About Beth Mauldin

NBN Episodes hosted by Beth:

Andrew Israel Ross, "Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris" (Temple UP, 2019)

December 31, 2019

Public City/Public Sex

Andrew Israel Ross
Hosted by Beth Mauldin

In his provocative new book, Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Temple University Pre…

Susan Jaques, "The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession That Shaped An Empire" (Pegasus Books, 2018)

August 22, 2019

The Caesar of Paris

Susan Jaques
Hosted by Beth Mauldin

In her book, The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession That Shaped An Empire (Pegasus Books, 2018), Susan Jaques offer…

Lisa Greenwald, "Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)

August 15, 2019

Daughters of 1968

Lisa Greenwald
Hosted by Beth Mauldin

May ’68 marked a watershed moment in French society, culture, and political life. The feminist movement was no exception. Women took to the streets an…

Erin-Marie Legacey, "Making Space for the Dead:  Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830" (Cornell UP, 2019)

August 7, 2019

Making Space for the Dead

Erin-Marie Legacey
Hosted by Beth Mauldin

In Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830 (Cornell University Press, 2019), Dr. Erin-Marie Legacey,…

Stéphane Henaut and Jeni Mitchell, "A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment" (The New Press, 2018)

March 25, 2019

A Bite-Sized History of France

Stéphane Henaut and Jeni Mitchell
Hosted by Beth Mauldin

From the cassoulet that won a war to the crêpe that doomed Napoleon, from the rebellions sparked by bread and salt to the new cuisines forged by empir…

Andrew Sobanet, "Generation Stalin:  French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality" (Indiana UP, 2018)

March 14, 2019

Generation Stalin

Andrew Sobanet
Hosted by Beth Mauldin

In his 1924 biography of Mahatma Gandhi, writer Romain Rolland embraced the Gandhian philosophy of non-violence and decried the “dictators of Moscow” …

Jonathan Smyth, "Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being: The Search for a Republican Morality" (Manchester UP, 2016)

September 5, 2018

Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being

Jonathan Smyth
Hosted by Beth Mauldin

In his speech delivered to the National Convention on 18 Floréal (May 7, 1794), Maximilien Robespierre shocked his listeners as he attacked the propon…

Richard S. Hopkins, "Planning the Greenspaces of Nineteenth-Century Paris" (Louisiana State UP, 2015)

August 22, 2018

Planning the Greenspaces of Nineteenth-Century Paris

Richard S. Hopkins
Hosted by Beth Mauldin

Beginning in the mid-1800s, Paris experienced an unprecedented growth in the development of parks, squares, and gardens. This greenspace was part of N…