General History

General History

episodes

Interviews with historians about their new books.

Samuel Clowes Huneke, "I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany" (Aevo UTP, 2026)

April 18, 2026

I Will Not Abandon You

Samuel Clowes Huneke
Hosted by Deep Acharya

I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany (Aevo UTP, 2026) brings to life the unrelenting defiance of queer women in fascist Germany. In hi…

Penny Roberts, "Huguenot Networks: Truth and Secrecy in Sixteenth-Century Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

April 17, 2026

Huguenot Networks

Penny Roberts
Hosted by Elspeth Currie

Huguenot Networks: Truth and Secrecy in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge UP, 2025), Penny Robert's latest book, takes us into the world of secret i…

Audrey Borowski, "Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant" (Princeton UP, 2026)

April 16, 2026

Leibniz in His World

Audrey Borowski

Described by Voltaire as “perhaps a man of the most universal learning in Europe,” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is often portrayed as a ratio…

Lia Kent, "The Unruly Dead: Spirits, Memory, and State Formation in Timor-Leste" (U Wisconsin Press, 2024)

April 15, 2026

The Unruly Dead

Lia Kent
Hosted by Natali Pearson

“What might it mean to take the dead seriously as political actors?” asks Lia Kent in this exciting new contribution to critical human rights scholars…

Victor Li, "Supreme Pressure: The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birth of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation Process" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

April 15, 2026

Supreme Pressure

Victor Li
Hosted by Mark Klobas

Supreme Pressure: The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birth of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation Process (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) examines t…

Nabil Ali, "Gold from Newton's Apple Tree: Historical Recipes for Natural Inks, Paints, and Dyes" (Princeton UP, 2026)

April 14, 2026

Gold from Newton's Apple Tree

Nabil Ali
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Flowering currant, ivy, Portuguese laurel, and woad might all have grown in a medieval garden, but it would have taken special expertise to extract an…

Voices from a Century of Struggle: Writings of the Jim Crow Era

April 14, 2026

Voices from a Century of Struggle

With Tyina L. Steptoe, Keisha N. Blain, and Manisha Sinha
Hosted by Max Rudin

Tuesday, April 7, 2026—Confronting disenfranchisement, legal segregation, and terrorist violence in the aftermath of the Civil War, Black Americans ch…

Donald Sassoon, "Revolutions: A New History" (Verso Books, 2025)

April 14, 2026

Revolutions

Donald Sassoon

Revolutions: A New History (Verso Books, 2025) is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in terms…

Transnational Solidarities with Nico Slate

April 13, 2026

Transnational Solidarities

Nico Slate

My conversation with Nico Slate began with him reflecting on his own path into the study of historical connections between South Asia and the United S…

Money Beyond Borders with Barry Eichengreen

April 13, 2026

Money Beyond Borders

Barry Eichengreen
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Doubts about the international dominance of the dollar are only growing amid worries about tariffs, political dysfunction, and fraying international a…

Clifton Crais, "The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

April 12, 2026

The Killing Age

Clifton Crais

A bracing account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which Clifton Crais terms the M…

Matthew P. Romaniello, "Europe's Laboratory: Climate and Health in Eighteenth-Century Russia" (Cornell UP, 2025)

April 11, 2026

Europe's Laboratory

Matthew P. Romaniello
Hosted by Erika Monahan

Europe's Laboratory: Climate and Health in Eighteenth-Century Russia (Cornell UP, 2025) is a history of eighteenth-century naturalists and physicians …

David Potter, "Master of Rome: A Life of Julius Caesar" (Oxford UP, 2025)

April 11, 2026

Master of Rome

David Potter

By any measure, Julius Caesar is one of the most significant and famous figures in Roman history. Self-identified as a "popular" politician, he advoca…

Ruth Mandujano López, "Steamships Across the Pacific: Maritime Journeys between Mexico, China, and Japan, 1867–1914" (Hong Kong UP, 2025)

April 9, 2026

Steamships across the Pacific

Ruth Mandujano López

How did the movement of people, goods, and ships reshape connections between Latin America and Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuri…

Michael W. Tuck, "The Castle Slaves of the Gambia River: A Creole Community in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World" (Brill, 2026)

April 8, 2026

The Castle Slaves of the Gambia River

Michael W. Tuck
Hosted by Amisah Bakuri

In his new book, The Castle Slaves of the Gambia River: A Creole Community in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World (Brill, 2026) historian Dr. Michae…

Karen L. Bowen and Dirk Imhof, "The Burgeoning European Print Trade: The Distribution of Prints Via the Plantin-Moretus Press of Antwerp" (Harvey Miller, 2025)

April 8, 2026

The Burgeoning European Print Trade

Karen L. Bowen and Dirk Imhof
Hosted by Jana Byars

Karen L. Bowen and Dirk Imhof join Jana Byars to talk about their new book, The Burgeoning European Print Trade: The Distribution of Prints Via the Pl…

Peter Richardson, "Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine" (U California Press, 2026)

April 7, 2026

Brand New Beat

Peter Richardson
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Rolling Stone's first decade was truly rock and roll: chaotic, wild, and unpredictable. Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine (U Cal…

David Arditi, "Music Technology Panic Narratives Beyond Piracy: From Taping to Napster to TikTok" (Anthem Press, 2026)

April 7, 2026

Music Technology Panic Narratives Beyond Piracy

David Arditi
Hosted by Dave O'Brien

Who makes a living from the music industry? In Music Technology Panic Narratives Beyond Piracy: From Taping to Napster to TikTok (Anthem Press, 2026) …

Scott M. Kenworthy, "The People's Patriarch: Tikhon Bellavin and the Orthodox Church in North America and Revolutionary Russia" (Oxford UP, 2026)

April 6, 2026

The People's Patriarch

Scott M. Kenworthy
Hosted by Roland Clark

On October 28, 1917, just days after the Bolsheviks seized power, the great Council of the Russian Orthodox Church voted to restore the patriarchate, …

Philip Boris Uninsky, "Invented Lives from Troubled Times: A Jewish Family’s Forms of Resilience after Surviving Pogroms, Revolution, and the Holocaust" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025)

April 5, 2026

Invented Lives from Troubled Times

Philip Boris Uninsky
Hosted by Marc Katz

How do people rebuild their lives after unimaginable upheaval—and what stories do they tell along the way? In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down …