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General History
Interviews with historians about their new books.
May 9, 2026
The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution
A provocative new history of America's constitution and an urgent call to action for a nation confronted by challenges its founders could never have i…
May 8, 2026
Every Man's Home a Castle
“Parental rights” is a rallying cry for today’s American conservatives, signaling opposition to mandatory vaccination and “woke” public school curricu…
May 7, 2026
Worldly Afterlives
The British Empire covered much of the world during the 19th century–and each time someone moved through it, they left a paper trail in their wake. Ju…
May 6, 2026
Career and Family
A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female coll…
May 6, 2026
The Coming Storm
From a renowned Yale historian comes a chilling look at the looming threat of the next Great Power war and the urgent interventions necessary to avoid…
May 5, 2026
Young King
We know who Martin Luther King Jr. became, but who was he at the beginning of his life? How did his youth inform his outlook and activism? Before Mar…
May 5, 2026
A Lingering Legacy
Aya Elyada is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on German and German-Jew…
May 4, 2026
Intimacy and Social (Dis)Order in Dutch Colonial Expansion
Explosive sexual scandals, bitter domestic conflicts, and dramatic changes in fortune. Sex, marriage, and family life were matters of enormous consequ…
May 4, 2026
Rustin's Challenge
There was no more trenchant and substantive critic of the Left from the Left in the 1960s and 1970s than Bayard Rustin. Some liberals and leftists tod…
May 4, 2026
Cold War Brokers
In this episode of the CEU Review of Books Podcast, I sat down with Szabolcs László to talk about his new book, Cold War Brokers: Hungarian-American C…
May 3, 2026
Illumino
The history of medieval Britain through twelve remarkable illuminated manuscripts. Illumino: A History of Medieval Britain in Twelve Illuminated Manu…
May 3, 2026
Black Power, White Heat
A rich history of cross-racial coalitions and alliances of the Sixties' freedom movement, acclaimed historian Alice Echols's Black Power, White Heat r…
May 2, 2026
The Ambassador and the Courtesan
Paola de Santo joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, The Ambassador and the Courtesan: Political Bodies in Renaissance Italy (U Delaware Press,…
May 2, 2026
American Peril
This probing account shines a new light on the problem of anti-Asian violence and inspires us to build lasting solidarity. During the COVID-19 pandem…
May 2, 2026
Beirut Radical
Imad Yusuf Nuwayhid was born in 1944 in the Lebanese village of Ras al-Matn. He came of age in the 1960s, splitting time between Beirut and Europe. An…
May 1, 2026
1453
A detailed account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, a watershed year that closed the book, once and for all, on the Roman Empire and c…
May 1, 2026
The Mask of Memory
In the early twentieth century, a group of white writers, artists, and performers from the cultural hub of Charleston, South Carolina, created and cur…
April 27, 2026
War and Community in Late Antiquity
Susanna Elm and Kristina Sessa, War and Community in Late Antiquity (Cambridge UP, 2026) Late Antiquity (ca. 250–600 CE) was a world at war: barbaria…
April 26, 2026
The History of Birobidzhan
In this episode, Alisa interviews Dr. Gennady Estraikh. His book titled, The History of Birobidzhan: Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia (Blo…
April 25, 2026
Charles Sumner
A landmark biography of Charles Sumner, the unsung hero of the American Civil War and ReconstructionCharles Sumner is mainly known as the abolitionist…