators sought ways to systematically tax and govern how ganja circulated from the farms of peasant families in rural Bengal to pipes, plates, and cups elsewhere in the… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8372955363.mp3) ## Amy Blakeway, "War and Governance in Scotland, 1543-1559: Destruction, Reconstruction and Reform" (Edinburgh UP, 2026) _2026-08-19 · New Books in British Studies_ Drawing from local archives alongside national and international records, War and Governance in Scotland, 1543-1559: Destruction, Reconstruction and Reform (Edinburgh UP, 2026) by Dr. Amy Blakeway argues that warfare was the defining feature of government and politics in Scotland for the two decades following the death of James V. It demonstrates that beyond the direct effects of invasion, the… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK9644168008.mp3) ## Roderick Beaton, "Europe: A New History" (Allen Lane, 2026) _2026-08-19 · New Books in British Studies_ What do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined by geography? Or is it politics, or shared culture? In Europe: A New History (Allen Lane, 2026), award-winning historian Roderick Beaton tells the story of Europe as never before—as the history of an idea, and a collective identity. Since its dramatic birth in ancient Greece, 'Europe' has been defined, and redefined, by its people.… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK9553150928.mp3) ## Po-Yi Hung, "Routes of Taiwan Tea: Mobility, Borders, and Territoriality" (U Washington Press, 2026) _2026-08-19 · New Books in Southeast Asian Studies_ From misty mountain oolongs to the global boba boom, Taiwan’s teas carry far more than flavor. They embody contested borders, evolving identities, and the complexities of nationhood. Routes of Taiwan Tea: Mobility, Borders, and Territoriality (U Washington Press, 2026) by Dr. Po-Yi Hung traces tea varieties, processing expertise, and merchants across Taiwan and Southeast Asia to reveal how a… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK9708760411.mp3) ## [Is AI Becoming Biased? The AI Industry Keeps Answering the Wrong Question.](https://christianortiz.substack.com/p/is-ai-becoming-biased-the-ai-industry) _2026-08-19 · ZacaTechO · Christian’s Substack_ By Christian “ZacaTechO” Ortiz Founder of Justice AI™ | Creator of the Decolonial Intelligence Algorithmic (DIA) Framework™ | CEO, MOD ATLAS MEDIA LLC ## Edward E. Andrews, "Newport Gardner's Anthem: A Story of Slavery, Struggle, and Survival in Early America" (Cornell UP, 2025) _2026-08-17 · New Books in African Studies_ Newport Gardner's Anthem: A Story of Slavery, Struggle, and Survival in Early America (Cornell UP, 2025) explores the remarkable life of Occramer Marycoo, an enslaved African who went on to become one of early America's most important Black leaders. In the mid-eighteenth century, Marycoo was taken from West Africa to Newport, Rhode Island, where he was forced into racial bondage and given a name… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3946229900.mp3) ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3oVGcSVE0FXt) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## Ting Hui Lau, "Decolonial Endurance: Lisu Worldmaking Against Chinese Settler Colonialism" (Stanford UP, 2026) _2026-08-17 · New Books in Indigenous Studies_ A series of questions have been sparked by the indigenous urgency of the moment: What does it mean to live through a world coming undone? How do people carry on amid rupture, loss, and grief? Decolonial Endurance: Lisu Worldmaking Against Chinese Settler Colonialism (Stanford University Press, 2026) explores these questions through the turbulent lives of Indigenous Lisu subsistence farmers in… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8199213358.mp3) ## Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri eds., "Palestine in Transition: Frank Scholten's Visual Archive of the British Mandate Period" (CEU Press, 2026) _2026-08-17 · New Books in British Studies_ In this episode, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press) talks with Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri, the editors of Palestine in Transition: Frank Scholten's Visual Archive of the British Mandate Period. They discuss who Frank Scholten was, the breadth and depth of the images he took in Palestine, and the archival holdings themselves. You can browse Frank Scholten’s images here. Follow the City… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3928484406.mp3) ## [Moses Wilkinson: The Blind Preacher Who Escaped Slavery in America and Helped Build a Church in Africa](https://talkafricana.com/moses-wilkinson-the-blind-preacher-who-escaped-slavery-in-america-and-helped-build-a-church-in-africa/) _2026-08-16 · Mr Madu · TalkAfricana_ Moses “Daddy Moses” Wilkinson’s life was an extraordinary journey from slavery in Virginia to religious leadership in Africa. Born enslaved, Wilkinson escaped during the American Revolutionary War, became a Methodist preacher, led a congregation in Nova Scotia, and eventually crossed the Atlantic to help establish a Methodist church in Sierra Leone. Wilkinson was born enslaved \[…\] TalkAfricana ## Elizabeth Tynan, "Nuclear Archipelago: Secrets, Power and the Biggest Atomic Blast in Australia" (NewSouth, 2026) _2026-08-16 · New Books in Australian and New Zealand Studies_ Nuclear Archipelago: Secrets, Power and the Biggest Atomic Blast in Australia (NewSouth, 2026) tells the shocking story of the two British atomic weapons test series held at Western Australia's Monte Bello Islands in 1952 and 1956. Operation Hurricane and Operation Mosaic took place at a rugged archipelago 100 kilometres off the Pilbara coast, and each of the three bombs sent fallout over vast… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK9687011431.mp3) ## [How Systems Get Into the Body: The Colonial Roots of Unhealed Trauma](https://christianortiz.substack.com/p/how-systems-get-into-the-body-the) _2026-08-16 · ZacaTechO · Christian’s Substack_ Oye, mira. ## [George Boxley: The Abolitionist Whose Planned Slave Revolt Was Betrayed by an Enslaved Woman](https://talkafricana.com/george-boxley-the-abolitionist-whose-planned-slave-revolt-was-betrayed-by-an-enslaved-woman/) _2026-08-15 · Mr Madu · TalkAfricana_ George Boxley was a white American abolitionist and former slaveholder who turned against slavery and allegedly sought to lead one of Virginia’s most ambitious slave revolts. His plan to free enslaved Africans and seize key cities never materialized after it was exposed by an enslaved informant, setting off a chain of events that changed his \[…\] TalkAfricana ## [The Biggest AI Divide Will Be AI Literacy](https://christianortiz.substack.com/p/the-biggest-ai-divide-will-be-ai) _2026-08-15 · ZacaTechO · Christian’s Substack_ Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the defining technologies of the twenty-first century. ## Sophie Chao, "Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger" (Duke UP, 2025) _2026-08-15 · New Books in Southeast Asian Studies_ In Land of Famished Beings : West Papuan Theories of Hunger (Duke UP, 2025), Sophie Chao examines how Indigenous Marind communities understand and theorize hunger in lowland West Papua, a place where industrial plantation expansion and settler-colonial violence are radically reconfiguring ecologies, socialities, and identities. Instead of seeing hunger as an individual, biophysical state defined… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3136112098.mp3) ## [Why AI Governance Is Becoming a Business Necessity: How Justice AI GPT Helps Organizations Build Responsible Artificial Intelligence](https://christianortiz.substack.com/p/why-ai-governance-is-becoming-a-business) _2026-08-15 · ZacaTechO · Christian’s Substack_ Artificial intelligence is transforming nearly every industry, from healthcare and education to finance, government, retail, and human resources. ## Hossam el-Hamalawy, "Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi's New Republic ( Verso Books, 2026) _2026-08-14 · New Books in African Studies_ Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi's New Republic ( Verso Books, 2026) is a rare and comprehensive examination of the structures, hierarchies, and methods of the military, police, and intelligence agencies. Drawing on meticulous research, it reveals the strategies deployed to suppress the revolutionary wave, from propaganda and surveillance to mass arrests, torture, and extrajudicial killings.… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7117587078.mp3) ## [Play Both Sides Of The Lie (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/GEge5rGVIC5z) _2026-08-14 · **Sponsored**_ Two operatives, one manufactured war — uncover the Complete Truth after both campaigns. ## [Capitalism, Socialism, Communism: The Things School Never Taught You](https://christianortiz.substack.com/p/capitalism-socialism-communism-the) _2026-08-13 · ZacaTechO · Christian’s Substack_ Oye, mira. ## The MANTRAMS Project and Digital Mantra Research: A Discussion with Borayin Larios _2026-08-13 · New Books in Southeast Asian Studies_ Every day, tens of millions of people use mantras all around the globe. Originating in South Asia and then spreading via practitioners, texts, rituals, and iconography, mantras have been grounded in speech and sound but also take a range of material forms. For instance, they are inscribed on surfaces, written in manuscripts, printed on posters, visually encoded in diagrams, or worn as amulets and… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6058056222.mp3) ## [Revolutionary optimism amid systems of mass destruction, ft. Abby Martin](https://kamea.substack.com/p/green-dreamer-abby-martin) _2026-08-13 · green dreamer kaméa · UPROOTED_ Podcast Ep480 | Green Dreamer w/ Kaméa Chayne [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209887371/901e99ec5e581eb91c6cf0c19dfe0d2c.mp3) ## [Edwin Epps: The Slave Master Whose Extreme Cruelty Made Him One of the Most Infamous Figures of American Slavery](https://talkafricana.com/edwin-epps-the-slave-master-whose-extreme-cruelty-made-him-one-of-the-most-infamous-figures-of-american-slavery/) _2026-08-12 · TalkAfricana · TalkAfricana_ Slavery produced countless victims and countless perpetrators. Most slave owners faded into obscurity, but Edwin Epps remains infamous because one of the men he enslaved survived to tell the world exactly what happened on his plantation. His memoir, Twelve Years a Slave, would eventually become the basis for the acclaimed 2013 film, ensuring that Epps’s \[…\] TalkAfricana ## [“Students Use AI to Cheat” Is the Shallowest Conversation in Education](https://christianortiz.substack.com/p/students-use-ai-to-cheat-is-the-shallowest) _2026-08-12 · ZacaTechO · Christian’s Substack_ “Students use AI to cheat” has become one of the easiest sentences in education because it protects the system from looking at itself. ## [The Day AI Accountability Died in Colorado](https://christianortiz.substack.com/p/the-day-ai-accountability-died-in) _2026-08-11 · ZacaTechO · Christian’s Substack_ August 11, 2026 ## [\[Video\] Revolutionary optimism amid systems of mass destruction, ft. Abby Martin](https://kamea.substack.com/p/green-dreamer-abby-martin-video) _2026-08-11 · green dreamer kaméa · UPROOTED_ Bonus Version of Podcast Ep480 | Green Dreamer w/ Kaméa Chayne ## [La crisis del agua en Puerto Rico no es una lección moral para los boricuas. Es una prueba de poder, infraestructura y responsabilidad colectiva.](https://christianortiz.substack.com/p/la-crisis-del-agua-en-puerto-rico) _2026-08-10 · ZacaTechO · Christian’s Substack_ Puerto Rico está enfrentando una crisis seria de agua. ## [Puerto Rico’s Water Crisis Requires More Than Blame:](https://christianortiz.substack.com/p/puerto-ricos-water-crisis-requires) _2026-08-10 · ZacaTechO · Christian’s Substack_ Conservation, Colonial Power, and the Common Sense Missing From the Conversation ## Caro Pirri, "Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England: Stages of Unsettlement" (Oxford UP, 2025) _2026-08-10 · New Books in British Studies_ Today’s guest, Caro Pirri, is the author of Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England: Stages of Unsettlement (Oxford University Press, 2025). This book explores how early modern colonial travel writing informed the London theater’s spatial and placemaking conventions. It suggests that what the stage found most compelling about narratives of colonial settlement was their failure… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK4188960900.mp3) ## [Stocks ranked by what execs say (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/AiuamW2Qo7i9) _2026-08-10 · **Sponsored**_ Evidence-backed watchlists from earnings calls and filings, cited to real transcripts—not guesses. ## Daniel Majchrowicz, "A Journey to Mecca and London: The Travels of an Indian Muslim Woman, 1909–1910" (Indiana UP, 2025) _2026-08-10 · New Books in British Studies_ Descended from Mughal nobility, Akhtar al-Nisa Begum Nawab Sarbuland Jung grew up in Hyderabad in southern India, where she lived a quiet, private, and privileged life at the heart of the state's royal court. In 1896, at the age of 20, she married Nawab Muhammad Hamidullah Khan Sarbuland Jung, a prominent lawyer and the scion of a leading Muslim reformist movement. In 1909, the wealthy couple… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6731270938.mp3) ## [Benjamin Morgan Palmer: The Preacher Who Called Slavery a Christian Duty](https://talkafricana.com/benjamin-morgan-palmer-the-preacher-who-called-slavery-a-christian-duty/) _2026-08-09 · Uzonna Anele · TalkAfricana_ When people think of slavery in America, they often picture plantation owners, politicians, and traders. Few imagine that some of slavery’s most passionate defenders stood behind church pulpits. One of the most influential was Benjamin Morgan Palmer, a celebrated American Presbyterian pastor whose sermons helped convince thousands of Christians that slavery was not only acceptable, \[…\]… ## Marisa Karyl Franz, "Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums" (Cornell UP, 2026) _2026-08-09 · New Books in Indigenous Studies_ Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums (Cornell University Press, 2026) reveals nineteenth-century Siberian museums, built on Indigenous land and increasingly populated by political exiles, as active sites of ethnographic knowledge-making and centers of scientific research, regional identity, and colonial authority. Rather than collecting from distant colonies,… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6642986154.mp3) ## [Neutrality Is How Bad Businesses Get Rich](https://christianortiz.substack.com/p/neutrality-is-how-bad-businesses) _2026-08-08 · ZacaTechO · Christian’s Substack_ A Microphone Doesn’t Make You Wise. ## [Stephen Myers: The Former Slave Who Sheltered Freedom Seekers and Helped Hundreds Escape Slavery](https://talkafricana.com/stephen-myers-the-former-slave-who-sheltered-freedom-seekers-and-helped-hundreds-escape-slavery/) _2026-08-08 · Uzonna Anele · TalkAfricana_ Born into slavery around 1800 in Hoosick, New York, Myers rose from bondage to become one of the most important abolitionists in the state. For more than two decades, he and his wife Harriet transformed their home in Albany into a refuge for freedom seekers escaping slavery, helping thousands on their journey toward freedom. Stephen \[…\] TalkAfricana ## Edward T. G. Anderson, "Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora: Transnational Politics and British Multiculturalism" (Oxford UP, 2024) _2026-08-08 · New Books in British Studies_ Hindu nationalism is transforming India as an increasingly dominant ideology and political force. But it is also a global phenomenon, with sections of India’s vast and influential diaspora drawn to, or actively supporting, right-wing Hindu nationalism. Indians overseas can be seen as an important, even inextricable, aspect of the movement. This is not a new dynamic—diasporic Hindutva has grown… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK4985630635.mp3) ## Max Perry Mueller, "Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West" (Basic Books, 2025) _2026-08-07 · New Books in Indigenous Studies_ In the mid-19th century, anyone who was anyone in the American West had heard of the Ute leader Wakara. Yet, by the early twenty first century, his story has been, if not forgotten, at the very least twisted and distorted into something that would have been unrecognizable to him and his contemporaries. In Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West (Basic Books,… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK4389200283.mp3) ## Edlie Wong, "Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific" (Cambridge UP, 2026) _2026-08-07 · New Books in Indigenous Studies_ Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific (Cambridge University Press, 2026) is an Element which centers the 'Black Pacific' as a generative site for comparative and intersectional methodologies and transnational frameworks for thinking about racial formations, post-national literary forms, and cultural histories. At the end of the nineteenth century, US overseas expansion into the… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2237892976.mp3) ## Emma Parker, "Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives" (Bloomsbury, 2024) _2026-08-07 · New Books in British Studies_ Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) examines how autobiographical writing reflects the psychological and cultural afterlives of the British Empire. Rather than treating decolonization as a completed historical moment, Emma Parker shows how empire continues to haunt personal memory, identity, and ideas of home. Through close… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8593180573.mp3) ## [Louis Rwagasore: The Burundian Prime Minister Assassinated by Belgium for Threatening Colonial Interests](https://talkafricana.com/louis-rwagasore-the-burundian-prime-minister-assassinated-by-belgium-for-threatening-colonial-interests/) _2026-08-06 · Armando Cataldi · TalkAfricana_ Louis Rwagasore was a Burundian prince, nationalist leader, and the country’s first elected Prime Minister who became the face of Burundi’s independence movement and pushed for an immediate end to Belgian colonial rule in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Just weeks after taking office in 1961, he was assassinated. Decades later, evidence emerged linking \[…\] TalkAfricana ## Steven Veerapen, "Overlord: A New History of the Life and Reign of Henry VIII" (Simon & Schuster, 2026 _2026-08-06 · New Books in British Studies_ Henry VIII is England’s most famous king. He is simultaneously the virtuous Renaissance prince gone wrong, the psychopathic, paranoid tyrant, the religious disruptor and the much-married glutton. Overlord: The Life and Reign of Henry VIII (Birlinn, 2026) is a groundbreaking study of Henry’s life examines and destroys many of the long-repeated myths about this complex monarch: he was not… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK4910135181.mp3) ## [Deepening into the discipline of care, ft. Norma Kawelokū Wong](https://kamea.substack.com/p/deepening-into-the-discipline-of-64e) _2026-08-06 · green dreamer kaméa · UPROOTED_ Podcast Ep479 | Green Dreamer w/ Kaméa Chayne [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209846299/d84f12a09bcc3f295e1f6c12b1224a39.mp3) ## [\[Video\] Deepening into the discipline of care, ft. Norma Kawelokū Wong](https://kamea.substack.com/p/deepening-into-the-discipline-of) _2026-08-06 · green dreamer kaméa · UPROOTED_ Bonus Version of Podcast Ep479 | Green Dreamer w/ Kaméa Chayne ## Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire with Simukai Chigudu _2026-08-05 · New Books in African Studies_ "In my home country, they call me a 'bornfree'." Simukai Chigudu was born in Zimbabwe, two years after the end of its bitter war of liberation - a war in which his father had fought. This is the story of his childhood journey through the chaos of that new country's birth to Britain, where he arrived alone, a teenager, burning with ambition but utterly lost in ways he had yet even to discover. Told… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2782096870.mp3) ## Samuel Marquis, "Empire and Frontier: Colonel Peter Schuyler and the Valiant Iroquois in King William's War: 1689-1701" (Pegasus Books, 2026) _2026-08-04 · New Books in Indigenous Studies_ Empire and Frontier: Colonel Peter Schuyler and the Valiant Iroquois in King William's War: 1689-1701 (Pegasus Books, 2026) by Samuel Marquis presents a powerful episode of early American history, revealing the very human story of friendship and alliance between Colonel Peter Schuyler and the Iroquois during King William’s War (1689–1701). Like Philbrick’s Mayflower and Gwynne’s Empire of the… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2127344097.mp3) ## [Failure](https://roguegames.substack.com/p/failure) _2026-08-03 · Rogue Games · The Substack for Rogue Games_ Sometimes a step backward is needed before you move forward ## [We're Moving](https://roguegames.substack.com/p/were-moving) _2026-08-03 · Rogue Games · The Substack for Rogue Games_ Rogue Games Is Leaving Substack for Ghost ## Asher Emanuel, "The Valley: Crime and Punishment in a New Zealand City" (Bridget Williams Books, 2026) _2026-08-03 · New Books in Australian and New Zealand Studies_ There were two days to Christmas and Lewis felt like everything was spinning out of control. He wondered what he would say to the judge this time. His client, Rikihana, was already on multiple shoplifting charges. What’s a few more? Lewis thought. These supermarkets were still making a killing. It’s late 2020. Rikihana Wallace, a prolific shoplifter of no fixed abode, is back in prison with little… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5682629172.mp3) ## Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel, "Seeking Freedom in Indian Country: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Resistance Within the Five Tribes, 1790–1861" (LSU Press, 2026) _2026-08-03 · New Books in Indigenous Studies_ Dr. Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel’s Seeking Freedom in Indian Country: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Resistance within the Five Tribes, 1790–1861 (LSU Press, 2026) is the first comprehensive study of African chattel slavery within the Five Tribes: the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole Nations. Dr. Oertel examines how chattel slavery functioned among all Five Tribes before and… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3412545168.mp3) ## Brent Elliott and Roger Bowdler, "The British Cemetery: Architecture, Landscape, Sculpture" (Historic England, 2026) _2026-08-03 · New Books in British Studies_ Roger Bowdler and Brent Elliott’s The British Cemetery: Architecture, Landscape, Sculpture, published by Historic England (2026), traces the history of the cemetery from the 17th century to the present day. The cemetery emerged as a new landscape form in the 19th century in Britain but had deep roots in earlier churchyard practices and in fashionable garden landscape design. Cemeteries very… [Listen](https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3010772254.mp3)