New Books in History

Marshall Poe

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David Crystal, "Bookish Words and Their Surprising Stories" (Bodleian Library, 2025)

Jun 20 • 48m

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings" (Harper, 2025)

Jun 20 • 44m

Chris Horton, "Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival" (MacMillan, 2025)

Jun 19 • 1h 4m

John Man, "Conquering the North: China, Russia, Mongolia: 2,000 Years of Conflict" (Oneworld Publications, 2025)

Jun 19 • 50m

Emily Webber, "Mining Men: Britain's Last Kings of the Coalface" (Penguin, 2025)

Jun 18 • 32m

Violet Moller, "Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe" (OneWorld, 2024)

Jun 18 • 40m

Frederick Reece, "Forgery in Musical Composition: Aesthetics, History, and the Canon" (Oxford University Press, 2025)

Jun 17 • 1h 4m

Mark Somos, Matthew Cleary, Pablo Dufour, Edward Jones Corredera, and Emanuele Salerno, "The Unseen History of International Law" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Jun 17 • 1h 5m

L. Sasha Gora, "Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada" (University of Toronto Press, 2025)

Jun 16 • 1h 0m

Barbara Allen, "Lost Animals, Disappearing Worlds: Stories of Extinction" (Reaktion, 2025)

Jun 16 • 1h 7m

Susan L. Carruthers, "Making Do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Jun 15 • 1h 13m

Giovanni Aloi, "Lawn" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Jun 13 • 1h 11m

Sarah Bilston, "The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession" (Harvard UP, 2025)

Jun 11 • 55m

Alison Griffiths, "Nomadic Cinema: A Cultural Geography of the Expedition Film" (Columbia UP, 2025)

Jun 11 • 1h 6m

Constant Willem Hijzen, "Roots of Counterterrorism: Contemporary Wisdom from Dutch Intelligence" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jun 10 • 1h 7m

Elise Franklin "Disintegrating Empire: Algerian Family Migration and the Limits of the Welfare State in France" (University of Nebraska Press, 2024)

Jun 10 • 1h 18m

Sladja Blažan, "Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America" (University of Virginia Press, 2025)

Jun 8 • 53m

Julia Sneeringer, "West Germany: A Society in Motion, 1949-89" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Jun 8 • 1h 6m

Jenn Hobbs, "Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies and International Politics: Feminist Technoscience, Biopolitics and Security" (Bristol University Press, 2024)

Jun 7 • 1h 4m

Geoffrey Wawro, "The Vietnam War: A Military History" (Basic Books, 2024)

Jun 6 • 1h 12m

Brando Simeo Starkey, "Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System" (Doubleday, 2025)

Jun 6 • 1h 2m

Claire Knight, "Stalin's Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945-1953" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Jun 5 • 1h 26m

Roger Chickering, "The German Empire, 1871–1918" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Jun 4 • 57m

Matthew Shindell, "Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps and Matter" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Jun 4 • 1h 15m

Serhii Plokhy, "The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine" (Basic Books, 2015)

Jun 3 • 1h 30m

Stephen R. Platt, "The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II" (Knopf, 2025)

Jun 3 • 1h 13m

Carol A. Heimer, "Governing the Global Clinic: HIV and the Legal Transformation of Medicine" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)

Jun 2 • 1h 5m

Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine

Jun 2 • 1h 12m

Sven Trakulhun, "Confronting Christianity: The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

Jun 1 • 40m

Katarina Kušic, "Beyond International Intervention: Politics of Improvement in Serbia" (University of Michigan Press, 2025)

Jun 1 • 1h 3m

Jack Ashby, "Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums" (Penguin, 2025)

May 31 • 59m

Nneka D. Dennie, "Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth Century Black Radical Feminist" (Oxford UP, 2023)

May 30 • 1h 2m

Xing Hang, "The Port: Hà Tiên and the Mo Clan in Early Modern Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

May 30 • 1h 5m

Antonio J. Muñoz, "Hitler's War Against the Partisans During Operation Barbarossa: June 1941 to the Spring of 1942" (Frontline, 2025)

May 29 • 1h 41m

Alex Davies, "Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)

May 28 • 1h 27m

Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, "Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter" (MIT Press, 2025)

May 27 • 45m

Julia McClure, "Empire of Poverty: The Moral-Political Economy of the Spanish Empire" (Oxford UP, 2025)

May 26 • 42m

From Hal to Siri: How Computers Learned to Speak

May 25 • 54m

Aviva Briefel, "Ghosts and Things: The Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism" (Cornell UP, 2025)

May 24 • 1h 1m

Jennifer T. Roberts, "Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture" (Princeton UP, 2024)

May 24 • 1h 38m

Michael A. Meyer, "Above All, We Are Jews: A Biography of Rabbi Alexander Schindler" (CCAR Press, 2025)

May 23 • 44m

Jennifer Lynn Gross, "Sisterhood of the Lost Cause: Confederate Widows in the New South" (LSU Press, 2025)

May 22 • 59m

Brian VanDeMark, "Kent State: An American Tragedy" (Norton, 2024)

May 21 • 52m

Elaine Pagels, "Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus" (Doubleday, 2025)

May 20 • 39m

Alan Strathern, "Converting Rulers: Global Patterns, 1450-1850" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

May 19 • 1h 21m

Globalization's Backlash: Echoes of the Interwar Era in Today’s World

May 18 • 35m

Daniel MacFarlane, "The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)

May 17 • 55m

Becky Aikman, "Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger during World War II" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

May 16 • 34m

Marc Jaffré, "The Courtiers and the Court of Louis XIII, 1610-1643" (Oxford UP, 2025)

May 15 • 1h 2m

Pollyanna Rhee, "Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

May 14 • 44m

Michael David-Fox, "Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule" (Harvard UP, 2025)

May 13 • 1h 2m

Noise and Information in the Office

May 12 • 1h 12m

Jeremy Black, "British Politics and Foreign Policy, 1727-44" (Routledge, 2014)

May 11 • 35m

Hasia R. Diner, "Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)

May 10 • 1h 13m

Aaron Robertson, "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" (FSG, 2024)

May 9 • 54m

Simon Mayall, "The House of War: The Struggle Between Christendom and the Caliphate" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

May 8 • 1h 11m

Christopher Harding, "The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East" (Allen Lane, 2024)

May 7 • 1h 10m

Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian, "The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform" (Yale UP, 2024)

May 6 • 41m

Martin Thomas, "The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization" (Princeton UP, 2024)

May 5 • 48m

Shaun Walker, "The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West" (Knopf, 2025)

May 4 • 1h 0m

Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, "The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War" (Oxford UP, 2025)

May 3 • 1h 2m

Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

May 2 • 55m

Jeremy Black, "Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of George I, 1714-1727" (Routledge, 2016)

May 1 • 40m

Udi Greenberg, "The End of the Schism: Catholics, Protestants, and the Remaking of Christian Life in Europe, 1880s-1970s" (Harvard UP, 2025)

Apr 30 • 1h 13m

Steven Hahn, "Illiberal America: A History" (Norton, 2024)

Apr 29 • 51m

Reider Payne, "War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

Apr 28 • 1h 12m

Ross Benes, "1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times" (UP of Kansas, 2025)

Apr 27 • 48m

Paul M. McGarr, "Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India's Secret Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Apr 26 • 1h 5m

Richard Overy, "Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan" (Norton, 2025)

Apr 25 • 39m

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, "The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity: A Study in Resilience" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Apr 24 • 1h 15m

Gabe Henry, "Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell" (Dey Street, 2025)

Apr 23 • 46m

Max Hastings, “Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975” (Harper, 2018)

Apr 22 • 55m

Ulf Zander, "Raoul Wallenberg: Life and Legacy" (Lund UP, 2024)

Apr 21 • 1h 10m

Henry Jenkins, "Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America" (NYU Press, 2025)

Apr 20 • 58m

Maurice Jackson, "Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience: How Black Washingtonians Used Music and Sports in the Fight for Equality" (Georgetown UP, 2025)

Apr 19 • 57m

Davida Siwisa James, "Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries" (Fordham UP, 2024)

Apr 18 • 45m

Davida Siwisa James, "Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries" (Fordham UP, 2024)

Apr 17 • 45m

Lesley J. Gordon, "Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Apr 15 • 41m

Stephen J. Campbell, "Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Apr 14 • 46m

The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History

Apr 13 • 40m

Stefanie Fischer and Kim Wünschmann, "Oberbrechen: a German Village Confronts Its Nazi Past" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Apr 12 • 1h 0m

Orit Rozin, "Emotions of Conflict, Israel 1949-1967" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Apr 11 • 1h 9m

Nathalie Cooke, "Tastes and Traditions: A Journey Through Menu History" (Reaktion, 2025)

Apr 10 • 59m

David G. Williamson, "Poland Betrayed: The Nazi-Soviet Invasions of 1939" (Pen & Sword, 2011)

Apr 9 • 27m

Sam Klug, "The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Apr 9 • 1h 11m

Kathleen Thelen, "Attention, Shoppers!: American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Apr 8 • 50m

Ian Rapley, "Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880–1945" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

Apr 7 • 1h 7m

Robert J. Antony, "Outlaws of the Sea: Maritime Piracy in Modern China" (Hong Kong UP, 2024)

Apr 6 • 52m

Jim Storr, "War and Warfare in the Twentieth Century" (Howgate Publishing, 2025)

Apr 5 • 58m

James M. O’Toole, "For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America" (Harvard UP, 2025)

Apr 4 • 1h 4m

Lavanya Vemsani, "Reframing India in World History" (Lexington Books, 2024)

Apr 3 • 39m

Michael Vorenberg, "Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War" (Knopf, 2025)

Apr 2 • 1h 12m

Tana Li, "A Maritime Vietnam: From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Apr 1 • 46m

Peter Whitewood, "The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy: Lenin’s Defeat and the Rise of Stalinism" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Mar 31 • 1h 14m

Ashis Ray, "The Trial That Shook Britain: How a Court Martial Hastened Acceptance of Indian Independence" (Routledge India, 2024)

Mar 30 • 41m

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, "The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It" (Basic Books, 2024)

Mar 29 • 1h 2m

Matt Lodder, "Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art" (Yale UP, 2024)

Mar 28 • 1h 9m

Kobi Kabalek, "Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)

Mar 27 • 58m

William Blakemore Lyon, "Forged in Genocide: Migrant Workers Shaping Colonial Capitalism in Namibia, 1890-1925" (de Gruyter, 2024)

Mar 26 • 1h 29m

The Audiobook's Century-Long Overnight Success

Mar 24 • 51m

Surekha Davies, "Humans: A Monstrous History" (U California Press, 2025)

Mar 23 • 1h 9m

Maggie M. Cao, "Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Mar 22 • 42m

Mick Brown, "The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment Went West" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Mar 21 • 1h 43m

Joseph A. Seeley, "Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Mar 20 • 1h 1m

Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, "Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide, and Cult" (Ibidem Press, 2014)

Mar 19 • 58m

Martin Spychal, "Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act" (U London Press, 2024)

Mar 18 • 52m

Laurel Leff, "Well Worth Saving: American Universities' Life-And-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe" (Yale UP, 2019)

Mar 17 • 1h 19m

Selena Wisnom, "The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Mar 16 • 38m

Chiara Faggella, "Becoming Couture: The Italian Fashion Industry after the Second World War" (Manchester UP, 2024)

Mar 15 • 47m

Melissa Vise, "The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

Mar 14 • 52m

Patrick Beldio, "The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga" (Lexington Books, 2024)

Mar 13 • 49m

Harriet Atkinson, "Showing Resistance: Propaganda and Modernist Exhibitions in Britain, 1933-53" (Manchester UP, 2024)

Mar 12 • 37m

Martha Bayless, "Entertainment, Pleasure, and Meaning in Early England" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Mar 11 • 37m

On Barak, "Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet" (U California Press, 2024)

Mar 10 • 42m

Jamie Jelinski, "Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2024)

Mar 10 • 54m

Andrew G. Walder, "Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Mar 9 • 1h 25m

Kirsten L. Scheid, "Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950" (Indiana UP, 2022)

Mar 9 • 1h 31m

Lina-Maria Murillo, "Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands" (UNC Press, 2025)

Mar 9 • 1h 11m

Kristin A. Olbertson, "The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Mar 9 • 46m

Andrew C. Isenberg, "The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850" (UNC Press, 2025)

Mar 9 • 1h 7m

Anthony Grafton, "Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Mar 8 • 31m

Jørgen Møller and Jonathan Doucette, "The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Mar 8 • 51m

Margaret Peacock, "Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East" (U California Press, 2025)

Mar 8 • 1h 4m

Jeremy Black, "A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Mar 8 • 46m

Richard Heppner, "Woodstock: From World War to Culture Wars" (SUNY Press, 2024)

Mar 7 • 26m

Nir Arielli, "The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History" (Yale UP, 2025)

Mar 7 • 1h 6m

Eric Dienstfrey, "Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology" (U California Press, 2024)

Mar 7 • 1h 18m

Gary Griggs, "California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State" (U California Press, 2024)

Mar 7 • 1h 9m

Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero, "Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization" (U California Press, 2024)

Mar 6 • 1h 3m

Janam Mukherjee, "Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2015)

Mar 6 • 1h 0m

Georgia Finnegan, "Grace & Grit: A History of Ballet in Minnesota" (Afton Historical Society, 2024)

Mar 6 • 52m

Manu Pillai, "Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity" (Allen Lane, 2025)

Mar 6 • 1h 2m

Stefan Cristian Ionescu, "Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania: Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944-1950" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Mar 5 • 1h 21m

Arwen P. Mohun, "American Imperialist: Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa" (Chicago UP, 2023)

Mar 5 • 45m

Elizabeth T. Craft, "Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Mar 5 • 50m

Robert C. Austin, "Royal Fraud: The Story of Albania's First and Last King" (Central European UP, 2024)

Mar 4 • 1h 3m

John Coakley ed et al., "The Problem of Piracy in the Early Modern World: Maritime Predation, Empire, and the Construction of Authority at Sea" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)

Mar 4 • 48m

Kyle Orland, "Minesweeper" (Boss Fight Books, 2023)

Mar 4 • 20m

Michael Visontay, "Noble Fragments: The Gripping Story of the Antiquarian Bookseller Who Broke Up a Gutenberg Bible" (Scribe, 2024)

Mar 4 • 1h 0m

László Borhi, "Survival under Dictatorships: Life and Death in Nazi and Communist Regimes" (Central European UP, 2024)

Mar 3 • 47m

Robert Houghton, "The Middle Ages in Computer Games: Ludic Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)

Mar 3 • 36m

Isabel Moreira, "Balthild of Francia: Anglo-Saxon Slave, Merovingian Queen, and Abolitionist Saint" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Mar 3 • 1h 5m

David N. Livingstone, "The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Mar 2 • 51m

Hallie Franks, "Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Mar 2 • 59m

Caroline Dunn, "Ladies-in-waiting in Medieval England" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Mar 2 • 42m

Christos Lynteris, "Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography" (MIT Press, 2022)

Mar 2 • 1h 17m

Sam Srauy, "Race, Culture and the Video Game Industry: A Vicious Circuit" (Routledge, 2024)

Mar 1 • 55m

Ellen Fenzel Arnold, "Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, C. 300-1100" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Mar 1 • 53m

Dawn Day Biehler, "Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History" (U Washington Press, 2024)

Mar 1 • 54m

Timothy P. R. Weaver, "Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City" (Temple UP, 2025)

Mar 1 • 29m

Ian G. Baird, "Champassak Royalty and Sovereignty: Within and Between Nation-States in Mainland Southeast Asia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2024)

Mar 1 • 45m

Aliyah Khan on the Muslim Caribbean

Feb 28 • 52m

Matthew Hughes, "Britain's Pacification of Palestine" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Feb 28 • 1h 27m

Mike Sielski, "Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)

Feb 26 • 58m

Doina Anca Cretu, "Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania" (Stanford UP, 2025)

Feb 26 • 1h 1m

Gemma Hollman, "Women in the Middle Ages: Illuminating the World of Peasants, Nuns, and Queens" (Abbeville Press, 2024)

Feb 26 • 1h 10m

Yuval Ben-Bassat and Johann Büssow, "Late Ottoman Gaza: An Eastern Mediterranean Hub in Transformation" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Feb 26 • 1h 0m

David R. Saunders, "Chasing Archipelagic Dreams: The Expansion of Foreign Influence in Sabah amid the End of Empire, 1945–1965" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Feb 25 • 1h 6m

Megan Moran, "Gender and Family Networks in Early Modern Italy" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)

Feb 23 • 50m

Thanasis S. Fotiou, "Hitler’s Hunting Squad in Southern Europe: The Bloody Path of Fritz Schubert through Occupied Crete and Macedonia" (Pen and Sword, 2024)

Feb 23 • 20m

Jenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024)

Feb 23 • 54m

Catherine Lila Chou and Mark Harrison, "Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World Order" (Cambria Press, 2024)

Feb 23 • 58m

Benjamin Heber Johnson, "Texas: An American History" (Yale UP, 2025)

Feb 23 • 1h 10m

Shay A. Pilnik, "The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War" (Purdue UP, 2025)

Feb 22 • 1h 30m

Rhiannon Stephens, "Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History" (Duke UP, 2022)

Feb 22 • 49m

Ilan Stavans, "Latino USA: A Cartoon History" (Basic Books, 2024)

Feb 22 • 1h 34m

Adnan Husain on Reorienting History

Feb 21 • 1h 19m

Noa Shashar, "The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850" (Brandeis UP, 2024)

Feb 21 • 42m

Andrew Jotischky, "The Monastic World: A 1,200-Year History" (Yale UP, 2024)

Feb 21 • 29m

Martyn Percy, "The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England" (Hurst, 2025)

Feb 21 • 49m

Mario Cams and Elke Papelitzky, "Remapping the World in East Asia: Toward a Global History of the 'Ricci Maps'" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

Feb 20 • 50m

Susan Tate Ankeny, "American Flygirl" (Citadel Press, 2024)

Feb 20 • 29m

Tahir Kamran, "Chequered Past, Uncertain Future: The History of Pakistan" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

Feb 20 • 1h 0m

Emine Ö Evered, "Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Feb 19 • 56m

Nicole Lobdell, "X-Ray" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Feb 19 • 49m

The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker

Feb 19 • 55m

Asheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale UP, 2024)

Feb 19 • 56m

Xian Wang, "Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

Feb 19 • 1h 3m

Kathryn Taylor, "Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice" (U Delaware Press, 2023)

Feb 18 • 43m

Yoni Appelbaum, "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of Prosperity" (Random House, 2025)

Feb 18 • 28m

Adam R. Nelson, "Exchange of Ideas: The Economy of Higher Education in Early America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Feb 18 • 1h 7m

Lori A. Flores, "Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to Covid-19" (UNC Press, 2025)

Feb 18 • 1h 19m

Shane Bobrycki, "The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Feb 17 • 1h 13m

Adelina Stefan, "Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco's Spain" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Feb 17 • 1h 5m

Mary Frances Phillips, "Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins" (NYU Press, 2025)

Feb 17 • 38m

The Soundworld of Harriet Tubman

Feb 17 • 45m

Jessica A. Brockmole, "Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way Into the Driver's Seat" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)

Feb 16 • 1h 6m

Marcel Elias, "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Feb 16 • 26m

Jacqueline M. Burek, "Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's Long Twelfth Century" (York Medieval Press, 2023)

Feb 16 • 54m

Erik Freas, "Palestine's Christians and the Nationalist Cause: The Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods" (Routledge, 2024)

Feb 16 • 1h 15m

Raphael Chijioke Njoku, "Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans: Narrating Decolonization, Postwar Commonwealth, and Africa’s Development, 1947-2022" (Leuven UP, 2024)

Feb 16 • 1h 9m

Hunter Price, "Sacred Capital: Methodism and Settler Colonialism in the Empire of Liberty" (U Virginia Press, 2024)

Feb 16 • 1h 3m

Xiangli Ding, "Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Feb 15 • 41m

Glen L. Thompson, "Jingjiao: The Earliest Christian Church in China" (Eerdmans, 2024)

Feb 15 • 1h 7m

Adam Pennington, "Henry VIII and the Plantagenet Poles: The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty" (Pen and Sword History, 2024)

Feb 15 • 48m

Miles Glendinning, "Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power – a Global History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Feb 15 • 1h 20m

Peter Burke, "Ignorance: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)

Feb 14 • 45m

Erika Graham-Goering et al., "Lordship and the Decentralised State in Late Medieval Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Feb 14 • 48m

Pamela Allen Brown, "The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Feb 14 • 1h 1m

Saulius Suziedelis, "Crisis, War, and the Holocaust in Lithuania" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)

Feb 14 • 1h 9m

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, "Mission Bengal: A Saffron Experiment" (HarperCollins India, 2020)

Feb 14 • 1h 8m

Patricia Owens, "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Feb 13 • 1h 8m

Randall Fuller, "Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Feb 13 • 57m

Ada Palmer, "Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Feb 13 • 54m

The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn

Feb 13 • 1h 12m

Bertil Lintner, "The Golden Land Ablaze: Coups, Insurgents and the State in Myanmar" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Feb 13 • 48m

William Sweet, "Before and After Democracy: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics" (Peeters, 2023)

Feb 12 • 1h 15m

Frank Gerits, "The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Feb 12 • 59m

Philip Howell, "Pub" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Feb 12 • 40m

Rebecca Davis Gibbons, "The Hegemon's Tool Kit: US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Feb 11 • 55m

Adam Laats, "Mr. Lancaster's System: The Failed Reform That Created America's Public Schools" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)

Feb 11 • 1h 1m

Magdalena Buchczyk, "Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum: Textiles, History and Ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Feb 10 • 53m

Divya Kannan, "Contested Childhoods: Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Feb 10 • 36m

Canada and Eastern Europe, 1945–1991: Meeting in the Middle

Feb 10 • 33m

Tao Leigh Goffe, "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis" (Doubleday Books, 2025)

Feb 10 • 1h 4m

Edward Simon, "The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues: A Visual History" (Cernunnos, 2024)

Feb 10 • 46m

Michael Rembis, "Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Feb 9 • 49m

Bruce Robbins, "Atrocity: A Literary History" (Stanford UP, 2025)

Feb 9 • 1h 12m

Katie Beisel Hollenbach, "The Business of Bobbysoxers: Cultural Production in 1940s Frank Sinatra Fandom" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Feb 9 • 49m

Peter J. Bowler, "Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Feb 9 • 50m

Martin D. Brown et al., "The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon" (Routledge, 2024)

Feb 8 • 1h 52m

Our History with AI is (much) Longer than You Think (with Kevin LaGrandeur)

Feb 8 • 1h 5m

Jeff Gomez, "There Was No Alternative: Generation X, AIDS, and the Making of a Classic Nineties Record" (McFarland, 2023)

Feb 8 • 56m

William Gallois, "Qayrawan: The Amuletic City" (Penn State UP, 2024)

Feb 7 • 44m

Eric Cline, "After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Feb 7 • 34m

Samantha Ege, "South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene" (U Illinois Press, 2024)

Feb 7 • 1h 3m

Peter Whitewood, "The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Soviet Military" (UP of Kansas, 2015)

Feb 7 • 1h 21m

Jonathan Haslam, "Hubris: The American Origins of Russia's War against Ukraine" (Harvard UP, 2025)

Feb 6 • 1h 8m

Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra

Feb 6 • 1h 7m

Anthony E. Kaye, "Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History" (FSG, 2024)

Feb 6 • 53m

Rosemary Wakeman, "The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918–1941" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Feb 6 • 49m

Lavanya Vemsani, "Handbook of Indian History" (Springer, 2024)

Feb 6 • 38m

Neil Fox, "Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Feb 5 • 59m

Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Feb 5 • 1h 5m

Hal Brands, "The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World" (Norton, 2025)

Feb 5 • 52m

Sophia Rosenfeld, "The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Feb 5 • 37m

Jean Strouse, "Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers" (FSG, 2024)

Feb 4 • 36m

Sarah E. Bond, "Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire" (Yale UP, 2024)

Feb 4 • 1h 19m

Ann Schmiesing, "The Brothers Grimm: A Biography" (Yale UP, 2024)

Feb 4 • 51m

Robert Dayton, "Cold Glitter: The Untold Story of Canadian Glam" (Feral House, 2024)

Feb 3 • 1h 19m

Marijam Did, "Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Videogames are Changing Our World" (Verso, 2024)

Feb 3 • 55m

Alexis Wolf, "Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840" (Boydell Press, 2024)

Feb 3 • 38m

Whitney Dirks, "Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)

Feb 3 • 1h 1m

Moritz Mihatsch and Michael Mulligan, "Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice" (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)

Feb 2 • 1h 9m

Angela Wanhalla et al., "Te Hau Kainga: The Maori Home Front during the Second World War" (Auckland UP, 2024)

Feb 2 • 1h 18m

Sara Burdorff, "Maternity, Monstrosity, and Heroic (Im)mortality from Homer to Shakespeare" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)

Feb 2 • 38m

Yves Rees, "Travelling to Tomorrow: How Australia's Modern Women Pioneered Our Romance with the United States" (New South, 2024)

Feb 2 • 56m

Joel Z. Garrod, "Royal Histories: The Transformation of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1864-2022" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

Feb 1 • 57m

Ewa Stańczyk, "Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland" (U Press of Mississippi, 2024)

Feb 1 • 59m

Helen Louise Cowie, "Animals in World History" (Routledge, 2024)

Feb 1 • 53m

Lionel Barber, "Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son" (Atria, 2024)

Feb 1 • 33m

Ramachandra Guha, "Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism" (Yale UP, 2024)

Feb 1 • 1h 5m

Adam Chapnick, "Canada First, Not Canada Alone: A History of Canadian Foreign Policy" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Feb 1 • 1h 1m

Enrico Ciappi, "Building Europe in New York: From the Munich Conference to the European Coal and Steel Community (1938-1952)" (Routledge, 2025)

Jan 31 • 48m

Karel Margry, "Nordhausen Concentration Camp" (After the Battle, 2024)

Jan 31 • 1h 38m

Adam Franklin-Lyons, "Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon" (Penn State Press, 2022)

Jan 30 • 1h 1m

A. G. Hopkins, "Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Jan 30 • 54m

Anand Venkatkrishnan, "Love in the Time of Scholarship: The Bhagavata Purana in Indian Intellectual History" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jan 30 • 38m

Derek W. Black, "Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy" (Yale UP, 2025)

Jan 30 • 41m

Edward Westermann, "Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest" (U Oklahoma Press, 2016)

Jan 29 • 1h 37m

Jorge Flores, "Empire of Contingency: How Portugal Entered the Indo-Persian World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Jan 29 • 56m

Elizabeth Campbell, "Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jan 29 • 58m

Eugene Finkel, "Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine" (Basic Books, 2024)

Jan 29 • 36m

Yanni Kotsonis, "The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Jan 29 • 57m

Benjamin Carter Hett, "The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War" (Henry Holt, 2020)

Jan 28 • 1h 24m

Karenleigh A. Overmann, "The Material Origin of Numbers: Insights from the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East" (Gorgias Press, 2024)

Jan 28 • 10m

Christopher Burnham, "Sir Ronald Storrs: Personality and Policy in Mandate Palestine, 1917-1926" (Routledge, 2024)

Jan 28 • 1h 3m

Robin Bernstein, "Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Jan 27 • 43m

Peter Harmsen, "Fury and Ice: Greenland, the United States and Germany in World War II" (Casemate, 2024)

Jan 27 • 1h 11m

Michael Sonenscher, "After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Jan 26 • 1h 10m

Susan C. I. Grunewald, "From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Jan 26 • 1h 8m

Dario Fazzi, "Smoke on the Water: Incineration at Sea and the Birth of a Transatlantic Environmental Movement" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Jan 26 • 50m

Leon Saltiel, "The Holocaust in Thessaloniki: Reactions to the Anti-Jewish Persecution, 1942–1943" (Routledge, 2020)

Jan 26 • 55m

Chris Pearson, "Collared: How We Made the Modern Dog" (Profile Books, 2024)

Jan 25 • 46m

Richard Bourke, "Hegel’s World Revolutions" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Jan 25 • 1h 10m

Adam Jortner, "A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jan 25 • 1h 3m

Terrence C. Petty, "Nazis at the Watercooler: War Criminals in Postwar German Government Agencies" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

Jan 24 • 1h 0m

Leonne M. Hudson, "Black Americans in Mourning: Reactions to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" (Southern Illinois UP, 2024)

Jan 24 • 1h 15m

Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, "America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Jan 24 • 44m

Matthew McCormack, "Shoes and the Georgian Man" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Jan 24 • 39m

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe

Jan 23 • 1h 9m

Avinash Paliwal, "India's Near East: A New History" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jan 23 • 49m

Michelle D. Brock, "Plagues of the Heart: Crisis and Covenanting in a Seventeenth-Century Scottish Town" (Manchester UP, 2024)

Jan 22 • 1h 3m

Andy Wightman, "The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got it" (Birlinn, 2025)

Jan 22 • 57m

Bianca M. Lopez, "Queen of Sorrows: Plague, Piety, and Power in Late Medieval Italy" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Jan 21 • 53m

Anthony McElligott, "The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Jan 21 • 1h 24m

Monica A. Hershberger, "Women in American Operas of The 1950s: Undoing Gendered Archetypes" (U Rochester Press, 2023)

Jan 20 • 1h 7m

Kathleen Lippa, "Arctic Predator: The Crimes of Edward Horne Against Children in Canada's North" (Dundurn, 2025)

Jan 20 • 1h 1m

Duncan Mavin, "Meltdown: Scandal, Sleaze and the Collapse of Credit Suisse" (Pegasus Books, 2024)

Jan 19 • 39m

Steven King, "Fraudulent Lives: Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to the Present" (McGill Queen's UP, 2024)

Jan 19 • 49m

Elizabeth King and W. David Todd, "Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend" (Getty, 2023)

Jan 19 • 50m

Disability and the History of Science (Osiris, Vol 36)

Jan 18 • 1h 28m

James Michael Buckley, "City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Jan 18 • 45m

Eva Payne, "Empire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Jan 18 • 1h 9m

Byron Ellsworth Hamann, "The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781–1844" (Getty, 2022)

Jan 18 • 52m

Andrew Laird, "Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jan 18 • 43m

Elizabeth L. Block, "Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing" (MIT Press, 2024)

Jan 17 • 38m

Victor M. Valle, "The Poetics of Fire: Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands" (U New Mexico Press, 2023)

Jan 17 • 1h 21m

Catherine Tatiana Dunlop, "The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Jan 17 • 50m

Melissa B. Reynolds, "Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Jan 17 • 1h 9m

Frank Trentmann, "Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022" (Knopf, 2024)

Jan 16 • 57m

Mark Celinscak, "Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp" (U Toronto Press, 2015)

Jan 16 • 1h 17m

Stephen Watt, "From the 'Troubles' to Trumpism: Ireland and America, 1960-2023" (Anthem Press, 2024)

Jan 15 • 51m

The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century

Jan 15 • 54m

Jesper Juul, "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer" (MIT Press, 2024)

Jan 14 • 36m

Brett Bannor, "American Sheep: A Cultural History" (U Georgia Press, 2024)

Jan 14 • 31m

Isaac Stanley-Becker, "Europe Without Borders: A History" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Jan 14 • 45m

Emily Murdoch Perkins, "Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been" (The History Press, 2024)

Jan 14 • 54m

Eleanor Baker, "Book Curses" (Bodleian Library, 2024)

Jan 13 • 52m

Nitzan Lebovic, "Homo Temporalis: German Jewish Thinkers on Time" (Cornell UP, 2025)

Jan 13 • 1h 42m

Andrew Gomez, "Constructing Cuban America: Race and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868–1945" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Jan 13 • 46m

Jorge Duany, "Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jan 12 • 1h 25m

Ciaran O'Neill, "Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: Life in a Palliative State" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jan 12 • 29m

Robert Wright, "Indigenous Autonomy at La Junta de Los Rios: Traders, Allies, and Migrants on New Spain's Northern Frontier" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)

Jan 12 • 51m

Susan A. Brewer, "The Best Land: Four Hundred Years of Love and Betrayal on Oneida Territory" (Three Hills, 2024)

Jan 12 • 59m

Adrian de Leon, "Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America" (UNC Press, 2023)

Jan 11 • 1h 15m

Anthony Bale, "A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes" (Norton, 2024)

Jan 11 • 38m

Gervase Phillips, "Persecution and Genocide: A History" (Routledge, 2024)

Jan 10 • 1h 9m

Victoria Harms, "The Making of Dissidents: Hungary’s Democratic Opposition and its Western Friends, 1973-1998" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2024)

Jan 10 • 1h 8m

Sandy Ng, "Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)

Jan 10 • 48m

Edward Jones Corredera, "Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jan 10 • 48m

Jacob Flaws, "Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

Jan 9 • 56m

Peter Hessler, "Other Rivers: A Chinese Education" (Penguin, 2024)

Jan 9 • 52m

Sixiang Wang, "Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Chosŏn Diplomacy with Ming China" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Jan 9 • 1h 16m

Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany

Jan 9 • 59m

Dayne C. Riley, "Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751" (Bucknell UP, 2024)

Jan 9 • 47m

Steven Shapin, "Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Jan 8 • 44m

Alex Cuadros, "When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon" (Grand Central Publishing, 2024)

Jan 8 • 29m

Rebecca Charbonneau, "Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain" (Polity, 2024)

Jan 8 • 55m

Elissa Bemporad, "Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Jan 7 • 1h 1m

David A. Harrisville, "The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944" (Cornell UP, 2021)

Jan 7 • 1h 3m

Christopher Phelps and Robin Vandome, "Marxism and America: New Appraisals" (Manchester UP, 2021)

Jan 7 • 1h 16m

Simon Hall, "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s" (Faber and Faber, 2020)

Jan 7 • 44m

Sarah B. Rodriguez, "The Love Surgeon: A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation" (Rutgers UP, 2020)

Jan 7 • 47m

Benjamin Meiches, "The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)

Jan 7 • 1h 0m

Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

Jan 7 • 57m

Dean Itsuji Saranillio, "Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood" (Duke UP, 2018)

Jan 6 • 1h 18m

Catherine Hezser, "Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism: The Development of the Talmud Yerushalmi" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Jan 6 • 59m

Peter Mandler, "The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain's Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Jan 6 • 40m

Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard, "Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Jan 6 • 1h 25m

Joshua Brinkman on American Farming Culture and the History of Technology

Jan 6 • 1h 30m

Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020)

Jan 6 • 56m

Theresa Keeley, "Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America" (Cornell UP, 2020)

Jan 6 • 47m

Aurelia Campbell, "What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming" (U Washington Press, 2020)

Jan 6 • 1h 3m

Judith Giesberg, “Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality” (UNC Press, 2017)

Jan 6 • 1h 7m

Olga Borovaya, "The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel: Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era" (Berghahn Books, 2024)

Jan 5 • 1h 17m

Emily Marker, "Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Jan 5 • 1h 8m

Matthew C. Godfrey, ed., "The Joseph Smith Papers: Documents, Volume 7" (Church Historians Press, 2018)

Jan 5 • 1h 26m

Amy Aronson, "Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Jan 5 • 1h 2m

Austin Dean, "China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937" (Cornell UP, 2020)

Jan 5 • 1h 27m

Simon Miles, "Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2020)

Jan 4 • 1h 16m

Joshua D. Rothman, "The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America" (Basic Book, 2021)

Jan 4 • 49m

Jie Li, "Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era" (Duke UP, 2020)

Jan 4 • 1h 26m

Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Jan 4 • 1h 9m

Marc Gallicchio, "Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Jan 4 • 1h 27m

Patrick T. Reardon, "The Loop: The 'L' Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago" (Southern Illinois UP, 2020)

Jan 3 • 45m

The Hyphen Unites: Avi Shlaim on Arab-Jewish Life

Jan 3 • 1h 10m

Stuart Elden, "The Early Foucault" (Polity Press, 2021)

Jan 3 • 53m

Benjamin T. Smith, "The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade" (W. W. Norton, 2021)

Jan 3 • 46m

Adam Zucker, "Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jan 3 • 1h 7m

Polly Zavadivker, "A Nation of Refugees: Russia's Jews in World War I" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jan 3 • 1h 22m

Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2021)

Jan 2 • 1h 27m

Doris L. Bergen, "Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jan 2 • 2h 7m

Shannan Clark, "The Making of the American Creative Class: New York's Culture Workers and 20th-Century Consumer Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Jan 2 • 1h 6m

Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934" (UVA Press, 2020)

Jan 2 • 1h 2m

Camille Robcis, "Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Jan 2 • 1h 4m

Taomo Zhou, “Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia and the Cold War” (Cornell UP, 2019)

Jan 1 • 1h 11m

Donna Tesiero, "A Revolutionary Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Abolition of Slavery in the North" (McFarland, 2024)

Jan 1 • 1h 33m

Kent Michael Shaw, "Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary" (Pickwick, 2024)

Jan 1 • 47m

Jessica Namakkal, "Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India" (Columbia UP, 2021)

Jan 1 • 1h 24m

Eric Storm, "Nationalism: A World History" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Jan 1 • 50m

Oskar Jensen, "Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London" (The Experiment, 2024)

Dec 31, 2024 • 1h 28m

Nick Yablon, "Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

Dec 31, 2024 • 1h 3m

Randy M. Browne, "The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Dec 31, 2024 • 1h 7m

Hugh Wilford, "The CIA: An Imperial History" (Basic Books, 2024)

Dec 31, 2024 • 55m

Robert D. Miller II, "Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)

Dec 31, 2024 • 26m

Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)

Dec 31, 2024 • 1h 2m

Caitlin Davies, "Queens of the Underworld: A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks" (The History Press, 2021)

Dec 30, 2024 • 1h 3m

Crystal R. Sanders, "A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs" (UNC Press, 2024)

Dec 30, 2024 • 38m

Richard Blakemore, "Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Piracy" (Pegasus Books, 2024)

Dec 30, 2024 • 1h 38m

Susanna Ashton, "A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin" (New Press, 2024)

Dec 29, 2024 • 1h 30m

Sara Lodge, "The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective" (Yale UP, 2024)

Dec 29, 2024 • 45m

Robert Darnton, "Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Dec 29, 2024 • 54m

Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)

Dec 29, 2024 • 1h 17m

Charles Foster, "Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)

Dec 29, 2024 • 1h 2m

Oishik Sircar, "Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Dec 29, 2024 • 1h 36m

Radha Kumar, "Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975" (Cornell UP, 2021)

Dec 28, 2024 • 1h 8m

Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020)

Dec 28, 2024 • 1h 19m

Vicky Davis, "Central Asia in World War Two: The Impact and Legacy of Fighting for the Soviet Union" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Dec 28, 2024 • 1h 22m

Kit Kowol, "Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Dec 28, 2024 • 39m

Ben Highmore, "Playgrounds: The Experimental Years" (Reaktion, 2024)

Dec 27, 2024 • 47m

John Eglin, "The Gambling Century: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Dec 27, 2024 • 56m

Giovanna Ceserani, "A World Made by Travel: A Digital Grand Tour" (Stanford UP, 2024)

Dec 27, 2024 • 46m

Daniel B. Hinshaw, "Journey to Simplicity: The Life and Wisdom of Archimandrite Roman Braga" (St Vladimirs Seminary Press, 2023)

Dec 27, 2024 • 1h 37m

Michael Bresalier, "Modern Flu: British Medical Science and the Viralisation of Influenza, 1890-1950" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

Dec 27, 2024 • 1h 7m

Rebecca Ball, "A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)

Dec 26, 2024 • 35m

Juan José Rivas Moreno, "The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

Dec 26, 2024 • 55m

Marianne Kamp, "Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Dec 26, 2024 • 1h 7m

Diana Dumitru, "The State, Antisemitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union" (Cambridge UP, 2016)

Dec 26, 2024 • 1h 53m

Farina King, "Diné dóó Gáamalii: Navajo Latter-day Saint Experiences in the Twentieth Century" (UP of Kansas, 2023)

Dec 26, 2024 • 54m

Lisa Sheryl Jacobson. "Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey After Prohibition" (U California Press, 2024)

Dec 25, 2024 • 1h 33m

Markus Vinzent, "Christ's Torah: The Making of the New Testament in the Second Century" (Routledge, 2023)

Dec 25, 2024 • 1h 2m

Jordan D. Rosenblum, "Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig" (NYU Press, 2024)

Dec 24, 2024 • 1h 5m

Vincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024)

Dec 24, 2024 • 1h 9m

Christine M. Larson, "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Dec 24, 2024 • 50m

Blake Leyerle, "Christians at Home: John Chrysostom and Domestic Rituals in Fourth-Century Antioch" (Penn State UP, 2024)

Dec 23, 2024 • 42m

Paula Fredriksen, "Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Dec 23, 2024 • 54m

Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, "Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Dec 23, 2024 • 1h 6m

Jeremy Dauber, "American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond" (Algonquin Books, 2024)

Dec 22, 2024 • 1h 11m

Linda M. Clemmons, "Unrepentant Dakota Woman: Angelique Renville & the Struggle for Indigenous Identity, 1845-1876" (SDHS Press, 2023)

Dec 22, 2024 • 57m

Amy Helen Bell, "Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Blackout London" (Yale UP, 2024)

Dec 22, 2024 • 25m

Emily Mitchell-Eaton, "New Destinations of Empire: Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United States" (U Georgia Press, 2024)

Dec 22, 2024 • 1h 14m

Hartley Lachter, "Kabbalah and Catastrophe: Historical Memory in Premodern Jewish Mysticism" (Stanford UP, 2024)

Dec 21, 2024 • 45m

Theresa Flanigan, "The Ponte Vecchio: Architecture, Politics, and Civic Identity in Late Medieval Florence" (Brepols, 2024)

Dec 21, 2024 • 49m

Joseph McBride, "George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Dec 21, 2024 • 1h 56m

Chelsea Berry, "Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Dec 20, 2024 • 43m

Jan Machielsen, "The Basque Witch-Hunt: A Secret History" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Dec 20, 2024 • 50m

Christian Bailey, "German Jews in Love: A History" (Stanford UP, 2022)

Dec 20, 2024 • 1h 13m

Veronica Strang, "Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis" (Reaktion, 2023)

Dec 20, 2024 • 39m

Richard Davenport-Hines, "History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft" (William Collins, 2024)

Dec 19, 2024 • 56m

Paul French, "Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)

Dec 19, 2024 • 48m

Nina Edwards, "Weeds" (Reaktion, 2024)

Dec 19, 2024 • 28m

Stephanie Rutherford, "Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of Canada" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022)

Dec 18, 2024 • 53m

Anne K. Bang, "Zanzibari Muslim Moderns: Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Dec 18, 2024 • 1h 6m

Justin Tse, "Sheets of Scattered Sand: Cantonese Protestants and the Secular Dream of the Pacific Rim" (U Notre Dame Press, 2024)

Dec 18, 2024 • 1h 35m

Nergis Ertürk, "Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Dec 18, 2024 • 1h 12m

Stephen Jackson, "The Patchwork of World History in Texas High Schools" (Routledge, 2022)

Dec 18, 2024 • 1h 6m

Kenny Cupers, "The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Dec 17, 2024 • 1h 21m

Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler, "Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Dec 17, 2024 • 34m

Bob Kuska, "Balls of Confusion: Pro Baskelball Goes to War (1965-1970)" (From Way Downtown, 2024)

Dec 17, 2024 • 1h 14m

Tom Clavin, "Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)

Dec 17, 2024 • 44m

Mattias Fibiger, "Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Dec 17, 2024 • 51m

Brian Martin, "From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge: Canada and the Civil War" (ECW Press, 2022)

Dec 16, 2024 • 40m

Alissa Klots, "Domestic Service in the Soviet Union; Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Dec 15, 2024 • 1h 6m

Dianne Ashton and Melissa R. Klapper, "The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai" (NYU Press, 2024)

Dec 15, 2024 • 58m

Antoinette Burton, "Gender History: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Dec 15, 2024 • 37m

Katya Motyl, "Embodied Histories: New Womanhood in Vienna, 1894–1934" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Dec 14, 2024 • 53m

Donald R. Prothero, "The Story of Earth's Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Dec 14, 2024 • 41m

Oliver Rosales, "Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Dec 14, 2024 • 1h 10m

Emanuela Trevisan Semi, "Taamrat Emmanuel: An Ethiopian Jewish Intellectual, Between Colonized and Colonizers" (Centro Primo Levi, 2018)

Dec 14, 2024 • 1h 38m

Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman, "Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie®" (MIT Press, 2024)

Dec 14, 2024 • 35m

A. L. McClanan, "Griffinology: The Griffin's Place in Myth, History and Art" (Reaktion, 2024)

Dec 14, 2024 • 46m

Barbara A. Biesecker, "Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State" (Penn State Press, 2024)

Dec 13, 2024 • 48m

Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Dec 13, 2024 • 1h 6m

Toby Manning, "Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music" (Repeater, 2024)

Dec 13, 2024 • 21m

Leslie Beth Ribovich, "Without a Prayer: Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools" (NYU Press, 2024)

Dec 13, 2024 • 59m

Ana Lucia Araujo, "Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Dec 12, 2024 • 1h 14m

Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

Dec 12, 2024 • 57m

Suzanne Owen and Angela Puca, "Pagan Religions in Five Minutes" (Equinox, 2024)

Dec 12, 2024 • 40m

David J. Collins, SJ, "Disenchanting Albert the Great: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician" (Penn State UP, 2024)

Dec 12, 2024 • 1h 7m

Lucy Noakes, "Dying for the Nation: Death, Grief and Bereavement in Second World War Britain" (Manchester UP, 2022)

Dec 12, 2024 • 49m

Mou Banerjee, "The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India" (Harvard UP, 2025)

Dec 11, 2024 • 1h 20m

Holly M. Karibo, "Rehab on the Range: A History of Addiction and Incarceration in the American West" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Dec 11, 2024 • 46m

Meredith McKittrick, "Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Dec 10, 2024 • 1h 3m

Marissa Greenberg and Rachel Trubowitz, "Milton's Moving Bodies" (Northwestern UP, 2024)

Dec 10, 2024 • 1h 26m

Mie Nakachi, "Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Dec 10, 2024 • 1h 11m

Reem Hilu, "Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s: The Intimate Life of Computers" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

Dec 10, 2024 • 29m

Caroline Winterer, "How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Dec 10, 2024 • 1h 5m

Casey B. K. Dominguez, "Commander in Chief: Partisanship, Nationalism, and the Reconstruction of Congressional War Powers" (UP of Kansas, 2024)

Dec 9, 2024 • 58m

Henri Colt, "Becoming Modigliani" (Rake Press, 2024)

Dec 9, 2024 • 56m

Susan Gaunt Stearns. "Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade" (U Virginia Press, 2024)

Dec 9, 2024 • 1h 3m

A. J. Berkovitz, "A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

Dec 9, 2024 • 1h 11m

Nicola Kristin Karcher and Markus Lundström, "Nordic Fascism: Fragments of an Entangled History" (Routledge, 2022)

Dec 8, 2024 • 33m

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, "Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America" (W. W. Norton, 2024)

Dec 8, 2024 • 57m

David Cowan, "Politics of the Past: Inter-war Memories and the Making of British Popular Politics, 1939–2009" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Dec 8, 2024 • 53m

Cristina Vatulescu, "Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and Their Challenges" (Stanford UP, 2024)

Dec 8, 2024 • 47m

Marlene L. Daut, "The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe" (Knopf, 2025)

Dec 8, 2024 • 1h 10m

Pascal Lottaz and Ingemar Ottosson, "Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War: 1931-1945" (Routledge, 2021)

Dec 8, 2024 • 1h 16m

Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich" (Penguin, 2024)

Dec 8, 2024 • 1h 5m

Jonathan Conlin, "The Met: A History of a Museum and Its People" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Dec 7, 2024 • 57m

Deondra Rose, "The Power of Black Excellence: HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Dec 7, 2024 • 57m

Kerry Smith, "Predicting Disasters: Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Dec 7, 2024 • 1h 11m

Persistent Pastoralism: Monuments and Settlements in the Archaeology of Dhofar

Dec 7, 2024 • 51m

Scott Anthony, "The Story of British Propaganda Film" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Dec 7, 2024 • 53m

Shannon Gayk, "Apocalyptic Ecologies: From Creation to Doom in Middle English Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Dec 6, 2024 • 54m

Jeffrey M. Pilcher, "Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Dec 6, 2024 • 52m

Richard J. Golsan, "Justice in Lyon: Klaus Barbie and France's First Trial for Crimes Against Humanity" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

Dec 6, 2024 • 1h 24m

George Steinmetz, "The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Dec 6, 2024 • 1h 57m

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, "Women and the Reformations: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)

Dec 6, 2024 • 1h 14m

Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History

Dec 6, 2024 • 33m

Caroline Alexander, "Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World" (Viking, 2024)

Dec 5, 2024 • 47m

Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)

Dec 5, 2024 • 1h 18m

Geneviève Rousselière, "Sharing Freedom: Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Dec 4, 2024 • 52m

Alex Mayhew, "Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Dec 4, 2024 • 59m

Russell Thomas, "Tofu: A Culinary History" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

Dec 4, 2024 • 51m

Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, "The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941–1945: War, Occupation, Memory" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

Dec 3, 2024 • 1h 52m

Terry H. Anderson, "Why the Nineties Matter" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Dec 3, 2024 • 52m

Carrie N. Baker, "Abortion Pills: US History and Politics" (Amherst College Press, 2024)

Dec 3, 2024 • 1h 4m

Rachel Hope Cleves, "Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex" (Polity, 2024)

Dec 3, 2024 • 52m

Cindy Ermus, "The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Dec 3, 2024 • 53m

Corey Brettschneider, "The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It" (W. W. Norton, 2024)

Dec 2, 2024 • 1h 15m

Steven King et al., "In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022)

Dec 2, 2024 • 1h 5m

Adrian Tinniswood, "The Power and the Glory: Life in the English Country House Before the Great War" (Basic Books, 2024)

Dec 2, 2024 • 56m

Theara Thun, "Epistemology of the Past: Texts, History, and Intellectuals of Cambodia, 1855–1970" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

Dec 2, 2024 • 48m

Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain, "How Government Built America" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Dec 1, 2024 • 1h 28m

Andrew Hui, "The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Dec 1, 2024 • 30m

James T. White and John Punter, "Condoland: The Planning, Design, and Development of Toronto's CityPlace" (UBC Press, 2023)

Dec 1, 2024 • 1h 23m

Krzysztof Bielawski, "The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)

Dec 1, 2024 • 1h 2m

Maria Adamopoulou, "The Greek Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1974)" (de Gruyter, 2024)

Nov 30, 2024 • 1h 27m

Maria Angela Diaz, "A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War–Era Gulf South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)

Nov 30, 2024 • 51m

Karen Lystra, "Love and the Working Class: The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Nov 30, 2024 • 1h 8m

Micah Alpaugh, "The People's Revolution of 1789" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Nov 29, 2024 • 54m

Caroline Séquin, "Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848-1950" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Nov 29, 2024 • 1h 40m

Johanna Drucker, "Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)

Nov 29, 2024 • 1h 7m

Zsuszanna Szanto, "The Jews of Ptolemaic Egypt: The History of a Diaspora Community in Light of the Papyri (De Gruyter, 2024)

Nov 29, 2024 • 46m

Ryan Moran, "Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Nov 29, 2024 • 1h 43m

Anne B. Rodrick, "Lecturing the Victorians: Knowledge-Based Culture and Participatory Citizenship" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Nov 28, 2024 • 57m

Daniel Cowling, "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans: The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Nov 28, 2024 • 1h 13m

Mary Ellen Curtin, "She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan's Life and Legacy in Black Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Nov 28, 2024 • 1h 12m

Yii-Jan Lin, "Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration" (Yale UP, 2024)

Nov 28, 2024 • 48m

Arthur W. Gullachsen, "The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzer-Division 'Hitlerjugend' (Casemate, 2024)

Nov 27, 2024 • 47m

Nina Valbousquet, "Lukewarm Souls: The Vatican facing the Shoah" (La Découverte, 2024)

Nov 26, 2024 • 1h 4m

Osamah F. Khalil, "A World of Enemies: America's Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden" (Harvard UP, 2024)

Nov 26, 2024 • 1h 17m

W. Paul Reeve, et al., "This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Nov 26, 2024 • 57m

David Suisman, "Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's Soldiers" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Nov 25, 2024 • 1h 5m

Steve J. Shone, "Dangerous Anarchist Strikers" (Brill, 2023)

Nov 25, 2024 • 47m

Kerry Meakin, "The Professionalization of Window Display in Britain, 1919-1939" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Nov 25, 2024 • 51m

Julia Kelto Lillis, "Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity" (U California Press, 2022)

Nov 25, 2024 • 1h 4m

Elizabeth Garner Masarik, "The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State" (U Georgia Press, 2024)

Nov 24, 2024 • 1h 6m

Beverly Tomek and Matthew J. Hetrick, "New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization" (UP of Florida, 2017)

Nov 24, 2024 • 53m

Andrew Fleming, "The Gravity of Feathers: Fame, Fortune and the Story of St Kilda" (Birlinn, 2024)

Nov 24, 2024 • 42m

Travis A. Weisse, "Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness" (UNC Press, 2024)

Nov 23, 2024 • 53m

Margaret Mehl, "Music and the Making of Modern Japan: Joining the Global Concert" (Open Book, 2024)

Nov 23, 2024 • 58m

138c Herbert Hoover gave us Woody Guthrie (with David Cunningham)

Nov 23, 2024 • 24m

Required Reading

Nov 23, 2024 • 21m

Phillip Lieberman, "The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Nov 23, 2024 • 1h 28m

Youcef Soufi, "Homegrown Radicals: A Story of State Violence, Islamophobia, and Jihad in the Post-9/11 World" (NYU Press, 2025)

Nov 22, 2024 • 1h 23m

Jill Norman, "The English Table: Our Food Through the Ages" (Reaktion, 2024)

Nov 22, 2024 • 33m

Roberta Pergher, "Mussolini's Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922–1943" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

Nov 22, 2024 • 1h 14m

Timothy E. Nelson, "Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)

Nov 22, 2024 • 54m

Leila K. Norako, "Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Nov 22, 2024 • 1h 27m

Fiona Smyth, "Pistols in St Paul's: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century" (Manchester UP, 2024)

Nov 22, 2024 • 35m

Allen James Fromherz, "The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present" (U California Press, 2024)

Nov 21, 2024 • 54m

Joan L. Bryant, "Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-century America" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Nov 21, 2024 • 37m

Peter Singer, "Consider the Turkey" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Nov 21, 2024 • 47m

Debra Bruno, "A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Nov 21, 2024 • 40m

S4E15 To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: A Conversation with Dr. Benjamin Nathans

Nov 20, 2024 • 52m

Ramie Targoff, "Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance" (Knopf, 2024)

Nov 20, 2024 • 39m

Dennis Romano, "Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Nov 20, 2024 • 1h 8m

Benjamin Barson, "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)

Nov 19, 2024 • 1h 7m

Domingo Morel, "Developing Scholars: Race, Politics, and the Pursuit of Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Nov 19, 2024 • 50m

George Severs, "Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Nov 19, 2024 • 50m

Park Jeong-Mi, "The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea" (U California Press, 2024)

Nov 19, 2024 • 1h 3m

Masha Kirasirova, "The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Nov 19, 2024 • 1h 0m

D. Andrew Johnson, "Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)

Nov 18, 2024 • 41m

Andrew Stone Higgins, "Higher Education for All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan" (UNC Press, 2023)

Nov 18, 2024 • 1h 3m

Laura F. Edwards, "Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Nov 18, 2024 • 55m

Connie DeNave, "The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass" (2023)

Nov 18, 2024 • 54m

Victor P. Petrov, "Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain" (MIT Press, 2023)

Nov 18, 2024 • 57m

Ian Miller, "Self-Esteem: An American History" (Polity Press, 2024)

Nov 17, 2024 • 42m

Peter Worthing, "General He Yingqin: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China" (Cambridge UP, 2016)

Nov 17, 2024 • 1h 21m

Karen M. Dunak, "Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life" (NYU Press, 2024)

Nov 17, 2024 • 37m

Samuel Fury Childs Daly, "Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)

Nov 16, 2024 • 53m

Nicholas Baer, "Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism" (U California Press, 2024)

Nov 16, 2024 • 38m

J. Arch Getty and Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "Reflections on Stalinism" (Northern Illinois UP, 2024)

Nov 16, 2024 • 46m

Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)

Nov 16, 2024 • 1h 8m

Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)

Nov 16, 2024 • 58m

Serena Laiena, "The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy: Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing" (U Delaware Press, 2023)

Oct 5, 2024 • 47m

Jeffrey Ding, "Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Oct 5, 2024 • 35m

Eric Steven Zimmer, "Red Earth Nation: A History of the Meskwaki Settlement" (U Oklahoma Press, 2024)

Oct 5, 2024 • 1h 35m

Israel G. Solares, "Underground Leviathan: Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas" (U Nevada Press, 2024)

Oct 5, 2024 • 33m

Faisal Devji, "Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea" (Harvard UP, 2013)

Oct 4, 2024 • 1h 37m

Anat Geva, "The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s-1960s" (Texas A&M UP, 2023)

Oct 4, 2024 • 53m

Robert Rozett, "Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front During the Second World War" (Yad Vashem, 2014)

Oct 4, 2024 • 1h 3m

Sean McMeekin, "To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism" (Basic Books, 2024)

Oct 4, 2024 • 55m

Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action

Oct 3, 2024 • 59m

Camille Owens, "Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America" (NYU Press, 2024)

Oct 3, 2024 • 42m

William Cook Miller, "The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Oct 3, 2024 • 59m

Brianna Nofil, "The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Oct 2, 2024 • 39m

Christian Wolmar, "The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and Ingenuity Won World War II" (Hachette, 2024)

Oct 2, 2024 • 1h 1m

From Tribalism to Common Humanity: A Conversation with Dr. John Ellis

Oct 2, 2024 • 56m

Naomi Seidman, "In the Freud Closet: Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages" (Stanford UP, 2024)

Oct 2, 2024 • 1h 13m

Jerome E. Copulsky, "American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order" (Yale UP, 2024)

Oct 1, 2024 • 1h 14m

Mary Bridges, "Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Oct 1, 2024 • 1h 0m

Paola Bertucci, "In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

Oct 1, 2024 • 1h 10m

Steven T. Katz, "The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Sep 30, 2024 • 58m

James A. Anderson, "The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road: Trade, Security, and State Formation" (U Washington Press, 2024)

Sep 30, 2024 • 31m

Lynne B. Sagalyn, "Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change" (MIT Press, 2023)

Sep 30, 2024 • 1h 1m

Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, "Desert Ascetics of Egypt" (ARC Humanities Press, 2020)

Sep 30, 2024 • 1h 1m

Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav, "Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood" (India Viking, 2024)

Sep 29, 2024 • 1h 2m

Estelle Tarica, "Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America" (SUNY Press, 2022)

Sep 29, 2024 • 1h 5m

Annette Kehnel, "The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability" (Brandeis UP, 2024)

Sep 29, 2024 • 54m

William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)

Sep 29, 2024 • 1h 3m

Inés Valdez, "Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Sep 29, 2024 • 1h 2m

J. C. D. Clark, "The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Sep 28, 2024 • 31m

Konrad Bercovici, "The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years with the Legends Who Lunch" (SUNY Press, 2024)

Sep 28, 2024 • 45m

Samuel J. Hirst, "Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Sep 28, 2024 • 1h 4m

Jeff Schuhrke, "Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of U.S. Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade" (Verso, 2024)

Sep 27, 2024 • 1h 9m

Waitman Wade Beorn, "Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

Sep 27, 2024 • 1h 28m

Jack A. Goldstone, "Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Sep 27, 2024 • 1h 5m

Kerry Brown, "The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power" (Yale UP, 2024)

Sep 26, 2024 • 39m

Zeev Levin, "Collectivization and Social Engineering: Soviet Administration and the Jews of Uzbekistan, 1917-1939" (Brill, 2015)

Sep 26, 2024 • 1h 23m

Alessandra Russo, "A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400-1600" (Penn State UP, 2024)

Sep 26, 2024 • 1h 3m

Charmian Mansell, "Female Servants in Early Modern England" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Sep 26, 2024 • 49m

Joseph Harley, "At Home with the Poor: Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in England, c.1650-1850" (Manchester UP, 2024)

Sep 25, 2024 • 50m

Anthony Tucker-Jones, "The Fall of Berlin: The Final Days of Hitler's Evil Regime" (Sirius, 2024)

Sep 25, 2024 • 1h 23m

Jane Little Botkin, "The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen" (She Writes Press, 2024)

Sep 24, 2024 • 39m

Susan Doran, "From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Sep 24, 2024 • 1h 3m

Francesco Lotoro, "The Lost Music of the Holocaust: Bringing the Music of the Camps to the Ears of the World at Last" (Headline, 2024)

Sep 24, 2024 • 1h 31m

Steve Tibble, "Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land" (Yale UP, 2024)

Sep 24, 2024 • 56m

Jason A. Josephson Storm, "The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences" (U Chicago Press, 2017)

Sep 23, 2024 • 1h 10m

Wayne A. Wiegand, "In Silence or Indifference: Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)

Sep 23, 2024 • 29m

Emily Carman, "Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System" (U Texas Press, 2016)

Sep 23, 2024 • 1h 15m

Robert Polner and Michael Tubridy, "An Irish Passion for Justice: The Life of Rebel New York Attorney Paul O'Dwyer" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Sep 22, 2024 • 50m

Andreas E. Feldmann, "Repertoires of Terrorism: Organizational Identity and Violence in Colombia's Civil War" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Sep 22, 2024 • 42m

Jack Palmer, "Zygmunt Bauman and the West: A Sociology of Intellectual Exile" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)

Sep 22, 2024 • 1h 20m

Lucy Weir, "Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury" (Routledge, 2024)

Sep 21, 2024 • 40m

Amir Alexander, "Liberty's Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Sep 21, 2024 • 1h 0m

Michael David-Fox, "The Secret Police and the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

Sep 21, 2024 • 56m

Caree A. Banton, "More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Sep 21, 2024 • 1h 26m

Tom Navon, "Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust: Otto Heller (1897–1945)" (SUNY Press, 2024)

Sep 21, 2024 • 1h 3m

Sarah Lewis, "The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America" (Harvard UP, 2024)

Sep 21, 2024 • 45m

Tone Bleie, "A New Testament: Scandinavian Missionaries and Santal Chiefs from Company and British Crown Rule to Independence" (Solum Bokvennen, 2023)

Sep 20, 2024 • 43m

Michael Livingston, "Agincourt: Battle of the Scarred King" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Sep 20, 2024 • 1h 7m

Jack Crangle, "Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Twentieth-century Northern Ireland: British, Irish or 'Other’?" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Sep 20, 2024 • 53m

Jack Margolin, "The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’s Mercenary Army" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

Sep 19, 2024 • 52m

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)

Sep 19, 2024 • 55m

Iemima Ploscariu, "Alternative Evangelicals: Challenging Nationalism in Interwar Romania's Multi-ethnic Borderlands" (Brill, 2024)

Sep 19, 2024 • 48m

Steven K. Bailey, "Target Hong Kong: A True Story of U.S. Navy Pilots at War" (Osprey, 2024)

Sep 19, 2024 • 51m

William H. F. Altman, "The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism" (Lexington Books, 2010)

Sep 18, 2024 • 2h 12m

Joy Knoblauch, "The Architecture of Good Behavior: Psychology and Modern Institutional Design in Postwar America" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)

Sep 18, 2024 • 42m

Zrinka Stahuljak, "Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Sep 18, 2024 • 1h 10m

Sheri Chinen Biesen, "Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Sep 18, 2024 • 1h 6m

Caroline Burt and Richard Partington, "Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State" (Faber & Faber, 2024)

Sep 17, 2024 • 1h 11m

Will Grant, "Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Sep 17, 2024 • 57m

Jason Ramsey, "Reckoning with Change in Yucatán: Histories of Care and Threat on a Former Hacienda" (Routledge, 2023)

Sep 17, 2024 • 1h 32m

Philip Freeman, "Julian: Rome's Last Pagan Emperor" (Yale UP, 2023)

Sep 16, 2024 • 41m

Wendy Ugolini, "Wales in England, 1914-1945: A Social, Cultural, and Military History" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Sep 16, 2024 • 1h 0m

Michael D. Hattem, "The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History" (Yale UP, 2024)

Sep 15, 2024 • 1h 0m

Mikhail Zygar, "War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine" (Scribner, 2023)

Sep 15, 2024 • 1h 7m

Paul Peart-Smith, "Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: A Graphic Interpretation" (Beacon Press, 2024)

Sep 15, 2024 • 1h 18m

Theodore Papakostas, "How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator" (William Collins, 2024)

Sep 14, 2024 • 28m

Salma Siddique, "Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Sep 14, 2024 • 1h 6m

Whitney Barlow Robles, "Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History" (Yale UP, 2023)

Sep 13, 2024 • 54m

Lynn M. Tesser, "Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics" (Stanford UP, 2024)

Sep 13, 2024 • 55m

Grant Olwage, "Paul Robeson's Voices" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Sep 13, 2024 • 1h 38m

Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, "When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s" (UP of Kansas, 2022)

Sep 13, 2024 • 48m

Aleksandra Djuric Milovanovic, "The Untold Journey of the Nazarene Emigration from Yugoslavia to North America" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

Sep 13, 2024 • 1h 2m

Peter Rose, "The Good War of Consul Reeves" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)

Sep 12, 2024 • 50m

Isaac Nakhimovsky, "The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Sep 12, 2024 • 1h 12m

Greg Eghigian, "After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Sep 11, 2024 • 1h 1m

Edel Bhreathnach, "Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900-1250" (Four Courts Press, 2024)

Sep 11, 2024 • 32m

Matthew C. Ehrlich, "The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine" (U Illinois Press, 2024)

Sep 11, 2024 • 44m

Josh Cowen, "The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers" (Harvard Education Press, 2024)

Sep 10, 2024 • 41m

Anthony Michael Kreis, "Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development" (U California Press, 2024)

Sep 9, 2024 • 1h 5m

Kaitlin Sidorsky, "All Roads Lead to Power: The Appointed and Elected Paths to Public Office for US Women" (UP Kansas, 2019)

Sep 9, 2024 • 52m

Sharon M. Quinsaat, "Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Sep 9, 2024 • 57m

Martha Rampton, "Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000" (Cornell UP, 2021)

Sep 9, 2024 • 56m

Yaacob Dweck, "Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas" (Princeton UP, 2019)

Sep 8, 2024 • 54m

The Relations of Estonia and Japan from the 19th Century to early-21st Century

Sep 8, 2024 • 38m

Yakov Feygin, "Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform" (Harvard UP, 2024)

Sep 8, 2024 • 1h 6m

Ana Stevenson, "The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

Sep 8, 2024 • 54m

Terrence G. Peterson, "Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Sep 7, 2024 • 49m

Tom Boniface-Webb, "Modern Music Masters: Oasis" (MMM, 2020)

Sep 7, 2024 • 1h 12m

Sara E. Johnson, "Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2023)

Sep 7, 2024 • 44m

The Epic Story of America's Great Migration: A Talk by Isabel Wilkerson

Sep 7, 2024 • 1h 8m

Paul J. Kosmin, "Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire" (Harvard UP, 2018)

Sep 7, 2024 • 1h 16m

James M. Scott, "Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb" (Norton, 2024)

Sep 6, 2024 • 57m

Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France" (Duke UP, 2018)

Sep 6, 2024 • 1h 0m

Mark Blake, "Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac" (Pegasus Books, 2024)

Sep 6, 2024 • 54m

Duncan Simpson, "I am pleased to inform the director: letters from Portuguese people to PIDE (1958-1968)" (Silveira, BookBuilders, 2022)

Sep 5, 2024 • 57m

Dan Stone, "Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Sep 5, 2024 • 1h 9m

John P. Davis, "Russia in the Time of Cholera" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

Sep 4, 2024 • 1h 0m

Daniel Laqua, "Activism Across Borders Since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and Beyond Europe" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Sep 4, 2024 • 33m

Julia Kindt, "The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Sep 4, 2024 • 46m

E. J. Fagan, "The Thinkers: The Rise of Partisan Think Tanks and the Polarization of American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Sep 4, 2024 • 52m

Faizah Zakaria, "The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia" (U Washington Press, 2023)

Sep 4, 2024 • 40m

Jonathan Butler, "Join the Conspiracy: How a Brooklyn Eccentric Got Lost on the Right, Infiltrated the Left and Brought Down the Biggest Bombing Network in New York" (Fordham UP, 2024)

Sep 3, 2024 • 45m

Kostas Kampourakis, "Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Sep 3, 2024 • 44m

David Lay Williams, "The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Sep 3, 2024 • 1h 10m

Aaron M. Hyman, "Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America" (Getty, 2021)

Sep 3, 2024 • 1h 0m

John S. Garrison, "Red Hot + Blue" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Sep 2, 2024 • 46m

Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)

Sep 2, 2024 • 1h 6m

Laura Salah Nasrallah, "Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses: Magic, Aesthetics, and Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Sep 2, 2024 • 1h 6m

Gill Bennett, “The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy that Never Dies” (Oxford UP, 2018)

Sep 2, 2024 • 56m

Elizabeth A. Williams, "Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

Sep 2, 2024 • 53m

Manuela Moschella, "Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Sep 1, 2024 • 46m

James P. Leary, “Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937–1946” (U Wisconsin Press, 2015)

Sep 1, 2024 • 58m

Colette Brull-Ulmann et al., "Through the Morgue Door: One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Sep 1, 2024 • 3h 8m

Karen Ordahl Kupperman, "Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia" (NYU Press, 2019)

Sep 1, 2024 • 51m

Sarah Miller-Davenport, "Gateway State: Hawai’i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire" (Princeton UP, 2019)

Sep 1, 2024 • 59m

Henry H. Work, "Wood, Whiskey and Wine: A History of Barrels"(Reaktion Books, 2024)

Sep 1, 2024 • 46m

Christine Folch, "The Book of Yerba Mate: A Stimulating History" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Sep 1, 2024 • 31m

Edwin P Rutan II, "High-Bounty Men in the Army of the Potomac: Reclaiming Their Honor" (Kent State UP, 2024)

Aug 31, 2024 • 1h 6m

Susan Greenhalgh, "Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Aug 31, 2024 • 20m

Cynthia A. Ruder, “Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space” (I. B. Tauris, 2018)

Aug 31, 2024 • 1h 2m

Constance L. Kirker and Mary Newman, "Mango: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

Aug 31, 2024 • 1h 5m

Steven Watts, "Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Aug 31, 2024 • 38m

Daniel Todman, "Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Aug 31, 2024 • 54m

Ronnie Grinberg, "Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Aug 30, 2024 • 56m

Lise Butler, "Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left, 1945-1970" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Aug 30, 2024 • 1h 14m

Aleksander Pluskowski, "The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation" (Reaktion, 2024)

Aug 30, 2024 • 56m

Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: : The Horse and the Rise of Empires

Aug 30, 2024 • 1h 2m

Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov, "Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism" (Stanford UP, 2019)

Aug 29, 2024 • 52m

Mark Valeri, "The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Aug 29, 2024 • 49m

Randall Stephens, "The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock n’ Roll" (Harvard UP, 2018)

Aug 28, 2024 • 57m

Ellen Hampton, "Doctors at War: The Clandestine Battle Against the Nazi Occupation of France" (LSU Press, 2023)

Aug 28, 2024 • 58m

Ludovico Silva, "Marx's Literary Style" (Verso, 2023)

Aug 28, 2024 • 1h 8m

Christopher Lovins, "King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea" (SUNY Press, 2019)

Aug 27, 2024 • 1h 12m

Holly Miowak Guise, "Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II" (U Washington Press, 2024)

Aug 27, 2024 • 1h 9m

Michelle Tusan, "The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Aug 27, 2024 • 1h 3m

Lori Gemeiner-Bihler, "Cities of Refuge: German Jews in London and New York, 1935-1945" (SUNY Press, 2019)

Aug 27, 2024 • 1h 9m

Robin E. Möser, "Disarming Apartheid: The End of South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme and Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1968–1991" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Aug 26, 2024 • 45m

Marie-Eve Desrosiers, "Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control Before the Genocide" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Aug 26, 2024 • 1h 9m

Cyrus Mody on the Importance of Square (as in NOT COOL) Scientists and Engineers

Aug 26, 2024 • 1h 11m

James Barrera, "'We Want Better Education!': The 1960s Chicano Student Movement, School Walkouts, and the Quest for Educational Reform in South Texas" (Texas A&M UP, 2023)

Aug 25, 2024 • 55m

Phil Haun, "Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War: Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Aug 25, 2024 • 43m

Douglas K. Miller, "Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2019)

Aug 25, 2024 • 1h 43m

Damaging Rationality: Exxon-Funded Legal Research and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Aug 25, 2024 • 1h 13m

Regina G. Kunzel, "In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Aug 25, 2024 • 52m

Michael Hill, "The Lost Prime Ministers: Macdonald's Successors Abbott, Thompson, Bowell, and Tupper" (Dundurn, 2022)

Aug 24, 2024 • 1h 26m

Adam Zamoyski, "Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess" (William Collins, 2024)

Aug 24, 2024 • 56m

Cassio de Oliveira, "Writing Rogues: The Soviet Picaresque and Identity Formation, 1921-1938" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)

Aug 24, 2024 • 1h 13m

Nazmul Sultan, "Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought" (Harvard UP, 2024)

Aug 24, 2024 • 1h 48m

Anders Persson, "EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)

Aug 24, 2024 • 1h 0m

Gary Mucciaroni, "Answers to the Labour Question: Industrial Relations and the State in the Anglophone World, 1880–1945" (U Toronto Press, 2024)

Aug 24, 2024 • 1h 8m

Wesley G. Phelps, "Before Lawrence v. Texas: The Making of a Queer Social Movement" (U Texas Press, 2023)

Aug 24, 2024 • 1h 0m

Christopher Beckman, "Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine" (Hurst, 2024)

Aug 23, 2024 • 44m

Laurien Vastenhout, "Between Community and Collaboration: 'Jewish Councils' in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Aug 23, 2024 • 1h 28m

Robin Bernstein, "Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Aug 23, 2024 • 1h 16m

Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, "Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Aug 23, 2024 • 57m

Bruce W. Dearstyne, "Progressive New York: Change and Reform in the Empire State, 1900-1920: A Reader" (SUNY Press, 2024)

Aug 23, 2024 • 51m

Ren Pepitone, "Brotherhood of Barristers: A Cultural History of the British Legal Profession, 1840–1940" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Aug 22, 2024 • 58m

Edward Pearson, "The Enslaved and Their Enslavers: Power, Resistance, and Culture in South Carolina, 1670-1825" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

Aug 22, 2024 • 1h 6m

Rachel Kousser, "Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great" (Mariner Books, 2024)

Aug 22, 2024 • 50m

Steven J. Zipperstein, “Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History” (Liveright/Norton, 2018)

Aug 21, 2024 • 54m

Oliver Volckart, "The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Aug 21, 2024 • 53m

Joachim C. Häberlen, "Beauty Is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe" (Penguin, 2023)

Aug 21, 2024 • 1h 19m

Rama Sundari Mantena, "Provincial Democracy: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire in Twentieth-century South India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Aug 20, 2024 • 1h 15m

Jiří Hutečka, "Men Under Fire: Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918" (Berghahn Books, 2019)

Aug 20, 2024 • 1h 3m

Susanne Barth, "From Schmelt Camp to 'Little Auschwitz': Blechhammer’s Role in the Holocaust" (Purdue UP, 2024)

Aug 19, 2024 • 1h 4m

Laura S. Lieber, "Staging the Sacred: Performance in Late Ancient Liturgical Poetry" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Aug 19, 2024 • 1h 4m

The Sounds of Silents

Aug 19, 2024 • 47m

Vanessa S. Oliveira, "Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)

Aug 18, 2024 • 1h 7m

Victoria Smolkin, "A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism" (Princeton UP, 2018)

Aug 18, 2024 • 1h 3m

Gerarldo Cadava, "The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump" (Ecco, 2020)

Aug 18, 2024 • 1h 5m

Maria Taroutina and Allison Leigh, "Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Aug 17, 2024 • 42m

Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "Haitian History: New Perspectives" (Routledge, 2012)

Aug 17, 2024 • 52m

Farshid Emami, "Isfahan: Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran" (Penn State UP, 2024)

Aug 17, 2024 • 53m

Stuart Elden, "The Birth of Territory" (U Chicago Press, 2013)

Aug 17, 2024 • 1h 2m

Lesley Smith, "Fragments of a World: William of Auvergne and His Medieval Life" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Aug 16, 2024 • 41m

Heath Brown, "Roadblocked: Joe Biden's Rocky Transition to the Presidency" (UP of Kansas, 2024)

Aug 16, 2024 • 59m

Lauren Benton, "They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Aug 16, 2024 • 51m

Javier Fernández-Galeano, "Queer Obscenity: Erotic Archives in Dictatorial Spain" (Stanford UP, 2024)

Aug 16, 2024 • 1h 5m

Abbey Stockstill, "Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib" (Penn State UP, 2024)

Aug 16, 2024 • 57m

Policing and White Power with Daniel Kryder and David Cunningham (JP, EF)

Aug 15, 2024 • 39m

Tehila Sasson, "The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Aug 14, 2024 • 56m

Jaclyn Sumner, "Indigenous Autocracy: Power, Race, and Resources in Porfirian Tlaxcala, Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Aug 14, 2024 • 1h 20m

James Madison and the Spirit of Self-Government: A Conversation with Colleen Sheehan

Aug 14, 2024 • 55m

Noah Heringman, "Deep Time: A Literary History" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Aug 14, 2024 • 53m

Alonso Duralde, "Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film" (Running Press Adult, 2024)

Aug 14, 2024 • 59m

Zoe Knox, “Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Secular World: From the 1870s to the Present” (Palgrave, 2018)

Aug 13, 2024 • 34m

Heather Murray, "Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

Aug 13, 2024 • 43m

Barbara Emerson, "The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century" (Hurst, 2024)

Aug 13, 2024 • 40m

Marc Ambinder, “The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983” (Simon & Schuster, 2018)

Aug 13, 2024 • 1h 0m

Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, "Movies Under the Influence" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

Aug 13, 2024 • 55m

Ana Raquel Minian, “Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration” (Harvard UP, 2018)

Aug 13, 2024 • 1h 5m

Peter Charles Hoffer, "The Supreme Court Footnote: A Surprising History" (NYU Press, 2024)

Aug 12, 2024 • 1h 4m

Benjamin C. Waterhouse on "One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America"

Aug 12, 2024 • 1h 25m

Sara J. Charles, "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

Aug 12, 2024 • 50m

David L. Hoffmann, "The Stalinist Era" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

Aug 11, 2024 • 1h 9m

Marissa Nicosia, "Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Aug 11, 2024 • 46m

Kirsten Fermaglich, "A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America" (NYU Press, 2018)

Aug 11, 2024 • 1h 1m

Eric Hoyt, "Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema’s Trade Press" (U California Press, 2022)

Aug 11, 2024 • 1h 11m

Matthew Evangelista, "Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945: Bombing among Friends" (Routledge, 2024)

Aug 11, 2024 • 1h 0m

Cordelia Heß, "The Medieval Archive of Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden" (de Gruyter, 2021)

Aug 10, 2024 • 1h 24m

Peter Hart, "The Gallipoli Evacuation" (Living History, 2020)

Aug 10, 2024 • 1h 6m

Daniel Kahneman’s Forgotten Legacy: Investigating Exxon-Funded Psychological Research

Aug 9, 2024 • 1h 5m

Paul Koudounaris, "Faithful Unto Death: Pet Cemeteries, Animal Graves, and Eternal Devotion" (Thames & Hudson, 2024)

Aug 9, 2024 • 46m

Dora Osborne, "What Remains: The Post-Holocaust Archive in German Memory Culture" (Camden House, 2020)

Aug 9, 2024 • 1h 2m

Paul Volcker: “The only number that works is zero”

Aug 9, 2024 • 49m

Laura Zurowski et al., "City Steps of Pittsburgh: A History & Guide" (History Press, 2024)

Aug 8, 2024 • 41m

Arthur Burns: “The smartest guy in the room”

Aug 8, 2024 • 47m

Lio Mangubat, "Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves: Lost Tales from the Philippine Colonial Period, 1565-1946" (Faction Press, 2024)

Aug 8, 2024 • 55m

Jacob Soll, "Free Market: The History of an Idea" (Basic Books, 2022)

Aug 8, 2024 • 1h 29m

Murad Khan Mumtaz, "Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500-1800" (Brill, 2023)

Aug 8, 2024 • 32m

Katharine Sykes, "Symbolic Reproduction in Early Medieval England" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Aug 8, 2024 • 42m

Nora Stone, "How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Aug 8, 2024 • 1h 8m

Andrew Denning, "Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Aug 7, 2024 • 1h 12m

Kenneth Atkinson, "A History of the Hasmonean State: Josephus and Beyond" (T&T Clark, 2019)

Aug 7, 2024 • 1h 16m

Eyal Regev, "The Temple in Early Christianity: Experiencing the Sacred" (Yale UP, 2019)

Aug 7, 2024 • 36m

Bill Martin: “Truman looked at him and said: ‘Traitor’”

Aug 7, 2024 • 48m

Tore C. Olsson, "Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)

Aug 6, 2024 • 1h 15m

Alexandra Popoff, "Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success" (Yale UP, 2024)

Aug 6, 2024 • 1h 0m

Marriner Eccles: Reform “may not have happened in 1935 if Eccles hadn't been there”

Aug 6, 2024 • 1h 4m

Anne Gray Fischer, "The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification" (UNC Press, 2022)

Aug 5, 2024 • 1h 14m

Anna Bonnell Freidin, "Birthing Romans: Childbearing and Its Risks in Imperial Rome" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Aug 5, 2024 • 1h 40m

Katherine Hempstead, "Uncovered: The Story of Insurance in America" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Aug 5, 2024 • 44m

Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Aug 5, 2024 • 59m

Mark Walker, "Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Aug 5, 2024 • 1h 1m

Yoram Meital, "Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Aug 4, 2024 • 1h 3m

Janine P. Holc, "The Weavers of Trautenau: Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust" (Brandeis UP, 2023)

Aug 4, 2024 • 55m

Douglas Greene, "The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky: The Renegade's Revenge" (Routledge, 2024)

Aug 4, 2024 • 1h 26m

Jeremy Black, "Histories of War" (Pen & Sword Military, 2024)

Aug 4, 2024 • 36m

Petra Goedde, "The Politics of Peace: A Global Cold War History" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Aug 4, 2024 • 57m

Nik Ribianszky, "Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865" (U Georgia Press, 2021)

Aug 3, 2024 • 1h 17m

Swati Chattopadhyay, "Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Aug 3, 2024 • 56m

Iman Mersal, "Traces of Enayat" (Transit Books, 2023)

Aug 3, 2024 • 1h 3m

Mitchel P. Roth and Mahmut Cengiz, "Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

Aug 2, 2024 • 42m

Edward Kaplan, "The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Aug 2, 2024 • 1h 6m

Robert Baker, "Making Modern Medical Ethics: How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics" (MIT Press, 2024)

Aug 2, 2024 • 1h 2m

Roger Crowley, "Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2024)

Aug 1, 2024 • 54m

Shaul Magid on the Jewish Radicalism of Meir Kahane (JP, Eugene Sheppard)

Aug 1, 2024 • 55m

Everyday Architecture in Context: Public Markets in Hong Kong (1842-1981) (Chinese U of Hong Kong Press, 2023)

Aug 1, 2024 • 52m

Jane-Marie Collins, "Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888" (Liverpool UP, 2023)

Aug 1, 2024 • 1h 19m

On Sino-Vietnamese Border Relations

Jul 31, 2024 • 48m

Adara Goldberg, "Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947-1955" (U Manitoba Press, 2015)

Jul 31, 2024 • 1h 23m

Stephen J. Pyne, "Pyrocene Park: A Journey Into the Fire History of Yosemite National Park" (U Arizona Press, 2023)

Jul 30, 2024 • 1h 9m

Matthew H. Sommer, "The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Jul 30, 2024 • 1h 26m

Benjamin Nathans, "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Jul 30, 2024 • 1h 14m

Tim Cooper, "When Christians Disagree: Lessons from the Fractured Relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter" (Crossway, 2024)

Jul 30, 2024 • 35m

David A. Messenger, "Hunting Nazis in Franco's Spain" (LSU Press, 2014)

Jul 30, 2024 • 1h 11m

Richard D. Oram, "Where Men No More May Reap Or Sow: The Little Ice Age: Scotland 1400-1850" (Birlinn, 2024)

Jul 30, 2024 • 1h 13m

David Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jul 29, 2024 • 44m

Kate McDonald on Asian Mobility History as Labor History

Jul 29, 2024 • 1h 13m

Ewa K. Bacon, "Saving Lives in Auschwitz: The Prisoners’ Hospital in Buna-Monowitz" (Purdue UP, 2017)

Jul 29, 2024 • 1h 24m

Bastiaan Willems, "Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944–1945" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Jul 29, 2024 • 1h 29m

Laura Yares, "Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America" (NYU Press, 2023)

Jul 28, 2024 • 1h 10m

Kristie Flannery, "Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Jul 28, 2024 • 59m

Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, "The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973: The USSR's Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2017)

Jul 28, 2024 • 1h 19m

Prithi Kanakamedala, "Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough" (NYU Press, 2024)

Jul 28, 2024 • 54m

Sheila Curran Bernard, "Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Jul 28, 2024 • 32m

Gilad Sharvit, "Dynamic Repetition: History and Messianism in Modern Jewish Thought" (Brandeis UP, 2022)

Jul 27, 2024 • 1h 3m

Kathleen Loock, "Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture" (U California Press, 2024)

Jul 27, 2024 • 1h 7m

Derek Taira, "Forward without Fear: Native Hawaiians and American Education in Territorial Hawai'i, 1900-1941" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

Jul 27, 2024 • 52m

Robyn Hitchcock, "1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left" (Akashic Books, 2024)

Jul 27, 2024 • 52m

Miriam Eve Mora, "Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century" (Wayne State UP, 2024)

Jul 27, 2024 • 1h 12m

Justin B. Stein, "Alternate Currents: Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)

Jul 27, 2024 • 56m

Lindsay Goss, "F*ck The Army!: How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War" (NYU Press, 2024)

Jul 27, 2024 • 40m

Christina Yi et al., "Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asian Empire" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)

Jul 27, 2024 • 1h 16m

Sonia-Doris Andras, "The Women of 'Little Paris': Women’s Fashion in Interwar Bucharest" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Jul 26, 2024 • 41m

Daisy Dunn, "The Missing Thread: How Women Shaped the Course of Ancient History" (Viking, 2024)

Jul 26, 2024 • 24m

David Burke, "The Puppet Masters: How MI6 Masterminded Ireland's Deepest State Crisis" (Mercier Press, 2024)

Jul 25, 2024 • 1h 13m

Dan Morrison, "The Poisoner of Bengal: The 1930s Murder That Shocked the World" (Juggernaut, 2024)

Jul 25, 2024 • 46m

Ed Pulford, "Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea" (Stanford UP, 2024)

Jul 25, 2024 • 1h 10m

Jonathan Dimbleby, "Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jul 24, 2024 • 44m

Mark Baker, "Pivot of China: Spatial Politics and Inequality in Modern Zhengzhou" (Harvard UP, 2024)

Jul 24, 2024 • 52m

Travis B. Williams, "History and Memory in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Remembering the Teacher of Righteousness" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Jul 24, 2024 • 1h 20m

Ebony Nilsson, "Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Jul 24, 2024 • 40m

Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling

Jul 24, 2024 • 1h 15m

Sarah Osten, "The Mexican Revolution's Wake: The Making of a Political System, 1920–1929" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

Jul 23, 2024 • 1h 8m

Nancy M. Bradbury, "Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales" (Penn State UP, 2024)

Jul 23, 2024 • 1h 4m

Charles Barr, "British Cinema: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Jul 23, 2024 • 1h 2m

Patrick McKelvey, "Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation" (NYU Press, 2024)

Jul 23, 2024 • 1h 2m

Steven K. Bailey, "Target Hong Kong: A True Story of U.S. Navy Pilots at War" (Osprey, 2024)

Jul 23, 2024 • 1h 18m

Lisandro Perez, “Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York” (NYU Press, 2018)

Jul 22, 2024 • 38m

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward, "Fascism in America: Past and Present" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jul 22, 2024 • 38m

David E. Kaiser, “The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy” (Harvard UP, 2008)

Jul 22, 2024 • 1h 19m

Anton Howes, "Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation" (Princeton UP, 2020)

Jul 22, 2024 • 1h 10m

Kevin Mattson, "We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Jul 22, 2024 • 1h 9m

A. Ricardo López-Pedreros and Lina Britto, "Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-1970s" (Routledge, 2024)

Jul 22, 2024 • 54m

Mark Letteney, "The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jul 22, 2024 • 1h 15m

Tiffany Gill, "To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism" (U Illinois Press, 2019)

Jul 21, 2024 • 40m

Arang Keshavarzian, "Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East" (Stanford UP, 2024)

Jul 21, 2024 • 1h 4m

Yanagawa Seigan, "The Same Moon Shines on All: The Lives and Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and Kōran" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Jul 21, 2024 • 54m

Donald L. Miller, "Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign that Broke the Confederacy" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)

Jul 21, 2024 • 1h 27m

Steve Gillon, “The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After” (Basic Books, 2009)

Jul 21, 2024 • 1h 12m

Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jul 20, 2024 • 1h 2m

Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)

Jul 20, 2024 • 55m

Frances Tanzer, "Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Jul 20, 2024 • 1h 7m

Michael J. Douma, "The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York: A Cultural, Economic, and Demographic History, 1700-1827" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Jul 20, 2024 • 51m

Stephanie Balkwill, "The Women Who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism, and Governance in the Sixth Century" (U California Press, 2024)

Jul 20, 2024 • 1h 6m

Pekka Hämäläinen, "Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power" (Yale UP, 2019)

Jul 20, 2024 • 40m

Robert Weis, "For Christ and Country: Militant Catholic Youth in Post-Revolutionary Mexico" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Jul 19, 2024 • 1h 14m

Alessandra Montalbano, "Ransom Kidnapping in Italy: Crime, Memory, and Violence" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

Jul 19, 2024 • 52m

Laura Moretti and Satō Yukiko, "Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi" (Brill, 2024)

Jul 19, 2024 • 1h 3m

Michelle Moffat, "Scottish Society in the Second World War: Tradition, Tension, Transformation" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

Jul 19, 2024 • 59m

Fida Jiryis, "Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home" (Hurst, 2022)

Jul 18, 2024 • 1h 16m

Kevin Loughran, "Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City" (Columbia UP, 2022)

Jul 18, 2024 • 1h 3m

Diana P. Parsell, "Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jul 18, 2024 • 1h 0m

Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit

Jul 18, 2024 • 58m

Thomas Zeller, "Consuming Landscapes: What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)

Jul 17, 2024 • 1h 15m

Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, "The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Jul 17, 2024 • 1h 0m

Mark R. Beissinger, "The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Jul 17, 2024 • 54m

Ying Qian, "Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Jul 17, 2024 • 1h 16m

Michael Willrich, "American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century" (Basic Books, 2023)

Jul 16, 2024 • 1h 11m

Yosefa Raz, "The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jul 16, 2024 • 1h 15m

Stefanie Coché, "Psychiatric Institutions and Society: The Practice of Psychiatric Committal in the "Third Reich," the Democratic Republic of Germany, and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1941-1963" (Routledge, 2024)

Jul 16, 2024 • 54m

Jacob Lee, "Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions Along the Mississippi" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Jul 16, 2024 • 1h 33m

James Mallery, "City of Vice: Transience and San Francisco's Urban History, 1848-1917" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

Jul 16, 2024 • 1h 5m

Toby Green, "A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

Jul 15, 2024 • 49m

Emily J. Lordi, "The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s" (Duke UP, 2020)

Jul 15, 2024 • 57m

Jonathan Marc Gribetz, "Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Jul 15, 2024 • 28m

Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE

Jul 14, 2024 • 1h 12m

Kristen R. Ghodsee, "Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War" (Duke UP, 2019)

Jul 14, 2024 • 1h 11m

Alfred Peredo Flores, "Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Jul 14, 2024 • 49m

Mark Peterson, "The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865" (Princeton UP, 2019)

Jul 14, 2024 • 2h 23m

Mónica A. Jiménez, "Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico" (UNC Press, 2024)

Jul 14, 2024 • 1h 27m

Viren Murthy, "Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Jul 13, 2024 • 1h 28m

Jonathan Connolly, "Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Jul 13, 2024 • 1h 7m

Huan Jin, "The Collapse of Heaven: The Taiping Civil War and Chinese Literature and Culture, 1850-1880" (Harvard UP, 2024)

Jul 13, 2024 • 1h 8m

Mark L. Haas, "Frenemies: When Ideological Enemies Ally" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Jul 13, 2024 • 47m

Matt Houlbrook et al., "Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: A History for the Present" (Manchester UP, 2024)

Jul 13, 2024 • 44m

Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jul 12, 2024 • 46m

David Joseph, "Burgenland: Village Secrets and the First Tremors of the Holocaust" (Amberley, 2023)

Jul 12, 2024 • 1h 13m

Heidi Honeycutt, "I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies" (Headpress, 2024)

Jul 12, 2024 • 49m

James D. Fisher, "The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Jul 12, 2024 • 56m

Theresa McCulla, "Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Jul 11, 2024 • 1h 13m

Eric Thompson, "The Story of Southeast Asia" (NUS Press, 2024)

Jul 11, 2024 • 1h 8m

Gayle K. Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite, "Assassination in Vichy: Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France" (U Toronto Press, 2020)

Jul 11, 2024 • 2h 26m

Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next

Jul 11, 2024 • 52m

The (ir)Rational Priests: On Ignacio Martín-Baró and Liberation Psychology

Jul 11, 2024 • 52m

Kellie Carter Jackson, "We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance" (Seal Press, 2024)

Jul 10, 2024 • 57m

Sasha Warren, "Storming Bedlam: Madness, Mental Health, and Revolt" (Common Notions, 2024)

Jul 10, 2024 • 1h 26m

William Gow, "Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community" (Stanford UP, 2024)

Jul 10, 2024 • 1h 5m

Laura Robson, "Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work" (Verso, 2023)

Jul 9, 2024 • 51m

Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb, "The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Jul 9, 2024 • 43m

Ed Simon, "Devil's Contract: A History of the Faustian Bargain" (Melville House, 2024)

Jul 9, 2024 • 50m

Karine Varley, "Vichy's Double Bind: French Collaboration between Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jul 9, 2024 • 1h 18m

Neil J. Young, "Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Jul 9, 2024 • 1h 1m

David Alff, "The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Jul 9, 2024 • 46m

Jurgen Buchenau and Timothy Henderson, "The Mexican Revolution: A Documentary History" (Hackett, 2022)

Jul 8, 2024 • 1h 8m

Donna Drucker, "Contraception: A Concise History" (The MIT Press, 2020)

Jul 8, 2024 • 23m

Robert E. Jones, "Priesthood, Cult, and Temple in the Aramaic Scrolls from Qumran: Analyzing a Pre-Hasmonean Jewish Literary Tradition" (Brill, 2023)

Jul 8, 2024 • 52m

Russell Sandberg and Daniel Newman, "Law and Humanities" (Anthem Press, 2024)

Jul 7, 2024 • 1h 40m

Tabitha Stanmore, "Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic" (Bloombury, 2024)

Jul 7, 2024 • 33m

Kathryn Hughes, "Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)

Jul 7, 2024 • 59m

Timothy Barnard, "Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City" (NUS Press, 2024)

Jul 6, 2024 • 31m

Jeremy Black, "A World History of Rail: From the Steam Regime to Today" (Amberley Publishing, 2023)

Jul 6, 2024 • 22m

The (ir)Rational Rainbow (the DSM & the Fight to Depathologize Homosexuality)

Jul 6, 2024 • 1h 14m

Ellen Gough, "Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Jul 6, 2024 • 1h 1m

Timothy Grieve-Carlson, "American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jul 6, 2024 • 1h 5m

Elizabeth Storr Cohen and Marlee J. Couling, "Non-Elite Women's Networks Across the Early Modern World" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)

Jul 6, 2024 • 47m

Tara Ward, "Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram" (U California Press, 2024)

Jul 5, 2024 • 42m

Elizabeth Aislinn O'Brien, "Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940" (UNC Press, 2023)

Jul 5, 2024 • 53m

Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2024)

Jul 5, 2024 • 1h 7m

Jeremy Black, "Defoe's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2023)

Jul 5, 2024 • 24m

Racism as Power Relation: A Discussion with Adaner Usmani (EF, JP)

Jul 4, 2024 • 33m

Sigrid Schönfelder, "'Gold Fever' and Women: Transformations in Lives, Health Care and Medicine in the 19th Century American West" (Transcript, 2023)

Jul 3, 2024 • 45m

Samuel Dolbee, "Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Jul 3, 2024 • 55m

John Soluri, "Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia" (UNC Press, 2024)

Jul 3, 2024 • 1h 19m

Daniel Susskind, "Growth: A History and a Reckoning" (Harvard UP, 2024)

Jul 3, 2024 • 1h 6m

Faith Smith, "Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century" (Duke UP, 2023)

Jul 2, 2024 • 1h 4m

Miranda Sachs, "An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jul 2, 2024 • 27m

Ben Wright, "Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism" (LSU Press, 2020)

Jul 2, 2024 • 22m

Holly Ashford, "Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana, 1920-1982" (Routledge, 2022)

Jul 2, 2024 • 54m

Travis B. Williams et al., "The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancient Media Culture" (Brill, 2023)

Jul 1, 2024 • 1h 28m

Rachel Williams, "Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront" (Kent State UP, 2024)

Jun 30, 2024 • 41m

Bayley J. Marquez, "Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling Across Black and Indigenous Space" (U California Press, 2024)

Jun 30, 2024 • 1h 15m

Michael Sonenscher, "Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Jun 30, 2024 • 51m

Shahmima Akhtar, "Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, Race and Nation, c. 1850-1970" (Manchester UP, 2024)

Jun 30, 2024 • 18m

Peter Murray Jones, "The Medicine of the Friars in Medieval England" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)

Jun 30, 2024 • 53m

David H. Wilson, "Northern Paiutes of the Malheur: High Desert Reckoning in Oregon Country" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

Jun 29, 2024 • 1h 1m

Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, "An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Jun 29, 2024 • 53m

Michelle Gordon and Rachel O ́Sullivan, "Colonial Paradigms of Violence: Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Killing" (Wallstein, 2022)

Jun 29, 2024 • 1h 7m

Denva Gallant, "Illuminating the Vitae Patrum: The Lives of Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy" (Penn State UP, 2024)

Jun 29, 2024 • 52m

The (ir)Rational Mob: On the Life and Legacy of Gustave Le Bon

Jun 29, 2024 • 57m

Nancy Woloch, "Women and the American Experience: A Concise History" (Routledge, 2024)

Jun 29, 2024 • 50m

Jessica Lander, "Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education" (Beacon Press, 2022)

Jun 28, 2024 • 40m

Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn, "The Shochet: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)

Jun 28, 2024 • 1h 4m

Matthew Goldmark, "Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America" (U Virginia Press, 2023)

Jun 28, 2024 • 39m

Joshua Schuster, "What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals" (Fordham UP, 2023)

Jun 28, 2024 • 57m

Nicola Clark, "The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens" (Norton, 2024)

Jun 28, 2024 • 59m

Barbara Klinger, "Immortal Films: 'Casablanca' and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic" (U California Press, 2022)

Jun 27, 2024 • 1h 4m

J. Megan Greene, "Building a Nation at War: Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Jun 27, 2024 • 1h 20m

Simon Heffer, "Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars" (Penguin, 2024)

Jun 26, 2024 • 1h 2m

Peter Hill, "Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East" (Oneworld Academic, 2024)

Jun 26, 2024 • 39m

Saqib Khan, "Tribe-Class Linkages: The History and Politics of the Agrarian Movement in Tripura" (Routledge, 2024)

Jun 26, 2024 • 34m

Reeju Ray, "Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom, and Knowledge" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jun 26, 2024 • 1h 2m

Shuchi Kapila, "Postmemory and the Partition of India: Learning to Remember" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)

Jun 25, 2024 • 57m

Edward A. Alpers and Thomas F. McDow, "A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History: Ten Design Principles" (Duke UP, 2024)

Jun 25, 2024 • 1h 20m

Donald Stoker, "Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Jun 25, 2024 • 46m

Emily Zackin and Chloe N. Thurston, "The Political Development of American Debt Relief" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Jun 25, 2024 • 58m

Trish Kahle on the Labor History of Energy Systems

Jun 24, 2024 • 1h 1m

Matthijs Lok, "Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jun 24, 2024 • 56m

Paula S. De Vos, "Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)

Jun 23, 2024 • 1h 10m

Nina Edwards, "The Virtues of Underwear: Modesty, Flamboyance, and Filth (Reaktion Books, 2024)

Jun 23, 2024 • 31m

Elsa Devienne, "Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jun 23, 2024 • 42m

Henry Reece, "The Fall: The Last Days of the English Republic" (Yale UP, 2024)

Jun 23, 2024 • 36m

Keja L. Valens, "Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence" (Rutgers UP, 2024)

Jun 22, 2024 • 1h 4m

Allison Elias, "The Rise of Corporate Feminism: Women in the American Office, 1960-1990" (Columbia UP, 2022)

Jun 22, 2024 • 49m

Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: A Lecture by Anthony Grafton

Jun 22, 2024 • 42m

Judith Vitale et al., "Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan" (Brill, 2023)

Jun 22, 2024 • 1h 13m

Oscar Sanchez-Sibony, "The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market: Energy and the Ascent of Finance in Cold War Europe, 1964–1971" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jun 22, 2024 • 53m

Paula Marie Seniors, "Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions: African American Women Radical Activists" (U Georgia Press, 2024)

Jun 22, 2024 • 46m

Stephanie DeGooyer, "Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)

Jun 22, 2024 • 49m

Malcolm Schofield, "How Plato Writes: Perspectives and Problems" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jun 21, 2024 • 1h 3m

Jennifer S. Clark, "Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's Liberation" (U California Press, 2024)

Jun 21, 2024 • 48m

M. Girard Dorsey, "Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Jun 21, 2024 • 57m

Genji Yasuhira, "Catholic Survival in the Dutch Republic: Agency in Coexistence and the Public Sphere in Utrecht, 1620-1672" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)

Jun 21, 2024 • 1h 4m

Siobhan Angus, "Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography" (Duke UP, 2024)

Jun 21, 2024 • 51m

Kathleen DuVal, "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America" (Random House, 2024)

Jun 20, 2024 • 58m

William W. Hagen, "Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914-1920" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

Jun 19, 2024 • 1h 34m

Sally Stocksdale, "When Emancipation Came: The End of Enslavement on a Southern Plantation and a Russian Estate" (McFarland, 2022)

Jun 19, 2024 • 1h 0m

Anat Kidron and Shuli Linder Yarkony, "The Jewish Community of Acre in Mandatory Palestine: The Story of a Forgotten Community" (de Gruyter, 2024)

Jun 18, 2024 • 1h 9m

Timothy G. Anderson and Brian Schoen, "Settling Ohio: First Peoples and Beyond" (Ohio UP, 2023)

Jun 17, 2024 • 36m

Harry R. McCarthy, "Boy Actors in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Jun 17, 2024 • 44m

John Soluri, "Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States" (U Texas Press, 2021)

Jun 16, 2024 • 1h 14m

Madman in the White House?

Jun 16, 2024 • 1h 3m

Todd H. Weir, "Red Secularism: Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jun 16, 2024 • 36m

Carlos M. N. Eire, "They Flew: A History of the Impossible" (Yale UP, 2023)

Jun 16, 2024 • 53m

Hannah Forsyth, "Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jun 16, 2024 • 44m

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)

Jun 15, 2024 • 51m

Klas-Göran Karlsson, "Lessons of History: The Holocaust and Soviet Terror as Borderline Events" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)

Jun 15, 2024 • 1h 13m

Laurence M. Geary, "The Land War in Ireland: Famine, Philanthropy and Moonlighting" (Cork UP, 2023)

Jun 15, 2024 • 27m

Lydia Walker, "States-in-Waiting: A Counter Narrative of Global Decolonization" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Jun 14, 2024 • 45m

Benjamin Breen, "Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science" (Grand Central, 2024)

Jun 14, 2024 • 58m

Jared Stearns, "Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers" (Headpress, 2024)

Jun 14, 2024 • 1h 4m

Sidney Xu Lu, "The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Jun 14, 2024 • 1h 17m

Gordon C. Chang, "Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of Ideology in Unsettled Times" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Jun 14, 2024 • 51m

Christopher William England, "Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

Jun 14, 2024 • 41m

Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Jun 13, 2024 • 52m

Gale L. Kenny, "Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire" (NYU Press, 2024)

Jun 13, 2024 • 1h 0m

Mark Gilbert, "Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy" (Norton, 2024)

Jun 13, 2024 • 44m

Adam Berg, "The Olympics that Never Happened: Denver '76 and the Politics of Growth" (U Texas Press, 2023)

Jun 12, 2024 • 44m

Carl Elliott, "The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No" (Norton, 2024)

Jun 12, 2024 • 50m

Chloe Wigston Smith, "Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Yale UP, 2024)

Jun 12, 2024 • 51m

Shannon Bontrager, "Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863-1921" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)

Jun 11, 2024 • 1h 41m

Amy E. Wright, "Serial Mexico: Storytelling Across Media, from Nationhood to Now" (Vanderbilt UP, 2023)

Jun 11, 2024 • 1h 17m

Laura Gómez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism" (The New Press, 2020)

Jun 11, 2024 • 1h 3m

John Blaxland and Clare Birgin, "Revealing Secrets: An Unofficial History of Australian Signals Intelligence and the Advent of Cyber" (UNSW Press, 2023)

Jun 11, 2024 • 1h 6m

Laura Davis-Chanin and Liz Lamere, "Infinite Dreams: The Life of Alan Vega" (Backbeat Books, 2024)

Jun 11, 2024 • 59m

Peter Bergamin, "The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology” (I. B. Tauris, 2019)

Jun 10, 2024 • 37m

Robert G. Boatright, "Reform and Retrenchment: A Century of Efforts to Fix Primary Elections" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jun 10, 2024 • 59m

Kathleen Day, "Broken Bargain: Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street" (Yale UP, 2019)

Jun 10, 2024 • 57m

Mónica M. Salas Landa, "Visible Ruins: The Politics of Perception and the Legacies of Mexico's Revolution" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Jun 9, 2024 • 52m

Elisa Camiscioli, "Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Jun 9, 2024 • 1h 8m

Adrienne Brown, "The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership" (Stanford UP, 2024)

Jun 9, 2024 • 1h 1m

Mark Stoll, "Profit: An Environmental History" (Polity Press, 2022)

Jun 9, 2024 • 1h 15m

Catherine Michael Chin, "Life: The Natural History of an Early Christian Universe" (U California Press, 2024)

Jun 9, 2024 • 1h 13m

Joseph A. Skloot, "First Impressions: Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing" (Brandeis UP, 2023)

Jun 8, 2024 • 56m

Financial Institutions and Enslavement

Jun 8, 2024 • 59m

Cian T. McMahon, "The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine" (NYU Press, 2021)

Jun 8, 2024 • 53m

Eugene Rogan, "The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World" (Basic Book, 2024)

Jun 8, 2024 • 43m

Jonathan H. Ebel, "From Dust They Came: Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California" (NYU Press,2023)

Jun 7, 2024 • 45m

Alistair Moffat, "The Highlands and Islands of Scotland: A New History" (Birlinn, 2024)

Jun 7, 2024 • 51m

Alan H. McGowan, "The Political Activism of Anthropologist Franz Boas, Citizen Scientist" (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2024)

Jun 7, 2024 • 49m

Asaf Elia-Shalev, "Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth" (U California Press, 2024)

Jun 7, 2024 • 1h 3m

Miles M. Evers and Eric Grynaviski, "The Price of Empire: American Entrepreneurs and the Origins of America's First Pacific Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Jun 7, 2024 • 50m

David Stahel, "Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941-1942" (FSG, 2019)

Jun 7, 2024 • 1h 15m

Thomas Larkin, "The China Firm: American Elites and the Making of British Colonial Society" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Jun 7, 2024 • 32m

Citizen Soldiers, Republican Virtues, and the Roman Way of War

Jun 6, 2024 • 1h 10m

Aaron Eddens, "Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa" (U California Press, 2024)

Jun 6, 2024 • 53m

Vince Brown, Caribbean Vectors (EF, JP)

Jun 6, 2024 • 45m

Elena Kochetkova, "The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology" (MIT Press, 2024)

Jun 5, 2024 • 1h 5m

Victoria Khiterer, "Jewish City Or Inferno of Russian Israel?: A History of the Jews in Kiev Before February 1917" (Academic Studies Press, 2017)

Jun 5, 2024 • 1h 16m

Naosuke Mukoyama, "Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Jun 5, 2024 • 57m

Matthew D. Morrison, "Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States" (U California Press, 2024)

Jun 5, 2024 • 1h 17m

Sergio M. González, "Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin" (U Illinois Press, 2024)

Jun 5, 2024 • 1h 21m

Glenn Dynner, "The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jun 5, 2024 • 1h 13m

Tara López, "Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency in El Paso" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Jun 4, 2024 • 51m

Thomas Sparr, "German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City" (Haus Publishers, 2021)

Jun 4, 2024 • 25m

Benjamin Balint, "Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy" (Norton, 2019)

Jun 3, 2024 • 41m

Eleanor Medhurst, "Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion" (Hurst, 2024)

Jun 3, 2024 • 44m

Jonathan A. Seitz, "Protestant Missionaries in China: Robert Morrison and Early Sinology" (U Notre Dame Press, 2024)

Jun 3, 2024 • 1h 2m

Kyle Barnett, "Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry" (U Michigan Press, 2020)

Jun 2, 2024 • 1h 7m

Cathal J. Nolan, "The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Jun 2, 2024 • 1h 17m

Ramón Espejo, "The Catalonian Journey of American Drama 1909-2000: From Jimmy Valentine to The Vagina Monologues" (Legenda, 2024)

Jun 2, 2024 • 31m

Claire Weeda, "Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion" (Boydell and Brewer, 2021)

Jun 2, 2024 • 58m

Adam Goodman, "The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants" (Princeton UP, 2020)

Jun 2, 2024 • 1h 7m

Aya Gruber, "The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration" (U California Press, 2020)

Jun 2, 2024 • 1h 7m

Sarah Nooter, "How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Jun 2, 2024 • 30m

Stephanie Joy Mawson, "Incomplete Conquests: The Limits of Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Jun 1, 2024 • 47m

Daniel Rachel, "Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation" (Akashic Books, 2024)

Jun 1, 2024 • 54m

Matthew Kadane, "The Enlightenment and Original Sin" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Jun 1, 2024 • 55m

Ryan White, "Springsteen: Album by Album" (Palazzo Editions, 2024)

May 31, 2024 • 58m

Kazushi Minami, "People's Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations During the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2024)

May 31, 2024 • 1h 10m

Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023)

May 30, 2024 • 49m

Stephen J. Silvia, "The UAW's Southern Gamble: Organizing Workers at Foreign-Owned Vehicle Plants" (IRL Press, 2023)

May 29, 2024 • 1h 5m

The History of Washington D.C., America’s New Rome

May 29, 2024 • 1h 8m

Aakriti Mandhwani, "Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)

May 29, 2024 • 54m

Peter Wetzler, "Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War: The Collapse of an Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

May 29, 2024 • 1h 30m

On Fiorello La Guardia and Why He Still Matters: A Discussion with Author Terry Golway

Apr 19, 2024 • 56m

Tanisha Ford, "Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement" (Amistad Press, 2024)

Apr 19, 2024 • 33m

Guido Alfani, "As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Apr 19, 2024 • 58m

Nicholas Terpstra, "Senses of Space in the Early Modern World" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Apr 19, 2024 • 1h 0m

Jonathan Chatwin, "The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Apr 18, 2024 • 51m

Debby Koren, "Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities Through 16th- And 17th-Century Responsa" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)

Apr 18, 2024 • 49m

D. J. Taylor, "Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell" (Yale UP, 2024)

Apr 17, 2024 • 29m

Jerry Grillo, "Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

Apr 17, 2024 • 1h 3m

Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)

Apr 17, 2024 • 35m

Liz Tregenza, "Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70" (Bloombury, 2023)

Apr 17, 2024 • 52m

Philip Freeman, "Two Lives of Saint Brigid" (Four Courts Press, 2024)

Apr 17, 2024 • 24m

Thor Rydin, "The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872-1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)

Apr 17, 2024 • 59m

Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo, "How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History" (Reaktion, 2024)

Apr 16, 2024 • 1h 1m

Kerry Wallach, "Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit" (Penn State UP, 2024)

Apr 16, 2024 • 1h 0m

Victoria Flexner and Jay Reifel, "A History of the World in 10 Dinners: 2,000 Years, 100 Recipes" (Rizoli, 2023)

Apr 16, 2024 • 56m

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, "Puerto Rico: A National History" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Apr 16, 2024 • 44m

Kevin Lambert, "Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)

Apr 15, 2024 • 1h 20m

Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Apr 15, 2024 • 54m

Miriam Piilonen, "Theorizing Music Evolution: Darwin, Spencer, and the Limits of the Human" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Apr 15, 2024 • 1h 17m

Annaliese Jacobs Claydon, "Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Apr 15, 2024 • 1h 24m

Steven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I" (HarperCollins, 2023)

Apr 15, 2024 • 1h 19m

Joseph H. Holland, "Make Your Own History: Timeless Truths from Black American Trailblazers" (Dafina, 2023)

Apr 14, 2024 • 1h 3m

Jeremy Black, "The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History" (Routledge, 2015)

Apr 14, 2024 • 41m

Adam Kabat, "The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Apr 14, 2024 • 1h 3m

Jae Hee Han, "Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Apr 13, 2024 • 1h 13m

Maria Snegovaya, "When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Apr 13, 2024 • 1h 3m

R. J. Boutelle, "The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny" (UNC Press, 2023)

Apr 13, 2024 • 1h 7m

Aidan Beatty and Dan O'Brien, "Irish Questions and Jewish Questions: Crossovers in Culture" (Syracuse UP, 2018)

Apr 12, 2024 • 1h 46m

Paul Williams, "The US Graphic Novel" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

Apr 12, 2024 • 1h 0m

David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts, "Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine" (Harper, 2023)

Apr 12, 2024 • 34m

100 Years of Radio in South Africa: Then and Now

Apr 11, 2024 • 54m

Seamus O'Malley, "Irish Culture and 'The People': Populism and Its Discontents" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Apr 11, 2024 • 35m

Brooke Larson, "The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia" (Duke UP, 2023)

Apr 11, 2024 • 1h 11m

Traian Sandu, "Ceausescu: The Ambiguous Dictator" (Perrin, 2023)

Apr 10, 2024 • 1h 20m

Hume, the Epicureans, and the Origins of Liberalism

Apr 10, 2024 • 59m

Xiaofei Kang, "Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Apr 9, 2024 • 1h 24m

Robert M. Jarvis, "Gambling Under the Swastika: Casinos, Horse Racing, Lotteries, and Other Forms of Betting in Nazi Germany" (Carolina Academic Press, 2019)

Apr 9, 2024 • 1h 12m

Sumita Pahwa, "Politics as Worship: Righteous Activism and the Egyptian Muslim Brothers" (Syracuse UP, 2023)

Apr 8, 2024 • 57m

Tzafrir Barzilay, "Poisoned Wells: Accusations, Persecution, and Minorities in Medieval Europe, 1321-1422" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

Apr 8, 2024 • 1h 0m

Elizabeth Coggeshall, "On Amistà: Negotiating Friendship in Dante’s Italy" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

Apr 8, 2024 • 54m

Christopher Michael Blakley, "Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World" (Louisiana State UP, 2023)

Apr 8, 2024 • 58m

Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Apr 7, 2024 • 35m

Gustavo Guzmán, "Attitudes of the Chilean Right toward Jews: From Acceptable Undesirables to Respected Businessmen" (Brill, 2022)

Apr 7, 2024 • 1h 45m

Sandra Fox, "The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Apr 6, 2024 • 48m

Rabiat Akande, "Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Apr 6, 2024 • 1h 30m

Andres Rodriguez, "Frontier Fieldwork: Building a Nation in China's Borderlands, 1919-45" (U British Columbia Press, 2022)

Apr 6, 2024 • 1h 4m

Joseph M. Thompson, "Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism" (UNC Press, 2024)

Apr 6, 2024 • 1h 6m

Claudio Ferlan, "The Jesuits: A Thematic History" (Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2023)

Apr 6, 2024 • 57m

Mauricio Fernando Castro, "Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Apr 5, 2024 • 1h 11m

Jane M. Ferguson, "Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

Apr 5, 2024 • 48m

Sarah Horowitz, "The Red Widow: The Scandal That Shook Paris and the Woman Behind It All" (Sourcebooks, 2022)

Apr 5, 2024 • 1h 3m

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, "The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market" (Bloomsbury. 2023)

Apr 5, 2024 • 1h 3m

Daniel de Visé, "The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic" (Grove Atlantic, 2024)

Apr 5, 2024 • 58m

Patrick Olivelle, "Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King" (Yale UP, 2024)

Apr 4, 2024 • 52m

Stefan Aune, "Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire" (U California Press, 2023)

Apr 4, 2024 • 29m

Louis Howard Porter, "Reds in Blue: UNESCO, World Governance, and the Soviet Internationalist Imagination" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Apr 4, 2024 • 40m

Greg Jarrell, "Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods" (Fortress Press, 2024)

Apr 3, 2024 • 49m

Marc Masters, "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" (UNC Press, 2023)

Apr 3, 2024 • 55m

Georgia Frank, "Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Apr 3, 2024 • 42m

Paola Tartakoff, "Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2012)

Apr 2, 2024 • 53m

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, "Merits of the Plague" (Penguin, 2023)

Apr 2, 2024 • 1h 9m

Marie de Vignerot, Richelieu's Forgotten Advisor and Heiress

Apr 2, 2024 • 52m

Diane Winston, "Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's Evangelical Vision" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Apr 1, 2024 • 1h 3m

Alexej Lochmatow, "Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland: Scholarly Battles and the Clash of Virtues, 1945–1956" (Routledge, 2023)

Apr 1, 2024 • 1h 4m

W. B. Allen, "Montesquieu's 'The Spirit of the Laws': A Critical Edition" (Anthem Press, 2023)

Mar 31, 2024 • 55m

Ben Highmore, "Lifestyle Revolution: How Taste Changed Class in Late 20th-Century Britain" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Mar 31, 2024 • 1h 7m

Kris Butler, "Drink Maps in Victorian Britain" (Bodleian Library, 2024)

Mar 31, 2024 • 28m

Stefanos Geroulanos, "The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins" (Liveright, 2024)

Mar 31, 2024 • 1h 14m

Oliver Wunsch, "A Delicate Matter: Art, Fragility, and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century France" (Penn State UP, 2024)

Mar 31, 2024 • 52m

Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, "Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)

Mar 31, 2024 • 1h 21m

David J. Dennis Jr. and David J. Dennis Sr., "The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride" (Harper, 2022)

Mar 30, 2024 • 20m

Matthew H. Hersch, "Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle" (MIT Press, 2023)

Mar 30, 2024 • 36m

Thomas Lockley, "A Gentleman from Japan: The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth’s Court" (Hanover Square Press, 2024)

Mar 30, 2024 • 37m

Thomas S. Mullaney, "The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age" (MIT Press, 2024)

Mar 29, 2024 • 1h 43m

Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen, "The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition" (Haymarket Books, 2024)

Mar 29, 2024 • 1h 10m

Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney, "From Rights to Lives: The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle" (Vanderbilt UP, 2024)

Mar 29, 2024 • 38m

Paul Carter, "Richard Nixon: California's Native Son" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

Mar 29, 2024 • 1h 59m

David Veevers, "The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire" (Ebury Press, 2023)

Mar 28, 2024 • 1h 11m

Robin Waterfield, "Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Mar 28, 2024 • 50m

Jeffrey Ahlman, "Ghana: A Political and Social History" (Zed Books, 2023)

Mar 28, 2024 • 41m

Jamie Goodall, "Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy: From Cape Cod to the Caribbean" (History Press, 2023)

Mar 28, 2024 • 42m

Citizenship Across Time and Space with David Jacobson

Mar 28, 2024 • 44m

Adam Lazarus, "The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams" (Citadel Press, 2023)

Mar 27, 2024 • 53m

Michael Ortiz, "Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism" (Bloombury, 2023)

Mar 27, 2024 • 53m

Vladimir Solonari, "A Satellite Empire: Romanian Rule in Southwestern Ukraine, 1941–1944" (Cornell UP, 2019)

Mar 26, 2024 • 1h 14m

Colleen Taylor, "Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Mar 26, 2024 • 1h 3m

Rachel S. Gross, "Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America" (Yale UP, 2024)

Mar 26, 2024 • 36m

Kevin P. Reihle, "The Russian FSB: A Concise History of the Federal Security Service" (Georgetown UP, 2024)

Mar 26, 2024 • 1h 35m

Sanjay Subrahmanyam, "Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Mar 26, 2024 • 44m

William Bain, "Political Theology of International Order" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Mar 26, 2024 • 1h 39m

Maggie Hennefeld, "Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Mar 25, 2024 • 59m

Aaron Clift, "Anticommunism in French Society and Politics, 1945-1953" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Mar 25, 2024 • 1h 1m

Chiara Renzo, "Jewish Displaced Persons in Italy 1943-1951: Politics, Rehabilitation, Identity" (Routledge, 2023)

Mar 24, 2024 • 36m

Emily Conroy-Krutz, "Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Mar 24, 2024 • 49m

Maarten Couttenier, "Anthropology and Race in Belgium and the Congo (1839-1922)" (Routledge, 2023)

Mar 24, 2024 • 39m

Brent M. Rogers, "Buffalo Bill and the Mormons" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

Mar 24, 2024 • 30m

Jeffrey A. Javed, "Righteous Revolutionaries: Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Making of the Chinese State" (U Michigan Press, 2022)

Mar 23, 2024 • 1h 15m

John William Nelson, "Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent" (UNC Press, 2023)

Mar 23, 2024 • 1h 22m

Lillian Guerra, "Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961-1981" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

Mar 23, 2024 • 1h 35m

Paul Bew, "Ancestral Voices in Irish Politics: Judging Dillon and Parnell" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Mar 22, 2024 • 1h 7m

Anelise Hanson Shrout, "Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy" (NYU Press, 2024)

Mar 22, 2024 • 55m

Heather Akou, "On the Job: A History of American Work Uniforms" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Mar 21, 2024 • 1h 1m

Radha Kapuria, "Music in Colonial Punjab" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Mar 21, 2024 • 1h 4m

Amy Absher, "Fritzie: The Invented Life and Violent Murder of a Flapper" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)

Mar 21, 2024 • 31m

Beth Linker, "Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Mar 21, 2024 • 30m

Eileen Kane et al., "Russian-Arab Worlds: A Documentary History" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Mar 20, 2024 • 48m

Max Fraser, "Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Mar 20, 2024 • 1h 14m

Isaac Deutscher, "Lenin's Childhood" (Verso, 2024)

Mar 20, 2024 • 1h 13m

Coretta M. Pittman, "Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

Mar 19, 2024 • 50m

Colin Elliott, "Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Mar 19, 2024 • 50m

Yaacov Nir, "Establishment and History of the Cyprus Detention Camps for Jewish Refugees (1946-1949)" (Cambridge Scholars, 2024)

Mar 19, 2024 • 1h 4m

Xaq Frohlich on the History of Food Labeling

Mar 18, 2024 • 1h 30m

Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar" (Navayana Press, 2023)

Mar 18, 2024 • 2h 3m

Dan Stone, "The Holocaust: An Unfinished History" (Mariner Books, 2023)

Mar 18, 2024 • 1h 9m

Rachel Gordan, "Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Mar 18, 2024 • 1h 3m

The Pioneering Life of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Mar 18, 2024 • 46m

Erica L. Fraser, "Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union" (U Toronto Press, 2019)

Mar 17, 2024 • 1h 4m

Caitlin Davies, "Private Inquiries: The Secret History of Female Sleuths" (The History Press, 2023)

Mar 17, 2024 • 1h 13m

Thomas D. Conlan, "Kings in All But Name: The Lost History of Ouchi Rule in Japan, 1350-1569" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Mar 17, 2024 • 43m

Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa, "The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust" (Simon & Schuster, 2024)

Mar 17, 2024 • 1h 14m

Stephanie Chasin, "British Jews and Imperial Service: Nationalism, Pan-Islamism and Zionism in Mandate Palestine and Colonial India" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)

Mar 17, 2024 • 1h 11m

Ellen E. Jones, "Screen Deep: How Film and TV Can Solve Racism and Save the World" (Faber and Faber, 2024)

Mar 16, 2024 • 48m

Ruth A. Morgan, "Climate Change and International History: Climate Diplomacy in the Global North and South Since 1950" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Mar 16, 2024 • 1h 6m

Ada Maria Kuskowski, "Vernacular Law; Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Mar 16, 2024 • 1h 5m

Amy Lidster and Sonia Massai, "Shakespeare at War: A Material History" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Mar 15, 2024 • 54m

Whitney Nell Stewart, "This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations" (UNC Press, 2023)

Mar 15, 2024 • 1h 30m

SherAli Tareen, "Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Mar 15, 2024 • 1h 31m

Jonathan W. White, "Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

Mar 15, 2024 • 39m

Micajah Henley, "The Clash's Sandinista!" (Bloombury, 2024)

Mar 14, 2024 • 1h 4m

Julie Kalman, "The Kings of Algiers: How Two Jewish Families Shaped the Mediterranean World During the Napoleonic Wars and Beyond" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Mar 14, 2024 • 48m

Victoria Perry, "A Bittersweet Heritage: Slavery, Architecture and the British Landscape" (Hurst, 2022)

Mar 14, 2024 • 54m

Tayo Agunbiade, "Untold Histories of Nigerian Women: Emerging from the Margins" (Cambridge Scholars, 2023)

Mar 14, 2024 • 53m

Korey Garibaldi, "Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Mar 13, 2024 • 1h 14m

Janine Giordano Drake, "The Gospel of Church: How Mainline Protestants Vilified Christian Socialism and Fractured the Labor Movement" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Mar 13, 2024 • 42m

Thomas Mareite, "Conditional Freedom: Free Soil and Fugitive Slaves from the U.S. South to Mexico's Northeast, 1803-1861" (Brill, 2024)

Mar 13, 2024 • 59m

Legal Cultures in the Russian Empire

Mar 13, 2024 • 1h 13m

Gavin Butt, "No Machos Or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk" (Duke UP, 2022)

Mar 13, 2024 • 48m

Rebecca Rego Barry, "The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells" (Post Hill Press, 2024)

Mar 12, 2024 • 44m

Surya Parekh, "Black Enlightenment" (Duke UP, 2023)

Mar 12, 2024 • 1h 8m

Eleanor Patterson, "Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution" (U Illinois Press, 2024)

Mar 12, 2024 • 1h 41m

Judith Tick, "Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song" (Norton, 2023)

Mar 12, 2024 • 55m

David Savran, "Tell It to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Mar 11, 2024 • 58m

Amy Paeth, "The American Poet Laureate" A History of U.S. Poetry and the State" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Mar 11, 2024 • 53m

Rachel Jamison Webster, "Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family" (Henry Holt, 2023)

Mar 11, 2024 • 33m

Raanan Rein and Susanne Zepp-Zwirner, "Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War" (Routledge, 2024)

Mar 10, 2024 • 1h 23m

Brian Merchant, "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech" (LIttle, Brown, 2023)

Mar 10, 2024 • 1h 42m

Sean M. Kelley, "American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865" (Yale UP, 2023)

Mar 10, 2024 • 1h 5m

Lorraine Daston, "Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate" (Columbia Global Reports, 2023)

Mar 10, 2024 • 48m

Ilyon Woo, "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)

Mar 9, 2024 • 52m

Sarah A. Cramsey, "Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the Ethnic Revolution in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936-1946" (Indiana UP, 2023)

Mar 9, 2024 • 55m

Robert C. Austin, "Royal Fraud: The Story of Albania’s First and Last King" (CEU Press, 2024)

Mar 9, 2024 • 38m

On America’s Blind Spot Towards the Palestinians

Mar 9, 2024 • 1h 5m

Jeremy Black, "The Age of Nightmare: The Gothic and British Culture, 1750-1900" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)

Mar 9, 2024 • 41m

Matthew Longo, "The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain" (Norton, 2024)

Mar 8, 2024 • 50m

Carmen Fracchia, "'Black But Human': Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Mar 8, 2024 • 1h 19m

Patrick Olivelle, "Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King" (Yale UP, 2024)

Mar 8, 2024 • 1h 3m

Kenneth Miller, "Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep" (Hachette Books, 2023)

Mar 8, 2024 • 39m

Dariusz Tołczyk, "Blissful Blindness: Soviet Crimes under Western Eyes" (Indiana UP, 2023)

Mar 8, 2024 • 1h 32m

Murray Dick, "The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications" (MIT Press, 2020)

Mar 7, 2024 • 1h 10m

Edda Fields-Black, "Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Mar 7, 2024 • 1h 35m

Priyasha Saksena, "Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Mar 7, 2024 • 1h 15m

The Reeducation of Race with Sonali Thakkar (JP)

Mar 7, 2024 • 48m

Mike Duggan, "All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

Mar 7, 2024 • 47m

Angie Chau, "Paris and the Art of Transposition: Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

Mar 6, 2024 • 52m

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, "Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State" (Stanford UP, 2024)

Mar 6, 2024 • 49m

Razak Khan, "Minority Pasts: Locality, Emotions, and Belonging in Princely Rampur" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Mar 6, 2024 • 1h 8m

Alicia Kennedy, "No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating" (Beacon Press, 2023)

Mar 6, 2024 • 1h 1m

Alan Bollard, "Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Mar 6, 2024 • 58m

Diego Javier Luis, "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" (Harvard UP, 2024)

Mar 5, 2024 • 52m

Joanna Crosby, "Apples and Orchards Since the Eighteenth Century: Material Innovation and Cultural Tradition" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Mar 5, 2024 • 46m

Bryan Mark Rigg, "Japan's Holocaust: History of Imperial Japan's Mass Murder and Rape During World War II" (Knox Press, 2024)

Mar 5, 2024 • 1h 28m

Jean-Manuel Roubineau, "The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Mar 4, 2024 • 30m

Cristina Brito, "Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)

Mar 4, 2024 • 36m

Roseen Giles, "Monteverdi and the Marvellous: Poetry, Sound, and Representation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Mar 4, 2024 • 59m

Zhongping Chen, "Transpacific Reform and Revolution: The Chinese in North America, 1898-1918" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Mar 4, 2024 • 54m

Yaniv Feller, "The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Mar 3, 2024 • 1h 3m

Alvita Akiboh, "Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Mar 3, 2024 • 47m

Roman Dziarski, "How We Outwitted and Survived the Nazis: The True Story of the Holocaust Rescuers, Zofia Sterner and Her Family" (Academic Studies, 2024)

Mar 3, 2024 • 1h 19m

Justin Owen Rawlins, "Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Mar 3, 2024 • 56m

Eline van Ommen, "Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War" (U California Press, 2024)

Mar 2, 2024 • 53m

Kristine M. McCusker, "Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent: Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-1955" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

Mar 2, 2024 • 55m

Jesse David Fox, "Comedy Book:: How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work" (FSG, 2023)

Mar 2, 2024 • 1h 31m

Jennifer Evans, "Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)

Mar 2, 2024 • 48m

Thomas J. Barfield, "Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Mar 1, 2024 • 49m

Ryan Wolfson-Ford, "Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos" (U Wisconsin Press, 2024)

Mar 1, 2024 • 57m

Upal Chakrabarti, "Assembling the Local: Political Economy and Agrarian Governance in British India" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)

Feb 29, 2024 • 1h 7m

Fynn Holm, "The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c.1600-2019" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Feb 29, 2024 • 51m

Carly Goodman, "Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction" (UNC Press, 2023)

Feb 29, 2024 • 1h 10m

Christian R. Burset, "An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy" (Yale UP, 2023)

Feb 29, 2024 • 44m

Carol Beggy, "Pencil" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Feb 28, 2024 • 57m

Peter Harmsen, "Bernhard Sindberg: The Schindler of Nanjing" (Casemate, 2024)

Feb 28, 2024 • 1h 14m

Sara J. Grossman, "Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy" (Duke UP, 2023)

Feb 28, 2024 • 41m

Obert Bernard Mlambo, "Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe: Veterans, Masculinity and War" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Feb 27, 2024 • 1h 4m

Judith Pearson, "Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker" (Mayo Clinic Press, 2023)

Feb 27, 2024 • 58m

Maxine Lowy, "Latent Memory: Human Rights and Jewish Identity in Chile" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)

Feb 27, 2024 • 1h 54m

Peter Harmsen, "Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze" (Casemate, 2015)

Feb 26, 2024 • 1h 21m

Ned Richardson-Little, "The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Feb 26, 2024 • 1h 24m

Charles B. Jones, "Chinese Pure Land Buddhism: Understanding a Tradition of Practice" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)

Feb 26, 2024 • 1h 15m

Stanley Wells, "What Was Shakespeare Really Like?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Feb 26, 2024 • 36m

Marcia Bricker Halperin, "Kibbitz and Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow's Cafeteria" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Feb 25, 2024 • 33m

Angela Wanhalla, "Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

Feb 25, 2024 • 1h 5m

Sarah Keyes, "American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

Feb 25, 2024 • 1h 10m

Ivo Goldstein and Slavko Goldstein, "The Holocaust in Croatia" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2016)

Feb 25, 2024 • 1h 35m

Ariel Mae Lambe, "No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War" (UNC Press, 2019)

Feb 25, 2024 • 1h 10m

Daniel Dain, "A History of Boston" (Peter E. Randall, 2023)

Feb 24, 2024 • 1h 16m

Till Van Rahden, "Multiplicity: Jewish History and the Ambivalences of Universalism" (Hamburger Editionen, 2022)

Feb 24, 2024 • 53m

Bojan Aleksov, "Jewish Refugees in the Balkans, 1933-1945" (Brill, 2023)

Feb 24, 2024 • 1h 25m

Matthew Fox-Amato, "Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Feb 24, 2024 • 53m

Michael Kimmage, "Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Feb 23, 2024 • 43m

Imani D. Owens, "Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Feb 23, 2024 • 1h 5m

Raanan Rein, "Populism and Ethnicity: Peronism and the Jews of Argentina" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)

Feb 23, 2024 • 1h 15m

Gregory D. Smithers, "Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal" (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)

Feb 23, 2024 • 1h 7m

Devin O. Pendas, "Democracy, Nazi Trials and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945–1950" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Feb 23, 2024 • 51m

Knut A. Jacobsen, "The Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Diasporas" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Feb 22, 2024 • 59m

Simon Partner, "Koume's World: The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Feb 22, 2024 • 1h 2m

Marko Attila Hoare, "Serbia: A Modern History" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Feb 22, 2024 • 53m

Isabella Alexander, "Copyright and Cartography: History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Feb 22, 2024 • 43m

Harriet Lyon, "Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Feb 22, 2024 • 59m

Ruth Ahnert and Sebastian E. Ahnert, "Tudor Networks of Power" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Feb 21, 2024 • 41m

Max Ward, "Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan" (Duke UP, 2019)

Feb 21, 2024 • 1h 11m

Jonathan A. C. Brown, "Slavery and Islam" (Oneworld Academic, 2019)

Feb 21, 2024 • 1h 12m

T. Corey Brennan, "The Fasces: A History of Ancient Rome's Most Dangerous Political Symbol" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Feb 21, 2024 • 49m

Ricky W. Law, "Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German Japanese Relations, 1919-1936" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Feb 20, 2024 • 1h 16m

Mara Josi, "Rome, 16 October 1943: History, Memory, Literature" (Legenda, 2023)

Feb 20, 2024 • 1h 7m

Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023)

Feb 20, 2024 • 1h 8m

Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)

Feb 20, 2024 • 1h 2m

Emily Legg, "Stories of Our Living Ephemera: Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907" (Utah State UP, 2023)

Feb 20, 2024 • 1h 3m

Tom Hamilton, "A Widow's Vengeance After the Wars of Religion: Gender and Justice in Renaissance France" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Feb 19, 2024 • 56m

Can We Ever Unthink Linguistic Nationalism?

Feb 19, 2024 • 1h 12m

Isabel B. Taylor, "The Crown and Its Records: Archives, Access, and the Ancient Constitution in Seventeenth-Century England" (De Gruyter, 2023)

Feb 19, 2024 • 45m

Alexander Henry, "War Through Italian Eyes: Fighting for Mussolini, 1940-1943" (Routledge, 2021)

Feb 19, 2024 • 1h 30m

Gwyn McClelland, "Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives" (Routledge, 2019)

Feb 19, 2024 • 1h 1m

Matthew C. Ward, "Making the Frontier Man: Violence, White Manhood, and Authority in the Early Western Backcountry" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

Feb 18, 2024 • 1h 18m

John Howland, "Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music" (U California Press, 2021)

Feb 18, 2024 • 1h 35m

Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, "Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Feb 18, 2024 • 1h 13m

Lawrence Glickman, "Free Enterprise: An American History" (Yale UP, 2019)

Feb 18, 2024 • 1h 1m

Mirelsie Velazquez, "Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

Feb 17, 2024 • 1h 2m

Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss, "The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France" (Getty, 2022)

Feb 17, 2024 • 48m

Adam Bursi, "Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

Feb 17, 2024 • 56m

Tobias Straumann, "1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Feb 17, 2024 • 1h 3m

Norman Hill and Velma Murphy Hill, "Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain: The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism" (Regalo Press, 2023)

Feb 17, 2024 • 1h 5m

Max Felker-Kantor, "DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools" (UNC Press, 2023)

Feb 17, 2024 • 1h 2m

Rachel Applebaum, "Empire of Friends: Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia" (Cornell UP, 2019)

Feb 16, 2024 • 1h 20m

Ian Saxine, "Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" (NYU Press, 2019)

Feb 16, 2024 • 1h 26m

Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, "Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World" (U California Press, 2022)

Feb 16, 2024 • 47m

Sarah Parry Myers, "Earning Their Wings: The WASPs of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition" (UNC Press, 2023)

Feb 16, 2024 • 56m

Pablo Alonso González, "Cuban Cultural Heritage: A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation" (UP of Florida, 2018)

Feb 16, 2024 • 51m

Diego Javier Luis, "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" (Harvard UP, 2024)

Feb 15, 2024 • 57m

Lies We Tell Ourselves about the History of Multilingualism

Feb 15, 2024 • 56m

Kartik Nair, "Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror" (U California Press, 2024)

Feb 14, 2024 • 57m

Patrick Gamsby, "The Discourse of Scholarly Communication" (Lexington Books, 2023)

Feb 14, 2024 • 47m

Alison M. Downham Moore, "The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Feb 14, 2024 • 45m

Marisol LeBrón, "Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico" (U California Press, 2019)

Feb 14, 2024 • 1h 5m

"War is what you make of it" with Neta Crawford of Oxford University and the Costs of War Project

Feb 13, 2024 • 36m

Anthony Kaldellis, "Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Feb 13, 2024 • 49m

Laura Flannigan, "Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Feb 13, 2024 • 50m

Andrius Gališanka, "John Rawls: The Path to a Theory of Justice" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Feb 12, 2024 • 1h 14m

Matteo Millan, "The Blackshirts' Dictatorship: Armed Squads, Political Violence, and the Consolidation of Mussolini's Regime" (Routledge, 2022)

Feb 12, 2024 • 1h 30m

Jeanne Theoharis, "The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South" (NYU Press, 2019)

Feb 12, 2024 • 44m

Bjørn Westlie, "My Father's War: Confronting Norway's Nazi Past" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)

Feb 11, 2024 • 1h 7m

Ana Lucia Araujo, "The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Feb 11, 2024 • 48m

Timothy A. Sayle, "Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order" (Cornell UP, 2019)

Feb 11, 2024 • 53m

Despina Stratigakos, "Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway" (Princeton UP, 2020)

Feb 11, 2024 • 58m

Daniel Immerwahr, "How to Hide an Empire: The History of the Greater United States" (FSG, 2019)

Feb 11, 2024 • 1h 19m

Markus Krajewski, "The Server: A Media History from the Present to the Baroque" (Yale UP, 2018)

Feb 11, 2024 • 1h 2m

Tim Keogh, "In Levittown’s Shadow: Poverty in America’s Wealthiest Postwar Suburb" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Feb 11, 2024 • 1h 0m

Joshua Paul Dale, "Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World" (Profile Books, 2023)

Feb 10, 2024 • 34m

Xuelei Huang, "Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Feb 10, 2024 • 53m

Klaus Schmider, "Hitler's Fatal Miscalculation: Why Germany Declared War on the United States" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Feb 9, 2024 • 1h 11m

Jennifer Sdunzik, "The Geography of Hate: The Great Migration through Small-Town America" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

Feb 9, 2024 • 42m

Wendy Cheng, "Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism" (U Washington Press, 2023)

Feb 8, 2024 • 54m

Florence Mok, "Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, c.1966-97" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Feb 8, 2024 • 1h 3m

Gregory Wallance, "Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)

Feb 8, 2024 • 54m

The Future of the Future: A Discussion with Jonathan White

Feb 7, 2024 • 41m

Jake Berman, "The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Feb 7, 2024 • 32m

Dallas Michelbacher, "Jewish Forced Labor in Romania, 1940-1944" (Indiana UP, 2020)

Feb 6, 2024 • 1h 6m

Robert Alpert et al., "Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

Feb 6, 2024 • 1h 34m

Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams, "Kubrick: An Odyssey" (Pegasus Books, 2024)

Feb 6, 2024 • 57m

Nicholas Dames, "The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Feb 5, 2024 • 1h 9m

Mark Guarino, "Country and Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Feb 5, 2024 • 1h 11m

Serhiy Bilenky, "Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine Between Empire and Nation, 1772-1914" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)

Feb 5, 2024 • 51m

Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer, "Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)

Feb 5, 2024 • 1h 14m

Alp Yenen and Erik-Jan Zürcher, "A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments" (Leiden UP, 2023)

Feb 5, 2024 • 57m

Jessica Hinchy, "Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c.1850-1900" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Feb 5, 2024 • 1h 4m

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, "The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future Through Science" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Feb 4, 2024 • 50m

Elizabeth Varon, "Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)

Feb 4, 2024 • 28m

Julia Ornelas-Higdon, "The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769–1920" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

Feb 3, 2024 • 56m

Bedross Der Matossian, "The Armenian Social Democrat Hnchakian Party: Politics, Ideology and Transnational History" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Feb 3, 2024 • 1h 0m

Beatrice Heuser, "War: A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Feb 3, 2024 • 1h 4m

Michael O'Malley, "The Beat Cop: Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Feb 3, 2024 • 59m

Matthew D. Lassiter, "The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Feb 2, 2024 • 59m

Robin Judd, "Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust" (UNC Press, 2023)

Feb 2, 2024 • 46m

Georgina Hickey, "Breaking the Gender Code: Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States" (U Texas Press, 2023)

Feb 2, 2024 • 1h 8m

Marc Arsell Robinson, "Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest" (NYU Press, 2023)

Feb 2, 2024 • 1h 26m

Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Feb 1, 2024 • 38m

The Historian as a Detective (History & Consulting, Part 1)

Feb 1, 2024 • 46m

Marco Armiero et al., "Mussolini's Nature: An Environmental History of Italian Fascism" (MIT Press, 2022)

Jan 30, 2024 • 1h 9m

Andrew David Jackson, "The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

Jan 30, 2024 • 1h 6m

Holly A. Baggett, "Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)

Jan 30, 2024 • 39m

Chen-Pang Yeang, "Transforming Noise. A History of Its Science and Technology from Disturbing Sounds to Informational Errors, 1900-1955" (2023)

Jan 30, 2024 • 56m

Anton Weiss-Wendt, "On the Margins: Essays on the History of Jews in Estonia" (CEU Press, 2017)

Jan 29, 2024 • 1h 43m

Anna Reid, "A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution" (Basic Books, 2024)

Jan 29, 2024 • 53m

Paul Franke, "Feeling Lucky: The Production of Gambling Experiences in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Jan 29, 2024 • 52m

David M. Henkin, "The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms that Made Us who We are" (Yale UP, 2021)

Jan 29, 2024 • 58m

Ridley Scott's "Napoleon": A Historian's Review

Jan 28, 2024 • 22m

Suzanne Oakdale, "Amazonian Cosmopolitans: Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous Policies, and Other Modern Projects" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

Jan 28, 2024 • 54m

Elinor Cleghorn, "Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World" (Dutton, 2022)

Jan 28, 2024 • 55m

Calder Walton, "Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West" (Simon & Schuster, 2024)

Jan 28, 2024 • 44m

John J. Michalczyk et al.. "Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and the Holocaust: A Prelude to Genocide" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Jan 27, 2024 • 1h 55m

Amanda Lanzillo, "Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India" (U California Press, 2024)

Jan 27, 2024 • 1h 0m

Marcia Stephenson, "Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World" (U Texas Press, 2023)

Jan 27, 2024 • 56m

Kate Annett-Hitchcock, "The Intersection of Fashion and Disability: A Historical Analysis" (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023)

Jan 26, 2024 • 57m

Caleb Wellum, "Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

Jan 26, 2024 • 57m

Ethel Morgan Smith, "Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)

Jan 26, 2024 • 31m

Richard L. Bushman, "Joseph Smith's Gold Plates: A Cultural History" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jan 25, 2024 • 1h 13m

Adrian Goldsworthy, "Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry" (Basic Books, 2023)

Jan 25, 2024 • 1h 8m

Mark Zachary Taylor, "Presidential Leadership in Feeble Times: Explaining Executive Power in the Gilded Age" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jan 25, 2024 • 53m

David J. Brick, "Widows Under Hindu Law" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jan 25, 2024 • 55m

Damon Scott, "The City Aroused: Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Jan 25, 2024 • 1h 9m

Eugenio Refini, "Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy" (Legenda, 2022)

Jan 25, 2024 • 53m

Genevieve Alva Clutario, "Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898-1941" (Duke UP, 2023)

Jan 25, 2024 • 1h 5m

James R. Fichter, "Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773–1776" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Jan 24, 2024 • 1h 3m

Nicholas Radburn, "Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2023)

Jan 24, 2024 • 1h 15m

Amar Sohal, "The Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India's Partition" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jan 24, 2024 • 1h 9m

Camillo Leonardi, "Speculum Lapidum: A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones" (Penn State UP, 2023)

Jan 23, 2024 • 52m

Nicholas Morton, "The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Jan 22, 2024 • 1h 0m

Ian MacAllen, "Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

Jan 22, 2024 • 52m

Catherine Powell-Warren, "Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science: Agnes Block, Botany, and Networks in the Dutch 17th Century" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)

Jan 22, 2024 • 49m

Paul D. Barclay, "Kondo the Barbarian: A Japanese Adventurer and Indigenous Taiwan's Bloodiest Uprising" (Eastbridge Books, 2023)

Jan 22, 2024 • 59m

Chelsea Schields, "Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean" (U California Press, 2023)

Jan 21, 2024 • 56m

Cassander L. Smith, "Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic" (LSU Press, 2023)

Jan 21, 2024 • 40m

Andrekos Varnava, "Assassination in Colonial Cyprus in 1934 and the Origins of EOKA" (Anthem Press, 2021)

Jan 21, 2024 • 1h 27m

Jakob Norberg, "The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Jan 21, 2024 • 1h 0m

Brian Gastle et al., "The Lover's Confession: A Translation of John Gower's Confessio Amantis" (Medieval Institute Press, 2023)

Jan 21, 2024 • 49m

Jane Ohlmeyer, "Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jan 20, 2024 • 1h 0m

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, "Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Jan 20, 2024 • 48m

Hwisang Cho, "The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea" (U Washington Press, 2020)

Jan 20, 2024 • 58m

Jessica Goethals, "Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

Jan 20, 2024 • 1h 4m

The Future of Images of Human Evolution

Jan 20, 2024 • 35m

Lewis Wade, "Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France: Marine Insurance, War and the Atlantic Empire Under Louis XIV" (Boydell Press, 2023)

Jan 19, 2024 • 54m

Robert C. Post, "The Taft Court (10): Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jan 19, 2024 • 1h 7m

Bradley R. Clampitt, "Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity" (LSU Press, 2022)

Jan 18, 2024 • 1h 6m

Yitzhak Teutsch, "The Cyprus Detention Camps: The Essential Research Guide" (Cambridge Scholars, 2019)

Jan 18, 2024 • 1h 49m

Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan, "The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Jan 18, 2024 • 45m

Scott Gac, "Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jan 18, 2024 • 39m

Aimee Loiselle, "Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class" (UNC Press, 2023)

Jan 17, 2024 • 55m

On Henry Einspruch's 1941 Yiddish Translation of the Christian Bible

Jan 17, 2024 • 59m

Sujin Lee, "Wombs of Empire: Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Jan 17, 2024 • 58m

Geoffrey Levin, "Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978" (Yale UP, 2023)

Jan 16, 2024 • 1h 8m

Karen C. Pinto, "Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2016)

Jan 16, 2024 • 53m

Emma Gleadhill, "Taking Travel Home: The Souvenir Culture of British Women Tourists, 1750-1830" (Manchester UP, 2022)

Jan 16, 2024 • 1h 2m

Christopher Corker, "The Business and Technology of the Sheffield Armaments Industry, 1900-1930" (U of York, 2016)

Jan 16, 2024 • 42m

Miles P. Grier, "Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery" (U Virginia Press, 2023)

Jan 15, 2024 • 1h 23m

Patricio Simonetto, "A Body of One's Own: A Trans History of Argentina" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Jan 15, 2024 • 54m

Uri Kaufman, "Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)

Jan 15, 2024 • 57m

Alexandra Filindra, "Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Jan 15, 2024 • 53m

James W. Cortada, "Inside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action" (Columbia Business School, 2023)

Jan 14, 2024 • 1h 8m

Elisabeth Gernerd, "The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the Late 18th-Century Atlantic World" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Jan 14, 2024 • 1h 35m

Rishad Choudhury, "Hajj Across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture After the Mughals, 1739-1857" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jan 14, 2024 • 1h 27m

Rich Cohen, "When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season" (Random House, 2023)

Jan 13, 2024 • 1h 2m

Aviva Ben-Ur and Wim Klooster eds., "Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Jan 13, 2024 • 45m

Jacob L. Wright, "Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jan 13, 2024 • 55m

Emily Brooks, "Gotham’s War Within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City" (UNC Press, 2023)

Jan 13, 2024 • 1h 8m

Stéphane Jettot, "Selling Ancestry: Family Directories and the Commodification of Genealogy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jan 13, 2024 • 55m

Hajar Yazdiha, "The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Jan 12, 2024 • 30m

Matthew Romaniello, "Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Jan 12, 2024 • 1h 0m

Con Coughlin, "Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny" (Picador, 2023)

Jan 12, 2024 • 33m

Judith Surkis, "Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930" (Cornell UP, 2019)

Jan 12, 2024 • 1h 0m

Jennifer V. Evans, "The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism" (Duke UP, 2023)

Jan 12, 2024 • 34m

Sam Lebovic, "State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime" (Basic Book, 2023)

Jan 12, 2024 • 58m

Kami Fletcher and Ashley Towle, "Grave History: Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

Jan 11, 2024 • 46m

Selby Wynn Schwartz, "The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives" (U Michigan Press, 2019)

Jan 11, 2024 • 56m

Patrick R. O'Malley, "The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century" (U Virginia Press, 2023)

Jan 11, 2024 • 57m

Yair Furstenberg, "Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism: From the Temple to the Mishnah" (Indiana UP, 2023)

Jan 10, 2024 • 38m

Jennifer Thomson, "The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health" (UNC Press, 2019)

Jan 10, 2024 • 47m

Mark Monmonier, "Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography" (ESRI Press, 2019)

Jan 10, 2024 • 1h 4m

Brandon Presser, "The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania and Mutiny in the South Pacific" (Icon Books, 2022)

Jan 10, 2024 • 49m

Robert Michael Morrissey, "People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America" (U Washington Press, 2022)

Jan 10, 2024 • 1h 8m

Ofer Ashkenazi, "Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape" (U Michigan Press, 2020)

Jan 9, 2024 • 1h 3m

Katherine Rye Jewell, "Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio" (UNC Press, 2023)

Jan 9, 2024 • 41m

Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, "Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History" (Routledge, 2020)

Jan 9, 2024 • 1h 5m

Ayelet Brinn, "A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press" (NYU Press, 2023)

Jan 9, 2024 • 33m

Peter J. Williamson, "Duce: The Contradictions of Power: The Political Leadership of Benito Mussolini" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jan 9, 2024 • 1h 31m

Yaroslav Trofimov, "Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence" (Penguin, 2023)

Jan 9, 2024 • 43m

Matthew Carr, "Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain, 1492-1614" (Hurst, 2017)

Jan 8, 2024 • 1h 51m

Jessica Romney, "Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece" (U Michigan Press, 2020)

Jan 8, 2024 • 1h 4m

Seth Bernard, "Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy" (Oxford UP, 2018)

Jan 7, 2024 • 35m

Bryan Mark Rigg, "The Rabbi Saved by Hitler's Soldiers: Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn and His Astonishing Rescue" (UP of Kansas, 2016)

Jan 7, 2024 • 55m

Emma Kuby, "Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps After 1945" (Cornell UP, 2019)

Jan 7, 2024 • 1h 2m

Sara Rahnama, "The Future Is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Jan 7, 2024 • 49m

Pavel Khazanov, "The Russia that We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)

Jan 6, 2024 • 34m

Elizabeth Eva Leach, "Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Jan 6, 2024 • 38m

Klaus Buchenau, "From Grand Estates to Grand Corruption: The Battle Over the Possessions of Prince Albert of Thurn and Taxis in Interwar Yugoslavia" (Brill, 2023)

Jan 6, 2024 • 1h 3m

Roland Allen, "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" (Profile Books, 2023)

Jan 6, 2024 • 1h 0m

Colin Jones, "The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Jan 5, 2024 • 56m

Kate Kirkpatrick, "Becoming Beauvoir: A Life" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

Jan 5, 2024 • 56m

Martyn Whittock, "American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

Jan 5, 2024 • 31m

Marcy Norton, "The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492" (Harvard UP, 2024)

Jan 4, 2024 • 1h 0m

Amanda Kennell, "Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)

Jan 4, 2024 • 46m

Timothy Brook, "The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Jan 4, 2024 • 39m

Susanna Phillips Newbury, "The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

Jan 4, 2024 • 38m

Jack Glazier, "Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race" (MSU Press, 2020)

Jan 4, 2024 • 1h 4m

Chinmay Tumbe, "The Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920): How They Shaped India and the World" (Harper Collins, 2020)

Jan 3, 2024 • 49m

William G. Pooley, "Body and Tradition in 19th-Century France: Félix Arnaudin and the Moorlands of Gascony, 1870-1914" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Jan 3, 2024 • 58m

Noel Malcolm, "Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Jan 3, 2024 • 1h 4m

Robert N. Gross, “Public vs. Private: The Early History of School Choice in America” (Oxford UP, 2018)

Jan 3, 2024 • 1h 6m

Margaret M. McGuinness, "Katharine Drexel and the Sisters Who Shared Her Vision" (Paulist Press, 2023)

Jan 3, 2024 • 1h 7m

W. K. Stratton, "The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

Jan 3, 2024 • 58m

Katherine M. Marino, "Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)

Jan 3, 2024 • 55m

Roman Politics, Familiar Yet Foreign: A Conversation with Jed Atkins

Jan 2, 2024 • 55m

Chris S. Duvall, "The African Roots of Marijuana" (Duke UP, 2019)

Jan 2, 2024 • 51m

Max Deardorff, "A Tale of Two Granadas: Custom, Community, and Citizenship in the Spanish Empire, 1568–1668" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jan 2, 2024 • 1h 38m

Richard Vague, "A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)

Jan 2, 2024 • 36m

Ronen Steinberg, "The Afterlives of the Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France" (Cornell UP, 2019)

Jan 1, 2024 • 1h 1m

Khurram Hussain, "Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

Jan 1, 2024 • 1h 2m

James O'Toole, "The Enlightened Capitalists: Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good" (HarperBusiness, 2019)

Jan 1, 2024 • 52m

Adam Mestyan, "Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Jan 1, 2024 • 47m

John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)

Jan 1, 2024 • 56m

Benjamin R. Siegel, “Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India” (Cambridge UP, 2018)

Jan 1, 2024 • 44m

Jelena Subotić, "Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism" (Cornell UP, 2019)

Jan 1, 2024 • 50m

Laura Briggs, "Taking Children: A History of American Terror" (U California Press, 2020)

Dec 31, 2023 • 1h 19m

James Keating, "Distant Sisters: Australasian Women and the International Struggle for the Vote, 1880-1914" (Manchester UP, 2020)

Dec 31, 2023 • 1h 0m

Gregg L. Frazer, "God against the Revolution: The Loyalist Clergy’s Case Against the American Revolution" (UP of Kansas, 2018)

Dec 31, 2023 • 36m

Carolyn Birdsall, "Radiophilia" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Dec 31, 2023 • 46m

Jonathan Scott, "How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution, 1500-1800" (Yale UP, 2019)

Dec 31, 2023 • 27m

Craig Keener, "Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels" (Eerdmans, 2019)

Dec 31, 2023 • 41m

Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan, "The Cultural Roots of Slow Food: Peasants, Partisans, and the Landscape of Italian Resistance" (Lexington Books, 2023)

Dec 30, 2023 • 1h 6m

Denise Y. Ho, “Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

Dec 30, 2023 • 1h 8m

Erika Dyck, "Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)

Dec 30, 2023 • 56m

Eren Tasar, “Soviet and Muslim: The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia” (Oxford UP, 2017)

Dec 30, 2023 • 57m

Sarah Sarzynski, "Revolution in the Terra Do Sol: The Cold War in Brazil" (Stanford UP, 2018)

Dec 30, 2023 • 1h 22m

Michael Braddick, "The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2018)

Dec 30, 2023 • 28m

Douglas Hunter, "Beardmore: The Viking Hoax That Rewrote History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)

Dec 30, 2023 • 1h 10m

Laurent Dubois, “The Banjo: America’s African Instrument” (Harvard UP, 2016)

Dec 30, 2023 • 45m

Nature-Study

Dec 29, 2023 • 22m

Christine E. Evans, “Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television” (Yale UP, 2016)

Dec 29, 2023 • 1h 0m

Grammar, Identity, and Ideology in Early 20th-Century Japan

Dec 29, 2023 • 22m

Claudia Smith Brinson, "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)

Dec 29, 2023 • 1h 7m

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 7: A Genealogy of Gun Violence

Dec 28, 2023 • 51m

Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, "Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Dec 28, 2023 • 50m

Kristian Petersen, “Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Language, and Scripture in the Han Kitab” (Oxford UP, 2017)

Dec 28, 2023 • 42m

Scott D. Seligman, "Murder in Manchuria: The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

Dec 28, 2023 • 43m

Joseph Vogel, "James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era" (U Illinois Press, 2018)

Dec 28, 2023 • 41m

Julia F. Irwin, "Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century" (UNC Press, 2023)

Dec 27, 2023 • 56m

Alyssa M. Park, “Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860-1945" (Cornell UP, 2019)

Dec 27, 2023 • 1h 8m

Elena Schneider, "The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic World" (UNC Press, 2018)

Dec 27, 2023 • 50m

Jeffrey Whyte, "The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Dec 27, 2023 • 1h 23m

Walter Greason and Tim Fielder, "The Graphic History of Hip Hop" (NYC Department of Education, 2023)

Dec 27, 2023 • 1h 6m

David T. Beito, "The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance" (Independent Institute, 2023)

Dec 27, 2023 • 1h 1m

Marixa Lasso, "Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Dec 26, 2023 • 36m

Alice Collett, "Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History" (Oxford UP, 2016)

Dec 26, 2023 • 1h 6m

Jeremy Yellen, "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War" (Cornell UP, 2019)

Dec 26, 2023 • 1h 17m

Thomas A. Schwartz, "Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography" (Hill and Wang, 2020)

Dec 26, 2023 • 45m

Stuart Elden, “Foucault: The Birth of Power” (Polity Press, 2017)

Dec 26, 2023 • 46m

Milton Gaither, "Homeschool: An American History" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

Dec 26, 2023 • 30m

David Courtwright, "The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Dec 26, 2023 • 44m

Tamara Venit-Shelton, "Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace" (Yale UP, 2019)

Dec 26, 2023 • 1h 13m

Edward J. Watts, "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Dec 25, 2023 • 1h 7m

Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki, "Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire" (Routledge, 2023)

Dec 25, 2023 • 1h 7m

Timothy McCall, "Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

Dec 25, 2023 • 1h 4m

Meredith Oda, "The Gateway to the Pacific: Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

Dec 25, 2023 • 1h 30m

Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962" (U Virginia Press, 2020)

Dec 25, 2023 • 53m

David R. Brigham, "Two Hundred Years: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1824-2024" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

Dec 25, 2023 • 52m

Matt Garcia, "Eli and the Octopus: The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World’s Most Notorious Corporations" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Dec 25, 2023 • 54m

On Native American Warfare: A Discussion with Author and Historian Wayne E. Lee

Dec 24, 2023 • 55m

Laurence Jurdem, "The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship that Changed American History" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)

Dec 24, 2023 • 53m

Ilkay Yilmaz, "Ottoman Passports: Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908" (Syracuse UP, 2023)

Dec 24, 2023 • 55m

Jie Li, "Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Dec 24, 2023 • 1h 7m

Nate Patrin, "The Needle and the Lens: Pop Goes to the Movies from Rock 'n' Roll to Synthwave" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

Dec 23, 2023 • 52m

John D. Hosler, "Seven Myths of Military History" (Hackett Publishing, 2022)

Dec 23, 2023 • 1h 7m

Thomas Kelly, "The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Dec 23, 2023 • 1h 36m

Yael A. Sternhell, "War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War" (Yale UP, 2023)

Dec 23, 2023 • 55m

Howie Singer and Bill Rosenblatt, "Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Dec 23, 2023 • 1h 30m

Anne E. Linton, "Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Dec 22, 2023 • 1h 2m

Philip Snow, "China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord" (Yale UP, 2023)

Dec 22, 2023 • 53m

Huw Bennett, "Uncivil War: The British Army and the Troubles, 1966–1975" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Dec 22, 2023 • 26m

Kelly Ricciardi Colvin, "Charm Offensive: Commodifying Femininity in Postwar France" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

Dec 22, 2023 • 53m

Brian Jeffrey Maxson, "Early Modern Europe: Facts and Fictions" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Dec 21, 2023 • 50m

Helen Louise Cowie, "Victims of Fashion: Animal Commodities in Victorian Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Dec 21, 2023 • 58m

David M. Freidenreich, "Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy" (U California Press, 2023)

Dec 21, 2023 • 58m

Magda Stroińska, "My Life in Propaganda: A Memoir about Language and Totalitarian Regimes" (Durvile, 2023)

Dec 21, 2023 • 1h 4m

Pardis Mahdavi, "Hyphen" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Dec 20, 2023 • 31m

Vineeta Sinha. "Temple Tracks: Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia" (Berghahn Books, 2023)

Dec 20, 2023 • 46m

David Craig, "Apocalypse Television: How The Day After Helped Save the World" (Applause Books, 2023)

Dec 20, 2023 • 51m

Wayne Soon, "Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History" (Stanford UP, 2020)

Dec 19, 2023 • 1h 5m

Katlyn Marie Carter, "Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions" (Yale UP, 2023)

Dec 19, 2023 • 51m

António Costa Pinto, "An Authoritarian Third Way in the Era of Fascism: Diffusion, Models and Interactions in Europe and Latin America" (Routledge, 2021)

Dec 19, 2023 • 1h 33m

Sara Chatfield, "In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Dec 18, 2023 • 55m

Michelle R. Scott, "T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

Dec 18, 2023 • 58m

Jack D. Noe, "Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South" (LSU Press, 2021)

Dec 18, 2023 • 32m

Jackson Lears, "Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street" (FSG, 2023)

Dec 17, 2023 • 1h 5m

Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry White, "Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture" (U California Press, 2023)

Dec 17, 2023 • 1h 2m

Yaron Eliav, "A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Dec 17, 2023 • 1h 20m

Katherine D. Von Schaik, "How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness" (Galen) (Princeton UP, 2024)

Dec 17, 2023 • 34m

The Future of Global Economic Governance: A Discussion with Jamie Martin

Dec 16, 2023 • 40m

Simone Gigliotti, "Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced" (Indiana UP, 2023)

Dec 16, 2023 • 49m

Mario Baghos, "From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium: Kings, Symbols, and Cities" (Cambridge Scholars, 2021)

Dec 16, 2023 • 1h 25m

Randall Hansen, "War, Work, and Want: How the OPEC Oil Crisis Caused Mass Migration and Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Dec 16, 2023 • 53m

Sisterhood

Dec 16, 2023 • 20m

Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023)

Dec 15, 2023 • 31m

Ronald C. White, "On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain" (Random House, 2023)

Dec 15, 2023 • 1h 0m

Jonathan Daly and Leonid Trofimov, "Seven Myths of the Russian Revolution" (Hackett, 2023)

Dec 15, 2023 • 1h 4m

Sally Frances Low, "Colonial Law Making: Cambodia Under the French" (NUS Press, 2023)

Dec 15, 2023 • 45m

Kawi Culture: Exploring Indonesia’s Classical Civilisation

Dec 15, 2023 • 32m

Peter Richardson, "Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo" (U California Press, 2022)

Dec 15, 2023 • 1h 12m

Pankaj Jain, "Modern Jainism: A Historical Approach" (Springer, 2023)

Dec 14, 2023 • 48m

Jonathan Sumption, "Triumph and Illusion: The Hundred Years War, Vol. 5" (Faber & Faber, 2023)

Dec 14, 2023 • 42m

Peter Brown, "Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Dec 14, 2023 • 1h 4m

Hugo Wong, "America's Lost Chinese: The Rise and Fall of a Migrant Family Dream" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Dec 14, 2023 • 47m

David Carey, Jr., "Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador" (U California Press, 2023)

Dec 13, 2023 • 46m

Kathy Stuart, "Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Dec 13, 2023 • 1h 6m

David Steele, "It Was Always a Choice: Picking Up the Baton of Athlete Activism" (Temple UP, 2022)

Dec 12, 2023 • 1h 8m

Rob Harvilla, "60 Songs That Explain The 90s" (Twelve, 2023)

Dec 12, 2023 • 53m

Christian Raffensperger and Donald Ostrowski, "The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

Dec 12, 2023 • 1h 3m

Alexandra Kitty, "A Different Track: Hospital Trains of the Second World War" (Heritage House, 2023)

Dec 11, 2023 • 29m

Everyday Life Behind the Berlin Wall

Dec 11, 2023 • 34m

Martin C. Dean, "Investigating Babyn Yar: Shadows from the Valley of Death" (Lexington Books, 2023)

Dec 11, 2023 • 36m

Ervin Malakaj, "Anders als Die Andern" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)

Dec 11, 2023 • 37m

Tristan G. Brown, "Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Dec 11, 2023 • 57m

Paolo Caroli, "Transitional Justice in Italy and the Crimes of Fascism and Nazism" (Routledge, 2022)

Dec 11, 2023 • 1h 37m

Paul Crosthwaite et al., "Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Dec 10, 2023 • 50m

Sean Howe, "Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s" (Hachette Books, 2023)

Dec 10, 2023 • 51m

Stephen Legg, "Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Dec 10, 2023 • 51m

Matthew Dennis, "American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)

Dec 10, 2023 • 54m

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6: A Medieval Anti-Racist

Dec 10, 2023 • 52m

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 5: Picturing Race in Colonial Mexico

Dec 9, 2023 • 1h 0m

Xavier Luffin, "Another Look at Congolese History: Arabic and Swahili Documents in the Belgian Archives" (Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, 2020)

Dec 9, 2023 • 1h 10m

Jeffrey S. Gurock, "Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend" (NYU Press, 2023)

Dec 9, 2023 • 39m

Book Talk 61: Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Threats to Democracy and H.L. Mencken’s "Notes on Democracy"

Dec 9, 2023 • 57m

Ramona Dima, "Queer Culture in Romania, 1920–2018" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

Dec 8, 2023 • 49m

Burkhard Bilger, "Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets" (Random House, 2023)

Dec 8, 2023 • 1h 3m

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 4: Jamestown and the Myth of the Sovereign Family

Dec 8, 2023 • 45m

Self Help

Dec 7, 2023 • 20m

Fae Dussart, "In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Dec 7, 2023 • 58m

Susan Blumberg-Kason, "Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China" (Post Hill Press, 2023)

Dec 7, 2023 • 39m

Afsar Mohammad, "Remaking History: 1948 Police Action and the Muslims of Hyderabad" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Dec 6, 2023 • 40m

Hannah Carlson, "Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close" (Algonquin Books, 2023)

Dec 6, 2023 • 48m

Amy Matthewson, "Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era" (Routledge, 2022)

Dec 6, 2023 • 35m

Guy Miron, "Space and Time Under Persecution: The German-Jewish Experience in the Third Reich" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Dec 6, 2023 • 46m

Christopher A. Whatley and Joanna Hambly, "Salt: Scotland's Newest Oldest Industry" (Birlinn, 2023)

Dec 5, 2023 • 59m

Hilary French, "Ballroom: A People’s History of Dancing" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

Dec 5, 2023 • 42m

Emma K. Sutton, "William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Dec 5, 2023 • 37m

Simon Joyce, "LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Dec 5, 2023 • 1h 14m

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 1: Climbing the Mountains of Modernity

Dec 5, 2023 • 46m

Ramsey Lewis and Aaron Cohen, "Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music" (Blackstone, 2023)

Dec 4, 2023 • 49m

Lawrence Zhang, "Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Dec 4, 2023 • 59m

Nur Sobers-Khan et al., "Beyond Colonial Rupture: Print Culture and the Emergence of Muslim Modernity in Nineteenth-Century South Asia" (2023)

Dec 4, 2023 • 41m

John Perlin, "The Forest Journey: The Story of Trees and Civilization" (Patagonia, 2023)

Dec 4, 2023 • 28m

Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)

Dec 4, 2023 • 1h 13m

Andrew C. McKevitt, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America" (UNC Press, 2023)

Dec 4, 2023 • 1h 0m

Tracy E. Perkins, "Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism" (U California Press, 2022)

Dec 3, 2023 • 1h 6m

Sima Saigal, "The Second World War and North East India: Shadows of Yesteryears" (Routledge, 2022)

Dec 3, 2023 • 1h 21m

Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Dec 3, 2023 • 55m

Robert B. Rakove, "Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Dec 3, 2023 • 1h 21m

Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation

Dec 2, 2023 • 58m

Samiparna Samanta, "Meat, Mercy, Morality: Animals and Humanitarianism in Colonial Bengal, 1850-1920" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Dec 2, 2023 • 1h 9m

Daniel Herbert, "Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film" (U California Press, 2023)

Dec 2, 2023 • 1h 20m

J. Christopher Edwards, "Crucified: The Christian Invention of the Jewish Executioners of Jesus" (Fortress Press, 2023)

Dec 2, 2023 • 1h 15m

Andrew Pettegree, "The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict" (Basic Books, 2023)

Dec 1, 2023 • 50m

Sinae Hyun, "Indigenizing the Cold War: The Border Patrol Police and Nation-Building in Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)

Dec 1, 2023 • 1h 2m

Jeff Jarvis, "The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Dec 1, 2023 • 1h 3m

Rachel Stephens, "Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture" (U Arkansas Press, 2023)

Dec 1, 2023 • 54m

Daniel Jütte, "Transparency: The Material History of an Idea" (Yale UP, 2023)

Dec 1, 2023 • 1h 3m

John Zubrzycki, "Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States" (Hurst, 2024)

Nov 30, 2023 • 59m

Russ Castronovo, "American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Nov 30, 2023 • 1h 16m

Poppy Corbett et al., "Creative Histories of Witchcraft: France, 1790–1940" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Nov 30, 2023 • 1h 1m

D. L. d'Avray, "The Power of Protocol: Diplomatics and the Dynamics of Papal Government, c. 400-c.1600" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Nov 30, 2023 • 1h 21m

On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen

Nov 30, 2023 • 1h 2m

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 5: Picturing Race in Colonial Mexico

Nov 29, 2023 • 1h 0m

Jürgen Zimmerer, "Memory Wars: New German Historical Consciousness" (Reclam Verlag, 2023)

Nov 29, 2023 • 1h 1m

Charles S. Maier, "The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Nov 29, 2023 • 50m

Richard Schoch, "Shakespeare’s House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Nov 29, 2023 • 59m

Shuchen Xiang, "Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The History and Philosophy of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Nov 29, 2023 • 1h 29m

Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Yale UP, 2023)

Nov 28, 2023 • 57m

Henrietta Harrison, "The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2021)

Nov 28, 2023 • 1h 1m

Rebecca Simon, "The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

Nov 28, 2023 • 42m

Salim Yaqub, "Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Nov 28, 2023 • 1h 4m

Peter Bellerby, "The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Nov 27, 2023 • 39m

Ran Zwigenberg, "Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Nov 27, 2023 • 1h 5m

Andrekos Varnava, "British Cyprus and the Long Great War, 1914-1925: Empire, Loyalties and Democratic Deficit" (Routledge, 2020)

Nov 27, 2023 • 1h 12m

G. H. Bennett, "The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys" (US Naval Institute Press, 2023)

Nov 27, 2023 • 59m

E. T. Dailey, "Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Nov 26, 2023 • 1h 6m

J. Daniel, "Suds Series: Baseball, Beer Wars, and the Summer of '82" (U Missouri Press, 2023)

Nov 26, 2023 • 1h 12m

Peter Samsonov, "IS-2: Development, Design, and Production of Stalin's Warhammer" (Military History Group, 2022)

Nov 26, 2023 • 37m

Katerina Lagos, "The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936-1941" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Nov 26, 2023 • 1h 22m

Nader Kadhem, "Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)

Nov 25, 2023 • 42m

Edward L. Ayers, "American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860" (Norton, 2023)

Nov 25, 2023 • 1h 7m

Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of History" (Indiana UP, 2023)

Nov 25, 2023 • 29m

Jennifer Maclure, "The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

Nov 25, 2023 • 1h 3m

Diane Carol Fujino, "Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake" (U Washington Press, 2020)

Nov 25, 2023 • 59m

Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel, "Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States" (Polity, 2023)

Nov 24, 2023 • 56m

The Idea of "Central Europe" from Naumann to Kundera

Nov 24, 2023 • 44m

Mia Mask, "Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

Nov 24, 2023 • 56m

Jenny Benham, "International Law in Europe, 700–1200" (Manchester UP, 2022)

Nov 24, 2023 • 1h 13m

Tabitha Stanmore, "Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Nov 24, 2023 • 53m

Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Nov 24, 2023 • 1h 10m

Sarah E. Stoller, "Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain" (MIT Press, 2023)

Nov 24, 2023 • 40m

Paul Le Blanc, "Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution" (Pluto Press, 2023)

Nov 23, 2023 • 1h 32m

Boris Heersink, "National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Nov 23, 2023 • 50m

Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

Nov 23, 2023 • 38m

Ruth Dalton, "Living in Houses: A Personal History English Domestic Architecture" (Lund Humphries, 2022)

Nov 22, 2023 • 45m

David K. Zimmerman, "Ensnared Between Hitler and Stalin: Refugee Scientists in the USSR" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

Nov 22, 2023 • 1h 20m

Andrew Monaghan and Richard Connolly. "The Sea in Russian Strategy" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Nov 22, 2023 • 1h 3m

Economic Enchantments

Nov 22, 2023 • 21m

Cody D. Ewert, "Making Schools American: Nationalism and the Origin of Modern Educational Politics" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)

Nov 21, 2023 • 56m

Amy Harris, "Being Single in Georgian England: Families, Households, and the Unmarried" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Nov 21, 2023 • 1h 10m

Providence and Power: Rabbi Meir Soloveichik on Jewish Statesmanship from King David to David Ben Gurion

Nov 21, 2023 • 53m

Ina Rupprecht, ed., "Persecution, Collaboration, Resistance: Music in the ‘Reichskommissariat Norwegen’ (1940–45)" (Waxmann Verlag, 2020)

Nov 21, 2023 • 1h 14m

Joe Lane, "Networks, Innovation, and Knowledge: the North Staffordshire Potteries, 1750-1851" (U of London, 2023)

Nov 20, 2023 • 49m

Seán Creagh, "The Wolfhounds of Irish-American Nationalism: A History of Clan Na Gael, 1867-Present" (Peter Lang, 2023)

Nov 20, 2023 • 30m

Elizabeth M. Perego, "Humor and Power in Algeria, 1920 to 2021" (Indiana UP, 2023)

Nov 20, 2023 • 46m

Antonis Klapsis et al., "The Greek Junta and the International System: A Case Study of Southern European Dictatorships, 1967-74" (Routledge, 2020)

Nov 20, 2023 • 1h 25m

Harry Harootunian, "Archaism and Actuality: Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary" (Duke UP, 2023)

Nov 19, 2023 • 49m

Maxim Shrayer, "I Saw It: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah" (Academic Studies Press, 2013)

Nov 19, 2023 • 1h 0m

Thomas Blake Earle, "The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Nov 19, 2023 • 53m

Gabriella Giannachi, "Archive Everything: Mapping the Everyday" (MIT Press, 2016)

Nov 18, 2023 • 46m

Jason Puskar, "The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

Nov 18, 2023 • 1h 25m

Nicole Eaton, "German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Nov 18, 2023 • 1h 12m

Jo Teeuwisse, "Fake History: 101 Things That Never Happened" (Ebury Press, 2022)

Nov 18, 2023 • 37m

Anthony Tucker-Jones, "Battle of the Cities: Urban Warfare on the Eastern Front" (Pen & Sword Military, 2023)

Nov 17, 2023 • 1h 22m

Meghan Henning, "Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature" (Yale UP, 2021)

Nov 17, 2023 • 1h 4m

Charisse Burden-Stelly, "Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Nov 17, 2023 • 48m

Matthew F. Jordan, "Danger Sound Klaxon!: The Horn That Changed History" (U Virginia Press, 2023)

Nov 17, 2023 • 54m

Arupjyoti Saikia, "The Quest for Modern Assam: A History, 1942-2000" (India Allen Lane, 2023)

Nov 16, 2023 • 49m

Keith Cantú, "Like a Tree Universally Spread: Sri Sabhapati Swami And Śivarājayoga" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Nov 16, 2023 • 41m

Huping Ling, "Chinese Americans in the Heartland: Migration, Work, and Community" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

Nov 16, 2023 • 52m

Kimberley Ens Manning, "The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Nov 16, 2023 • 1h 59m

Richard S. Ascough, "Early Christ Groups and Greco-Roman Associations: Organizational Models and Social Practices" (Cascade Books, 2022)

Nov 16, 2023 • 1h 4m

Stefan Tanaka, "History without Chronology" (Lever Press, 2019)

Nov 15, 2023 • 1h 2m

Brigid Cohen, "Musical Migration and Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Nov 15, 2023 • 1h 3m

Steven B. Bowman, "Sepher Yosippon: A Tenth-Century History of Ancient Israel" (Wayne State UP, 2022)

Nov 15, 2023 • 1h 32m

Martin Jay, "Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure" (Verso, 2023)

Nov 15, 2023 • 1h 22m

Beatriz Nascimento, "The Dialectic Is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Nov 15, 2023 • 48m

Maura C. Flannery, "In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants" (Yale UP, 2023)

Nov 14, 2023 • 48m

Kristofer Ray and Brady DeSanti, "Understanding and Teaching Native American History" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)

Nov 14, 2023 • 1h 8m

Rebecca Hardie, "Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Women in Tenth-Century England" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2021)

Nov 14, 2023 • 51m

Musab Younis, "On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought" (U California Press, 2022)

Nov 13, 2023 • 51m

Ernest R. Zimmermann, "The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior: A History of Canadian Internment Camp R" (U Alberta Press, 2015)

Nov 13, 2023 • 1h 33m

Kai Jun Chen, "Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China" (U Washington Press, 2023)

Nov 13, 2023 • 1h 7m

Shay Rabineau, "Walking the Land: A History of Israeli Hiking Trails" (Indiana UP, 2023)

Nov 12, 2023 • 59m

Natasha Wheatley, "The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Nov 12, 2023 • 46m

Cecilia Márquez, "Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation" (UNC Press, 2023)

Nov 12, 2023 • 48m

Don Hollway, "Battle for the Island Kingdom: The Struggle for England's Destiny 1000-1066" (Osprey, 2023)

Nov 12, 2023 • 55m

Clive Young, "Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language" (Luath Press, 2023)

Nov 12, 2023 • 54m

Jennifer E. Brooks, "Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama" (LSU Press, 2022)

Nov 12, 2023 • 1h 0m

Daniel Macfarlane, "Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US-Canada Relations" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)

Nov 11, 2023 • 48m

Aditya Balasubramanian, "Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Nov 11, 2023 • 1h 40m

Shelley Fraser Mickle, "White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America" (Imagine, 2023)

Nov 11, 2023 • 33m

Xaq Frohlich, "From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age" (U California Press, 2023)

Nov 10, 2023 • 47m

Barry Reay and Nina Attwood, "Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-garde in Mid-century Paris and New York" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Nov 10, 2023 • 45m

Aarathi Prasad, "Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses" (William Collins, 2023)

Nov 9, 2023 • 51m

Randy Laist, ed.. "The '80s Resurrected: Essays on the Decade in Popular Culture Then and Now" (McFarland, 2023)

Nov 9, 2023 • 41m

Michael Newton, "It's a Wonderful Life" (British Film Institute, 2023)

Nov 8, 2023 • 1h 5m

Akram Benjamin, "Cotton, Finance and Business Networks in a Globalised World: The Case of Egypt During the First half of the Twentieth Century" (2019)

Nov 8, 2023 • 32m

Valerie Kivelson et al., "Picturing Russian Empire" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Nov 7, 2023 • 57m

Jordan Frith, "Barcode" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Nov 7, 2023 • 1h 17m

Matthew J. Clavin, "Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War" (NYU Press, 2023)

Nov 7, 2023 • 36m

Vicki Howard, ed., "A Cultural History of Shopping in the Modern Age" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Nov 7, 2023 • 42m

The Power of Stories and the Levi's Brand

Nov 7, 2023 • 50m

Helen Fry, "Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars" (Yale UP, 2023)

Nov 7, 2023 • 51m

Wm. Matthew Kennedy, "The Imperial Commonwealth: Australia and the Project of Empire, 1867-1914" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Nov 6, 2023 • 1h 0m

Fuchsia Dunlop, "Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food" (Norton, 2023)

Nov 6, 2023 • 1h 2m

The Superpowers of a Historian in the Business World

Nov 6, 2023 • 1h 0m

Shannon McKenna Schmidt, "The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back" (Sourcebooks, 2023)

Nov 6, 2023 • 34m

Tamson Pietsch, "The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Nov 5, 2023 • 1h 1m

Roger R. Reese, "Russia's Army: A History from the Napoleonic Wars to the War in Ukraine" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)

Nov 5, 2023 • 1h 44m

Ed Simon, "Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology" (Cernunnos, 2023)

Nov 5, 2023 • 39m

Megan Nutzman, "Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

Nov 5, 2023 • 52m

Peter Layton, "Grand Strategy" (2018)

Nov 4, 2023 • 1h 23m

David Veevers, "The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire" (Ebury Press, 2023)

Nov 4, 2023 • 1h 20m

David Alan Richards, "I Give These Books: The History of the Yale University Library, 1656-2016" (Oak Knoll, 2022)

Nov 4, 2023 • 1h 5m

Carson Bay, "Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Nov 4, 2023 • 1h 2m

Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale, "Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and Inequality" (Hurst, 2023)

Nov 3, 2023 • 1h 14m

Empires, States, Corporations: A Discussion with Historians Philip J. Stern and Quinn Slobodian

Nov 3, 2023 • 1h 5m

Timothy Brook, "The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Nov 3, 2023 • 1h 1m

Michael Custodis, "Music and Resistance: Cultural Defense During the German Occupation of Norway 1940-45" (Waxmann Verlag, 2021)

Nov 2, 2023 • 1h 25m

Toby Matthiesen, "The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Nov 2, 2023 • 43m

Jacqueline R. Braitman, "She Damn Near Ran the Studio: The Extraordinary Lives of Ida R. Koverman" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)

Nov 2, 2023 • 1h 7m

"We are all latecomers": Martin Puchner's "Culture" (JP, EF)

Nov 2, 2023 • 52m

Sharony Green, "The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

Nov 1, 2023 • 1h 10m

Richard Carrier, "Mussolini's Army Against Greece: October 1940-April 1941" (Routledge, 2021)

Nov 1, 2023 • 1h 12m

Paschalis Kitromilides, "Insular Destinies: Perspectives on the History and Politics of Modern Cyprus" (Routledge, 2021)

Nov 1, 2023 • 59m

Jennifer Saltzstein, "Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval Northern France: Toward an Environmental History" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Nov 1, 2023 • 1h 3m

Woodrow Wilson: Patrick Weil’s "The Madman in the White House"

Oct 31, 2023 • 40m

Jeff Jarvis, "Magazine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Oct 31, 2023 • 40m

On Wars: A Discussion with Michael Mann

Oct 31, 2023 • 55m

Marion Gibson, "Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials" (Scribner, 2023)

Oct 31, 2023 • 49m

Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)

Oct 31, 2023 • 55m

Joseph Brady and Paul Ferguson, "Dublin: Mapping the City" (Birlinn, 2023)

Oct 31, 2023 • 1h 5m

Leonie Hannan, "A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Oct 30, 2023 • 57m

Claire Jean Kim, "Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Oct 30, 2023 • 1h 5m

Agata Fijalkowski, "Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial" (Routledge, 2023)

Oct 30, 2023 • 1h 11m

Chris Bishop, "Medievalist Comics and the American Century" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)

Oct 29, 2023 • 53m

Chet Van Duzer, "Frames That Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps" (Brill, 2023)

Oct 29, 2023 • 41m

James White, "Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century: Migrant Poets between Arabia, Iran and India" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Oct 29, 2023 • 1h 10m

Marat Grinberg, "The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines" (Brandeis UP, 2023)

Oct 29, 2023 • 1h 14m

James V. Fenelon, "Indian, Black and Irish: Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions, 1492-1790" (Routledge, 2023)

Oct 28, 2023 • 40m

Adam Bisno, "Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy: Liberalism and the Grand Hotels of Berlin, 1875-1933" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Oct 28, 2023 • 56m

Nikki M. Taylor, "Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Oct 28, 2023 • 1h 5m

Norman Solomon, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine" (New Press, 2023)

Oct 28, 2023 • 1h 5m

Stephen B. Armstrong, "I Want You Around: The Ramones and the Making of Rock 'n' Roll High School" (Backbeat Books, 2023)

Oct 27, 2023 • 1h 11m

Youcef L. Soufi, "The Rise of Critical Islam: 10th-13th Century Legal Debate" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Oct 27, 2023 • 1h 14m

Linda Kinstler, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends" (PublicAffairs, 2023)

Oct 26, 2023 • 43m

Denise D. Meringolo, "Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism" (Amherst College Press, 2021)

Oct 26, 2023 • 1h 2m

Stuart McHardy, "The Nine Maidens: Priestesses of the Ancient World" (Luath Press, 2023)

Oct 26, 2023 • 38m

Christopher P. Barton, "The Archaeology of Race and Class at Timbuctoo: A Black Community in New Jersey" (UP of Florida, 2023)

Oct 25, 2023 • 42m

Owen Matthews, "Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine" (Mudlark, 2022)

Oct 25, 2023 • 59m

Diana Kamin, "Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy" (MIT Press, 2023)

Oct 25, 2023 • 56m

Itamar Rabinovich, "Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, the Arabs and the Region" (Brookings Institution Press, 2023)

Oct 25, 2023 • 41m

Scott Kamen, "From Union Halls to the Suburbs: Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)

Oct 25, 2023 • 1h 5m

Greg Glasgow and Kathryn Mayer, "Disneyland on the Mountain: Walt, the Environmentalists, and the Ski Resort That Never Was" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

Oct 25, 2023 • 45m

From the Invention of the Passport to the Golden Passport

Oct 24, 2023 • 36m

Margaret K. Nelson, "Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s" (NYU Press, 2022)

Oct 24, 2023 • 36m

Decolonizing Praxis

Oct 23, 2023 • 23m

Sebastian Huebel, "Fighter, Worker, and Family Man: German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933–1941" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

Oct 23, 2023 • 1h 35m

Sparta, Athens, Ukraine, Israel: A Conversation with Paul Rahe on Proxy Wars

Oct 23, 2023 • 54m

Trenton W. Holliday, "Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Oct 23, 2023 • 42m

David C. Atherton, "Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Oct 23, 2023 • 51m

Mariana-Cecilia Velazquez, "Cultural Representations of Piracy in England, Spain, and the Caribbean" (Routledge, 2023)

Oct 23, 2023 • 45m

Kevin Passmore, "Fascism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2014)

Oct 22, 2023 • 43m

Philip Jenkins, "A Storm of Images: Iconoclasm and Religious Reformation in the Byzantine World" (Baylor UP, 2023)

Oct 22, 2023 • 33m

Sonja K. Pieck, "Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain" (MIT Press, 2023)

Oct 22, 2023 • 52m

Noa Shaindlinger, "Displacement and Erasure in Palestine: The Politics of Hope" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

Oct 22, 2023 • 1h 4m

Rosie Harte, "The Royal Wardrobe: Peek into the Wardrobes of History's Most Fashionable Royals" (Headline, 2023)

Oct 22, 2023 • 50m

Michael Welsh, "Big Bend National Park: Mexico, the United States, and a Borderland Ecosystem" (U Nevada Press, 2021)

Oct 22, 2023 • 1h 29m

Ji Li, "At the Frontier of God's Empire: A Missionary Odyssey in Modern China" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Oct 22, 2023 • 57m

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (Vintage, 2006)

Oct 21, 2023 • 1h 10m

Jason C. Bivins, "Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Oct 21, 2023 • 35m

The Family in History, History in the Family: National Identity in Nineteenth-century Kyiv and Immigration Politics in West Germany after 1955

Oct 21, 2023 • 1h 6m

Matthew Guariglia, "Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York" (Duke UP, 2023)

Oct 21, 2023 • 1h 1m

Immo Rebitschek and Aaron B. Retish, "Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev: The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

Oct 21, 2023 • 1h 13m

Danielle N. Boaz, "Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Oct 21, 2023 • 1h 2m

Grant H. Kester, "The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde" (Duke UP, 2023)

Oct 21, 2023 • 1h 17m

Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden, "Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France" (Bucknell UP, 2022)

Oct 21, 2023 • 1h 0m

Shellen Xiao Wu, "Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Oct 20, 2023 • 49m

Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, "The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Oct 20, 2023 • 1h 3m

Stefan C. Ionescu, "Jewish Resistance to ‘Romanianization’, 1940-44" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)

Oct 20, 2023 • 2h 40m

The Unquiet Legacy of Jewish Radical Meir Kahane

Oct 19, 2023 • 45m

Philip Dray, "A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age" (FSG, 2022)

Oct 19, 2023 • 1h 7m

Allison M. Prasch, "The World Is Our Stage: The Global Rhetorical Presidency and the Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Oct 19, 2023 • 46m

Jeremy Land, "Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700-1776)" (Brill, 2023)

Oct 18, 2023 • 43m

Livia Arndal Woods, "Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

Oct 18, 2023 • 39m

Philipp Stelzel, "The Faculty Lounge: A Cocktail Guide for Academics" (Indiana UP, 2023)

Oct 18, 2023 • 47m

Paul Clammer, "Black Crown: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom" (Hurst, 2023)

Oct 18, 2023 • 55m

Elena Serrano, "Ladies of Honor and Merit. Gender, Useful Knowledge, and Politics in Enlightened Spain" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)

Oct 18, 2023 • 44m

Orisanmi Burton, "Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt" (U California Press, 2023)

Oct 17, 2023 • 52m

Colin Dickey, "Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy" (Viking, 2023)

Oct 17, 2023 • 32m

Onyeka Nubia, "England’s Other Countrymen: Black Tudor Society" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

Oct 17, 2023 • 1h 7m

Christopher Phillips, "Civilian Specialists at War: Britain's Transport Experts and the First World War" (U London Press, 2020)

Oct 17, 2023 • 43m

Tom Gallagher, "Europe's Leadership Famine: Portraits of Defiance and Decay 1950-2022" (Scotview, 2023)

Oct 16, 2023 • 50m

Branko Milanovic, "Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Oct 16, 2023 • 36m

A. Katie Harris, "The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha: Forgery, Theft, and Sainthood in the Seventeenth Century" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)

Oct 16, 2023 • 48m

Swati Ganguly, "Tagore's University: A History of Visva-Bharati, 1921-1961" (New India Foundation, 2022)

Oct 16, 2023 • 1h 55m

Nick Tabor, "Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)

Oct 16, 2023 • 1h 1m

Michael Taylor, "The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery" (Bodley Head, 2021)

Oct 15, 2023 • 1h 19m

John D. Garrigus, "A Secret Among the Blacks: Slave Resistance Before the Haitian Revolution" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Oct 15, 2023 • 59m

Vilja Hulden, "The Bosses' Union: How Employers Organized to Fight Labor Before the New Deal" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

Oct 15, 2023 • 1h 3m

Peter Stark, "Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation" (Random House, 2023)

Oct 14, 2023 • 1h 20m

Christopher John Bosso, "Why SNAP Works: A Political History--And Defense--of the Food Stamp Program" (U California Press, 2023)

Oct 14, 2023 • 41m

Kristen Green, "The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail" (Seal Press, 2022)

Oct 14, 2023 • 1h 4m

Parks M. Coble, "The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Oct 14, 2023 • 56m

Anne Duggan, "The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

Oct 14, 2023 • 45m

Helen Rappaport, "In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Black Cultural Icon" (Pegasus Books, 2022)

Oct 13, 2023 • 1h 12m

Lucy Fulford, "The Exiled: Empire, Immigration and the Ugandan Asian Exodus" (Coronet, 2023)

Oct 13, 2023 • 52m

Alejandra Dubcovsky, "Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South" (Yale UP, 2023)

Oct 13, 2023 • 1h 2m

Lisandro Pérez, "The House on G Street: A Cuban Family Saga" (NYU Press, 2023)

Oct 13, 2023 • 59m

Robert Greene and Tyler D. Parry, "Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2021)

Oct 13, 2023 • 50m

Dennis C. Rasmussen, "The Constitution's Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter" (UP of Kansas, 2023)

Oct 12, 2023 • 51m

Indigenous DC: A Conversation with Elizabeth Rule

Oct 12, 2023 • 53m

Valentina Marcella, "Laughing Matters: Graphic Satire Reckoning with the 1980 Coup in Turkey" (Istituto per l’Oriente C. A. Nallino, 2022)

Oct 12, 2023 • 50m

C. J. Wagevier, "Fighting for Napoleon's Army in Russia: A POW's Memoir" (Pen and Sword, 2023)

Oct 12, 2023 • 43m

Stephen Bales, "Serapis: The Sacred Library and Its Declericalization" (Library Juice Press, 2021)

Oct 12, 2023 • 1h 7m

Paul Crenshaw, "Melt with Me: Coming of Age and Other '80s Perils" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

Oct 12, 2023 • 1h 12m

Sheila McManus, "Both Sides Now: Writing the Edges of the North American West" (Texas A&M UP, 2022)

Oct 11, 2023 • 1h 8m

Rory Finnin, "Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

Oct 11, 2023 • 1h 7m

Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, "Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Oct 11, 2023 • 42m

The History of Liberalism: A Conversation with Alan Kahan ‘80

Oct 10, 2023 • 1h 0m

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, "The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn" (UNC Press, 2023)

Oct 10, 2023 • 1h 6m

Resentment: The Complexity of an Emotion and its Effect on Politics

Oct 10, 2023 • 39m

Christopher M. Bellitto, "Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue" (Georgetown UP, 2023)

Oct 10, 2023 • 1h 0m

Evan C. Rothera, "Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas: The United States, Mexico, and Argentina, 1860–1880" (LSU Press, 2022)

Oct 10, 2023 • 1h 24m

Swati Srivastava, "Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Oct 9, 2023 • 53m

Benoît Challand, "Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Oct 9, 2023 • 1h 2m

Julian Goodare and Martha McGill, "The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Oct 9, 2023 • 39m

Tariq D. Khan, "The Republic Shall be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

Oct 9, 2023 • 51m

Andrew Monteith, "Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs" (NYU Press, 2023)

Oct 8, 2023 • 1h 14m

Chrissy Yee Lau, "New Women of Empire: Gendered Politics and Racial Uplift in Interwar Japanese America" (U Washington Press, 2022)

Oct 8, 2023 • 56m

Christopher P. Atwood, "The Rise of the Mongols: Five Chinese Sources" (Hackett, 2021)

Oct 8, 2023 • 1h 42m

Books in Early Modern Europe

Oct 7, 2023 • 1h 3m

Charlotte Gray, "Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)

Oct 7, 2023 • 50m

Scott Creney and Brigette Adair Herron, "The Story of the B-52s: Neon Side of Town" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Oct 7, 2023 • 1h 4m

Harriet Murav and Gennady Estraikh, "Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering" (Academic Studies Press, 2018)

Oct 7, 2023 • 1h 2m

Seth L. Sanders, "From Adapa to Enoch: Scribal Culture and Religious Vision in Judea and Babylonia" (Mohr Siebeck, 2017)

Oct 6, 2023 • 1h 25m

Nick Baumgardner and Mark Snyder, "Mountaintop: The Inside Story of Michigan's 1997 National Title Climb" (Printopya, 2023)

Oct 6, 2023 • 45m

Melissa Estes Blair, "Bringing Home the White House: The Hidden History of Women Who Shaped the Presidency in the Twentieth Century" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

Oct 6, 2023 • 39m

Daniel Satinsky, "Creating the Post-Soviet Russian Market Economy: Through American Eyes" (Routledge, 2023)

Oct 6, 2023 • 59m

Benjamin Savill, "England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages: Papal Privileges in European Perspective, C. 680-1073" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Oct 6, 2023 • 1h 2m

Alexandra Kaloyanides, "Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Oct 5, 2023 • 36m

Laura Gowing, "Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Oct 5, 2023 • 41m

Angelina Chin, "Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery During the Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Oct 5, 2023 • 1h 34m

Robert P. Watson, "When Washington Burned: The British Invasion of the Capital and a Nation's Rise from the Ashes" (Georgetown UP, 2023)

Oct 5, 2023 • 58m

Nan Turner, "Clothing Goes to War: Creativity Inspired by Scarcity in World War II" (Intellect Books, 2022)

Oct 5, 2023 • 50m

Lee Wind, "No Way, They Were Gay?: Hidden Lives and Secret Loves" (Zest Books, 2021)

Oct 5, 2023 • 58m

Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, "Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution" (Polity, 2023)

Oct 4, 2023 • 1h 38m

Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar, "Against High-Caste Polygamy: An Annotated Translation" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Oct 4, 2023 • 44m

Ole Kristian Grimnes, "Norway in the Second World War: Politics, Society and Conflict" (Bloombury, 2022)

Oct 4, 2023 • 1h 41m

Kristin Semmens, "Under the Swastika in Nazi Germany" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Oct 3, 2023 • 1h 9m

Janet Somerville, "Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949" (Firefly Books, 2022)

Oct 3, 2023 • 51m

Viet Thanh Nguyen, "A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023)

Oct 3, 2023 • 55m

Adrian Chastain Weimer, "A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

Oct 3, 2023 • 37m

Taylor Lorenz, "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)

Oct 3, 2023 • 59m

Albert Welter, "The Future of China's Past: Reflections on the Meaning of China's Rise" (SUNY Press, 2023)

Oct 3, 2023 • 49m

Thula Simpson, "History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Oct 2, 2023 • 1h 6m

Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean" (Robinson, 2023)

Oct 2, 2023 • 46m

Boyd Cothran and Adrian Shubert, "The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914" (UNC Press, 2024)

Oct 2, 2023 • 1h 15m

Derk Venema, "Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)

Oct 1, 2023 • 1h 36m

Rebecca J. Fraser, "Black Female Intellectuals in 19th Century America: Born to Bloom Unseen?" (Routledge, 2022)

Oct 1, 2023 • 1h 28m

Eric Bennett, "Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing During the Cold War" (U Iowa Press, 2015)

Oct 1, 2023 • 44m

Isaac McKean Scarborough, "Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Oct 1, 2023 • 1h 14m

Sara Marcus, "Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Sep 30, 2023 • 44m

Michelle Karnes, "Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Sep 30, 2023 • 31m

Rachel Elior, "The Unknown History of Jewish Women Through the Ages: On Learning and Illiteracy, On Slavery and Liberty" (de Gruyter, 2023)

Sep 29, 2023 • 1h 42m

Shezan Muhammedi, "Gifts from Amin: Ugandan Asian Refugees in Canada" (U of Manitoba Press, 2022)

Sep 28, 2023 • 1h 37m

Seema Alavi, "Sovereigns of the Sea: Omani Ambition in the Age of Empire" (India Allen Lane, 2023)

Sep 28, 2023 • 54m

Peter Reed, "Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Sep 28, 2023 • 1h 14m

Jared Davidson, "Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand" (Bridget Williams Books, 2023)

Sep 28, 2023 • 58m

Brian Ulrich, "The Medieval Persian Gulf" (ARC Humanities Press, 2023)

Sep 27, 2023 • 1h 23m

Debapriya Sarkar, "Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

Sep 27, 2023 • 1h 5m

Timur Warner Hammond, "Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul" (U California Press, 2023)

Sep 27, 2023 • 53m

Michael Wheeler, "The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Sep 27, 2023 • 48m

Sirpa Salenius, "An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe" (U Massachusetts Press, 2016)

Sep 27, 2023 • 52m

Michael D. Gordin, "Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Sep 27, 2023 • 1h 7m

Karen Weingarten, "Pregnancy Test" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Sep 27, 2023 • 40m

Hieyoon Kim, "Celluloid Democracy: Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea" (U California Press, 2023)

Sep 27, 2023 • 59m

Dylan C. Penningroth, "Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights" (Liveright, 2023)

Sep 26, 2023 • 1h 47m

Jonathan Mael, "Harlem World: How Hip Hop's Super Showdown Changed Music Forever" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

Sep 26, 2023 • 1h 4m

Jamie L. Jones, "Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling" (UNC Press, 2023)

Sep 26, 2023 • 48m

Michelle K. Berry, "Cow Talk: Work, Ecology, and Range Cattle Ranchers in the Postwar Mountain West" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)

Sep 26, 2023 • 58m

Nigel Biggar, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" (William Collins, 2023)

Sep 25, 2023 • 1h 18m

Mark Thomas Edwards, "Walter Lippmann: American Skeptic, American Pastor" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Sep 25, 2023 • 53m

Debra Ramsay, "Archives of War: Technology, Emotion, and History" (Routledge, 2023)

Sep 24, 2023 • 45m

The Secret History of the Mongols

Sep 24, 2023 • 1h 2m

Erik R. Scott, "Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Sep 24, 2023 • 49m

Aaron Skabelund, "Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan's Self-Defense Force During the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Sep 24, 2023 • 47m

Tracy Rutler, "Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature" (Oxford UP/Liverpool UP, 2021)

Sep 23, 2023 • 56m

Antony Kalashnikov, "Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Sep 23, 2023 • 59m

Steven P. Gietschier, "Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

Sep 23, 2023 • 54m

Martyn C. Rady, "The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe" (Basic Books, 2023)

Sep 23, 2023 • 1h 29m

Malgorzata Fidelis, "Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain: Youth and the Global Sixties in Poland" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Sep 22, 2023 • 1h 40m

Zebulon Vance Miletsky, "Before Busing: A History of Boston's Long Black Freedom Struggle" (UNC Press, 2022)

Sep 22, 2023 • 1h 2m

Michael O’Sullivan, "The Poet & the Baroness: W. H. Auden and Stella Musulin, a Friendship" (CEU Press, 2023)

Sep 22, 2023 • 34m

Ruth Schwertfeger, "A Nazi Camp Near Danzig: Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Sep 22, 2023 • 1h 1m

Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2023)

Sep 22, 2023 • 57m

Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

Sep 21, 2023 • 52m

Jamie Bronstein, "The Happiness of the British Working Class" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Sep 21, 2023 • 38m

Katarzyna Person and Johannes-Dieter Steinert, "Przemysłowa Concentration Camp: The Camp, the Children, the Trials" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

Sep 21, 2023 • 1h 28m

Diane Flynt, "Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South" (UNC Press, 2023)

Sep 20, 2023 • 42m

Molly Ladd-Taylor, "Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)

Sep 20, 2023 • 37m

Lipika Pelham, "Passing: An Alternative History of Identity" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Sep 20, 2023 • 3h 14m

Elyse Semerdjian, "Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Sep 20, 2023 • 1h 24m

Maria Smilios, "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)

Sep 19, 2023 • 41m

David Simpson, "Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature" (Stanford UP, 2022)

Sep 19, 2023 • 35m

Vincent Lemire, "In the Shadow of the Wall: The Life and Death of Jerusalem's Maghrebi Quarter, 1187-1967" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Sep 19, 2023 • 1h 3m

Piers Kelly, "The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Sep 19, 2023 • 1h 2m

Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, "Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap" (U California Press, 2023)

Sep 19, 2023 • 48m

Ian Patel, "We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire" (Verso, 2021)

Sep 18, 2023 • 1h 1m

Erik Linstrum, "Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Sep 18, 2023 • 49m

Lincoln A. Mitchell, "The One Hundred Most Important Players in Baseball History" (Artemesia Publishing, 2023)

Sep 18, 2023 • 54m

Karen Eva Carr, "Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

Sep 17, 2023 • 1h 6m

Rachel Chrastil, "Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe" (Basic Book, 2023)

Sep 17, 2023 • 1h 2m

Oscar Webber, "Negotiating Relief and Freedom: Responses to Disaster in the British Caribbean, 1812-1907" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Sep 17, 2023 • 1h 1m

Chris Murray, "Unknown Conflicts of the Second World War: Forgotten Fronts" (Routledge, 2019)

Sep 17, 2023 • 57m

Avery Dame-Griff, "The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet" (NYU Press, 2023)

Sep 17, 2023 • 55m

Peter Adamson, "Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Sep 17, 2023 • 51m

Anthony Gad Bigio, "A Sephardi Turkish Patriot: Gad Franco in the Turmoil of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic" (Hamilton Books, 2023)

Sep 17, 2023 • 57m

Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Sep 16, 2023 • 40m

John O'Donovan, "An Introduction to the Irish Civil War" (Mercier Press, 2022)

Sep 16, 2023 • 1h 48m

Debbie Sharnak, "Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

Sep 15, 2023 • 1h 16m

Julia C. Schneider, "Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s)" (Brill, 2017)

Sep 15, 2023 • 52m

Charlotte Lydia Riley, "Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain " (Penguin, 2023)

Sep 15, 2023 • 46m

Christopher Paul Harris, "To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Sep 15, 2023 • 33m

Prit Buttar, "To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941-42" (Osprey, 2023)

Sep 14, 2023 • 1h 41m

Gregory Cahill, "The Golden Voice: The Ballad of Cambodian Rock's Lost Queen" (Life Drawn, 2023)

Sep 14, 2023 • 1h 17m

Jonathan Leal, "Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop" (Duke UP, 2023)

Sep 14, 2023 • 1h 19m

Jonathan Daniel Wells, "The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War" (Bold Type Press, 2020)

Sep 14, 2023 • 1h 2m

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, "Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther: Achaemenid Court Culture in the Hebrew Bible" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)

Sep 14, 2023 • 36m

Neil Tarrant, "Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Sep 13, 2023 • 1h 9m

Alma Rachel Heckman, "The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging" (Stanford UP, 2020)

Sep 13, 2023 • 1h 1m

Matthew McManus, "The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity" (Routledge, 2023)

Sep 13, 2023 • 30m

Norman Ravvin, "Who Gets In: An Immigration Story" (U Regina Press, 2023)

Sep 13, 2023 • 1h 39m

Jacob Bloomfield, "Drag: A British History" (U California Press, 2023)

Sep 12, 2023 • 42m

A Better Way to Buy Books

Sep 12, 2023 • 34m

Robert F. Moss, "The Lost Southern Chefs: A History of Commercial Dining in the Nineteenth-Century South" (U Georgia Press, 2022)

Sep 12, 2023 • 1h 7m

Guillemette Crouzet, "Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

Sep 12, 2023 • 1h 1m

Aleksandra Nicole Pfau, "Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)

Sep 11, 2023 • 46m

Padraic X. Scanlan, "Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain" (Robinson, 2021)

Sep 11, 2023 • 1h 26m

Race and Electrical Infrastructure in the Jim Crow South

Sep 11, 2023 • 53m

Josephine Lee, "Oriental, Black, and White: The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater" (UNC Press, 2022)

Sep 11, 2023 • 47m

Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP, 2023)

Sep 10, 2023 • 1h 5m

Muḥsin Jāsim Mūsawī, "The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Sep 10, 2023 • 54m

Alistair Moffat, "War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans" (Birlinn, 2023)

Sep 10, 2023 • 56m

Peter Good, "The East India Company in Persia: Trade and Cultural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Sep 10, 2023 • 55m

Teresa Michals, "Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy" (U Virginia Press, 2021)

Sep 9, 2023 • 21m

Prachi Deshpande, "Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India" (Permanent Black, 2023)

Sep 9, 2023 • 59m

Ryan Tucker Jones, "Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Sep 9, 2023 • 59m

L. M. Ratnapalan, "Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific: The Transformation of Global Christianity" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

Sep 9, 2023 • 59m

Jared Secord, "Christian Intellectuals and the Roman Empire: From Justin Martyr to Origen" (Penn State UP, 2020)

Sep 9, 2023 • 49m

Jonathan Sandler, "The English GI: World War II Graphic Memoir of a Yorkshire Schoolboy's Adventures in the United States and Europe" (2022)

Sep 8, 2023 • 58m

Katja Hoyer, "Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany" (Basic Books, 2023)

Sep 8, 2023 • 34m

Hafsa Kanjwal, "Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian Occupation" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Sep 8, 2023 • 45m

Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)

Sep 8, 2023 • 1h 7m

Christian O. Paiz, "The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-And-File History of the UFW Movement" (UNC Press, 2023)

Sep 8, 2023 • 1h 10m

Tylor Brand, "Famine Worlds: Life at the Edge of Suffering in Lebanon's Great War" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Sep 8, 2023 • 1h 23m

Clive Moore, "Making Mala: Malaita in Solomon Islands, 1870s–1930s" (Australia National UP, 2017)

Sep 7, 2023 • 1h 6m

Steven Veerapen, "The Wisest Fool: The Life of James VI and I" (Birlinn, 2023)

Sep 7, 2023 • 53m

Maximillian Mørch, "Plains of Discontent: A Political History of Nepal’s Tarai (1743-2019)" (FinePrint, 2023)

Sep 7, 2023 • 47m

Valerie Hébert ed., "Framing the Holocaust: Photographs of a Mass Shooting in Latvia, 1941" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)

Sep 7, 2023 • 56m

Michael S. Roth, "The Student: A Short History" (Yale UP, 2023)

Sep 7, 2023 • 45m

Tomaz Jardim, "Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the 'Bitch of Buchenwald'" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Sep 6, 2023 • 56m

Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek, "After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time" (Verso, 2023)

Sep 6, 2023 • 48m

Erik Sherman, "Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

Sep 6, 2023 • 46m

Kathleen M. Osberger, "I Surrender: A Memoir of Chile's Dictatorship, 1975" (Oribis Books, 2023)

Sep 5, 2023 • 19m

Mike Pesca, "Upon Further Review: The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History" (Twelve, 2018)

Sep 5, 2023 • 44m

Gennifer Weisenfeld, "Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Sep 5, 2023 • 53m

Nancy L. Segal, "The Twin Children of the Holocaust: Stolen Childhood and the Will to Survive" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)

Sep 5, 2023 • 59m

Andrew Hesketh, "Escape to Gwrych Castle: A Jewish Refugee Story" (U of Wales Press, 2023)

Sep 4, 2023 • 36m

Chuck Steele and John M. Jennings, "The Worst Military Leaders in History" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

Sep 4, 2023 • 43m

Alexandra Roginski, "Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Sep 4, 2023 • 1h 16m

Yanna Yannakakis, "Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico" (Duke UP, 2023)

Sep 4, 2023 • 1h 2m

Endre Sashalmi, "Russian Notions of Power and State in a European Perspective, 1462-1725: Assessing the Significance of Peter's Reign" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)

Sep 4, 2023 • 1h 2m

Alexander Stille, "The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune" (FSG, 2023)

Sep 4, 2023 • 44m

Suzy Kim, "Among Women Across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Sep 4, 2023 • 1h 11m

Kimberly Mair, "The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Sep 3, 2023 • 1h 3m

Bryan Pitts, "Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil's Military Dictatorship" (U California Press, 2023)

Sep 3, 2023 • 1h 10m

John Szwed, "Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith" (FSG, 2023)

Sep 3, 2023 • 1h 1m

Kidada E. Williams, "I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Sep 3, 2023 • 1h 29m

Zachary Jacobson, "On Nixon's Madness: An Emotional History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

Sep 3, 2023 • 37m

Davide Rodogno, "Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918–1930" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Sep 2, 2023 • 1h 0m

Diana W. Anselmo, "A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood" (U California Press, 2023)

Sep 2, 2023 • 1h 4m

Peter K. Andersson, "Fool: In Search of Henry VIII's Closest Man" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Sep 2, 2023 • 24m

Sarah Clegg, "Women's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi" (Apollo, 2023)

Sep 2, 2023 • 48m

Jaime M. Pensado, "Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico" (U California Press, 2023)

Sep 1, 2023 • 57m

Marion Holmes Katz, "Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity" (Columbia UP, 2022)

Sep 1, 2023 • 1h 44m

Jonathan Ablard, "Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State, 1880-1983" (Ohio UP, 2008)

Sep 1, 2023 • 30m

Una McIlvenna, "Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Aug 31, 2023 • 52m

Brooke L. Blower, "Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Aug 30, 2023 • 1h 11m

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Knopf Doubleday, 2023)

Aug 30, 2023 • 1h 1m

Hamid Keshmirshekan, "The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

Aug 30, 2023 • 1h 18m

Mikkel Dack, "Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany: The Fragebogen Questionnaire and Political Screening During the Allied Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Aug 30, 2023 • 42m

Denise Gigante, "Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America" (Yale UP, 2022)

Aug 29, 2023 • 1h 16m

Wolf Gruner, "Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany" (Yale UP, 2023)

Aug 29, 2023 • 1h 25m

Hans-Lukas Kieser, "When Democracy Died: The Middle East's Enduring Peace of Lausanne" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Aug 28, 2023 • 1h 17m

David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023)

Aug 28, 2023 • 1h 9m

Samson A. Bezabeh, "Djibouti: A Political History" (Lynne Rienner, 2023)

Aug 27, 2023 • 1h 17m

Julian Jackson, "France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Aug 27, 2023 • 58m

Peter Heather and John Rapley, "Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West" (Yale UP, 2023)

Aug 27, 2023 • 49m

Kalyani Ramnath, "Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Aug 27, 2023 • 1h 32m

Beverly C. Tomek, "Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania" (Temple UP, 2021)

Aug 27, 2023 • 1h 29m

Journalism History in Macau: A Abelha da China in its 200 Years

Aug 26, 2023 • 25m

Jeremy Black, "Why the Industrial Revolution Happened in Britain" (Amberley Publishing, 2023)

Aug 26, 2023 • 25m

Ari Finkelstein, "The Specter of the Jews: Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch" (U California Press, 2018)

Aug 26, 2023 • 1h 12m

Christina Heatherton, "Arise!: Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution" (U California Press, 2022)

Aug 25, 2023 • 1h 4m

The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI

Aug 25, 2023 • 54m

Anna Wylegała et al., "No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe: Vanishing Others" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

Aug 25, 2023 • 1h 15m

Lawrence Goldman, "Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Aug 25, 2023 • 1h 31m

Lucia Carminati. "Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859-1906" (U California Press, 2023)

Aug 24, 2023 • 57m

Samrat Choudhury, "Northeast India: A Political History" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Aug 24, 2023 • 35m

Pedro Monaville, "Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo" (Duke UP, 2022)

Aug 23, 2023 • 1h 34m

Cara Fitzpatrick, "The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America" (Basic Books, 2023)

Aug 23, 2023 • 35m

Stephanie Barczewski, "How the Country House Became English (Reaktion, 2023)

Aug 23, 2023 • 57m

Thomas Simpson, "The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Aug 22, 2023 • 1h 4m

Christopher C. Sellers, "Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

Aug 21, 2023 • 1h 6m

Adam Jasienski, "Praying to Portraits: Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World" (Penn State UP, 2023)

Aug 21, 2023 • 50m

Brooke Kroeger, "Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism" (Knopf, 2023)

Aug 21, 2023 • 45m

Outside the Box: The History and Future of Globalization

Aug 21, 2023 • 1h 2m

Peter Moore, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776)" ( FSG, 2023)

Aug 20, 2023 • 1h 10m

Tanya Evans, "Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship: A New Social History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Aug 20, 2023 • 44m

Ulbe Bosma, "The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Aug 20, 2023 • 29m

Laura R. Kremmel, "Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies" (U Wales Press, 2022)

Aug 20, 2023 • 49m

Conor Lucey, "House and Home in Georgian Ireland: Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life" (Four Courts Press, 2022)

Aug 19, 2023 • 33m

Kevin Landis, "One Public: New York’s Public Theater in the Era of Oskar Eustis" (Methuen Drama, 2022)

Aug 19, 2023 • 57m

Roma Agrawal, "Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)" (Norton, 2023)

Aug 19, 2023 • 43m

Michael R. Jin, "Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific" (Stanford UP, 2021)

Aug 19, 2023 • 1h 7m

Morgan J. Robinson, "A Language for the World: The Standardization of Swahili" (Ohio UP, 2022)

Aug 19, 2023 • 55m

Samuel Moyn, "Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times" (Yale UP, 2023)

Aug 19, 2023 • 49m

Stephen Aron, "Peace and Friendship: An Alternative History of the American West" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Aug 18, 2023 • 54m

Isadore Ryan, "No Way Out: The Irish in Wartime France, 1939–1945" (Mercier Press, 2018)

Aug 18, 2023 • 1h 1m

Diane Purkiss, "English Food: A Social History of England Told Through the Food on Its Tables (William Collins, 2022)

Aug 18, 2023 • 1h 4m

Nicholas Hoover Wilson, "Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Aug 17, 2023 • 45m

Hans Kundnani, "Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project" (Hurst, 2023)

Aug 17, 2023 • 48m

Ramzi Fawaz, "The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics" (NYU Press, 2016)

Aug 17, 2023 • 1h 26m

Carl Van Ness, "The Making of Florida's Universities: Public Higher Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" (UP of Florida, 2023)

Aug 17, 2023 • 1h 1m

Don J. Wyatt, "Slavery in East Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Aug 17, 2023 • 44m

Jennifer Ritterhouse, "Discovering the South: One Man's Travels through a Changing America in the 1930s" (UNC Press, 2017)

Aug 16, 2023 • 1h 3m

Bobby J. Smith II, "Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2023)

Aug 16, 2023 • 1h 18m

Paratroopers in the Pacific: A Conversation with James Fenelon

Aug 15, 2023 • 45m

Christopher Harrison, "Genocidal Conscription: Drafting Victims and Perpetrators Under the Guise of War" (Lexington Books, 2023)

Aug 15, 2023 • 1h 7m

Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)

Aug 15, 2023 • 45m

Xenia A. Cherkaev, "Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Aug 14, 2023 • 1h 12m

Jeremy Black, "Smollett's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)

Aug 14, 2023 • 22m

Sara Beam, "Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva" (U Toronto Press, 2020)

Aug 14, 2023 • 53m

Nicholas Tochka, "Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Aug 14, 2023 • 52m

Van Nguyen-Marshall, "Between War and the State: Civil Society in South Vietnam, 1954-1975" (Southeast Asia Program, 2023)

Aug 13, 2023 • 1h 7m

Julia Wertz, "Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City" (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2017)

Aug 13, 2023 • 37m

Mark Edele, "Russia's War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story" (Melbourne University, 2023)

Aug 13, 2023 • 45m

Simon Mills, "A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Aug 13, 2023 • 52m

Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2023)

Aug 13, 2023 • 53m

Gadi Sagiv, "Jewish Blues: A History of a Color in Judaism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

Aug 13, 2023 • 32m

Keith A. Mayes, "The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

Aug 13, 2023 • 58m

Donovan X. Ramsey, "When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era" (One World, 2023)

Aug 12, 2023 • 24m

Ashley Robertson Preston, "Mary Mcleod Bethune the Pan-Africanist" (UP of Florida, 2023)

Aug 12, 2023 • 28m

Michael Broers, "Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire, 1811-1821" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

Aug 12, 2023 • 35m

Michael Ruse, "Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)

Aug 11, 2023 • 1h 18m

Aleksandra Nicole Pfau, "Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)

Aug 11, 2023 • 46m

Jacob Mikanowski, "Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land" (Pantheon Books, 2023)

Aug 11, 2023 • 1h 12m

Charlotte Karem Albrecht, "Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling" (U California Press, 2023)

Aug 11, 2023 • 1h 7m

Vaudine England, "Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong" (Scribner, 2023)

Aug 10, 2023 • 53m

Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones, "How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms" (Norton, 2023)

Aug 10, 2023 • 43m

Phillip Reid, "A Boston Schooner in the Royal Navy, 1768-1772: Commerce and Conflict in Maritime British America" (Boydell Press, 2023)

Aug 10, 2023 • 36m

Michell D. Jones and Elisabeth A. Nelson, "Besides, Who Would Believe a Prisoner?: Indiana Women's Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920" (New Press, 2023)

Aug 9, 2023 • 1h 4m

Robert Hellyer and Harald Fuess, "The Meiji Restoration: Japan as a Global Nation" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Aug 9, 2023 • 51m

Andrii Portnov, "Dnipro: An Entangled History of a European City" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)

Aug 9, 2023 • 1h 0m

Jon Stewart, "A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century: Confrontations with Nothingness" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Aug 9, 2023 • 1h 15m

William J. Mann, "Bogie and Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair" (Harper, 2023)

Aug 9, 2023 • 51m

Wendy A. Woloson, "Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

Aug 9, 2023 • 44m

Daniel Foliard, "The Violence of Colonial Photography" (Manchester UP, 2022)

Aug 8, 2023 • 1h 16m

Stevan Harrell, "An Ecological History of Modern China" (U Washington Press, 2023)

Aug 8, 2023 • 57m

Steven Press, "Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa" (Harvard UP, 2021)

Aug 8, 2023 • 1h 22m

Driving While Black: African Americans and the Automobile

Aug 7, 2023 • 40m

Richard C. Hoffmann, "The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Aug 7, 2023 • 59m

Yoni Furas, "Educating Palestine: Teaching and Learning History Under the Mandate" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Aug 7, 2023 • 1h 4m

Yiannis Kokosalakis, "Building Socialism: The Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System, 1921–1941" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Aug 6, 2023 • 1h 17m

Mike Rothschild, "Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories" (Melville House, 2023)

Aug 6, 2023 • 49m

Ryan C. Smith, "The Real Oil Shock: How Oil Transformed Money, Debt, and Finance" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

Aug 6, 2023 • 1h 1m

Andreas Killen, "Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War" (Harper, 2023)

Aug 6, 2023 • 53m

Erika Marie Bsumek, "The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau" (U Texas Press, 2023)

Aug 6, 2023 • 56m

Maria Falina, "Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia: Serbian Nationalism and East Orthodox Christianity" (Bloombury, 2023)

Aug 5, 2023 • 1h 8m

Michèle Miller Sigg, "Birthing Revival: Women and Mission in Nineteenth-Century France" (Baylor UP, 2022)

Aug 5, 2023 • 1h 36m

Daniel G Hummel, "The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle Over the End Times Shaped a Nation" (William B. Eerdmans, 2023)

Aug 5, 2023 • 1h 24m

Christine Keiner, "Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal" (U Georgia Press, 2020)

Aug 5, 2023 • 31m

Tamara J. Walker, "Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad" (Crown, 2023)

Aug 4, 2023 • 1h 18m

Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, "Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America" (UNC Press, 2023)

Aug 4, 2023 • 57m

Christopher Miller, "The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Aug 4, 2023 • 1h 6m

Melis Hafez, "Inventing Laziness: The Culture of Productivity in Late Ottoman Society" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Aug 4, 2023 • 1h 17m

Andy Cowan, "B-Side: Pop History Via Its Greatest B-Sides, 1917-2017" (Headpress, 2023)

Aug 4, 2023 • 49m

Rudi Matthee, "Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop's Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Aug 3, 2023 • 44m

Jill L. Newmark, "Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons" (Southern Illinois UP, 2023)

Aug 3, 2023 • 56m

James Crossley and Robert J. Myles, "Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict" (Zero Books, 2023)

Aug 2, 2023 • 1h 38m

Ruth Yun-Ju Chen, "Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts" (U Washington Press, 2023)

Aug 2, 2023 • 55m

James B. Conroy, "The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)

Aug 2, 2023 • 38m

Nicholas Lemann, "Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream" (FSG, 2019)

Aug 2, 2023 • 50m

Darcie Fontaine, "Modern France and the World" (Routledge, 2023)

Aug 2, 2023 • 1h 10m

Alexander Hill, "The War on the Eastern Front: The Soviet Union, 1941-1945 - A Photographic History" (Pen & Sword Military, 2021)

Aug 1, 2023 • 53m

Taylor McCall, "The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

Aug 1, 2023 • 36m

Nick Bunker, "In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World In 1950" (Basic Books, 2023)

Aug 1, 2023 • 58m

D. J. Taylor, "Orwell: The New Life" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

Aug 1, 2023 • 46m

Kathryn Cramer Brownell, "24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Aug 1, 2023 • 31m

Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)

Jul 31, 2023 • 45m

Diya Gupta, "India in the Second World War: An Emotional History" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jul 31, 2023 • 57m

Stipe Odak et al., "Jasenovac Concentration Camp: An Unfinished Past" (Routledge, 2023)

Jul 31, 2023 • 1h 7m

Powering American Farms: A Conversation with Richard Hirsh

Jul 31, 2023 • 1h 13m

Ben Highmore, "In Good Taste: How Britain's Middle Classes Found Their Style" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Jul 31, 2023 • 43m

Finola O'Kane, "Landscape Design and Revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688-1815" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2023)

Jul 30, 2023 • 57m

Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts eds. "W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Jul 30, 2023 • 39m

Matthew Bentley and John D. Bloom, "The Imperial Gridiron: Manhood, Civilization, and Football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

Jul 30, 2023 • 1h 1m

Jonathan R. Topham, "Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Jul 29, 2023 • 57m

Ian Buruma on "Year Zero: A History of 1945"

Jul 29, 2023 • 31m

Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)

Jul 29, 2023 • 1h 24m

Tom Young, "Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2023)

Jul 29, 2023 • 56m

Margaret M. Power, "Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-Imperialism" (UNC Press, 2023)

Jul 29, 2023 • 55m

Stephen C. Taysom, "Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith" (U of Utah Press, 2023)

Jul 28, 2023 • 45m

Jeremy Black, "A History of Artillery" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

Jul 28, 2023 • 38m

Lucy Moffat Kaufman, "A People’s Reformation: Building the English Church in the Elizabethan Parish" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2023)

Jul 27, 2023 • 1h 15m

Tara Isabella Burton, "Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians" (PublicAffairs, 2023)

Jul 27, 2023 • 33m

Richard N. Langlois, "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Jul 27, 2023 • 45m

Michael J. Seth, "Korea at War: Conflicts That Shaped the World" (Tuttle Publishing, 2023)

Jul 27, 2023 • 44m

Eric Van Young, "Stormy Passage: Mexico from Colony to Republic, 1750-1850" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

Jul 27, 2023 • 1h 32m

Po-Shek Fu, "Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jul 26, 2023 • 1h 57m

Rebecca Sharpless, "Grain and Fire: A History of Baking in the American South" (UNC Press, 2022)

Jul 25, 2023 • 1h 45m

Ismay Milford, "African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952-1966" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jul 25, 2023 • 52m

Joel D. Anderson, "Reimagining Christendom: Writing Iceland's Bishops Into the Roman Church, 1200-1350" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

Jul 25, 2023 • 51m

Nicole Evelina, "America's Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor" (Two Dot Books, 2023)

Jul 25, 2023 • 44m

Kathleen Lubey, "What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth Century" (Stanford UP, 2022)

Jul 24, 2023 • 1h 11m

John M. Findlay, "The Mobilized American West, 1940-2000" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

Jul 24, 2023 • 1h 11m

US History in 15 Foods: A Conversation with Anna Zeide

Jul 24, 2023 • 52m

Sheila Miyoshi Jager, "The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Jul 23, 2023 • 50m

Brigitte Buettner, "The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture" (Penn State UP, 2022)

Jul 23, 2023 • 1h 0m

Nataša Jagdhuhn, "Post-Yugoslav Metamuseums: Reframing Second World War Heritage in Postconflict Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

Jul 22, 2023 • 1h 26m

Ilkim Büke Okyar, "Arabs in Turkish Political Cartoons, 1876-1950: National Self and Non-National Other" (Syracuse UP, 2023)

Jul 22, 2023 • 1h 9m

Owen Stanwood, "The Global Refuge: Huguenots in an Age of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Jul 22, 2023 • 52m

Stefan Rinke, "Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jul 22, 2023 • 1h 6m

Yi-Tang Lin, "Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Jul 21, 2023 • 48m

Heidi Hausse, "The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Jul 21, 2023 • 52m

Scott A. Mitchell, "The Making of American Buddhism" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jul 21, 2023 • 58m

Paul Hanebrink, "In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890–1944" (Cornell UP, 2018)

Jul 21, 2023 • 1h 5m

William Wei, "Becoming Colorado: The Centennial State in 100 Objects" (UP of Colorado, 2021)

Jul 20, 2023 • 46m

Béla Bodó, "Black Humor and the White Terror" (Routledge, 2023)

Jul 19, 2023 • 1h 16m

Aaron A. Reed, "50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon" (2023)

Jul 19, 2023 • 40m

Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg, "Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2018)

Jul 19, 2023 • 1h 12m

Mani Sharpe, "Late-Colonial French Cinema: Filming the Algerian War of Independence" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

Jul 19, 2023 • 1h 26m

Xiaoning Lu, "Moulding the Socialist Subject: Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966)" (Brill, 2020)

Jul 18, 2023 • 1h 24m

Nick Witham, "Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Jul 18, 2023 • 53m

African American Women on the American Railroad: A Conversation with Miriam Thaggert

Jul 17, 2023 • 56m

Victor Luckerson, "Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street" (Random House, 2023)

Jul 17, 2023 • 58m

Jessica D. Klanderud, "Struggle for the Street: Social Networks and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Pittsburgh" (UNC Press, 2023)

Jul 17, 2023 • 1h 2m

Victoria Lee, "The Arts of the Microbial World: Fermentation Science in Twentieth-Century Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Jul 16, 2023 • 50m

Judith Roumani, "Jews in Southern Tuscany During the Holocaust" (Lexington Books, 2020)

Jul 15, 2023 • 1h 31m

Nikki M. Taylor, "Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jul 15, 2023 • 30m

Julie Carr, "Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

Jul 14, 2023 • 1h 10m

Jade McGlynn, "Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin's Russia" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Jul 14, 2023 • 1h 3m

Alan Mikhail, "My Egypt Archive" (Yale UP, 2023)

Jul 14, 2023 • 1h 3m

Callie Wilkinson, "Empire of Influence: The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jul 14, 2023 • 40m

Simona Berhe and Olindo de Napoli, "Citizens and Subjects of the Italian Colonies: Legal Constructions and Social Practices, 1882-1943" (Routledge, 2021)

Jul 13, 2023 • 1h 27m

Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo, "Korea: A New History of South and North" (Yale UP, 2023)

Jul 13, 2023 • 50m

Leslie Turnberg, "Mandate: The Palestine Crucible, 1919-1939" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2021)

Jul 12, 2023 • 1h 6m

Anam Zakaria, "1971: A People's History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India" (Vintage Books, 2021)

Jul 12, 2023 • 1h 1m

Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon, 2022)

Jul 12, 2023 • 1h 4m

Randall Patnode, "The Synchronized Society: Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

Jul 12, 2023 • 52m

Hassan S. Khalilieh, "Islamic Law of the Sea: Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights in Islamic Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Jul 12, 2023 • 48m

Alfred J. Rieber, "Stalin As Warlord" (Yale UP, 2022)

Jul 12, 2023 • 1h 9m

Francis L. Sampson, "Look Out Below!: A Story of the Airborne by a Paratrooper Padre" (Catholic U of America Press, 2023)

Jul 11, 2023 • 48m

Eliot Borenstein, "Marvel Comics in The 1970s: The World Inside Your Head" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Jul 11, 2023 • 1h 5m

Anne Giblin Gedacht, "Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan" (Brill, 2022)

Jul 11, 2023 • 1h 7m

Katherine Giuffre, "Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Jul 10, 2023 • 53m

Palo Alto: A Conversation with Malcolm Harris

Jul 10, 2023 • 1h 31m

Jane Rogoyska, "Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth" (Oneworld, 2021)

Jul 9, 2023 • 55m

Brent Cebul, "Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

Jul 9, 2023 • 1h 17m

Jason Chang et al., "The Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom" (PM Press, 2022)

Jul 9, 2023 • 1h 21m

Robert Mills, "Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages" (U Chicago Press, 2015)

Jul 9, 2023 • 53m

Nile Green, "How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding" (Yale UP, 2023)

Jul 8, 2023 • 1h 39m

Nicole Bauer, "Tracing the Shadow of Secrecy and Government Transparency in Eighteenth-Century France" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

Jul 8, 2023 • 1h 23m

Rotem Ḳovner, "Tsushima" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Jul 7, 2023 • 53m

Thomas A. Castillo, "Working in the Magic City: Moral Economy in Early Twentieth-Century Miami" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

Jul 6, 2023 • 1h 0m

Marco Caboara, "Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735" (Brill, 2022)

Jul 6, 2023 • 42m

James Crossland, "The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Terrorism" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Jul 6, 2023 • 59m

Danny Orbach, "Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War" (Pegasus Books, 2022)

Jul 5, 2023 • 58m

Peter Stansky, "The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Jul 4, 2023 • 43m

Glen W. Olson and Terry Lee Brussel-Rogers, "Fifty Years of Polyamory in America: A Guided Tour of a Growing Movement" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

Jul 4, 2023 • 32m

Jennifer Caplan, "Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials" (Wayne State UP, 2023)

Jul 4, 2023 • 1h 0m

Rose Marie San Juan, "Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)

Jul 3, 2023 • 58m

Chris Wickham, "The Donkey and the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950-1180" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jul 3, 2023 • 49m

Jack Metzgar, "Bridging the Divide: Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society" (ILR Press, 2021)

Jul 3, 2023 • 59m

Malcolm F. Purinton, "Globalization in a Glass: The Rise of Pilsner Beer through Technology, Taste and Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Jul 3, 2023 • 47m

Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, "Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother" (Seal Press, 2023)

Jul 2, 2023 • 50m

G. Edward White, "Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Jul 2, 2023 • 1h 12m

Katherine C. Mooney, "Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey" (Yale UP, 2023)

Jul 2, 2023 • 1h 23m

TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara

Jul 2, 2023 • 17m

Michael O'Hanlon, "Military History for the Modern Strategist: America's Major Wars Since 1861" (Brookings, 2023)

Jul 1, 2023 • 38m

Xin Zhang, "The Global in the Local: A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Jun 30, 2023 • 57m

Yael Rice, "The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court" (U Washington Press, 2023)

Jun 30, 2023 • 59m

Samuel Helfont, "Iraq Against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post-Cold War Order" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jun 30, 2023 • 1h 19m

Marie Arleth Skov, "Punk Art History: Artworks from the European No Future Generation" (Intellect, 2023)

Jun 30, 2023 • 40m

Anna Müller, "An Ordinary Life?: The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918-1996" (Ohio UP, 2023)

Jun 30, 2023 • 1h 13m

Mary Beltrán, "Latino TV: A History" (NYU Press, 2022)

Jun 29, 2023 • 48m

Joëlle Rollo-Koster, "The Great Western Schism, 1378-1417: Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Jun 29, 2023 • 1h 14m

Kaya Sahin, "Peerless Among Princes: The Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jun 29, 2023 • 1h 6m

Eileen V. Wallis, "California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Jun 28, 2023 • 59m

Mark Harrison, "Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Jun 28, 2023 • 1h 3m

David E. Kelly, "First Fights in Fallujah: Marines During Operation Vigilant Resolve, in Iraq, April 2004" (Casemate, 2023)

Jun 28, 2023 • 32m

Daniel R. Smith, "The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Jun 28, 2023 • 48m

David Wenham, "Jesus in Context: Making Sense of the Historical Figure" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Jun 27, 2023 • 37m

James Zarsadiaz, "Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A." (U California Press, 2022)

Jun 27, 2023 • 1h 0m

Lynsey Black, "Gender and Punishment in Ireland: Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922-64" (Manchester UP, 2022)

Jun 27, 2023 • 38m

Miri Rubin, "The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2014)

Jun 27, 2023 • 50m

Josh Shepperd, "Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

Jun 26, 2023 • 1h 5m

Rebecca Whiteley, "Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Jun 26, 2023 • 38m

Alan Bollard, "Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Jun 26, 2023 • 34m

The Singer Sewing Machine in Spain and Mexico: Multinational Business, Gender, and Technologies

Jun 26, 2023 • 1h 20m

Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Jun 26, 2023 • 54m

Svetlana Kochkina, "Frances Burney’s 'Evelina': The Book, its History, and its Paratext" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

Jun 25, 2023 • 53m

Brian Cummings, "Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Jun 25, 2023 • 1h 27m

Bradley C. S. Watson, "Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)

Jun 25, 2023 • 1h 22m

Make it New: A History of Silicon Valley Design

Jun 25, 2023 • 20m

Anne Irfan, "Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Jun 24, 2023 • 57m

Thomas W. Lippman, "Get the Damn Story: Homer Bigart and the Great Age of American Newspapers" (Georgetown UP, 2023)

Jun 24, 2023 • 1h 15m

Craig Nelson, "V Is For Victory: Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II" (Scribner, 2023)

Jun 24, 2023 • 58m

Mongol Nomadism, Mongol Identity, and the Fall of the Mongol Empire

Jun 24, 2023 • 53m

Amy Tooth Murphy et al., "New Directions in Queer Oral History: Archives of Disruption" (Routledge, 2022)

Jun 23, 2023 • 52m

Jean Pfaelzer, "California, a Slave State" (Yale UP, 2023)

Jun 23, 2023 • 54m

Rani-Henrik Andersson and Janne Lahti, "Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America: Rethinking Finnish Experiences in Transnational Spaces" (Helsinki UP, 2022)

Jun 23, 2023 • 1h 1m

Anna Della Subin, "Accidental Gods: On Race, Empire, and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)

Jun 23, 2023 • 1h 22m

Chris Millington, "The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Jun 22, 2023 • 1h 3m

James Hannam, "The Globe: How the Earth Became Round" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

Jun 22, 2023 • 47m

J. Barton Scott, "Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Jun 22, 2023 • 30m

Catherine Carstairs, "The Smile Gap: A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

Jun 22, 2023 • 1h 11m

David Cressy, "Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Jun 21, 2023 • 55m

Anna Schur, "The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

Jun 21, 2023 • 1h 13m

Lisabeth During, "The Chastity Plot" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Jun 21, 2023 • 38m

Samuel G. Freedman, "Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jun 21, 2023 • 56m

Alexandra Kaloyanides, "Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Jun 21, 2023 • 48m

The Eternal Letter: Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital

Jun 20, 2023 • 15m

M. Todd Bennett, "Neither Confirm Nor Deny: How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency" (Columbia UP, 2022)

Jun 20, 2023 • 1h 25m

Yue Du, "State and Family in China" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Jun 19, 2023 • 1h 15m

Liisa Kovala, "Surviving Stutthof: My Father's Ordeal in a Nazi Concentration Camp" (Latitude 46, 2017)

Jun 19, 2023 • 1h 14m

Rachel E. Walker, "Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Jun 19, 2023 • 51m

The History of the American Shopping Mall and Its Cultures

Jun 19, 2023 • 1h 7m

Frank Costigliola, "Kennan: A Life Between Worlds" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Jun 19, 2023 • 1h 3m

Simon Dreher and Wolfgang Mueller, "Foreigners in Muscovy: Western Immigrants in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Russia" (Routledge, 2023)

Jun 18, 2023 • 1h 8m

Keith Tribe, "Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Jun 18, 2023 • 1h 4m

David Stahel, "Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jun 18, 2023 • 1h 5m

Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa, "The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life" (U California Press, 2023)

Jun 18, 2023 • 1h 19m

Lin Poyer, "War at the Margins: Indigenous Experiences in World War II" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)

Jun 17, 2023 • 56m

Margot Tudor, "Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945–1971" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jun 17, 2023 • 1h 3m

Chris Manias, "The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development, and Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

Jun 17, 2023 • 53m

Vera Keller, "The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

Jun 17, 2023 • 1h 9m

Lloyd Daniel Barba, "Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Jun 16, 2023 • 25m

Douglas Ober, "Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Jun 16, 2023 • 1h 41m

Nora Barakat, "Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Jun 16, 2023 • 1h 10m

Susan McCall Perlman, "Contesting France: Intelligence and US Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jun 16, 2023 • 1h 14m

Tanvi Srivastava, trans., "The War Diary of Asha-san: From Tokyo to Netaji's Indian National Army" (Harper Collins, 2022)

Jun 15, 2023 • 44m

Simon Paul Cox, "The Subtle Body: A Genealogy" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Jun 15, 2023 • 56m

Allan E. S. Lumba, "Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines" (Duke UP, 2022)

Jun 15, 2023 • 42m

Moon-Ho Jung, "Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State" (U California Press, 2022)

Jun 14, 2023 • 43m

Alison S. Fell, "Warrior Women: The Cultural Politics of Armed Women, c.1850-1945" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jun 14, 2023 • 30m

Socialist Cultures and Politics of Secularism and Atheism

Jun 13, 2023 • 1h 12m

J. P. Daughton, "In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism" (Norton, 2021)

Jun 13, 2023 • 59m

Samuel J. Redman, "The Museum: A Short History of Crisis and Resilience" (NYU Press, 2022)

Jun 13, 2023 • 1h 1m

Zhouxiang Lu, "A History of Competitive Gaming" (Routledge, 2022)

Jun 12, 2023 • 34m

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind, "Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Jun 12, 2023 • 1h 1m

Nicholas W. S. Smith, "Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red Sea" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Jun 12, 2023 • 55m

Robert Aldrich and Andreas Stucki, "The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Jun 12, 2023 • 1h 30m

Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik, "Blood in the Tracks: The Minnesota Musicians Behind Dylan's Masterpiece" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

Jun 11, 2023 • 58m

Lee Lowenfish, "Baseball's Endangered Species: Inside the Craft of Scouting by Those Who Lived It" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

Jun 11, 2023 • 53m

R. T. Howard, "Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jun 11, 2023 • 34m

Jacqueline Beatty, "In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America" (NYU Press, 2023)

Jun 11, 2023 • 51m

Kathryn Olivarius, "Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Jun 10, 2023 • 1h 29m

New Histories of Violence in and around the Second World War

Jun 10, 2023 • 1h 22m

Patrick J. Charles, "Vote Gun: How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Jun 10, 2023 • 42m

Peter H. Wilson, "Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Jun 10, 2023 • 1h 0m

Doug Enaa Greene, "Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn: Anticommunism, Marxism, and the Fate of the Soviet Union" (Lexington, 2023)

Jun 9, 2023 • 59m

Douglas Kerr, "Orwell and Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Jun 9, 2023 • 42m

Amanda L. Van Lanen, "The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)

Jun 9, 2023 • 48m

Lawrence Freedman, "Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Jun 8, 2023 • 47m

Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Jun 8, 2023 • 50m

Randy Grigsby, "This Labyrinth of Darkness and Light: Henrietta Szold, the Rescue of Children from Hitler's Europe and Her Palestine Experience" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)

Jun 8, 2023 • 54m

Peter Thilly, "The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China" (Stanford UP, 2022)

Jun 8, 2023 • 39m

Anne L. Murphy, "Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Jun 8, 2023 • 51m

Robin James, "The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence" (UNC Press, 2023)

Jun 7, 2023 • 1h 3m

Xin Fan, "World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Jun 7, 2023 • 51m

Randy Grigsby, "A Train to Palestine: The Tehran Children, Anders' Army and Their Escape from Stalin's Siberia, 1939-1943" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2019)

Jun 6, 2023 • 58m

Nora Barakat, "Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Jun 6, 2023 • 57m

Amy Brady, "Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--a Cool History of a Hot Commodity" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)

Jun 6, 2023 • 35m

Rob Marchant, "East Africa’s Human Environment Interactions: Historical Perspectives for a Sustainable Future" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

Jun 6, 2023 • 58m

Xiaomei Chen, "Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Jun 5, 2023 • 34m

The History of 19th-Century Quarantine Politics: A Conversation with David S. Barnes

Jun 5, 2023 • 1h 27m

Eliyana R. Adler and Katerina Capková, "Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and its Aftermath" (Rutgers UP, 2020)

Jun 4, 2023 • 56m

Celia Fisher, "The Story of Follies: Architectures of Eccentricity" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

Jun 4, 2023 • 55m

Jonathan Abel, "Guibert's General Essay on Tactics" (Brill, 2021)

Jun 4, 2023 • 48m

J. T. Roane, "Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place" (NYU Press, 2023)

Jun 4, 2023 • 1h 6m

Adrian Masters, "We, the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jun 3, 2023 • 1h 9m

Philip Kirby and Margaret J. Snowling, "Dyslexia: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

Jun 3, 2023 • 16m

Lorenzo Costaguta, "Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

Jun 3, 2023 • 52m

Scott R. Stroud, "The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Jun 3, 2023 • 1h 2m

James H. Meyer, "Red Star over the Black Sea: Nazim Hikmet and His Generation" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jun 3, 2023 • 1h 1m

Chris Suh, "The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jun 3, 2023 • 1h 58m

Patrick Jory, "A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Jun 2, 2023 • 48m

Kidada E. Williams, "I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Jun 2, 2023 • 46m

X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction

Jun 1, 2023 • 51m

Simon Ville and David Merrett, "International Business in Australia before World Shaping a Multinational Economy" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

May 31, 2023 • 49m

Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar" (Navayana, 2023)

May 30, 2023 • 36m

Béla Bodó, "The White Terror: Antisemitic and Political Violence in Hungary, 1919-1921" (Routledge, 2019)

May 30, 2023 • 1h 47m

A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise of the New Art Practice in Yugoslavia

May 29, 2023 • 51m

Arthur Snell, "How Britain Broke the World: War, Greed and Blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan (1997-2021)" (Canbury Press, 2022)

May 29, 2023 • 1h 0m

Chris Campion and Bud Lee, "The War is Here: Newark 1967" (ZE Books, 2023)

May 28, 2023 • 43m

Max Weiss, "Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Ba'thist Syria" (Stanford UP, 2022)

May 28, 2023 • 1h 24m

Naoíse Mac Sweeney, "The West: A New History of an Old Idea" (Dutton, 2023)

May 27, 2023 • 42m

Reyhan Durmaz, "Stories Between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond" (U California Press, 2022)

May 27, 2023 • 1h 5m

Jessica M. Marglin, "The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean" (Princeton UP, 2022)

May 27, 2023 • 1h 1m

Aomar Boum, "Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2023)

May 26, 2023 • 1h 5m

Kenneth Mondschein, "On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)

May 26, 2023 • 49m

Patrick J. Corbeil, "Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement: Imagining a Secular World" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

May 26, 2023 • 1h 4m

Saskia Coenen Snyder, "A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting" (Oxford UP, 2022)

May 25, 2023 • 59m

Robert F. Trager and Joslyn N. Barnhart, "The Suffragist Peace: How Women's Votes Lead to Fewer Wars" (Oxford UP, 2022)

May 25, 2023 • 1h 6m

Suzanne Sutherland, "The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur: War, Diplomacy, and Knowledge in Habsburg Europe" (Cornell UP, 2022)

May 24, 2023 • 58m

Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, "Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

May 24, 2023 • 1h 6m

Alan Marshall, "Intelligence and Espionage in the English Republic C. 1600-60" (Manchester UP, 2023)

May 24, 2023 • 36m

Christoph Kalter, "Postcolonial People: The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal " (Cambridge UP, 2022)

May 23, 2023 • 1h 10m

Rosamond McKitterick, "Rome and the Invention of the Papacy: The Liber Pontificalis" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

May 23, 2023 • 49m

Robert Kershaw, "Dünkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk" (Osprey, 2022)

May 23, 2023 • 54m

Maurizio Isabella, "Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions" (Princeton UP, 2023)

May 23, 2023 • 42m

Philip Gooding, "Droughts, Floods, and Global Climatic Anomalies in the Indian Ocean World" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

May 22, 2023 • 57m

Sagang Sechen, "The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty" (Columbia UP, 2023)

May 22, 2023 • 50m

Natalie Koch, "Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia" (Verso, 2023)

May 22, 2023 • 59m

Rebecca Brückmann, "Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation" (U Georgia Press, 2021)

May 22, 2023 • 1h 10m

James Poskett, "Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science" (Mariner Books, 2022)

May 21, 2023 • 48m

Rila Mukherjee, "India in the Indian Ocean World: From the Earliest Times to 1800 CE" (Springer, 2022)

May 21, 2023 • 46m

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)

May 21, 2023 • 55m

Christopher H. Evans, "Do Everything: The Biography of Frances Willard" (Oxford UP, 2022)

May 21, 2023 • 59m

The 10,000 Year Build-Up to Brexit: A Conversation with Ian Morris

May 21, 2023 • 1h 6m

Empires after World War II: The Cases of the USSR and France

May 20, 2023 • 1h 5m

Dilip M. Menon and Nishat Zaidi, "Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought" (Routledge, 2023)

May 20, 2023 • 31m

Enrique Martino, "Touts: Recruiting Indentured Labor in the Gulf of Guinea" (de Gruyter, 2022)

May 20, 2023 • 43m

Elly Gotz, "Flights of Spirit" (Azrieli Foundation, 2018)

May 20, 2023 • 55m

Troy Bickham, "Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Reaktion Books, 2020)

May 19, 2023 • 1h 10m

Kathryn J. McGarr, "City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

May 19, 2023 • 1h 4m

Simon Geissbühler, ed., "Romania and the Holocaust: Events, Contexts, Aftermath" (Ibidem Press, 2016)

May 19, 2023 • 1h 0m

Esme Cleall, "Colonising Disability: Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

May 19, 2023 • 30m

Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2023)

May 18, 2023 • 54m

Philip Snow, "China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord" (Yale UP, 2023)

May 18, 2023 • 1h 1m

Andrew I. Port, "Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust" (Harvard UP, 2023)

May 17, 2023 • 1h 15m

Nienke Boer, "The Briny South: Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World" (Duke UP, 2023)

May 16, 2023 • 45m

Garrett L. Washington, "Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)

May 16, 2023 • 1h 1m

Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, "Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women" (Sandycove, 2023)

May 16, 2023 • 47m

Pamela M. Lee, "Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present" (MIT Press, 2020)

May 16, 2023 • 1h 11m

Matthew Jagel, "Khmer Nationalist: Sơn Ngc Thành, the CIA, and the Transformation of Cambodia" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)

May 15, 2023 • 1h 1m

Peter Thilly, "The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China" (Stanford UP, 2022)

May 14, 2023 • 1h 10m

Allison Christine Meier, "Grave" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

May 14, 2023 • 50m

Pharmacological Histories Ep. 1: Nancy D. Campbell on Naloxone

May 13, 2023 • 42m

Bill Steigerwald, "30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South" (Lyons Press, 2017)

May 13, 2023 • 46m

John Klaess, "Breaks in the Air: The Birth of Rap Radio in New York City" (Duke UP, 2022)

May 12, 2023 • 1h 0m

Bedross Der Matossian, "Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

May 12, 2023 • 1h 2m

Serhii Plokhy, "The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History" (Norton, 2023)

May 12, 2023 • 54m

Maria L. Quintana, "Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

May 12, 2023 • 52m

James M. Zimmerman, "The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China" (PublicAffairs, 2023)

May 11, 2023 • 48m

Timothy Sandefur, "Freedom's Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Freedom in an Age of Darkness" (Cato Institute, 2022)

May 11, 2023 • 37m

Andrew R. Casper, "An Artful Relic: The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)

May 11, 2023 • 56m

Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)

May 10, 2023 • 34m

Britta K. Ager, "The Scent of Ancient Magic" (U Michigan Press, 2022)

May 10, 2023 • 53m

Michael Brown, "Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793-1912" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

May 10, 2023 • 1h 16m

Christianity and the American Founding with Mark David Hall

May 9, 2023 • 56m

Kyla Sommers, "When the Smoke Cleared: The 1968 Rebellion and the Unfinished Battle for Civil Rights in the Nation's Capital" (New Press, 2023)

May 8, 2023 • 36m

Jack Parlett, "Fire Island" (Hanover Square Press, 2022)

May 7, 2023 • 1h 9m

Jonathan Eig, "King: A Life" (FSG, 2023)

May 7, 2023 • 39m

Philip Clayton Shackelford, "Rise of the Mavericks: The U.S. Air Force Security Service and the Cold War" (US Naval Institute Press, 2023)

May 7, 2023 • 46m

Mrinalini Sinha and Manu Goswami, "Political Imaginaries in Twentieth-Century India" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

May 7, 2023 • 1h 1m

Elisabeth B. Armstrong, "Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949" (U California Press, 2023)

May 6, 2023 • 52m

Christine Kooi, "Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

May 6, 2023 • 1h 11m

Robin Bartlett, "Vietnam Combat: Firefights and Writing History" (Casemate, 2023)

May 6, 2023 • 41m

Chad Williams, "The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War" (FSG, 2023)

May 5, 2023 • 56m

Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" (PublicAffairs, 2023)

May 5, 2023 • 46m

Reece Jones, "White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall" (Beacon Press, 2021)

May 4, 2023 • 1h 1m

Peter Frankopan, "The Earth Transformed: An Untold History" (Knopf, 2023)

May 4, 2023 • 53m

Henrik Örnebring and Michael Karlsson, "Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept" (U Missouri Press, 2022)

May 3, 2023 • 40m

John McCannon, "Nicholas Roerich: The Artist Who Would Be King" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

May 3, 2023 • 1h 11m

Chad E. Pearson, "Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century" (UNC Press, 2022)

May 2, 2023 • 51m

Tim Clarkson, "A Mighty Fleet and the King's Power: The Isle of Man, AD 400 To 1265" (John Donald, 2023)

May 2, 2023 • 50m

Michael W. Hankins, "Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia" (Cornell UP, 2021)

May 2, 2023 • 1h 1m

Deborah Bauer, "Marianne Is Watching: Intelligence, Counterintelligence, and the Origins of the French Surveillance State" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)

May 1, 2023 • 1h 40m

Chandra Mallampalli, "South Asia's Christians: Between Hindu and Muslim" (Oxford UP, 2023)

May 1, 2023 • 1h 12m

High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies

May 1, 2023 • 55m

Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk, "A History of Plague in Java, 1911-1942" (SEA Program Publications, 2022)

Apr 30, 2023 • 57m

Brahim El Guabli, "Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence" (Fordham UP, 2023)

Apr 30, 2023 • 59m

Nicole von Germeten, "Death in Old Mexico: The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Apr 30, 2023 • 1h 12m

Ian Hembrow, "Ralph Edwards: Rare Events--The Inside Story of a Worldwide Quest for Safer Medicines" (Springer, 2023)

Apr 30, 2023 • 55m

Maura Dykstra, "Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Apr 30, 2023 • 1h 3m

Charles Reagan Wilson, "The Southern Way of Life: Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South" (UNC Press, 2023)

Apr 29, 2023 • 1h 13m

Scott Carney and Jason Miklian, "The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation" (Ecco Press, 2022)

Apr 29, 2023 • 58m

Pablo Bradbury, "Liberationist Christianity in Argentina (1930-1983): Faith and Revolution" (Tamesis Books, 2023)

Apr 29, 2023 • 1h 44m

Teena U. Purohit, "Sunni Chauvinism and the Roots of Muslim Modernism" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Apr 28, 2023 • 1h 9m

Keith Brian Wood, "Memphis Hoops: Race and Basketball in the Bluff City,1968-1997" (U Tennessee Press, 2021)

Apr 28, 2023 • 1h 13m

Robin Prior, "Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain, 1914-1945" (Yale UP, 2022)

Apr 28, 2023 • 1h 0m

Jonathan E. Abel, "The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)

Apr 28, 2023 • 1h 6m

The Future of Germs: A Discussion with Jonathan Kennedy

Apr 28, 2023 • 1h 2m

Arleen Tuchman, "Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease" (Yale UP, 2020)

Apr 28, 2023 • 48m

Christen T. Sasaki, "Pacific Confluence: Fighting Over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i" (U California Press, 2022)

Apr 28, 2023 • 43m

B. A. Friedman, "On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines" (US Naval Institute Press, 2021)

Apr 28, 2023 • 40m

Timothy R. Pauketat, "Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America" (Oxford UP,

Apr 27, 2023 • 46m

Elizabeth Elbourne, "Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842" (Cambridge UP., 2022)

Apr 27, 2023 • 1h 8m

John Lisle, "The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)

Apr 26, 2023 • 1h 2m

Paul R. Semendinger, "Roy White: From Compton to the Bronx" (Artemesia, 2023)

Apr 26, 2023 • 48m

The Garage: A History

Apr 26, 2023 • 25m

Robert J. Antony, "Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes: Glimpses of China's Hidden Past" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

Apr 26, 2023 • 48m

Kathryn Cornell Dolan, "Breakfast Cereal: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

Apr 25, 2023 • 1h 7m

Artan R. Hoxha, "Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania" (Central European UP, 2023)

Apr 25, 2023 • 52m

Charles Read, "Calming the Storms: The Carry Trade, the Banking School and British Financial Crises Since 1825" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

Apr 25, 2023 • 1h 1m

Benjamin L. Carp, "The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution" (Yale UP, 2023)

Apr 25, 2023 • 1h 3m

Dejan Djokić, "A Concise History of Serbia" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Apr 25, 2023 • 1h 12m

Will York, "Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age" (Headpress, 2023)

Apr 25, 2023 • 52m

Beth Bailey, "An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era" (UNC Press, 2023)

Apr 25, 2023 • 44m

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