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History May 6, 2021

Losing Hearts and Minds

American-Iranian Relations and International Education during the Cold War

Matthew K. Shannon

Hosted by Steven Rodriguez
In Losing Hearts and Minds: American Iranian Relations and International Education During the Cold War (Cornell UP, 2017), Matthew K. Shannon, an associate professor of history at Emory & Henry College …

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Latin American Studies May 6, 2021

The Spirit of Hispanism

Commerce, Culture, and Identity Across the Atlantic, 1875-1936

Diana Arbaiza

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
In the late nineteenth century, Spanish intellectuals and entrepreneurs became captivated with Hispanism, a movement of transatlantic rapprochement between Spain and Latin America. Not only was this movement envisioned as …
American Studies May 6, 2021

The Common School Awakening

Religion and the Transatlantic Roots of American Public Education

David Komline

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
The origins of American public schools can help shed light on continued contemporary discussions around religion and education in American discourse. In The Common School Awakening: Religion and the Transatlantic Roots of American …
Medicine May 5, 2021

Examining Tuskegee

The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy

Susan M. Reverby

Hosted by Rachel Pagones
Some books are new, others are newly relevant – and so worth looking at from a new, contemporary perspective. Such is the case with Susan Reverby’s book Examining Tuskegee: The …
Christian Studies May 5, 2021

Who Is an Evangelical?

Thomas S. Kidd

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
News and media outlets have become especially attentive to the political leanings of a particular subset of American Protestants: the Evangelicals. Leading historian of American Christianity, Thomas S. Kidd, wrote Who …
Jewish Studies May 5, 2021

Songs in Dark Times

Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine

Amelia M. Glaser

Hosted by Steven Seegel
Between the world wars, a generation of Jewish leftist poets reached out to other embattled peoples of the earth--Palestinian Arabs, African Americans, Spanish Republicans--in Yiddish verse. Songs in Dark Times …
Russian and Eurasian Studies May 5, 2021

Ideologies of Race

Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in Global Context

David Rainbow

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Conflicting notions about the dynamics of race in Russia and the Soviet Union have made it difficult for both scholars and other observers of the region to understand rising racial …
Jewish Studies May 5, 2021

The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex

The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution

Lila Corwin Berman

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
For years, American Jewish philanthropy has been celebrated as the proudest product of Jewish endeavors in the United States, its virtues extending from the local to the global, the Jewish …
Geography May 5, 2021

Nuclear Suburbs

Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance

Patrick Vitale

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
From submarines to the suburbs--the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold War During the early Cold War, research facilities became ubiquitous features of suburbs across the United States. Pittsburgh's eastern …
Critical Theory May 5, 2021

Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel

Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet

Domenico Losurdo

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
The 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche stands among the canon’s most-cited figures, with aphorisms dotting texts on a variety of topics, and his name evokes strong responses from almost …
History May 5, 2021

Calvin, the Bible, and History

Barbara Pitkin

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
John Calvin was known foremost for his powerful impact on the fundamental doctrines of Protestantism, and his biblical interpretation continues to attract interest and inquiry. Calvin, the Bible, and History …
History May 4, 2021

Give Me Liberty

A History of America's Exceptional Idea

Richard Brookhiser

Hosted by Ian Drake
In Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea (Basic Books, 2019), Richard Brookhiser has written a history of an idea, liberty, using an unconventional format of a review of …
History May 4, 2021

American Writers and World War I

David A. Rennie

Hosted by Ryan Tripp
In American Writers and World War I (Oxford University Press, 2020), David A. Rennie argues that authors' war writing continuously evolved in response to developments in their professional and personal lives. He examines …
Archaeology May 4, 2021

Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent

A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge and Labor

Allison Mickel

Hosted by Samuel Pfister
Since the beginnings of organized archaeology in the Middle East in the 19th century, western archaeologists have typically employed large “gangs” or “teams” of locals to perform the manual labor …
Russian and Eurasian Studies May 4, 2021

Men Out of Focus

The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties

Marko Dumancic

Hosted by Jill Massino
Marko Dumancic's book Men Out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties (University of Toronto Press, 2021) charts conversations and polemics about masculinity in Soviet cinema and popular …
History May 4, 2021

Rebel Cinderella

From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

Adam Hochschild

Hosted by Robert Snyder
In the political ferment of early twentieth century New York City, when socialists and reformers battled sweatshops, and writers and artists thought a new world was being born, an immigrant …
History May 4, 2021

All the Nations Under Heaven

Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York

Frederick M. Binder, David M. Reimers, and Robert W. Snyder

Hosted by Peter Aigner
All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York by Frederick M. Binder, David M. Reimers, and Robert W. Snyder (Columbia University Press, 2019) covers almost …
Economic and Business History May 3, 2021

Black Market Capital

Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City

Andrew Konove

Hosted by Paula De La Cruz-Fernandez
In Black Market Capital Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City (University of California Press, 2018), Andrew Konove traces the history of illicit commerce in Mexico City from the seventeenth …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast May 3, 2021

For the Many

American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality

Dorothy Sue Cobble

Hosted by Marshall Poe
For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality (Princeton University Press, 2021) presents an inspiring look at how US women and their global allies pushed the nation and …
Mobilities and Methods May 3, 2021

Bolivia in the Age of Gas

Bret Gustafson

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president, won reelection three times on a leftist platform championing Indigenous rights, anti-imperialism, and Bolivian control over the country's natural gas reserves. In Bolivia in …