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General History
Interviews with historians about their new books.
March 29, 2026
The Political Economy of Oil in Venezuela
The Political Economy of Oil in Venezuela: Class Conflict, the State, and the World Market (Brill, 2026) is the latest book from Dr. Kristin Ciupa, As…
March 29, 2026
Para Power
Today, we're speaking with Nicholas Juravich, author of Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education (U Illinois Press, 2024). In this boo…
March 28, 2026
Beyond the Elite
What can we learn about Jewish history when we stop focusing on great rabbis and turn instead to ordinary people? In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz spe…
March 28, 2026
Enemies to Their Country
Nicholas W. Gentile complicates our understanding of the American Revolution through a microhistory of one Massachusetts town in his new book, Enemies…
March 27, 2026
Worlds of Islam
From its birth in seventh-century Arabia, Islam has been a faith on the move. In Worlds of Islam: A Global History (Basic Books, 2026), James McDougal…
March 26, 2026
For the Love of Labor
My guest today is Cathryn J. Prince the author of For the Love of Labor: The Life of Pauline Newman (U Illinois Press, 2026). From her start as one of…
March 26, 2026
The Battle of Manila
On Feb. 6, 1945, just three days after the U.S. army started to fight the Japanese in the city of Manila, General Douglas MacArthur declared that “Man…
March 26, 2026
The Kissinger Tapes
A richly detailed collection of transcripts of Henry Kissinger's secretly recorded phone conversations from his time in the Nixon administration that …
March 25, 2026
The Global Vanguard
What does it mean for a small state to imagine itself as a model for the developing world? And how were these visions of agrarian development received…
March 24, 2026
Socialist De-Colony
Led by the charismatic Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana won its political independence from the United Kingdom in 1957. It precipitated both the dying spiral of c…
March 24, 2026
Dreams and Songs to Sing
Today we are joined by Alan McDougall, Professor of History at the University of Guelph, and the author of Dreams and Songs To Sing: A People’s Histor…
March 23, 2026
Health and Efficiency
Our guest today is Steffan Blayney, the author of Health & Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body. In Heal…
March 23, 2026
The Jews in Poland-Lithuania and Russia
For centuries, Poland and Russia formed the heartland of the Jewish world. Until World War II, this area was home to over forty percent of world Jewry…
March 23, 2026
Archival Irruptions
In 1760, following the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Empire, the Afro-Caribbean word Obeah first appeared in British colonial…
March 22, 2026
Germany
Few countries are more haunted by the darker aspects of their history than Germany. Nazi crimes continue to cast a long shadow at home and abroad. Ger…
March 21, 2026
Noah and the Flood in Western Thought
In a world beset by climatic emergencies, the continuing resonance of the flood story is perhaps easy to understand. Whether in the tortured alpha mal…
March 21, 2026
Why Q Needs U
Every letter you’re reading right now has a fascinating story to tell, having been on a long linguistic, historical, political and social journey. The…
March 21, 2026
Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt
What did slavery actually look like in the everyday lives of Jews in the medieval Middle East? In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with histori…
March 21, 2026
The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire
The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire (Duke UP, 2025) tells the history of the making and unmaking of empire …
March 20, 2026
The Epic History of Macaroni and Cheese
Today, macaroni and cheese is the ultimate comfort food, a staple of weeknight dinners, family gatherings, and Soul Food restaurants. Humble though th…