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American Campus Podcast
a social and political history of US higher ed
American Campus Podcast
The academic spies of WWII with Elyse Graham
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
How does a librarian kill someone with a newspaper? This and other academic spycraft in Elyse Graham's Book and Dagger.
References mentioned this episode:
- Elyse Graham. 2024. Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II. Harper Collins.
- Elyse Graham’s website
- Elyse Graham’s Bluesky
- Michelle Young. 2025. The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland. Harper Collins.
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