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General History
Interviews with historians about their new books.
September 11, 2024
The Krebiozen Hoax
The brainchild of an obscure Yugoslav physician, Krebiozen emerged in 1951 as an alleged cancer treatment. Andrew Ivy, a University of Illinois vice p…
September 11, 2024
Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900-1250
The history of monasticism in early Ireland is dominated by its flourishing during the sixth and seventh centuries, a period dominated by Columba of I…
September 11, 2024
After the Flying Saucers Came
Roswell, 1947. Washington, DC, 1952. Quarouble, 1954. New Hampshire, 1961. Pascagoula, 1973. Petrozavodsk, 1977. Copley Woods, 1983. Explore how sight…
September 10, 2024
The Privateers
School vouchers are often framed as a way to help students and families by providing choice, but evidence shows that vouchers have a negative impact o…
September 9, 2024
All Roads Lead to Power
Kaitlin Sidorsky’s book, All Roads Lead to Power: The Appointed and Elected Paths to Public Office for US Women (University Press of Kansas, 2019), is…
September 9, 2024
Trafficking with Demons
Martha Rampton's book Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000 (Cornell University Press, 2021) explores how mag…
September 9, 2024
Insurgent Communities
When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form a diaspora? In Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Dia…
September 9, 2024
Rot and Revival
One of the great divides in American judicial scholarship is between legal scholars who take the justices at their word and assume that those words de…
September 8, 2024
Building a Ruin
A masterful account of the global Cold War’s decisive influence on Soviet economic reform, and the national decay that followed.What brought down the …
September 8, 2024
Dissident Rabbi
In 1665, Sabbetai Zevi, a self-proclaimed Messiah with a mass following throughout the Ottoman Empire and Europe, announced that the redemption of the…
September 8, 2024
The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements
In The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Ana Stevenson explores the ubiquity of what she term…
September 8, 2024
The Relations of Estonia and Japan from the 19th Century to the early-21st Century
Is there much to say about historical ties between two countries that are 8000 kilometres apart from each other? Actually, yes. In this episode Ene Se…
September 7, 2024
Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire
In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests, the Seleucid kings ruled a vast territory stretching from Central Asia to Anatolia, Armenia to th…
September 7, 2024
Encyclopédie Noire
If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-M…
September 7, 2024
Modern Music Masters - Oasis
In the first book in the Modern Music Masters series, Tom Boniface-Webb examines the Manchester band Modern Music Masters-Oasis (MMM, 2020). Founded i…
September 7, 2024
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration: A Talk by Isabel Wilkerson
In 2010, Isabel Wilkerson spoke to the Institute about the fifteen years she spent reporting and writing her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic …
September 7, 2024
Revolutionary Warfare
The Algerian War of Independence constituted a major turning point of 20th century history. The conflict exacerbated divisions in French society, culm…
September 6, 2024
Me and My House
The last sixteen years of James Baldwin's life (1971–87) unfolded in a village in the South of France, in a sprawling house nicknamed “Chez Baldwin.” …
September 6, 2024
Dreams
An illuminating deep-dive into everything Fleetwood Mac--the songs, the rivalries, the successes, and the failures—Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood…
September 6, 2024
Black Snow
In our interview about Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb (W. W. Norton & Company, 2022), James M. …