History

Ancient History

Ancient History

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Interviews with scholars of ancient history about their new books.

Laura Borghetti and Thomas Arentzen, "Ecologizing Late Ancient and Byzantine Worlds" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

June 22, 2026

Ecologizing Late Ancient and Byzantine Worlds

Laura Borghetti and Thomas Arentzen
Hosted by Michael Motia
Legacy of the Ancient Greeks: On Classical and Modern Democracy with Josiah Ober

June 17, 2026

Legacy of the Ancient Greeks

Josiah Ober
Hosted by Ryan Shinkel
Arguing History

Arguing History

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Scholarly discussions of controversial historical topics.

Biography & Memoir

Biography & Memoir

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Interviews with biographers and memoirists about their new books.

Thomas S. Mullaney, "How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information" (W. W. Norton, 2026)

June 28, 2026

How We Disappear

Thomas S. Mullaney
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Andrew Wilson, "I Wanna Be Loved By You: Marilyn Monroe: A Life in 100 Takes" (Grand Central Publishing, 2026)

June 28, 2026

I Wanna Be Loved By You

Andrew Wilson
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
Diplomatic History

Diplomatic History

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Interviews with scholars of diplomatic history about their new books.

Courtney Rickert McCaffrey et al., "Geostrategy By Design: How to Manage Geopolitical Risk in The New Era of Globalization" (Disruption Books, 2024)

June 5, 2026

Geostrategy By Design:

Courtney Rickert McCaffrey, Witold J. Henisz and Oliver Jones
Hosted by Alfred Marcus
Craig Fehrman, "This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark" (Simon & Schuster, 2026)

May 31, 2026

This Vast Enterprise

Craig Fehrman
Hosted by Raymond Williams
Early Modern History

Early Modern History

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Interviews with scholars of early modern history about their new books.

Economic and Business History

Economic and Business History

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Interviews with scholars of economic and business history about their new books.

Ciruce A. Movahedi-Lankarani, "Accelerant: Energy Infrastructures and the Natural World in Making Modern Iran" (Stanford UP, 2026)

June 24, 2026

Accelerant

Ciruce A. Movahedi-Lankarani
General History

General History

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Interviews with historians about their new books.

Thomas S. Mullaney, "How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information" (W. W. Norton, 2026)

June 28, 2026

How We Disappear

Thomas S. Mullaney
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Fred S. Naiden, "Railroaded: A Motorman’s Story of the New York City Subway" (Rutgers UP, 2026)

June 28, 2026

Railroaded

Fred S. Naiden
Hosted by Robert Snyder
Intellectual History

Intellectual History

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Interviews with intellectual historians about their new books.

Late Antiquity

Late Antiquity

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Interviews with authors of books about Late Antiquity. Sponsored by Ancient Jew Review.

Laura Borghetti and Thomas Arentzen, "Ecologizing Late Ancient and Byzantine Worlds" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

June 22, 2026

Ecologizing Late Ancient and Byzantine Worlds

Laura Borghetti and Thomas Arentzen
Hosted by Michael Motia
Susanna Drake, "Veiling in the Late Antique World" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

June 8, 2026

Veiling in the Late Antique World

Susanna Drake
Hosted by Michael Motia
Medieval History

Medieval History

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Interviews with scholars of medieval history about their new books.

Peter Paul Dobek, "The Public House in Central Europe: Inns, Tavern, and Alehouses in Cracow during the Jagiellonian Dynasty" (Lexington Books, 2024)

June 20, 2026

The Public House in Central Europe

Peter Paul Dobek
Karl Whittington, "Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2025)

June 15, 2026

Queer Making

Karl Whittington
Hosted by Jana Byars
Military History

Military History

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Interviews with scholars of military history about their new books.

Kirill Shamiev, "Imperfect Equilibrium: Civil-Military Relations in Russian Defense Policymaking" (Oxford UP, 2026)

June 26, 2026

Imperfect Equilibrium

Kirill Shamiev
Hosted by Leo Bader
Xiaobing Li, "China’s Mahan: Admiral Liu Huaqing and the Rise of the Modern Chinese Navy (Naval Institute Press, 2026)

June 25, 2026

China's Mahan

Xiaobing Li
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Revolutionary America

Revolutionary America

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Revolutionary America features conversations with authors of new scholarship on the transformative era spanning the 1750s through the 1820s across the Americas. Featuring interviews that explore political upheaval, social change, and the many meanings of “revolution” in this period, the channel highlights work on independence movements, constitutional formations, imperial crises, and the lived experiences of diverse peoples navigating a rapidly changing world. Co-directed by Edward Blum and Amy Weitzman, and produced in collaboration with the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), Revolutionary America brings cutting-edge historical research to scholars, students, and the interested public.

Annette Gordon-Reed ed., "Jefferson on Race: A Reader" (Princeton UP, 2026)

May 30, 2026

Jefferson on Race

Annette Gordon-Reed
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Women's History

Women's History

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Interviews with scholars of women's history about their new books.

Robin Dembroff, "Real Men on Top: How Patriarchy Shapes Our Reality" (Oxford UP, 2026)

June 22, 2026

Real Men on Top

Robin Dembroff
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Stephanie Coontz, "For Better and Worse: The Complicated Past and Challenging Future of Marriage" (Viking, 2026)

June 14, 2026

For Better and Worse

Stephanie Coontz