New Books Network Podcast

Novel Dialogue May 18, 2023

The Meat and Bones of Life

A Discussion with Erika T. Wurth, Leif Sorensen, and Rebecca Evans

Erika T. Wurth, Leif Sorensen, and Rebecca Evans

Hosted by Novel Dialogue

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With the publication of her most recent novel, White Horse (Flatiron Books, 2022), Erika T. Wurth breaks from the realism that characterized her earlier fiction and ventures into horror. White …

Environmental Studies May 17, 2023

Life Is Not Useful

Ailton Krenak

Hosted by Takeshi Morisato

Indigenous thinker and leader, Ailton Krenak, exposes the destructive tendencies of our ‘civilization’ in Life is not Useful (Polity, 2023), which is translated by Jamille Pinheiro Dias & Alex Brostoff. The problematic …

Anthropology May 13, 2023

When Forests Run Amok

War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories

Daniel Ruiz-Serna

Hosted by Reighan Gillam

In When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories (Duke University Press, 2023) Daniel Ruiz-Serna follows the afterlives of war, showing how they affect the variety …

American West April 28, 2023

Pacific Confluence

Fighting Over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i

Christen T. Sasaki

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann

What if Hawai'i wasn't the 50th state? In Pacific Confluence: Fighting Over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i (U California Press, 2022), UCSD assistant professor Christen Sasaki argues that the years 1893-1898 marked a …

Archaeology April 27, 2023

Gods of Thunder

How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America

Timothy R. Pauketat

Hosted by Sarah Newman

Timothy R. Pauketat’s Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America (Oxford UP, 2023) is a sweeping account of what happened when Indigenous peoples of Medieval North and …

Geography April 24, 2023

Disrupting the Patrón

Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay's Chaco

Joel E. Correia

Hosted by Stentor Danielson

The Paraguayan Chaco is a settler frontier where cattle ranching and agrarian extractivism drive some of the world's fastest deforestation and most extreme land tenure inequality. Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous …

American West April 23, 2023

Continental Reckoning

The American West in the Age of Expansion

Elliott West

Hosted by Andrew Graybill

In Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (U Nebraska Press, 2023) renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital …

British Studies April 21, 2023

Empire, Kinship and Violence

Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842

Elizabeth Elbourne

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) by Dr. Elizabeth Elbourne traces the history of three linked imperial …

Disability Studies April 14, 2023

Committed

Remembering Native Kinship in and Beyond Institutions

Susan Burch

Hosted by Shu Wan

Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in …

Native American Studies March 25, 2023

Lakhota

An Indigenous History

Rani-Henrik Andersson and David C. Posthumus

Hosted by Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez

The Lakȟóta are among the best-known Native American peoples. In popular culture and even many scholarly works, they were once lumped together with others and called the Sioux. This book …

Military History March 21, 2023

Liberty Is Sweet

The Hidden History of the American Revolution

Woody Holton

Hosted by AJ Woodhams

A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious …

Native American Studies March 20, 2023

Allotment Stories

Indigenous Land Relations Under Settler Siege

Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien

Hosted by John Cable

Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien's book Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations Under Settler Siege (U Minnesota Press, 2021) collects more than two dozen chronicles of white imperialism and Indigenous …

MIT Press Podcast March 8, 2023

The Native American Veterans of Connecticut's Volunteer Regiments and the Union Army

David Naumec

Hosted by MIT Press

Bill Fowler, Chair of The New England Quarterly Board of Directors, and author David Naumec discuss his article "From Mashantucket to Appomattox: The Native American Veterans of Connecticut's Volunteer Regiments …

Geography March 1, 2023

Indigenous Economics

Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands

Ronald L. Trosper

Hosted by Stentor Danielson

What does “development” mean for Indigenous peoples? Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands (U Arizona Press, 2022) lays out an alternative path showing that conscious attention to relationships among …

Native American Studies February 26, 2023

On Savage Shores

How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

Caroline Dodds Pennock

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe (Knopf, 2023) by Dr. Caroline Dodds Pennock presents a landmark work of narrative history that shatters our Eurocentric understanding of the Age …

Canadian Studies February 18, 2023

A History of the Métis Nation

Discussion with Jean Teillet

Jean Teillet

Hosted by Greg Marchildon

In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Indigenous rights litigator Jean Teillet on her book The Northwest is our Mother: The story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation published …

Native American Studies February 17, 2023

Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia

Powhatan People and the Color Line

Laura Janet Feller

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Spanning a century of fraught history, Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line (University of Oklahoma Press, 2022) by Dr. Laura J. Feller describes the …

Women's History February 16, 2023

Teaching Empire

Native Americans, Filipinos, and Us Imperial Education 1879-1918

Elisabeth Eittreim

Hosted by Jane Scimeca

At the turn of the twentieth century, the US government viewed education as one sure way of civilizing “others” under its sway—among them American Indians and, after 1898, Filipinos. Teaching …

Latin American Studies February 16, 2023

On Our Own Terms

Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala

Sarah Foss

Hosted by Rachel Newman

During the Cold War, U.S. intervention in Latin American politics, economics, and society grew in scope and complexity, with diplomatic legacies evident in today's hemispheric policies. Development became a key …

Religion February 14, 2023

Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes

Molly H. Bassett and Natalie Avalos

Hosted by Jacob Barrett

Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes (Equinox Publishing, 2022) edited by Molly H. Bassett and Natalie Avalos aims to answer many of the questions that come to mind when we …