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General History
Interviews with historians about their new books.
July 28, 2026
Revolutionary Connections
Anna Lively is a historian of modern Ireland, Britain, and Russia. Awarded her PhD in History from the University of Edinburgh in 2022, she is current…
July 27, 2026
Stealing America
Although the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown in 1619, European slavery in America began more than a century before. In a work distinguish…
July 27, 2026
City of the Gallows
City of the Gallows: Art and Execution in Eighteenth-Century London (Yale UP, 2026) uncovers the complex and often unexpected connections between eigh…
July 24, 2026
Against Heritage
The rise of “heritage” foods—that is, the reinvention of traditional foods—has enjoyed a high profile thanks to the oft-praised efforts of chefs such …
July 24, 2026
Student Internationalism and the Global Cold War
In this episode of the CEU Review of Books Podcast, I sat down with Mikuláš Pešta to talk about his new book, Student Internationalism and the Global …
July 24, 2026
Performing Transgression
What happens when performance defies social and political boundaries? Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan (Harvard University P…
July 23, 2026
The Arab Bureau
Many of us have watched the classic 1962 movie Lawrence of Arabia, the somewhat fictionalized work based on the life of T. E. Lawrence during the Arab…
July 22, 2026
Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Cabinet
In his final days in office in 1909, Theodore Roosevelt invited dozens of friends to the White House for lunch. They had never met as a group, but the…
July 22, 2026
From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower
In 1905, when Broadway was already the most famous thoroughfare in New York City, a recreational photographer from Newark, New Jersey named Charles Gi…
July 21, 2026
Dream the Size of Freedom
Dream the Size of Freedom: How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025) by Dr. R. Joseph Parrot…
July 21, 2026
Negotiating Childhood
Kelly M. Duke Bryant’s Negotiating Childhood: French Colonialism and African Children in Senegal, 1848-1940 (U Mass Press, 2026)explores how colonial …
July 20, 2026
Sentient Seas
Sentient Seas: Archaeologies of Seascapes and Maritime Rituals (UP Florida, 2026), published by University Press of Florida (2026), offers a global pe…
July 20, 2026
The Almighty Dollar
America’s money is global money—nearly every nation in the world writes international contracts in dollars, and in 2023, central banks around the worl…
July 20, 2026
The American Revolution and the Fate of the World
Matthew Mason (Professor of History at Brigham Young University) chatted with Richard Bell (Professor of History at the University of Maryland) about …
July 19, 2026
The Umbrella Man and Other Stories
What does the JKF assassination mean to us now? In The Umbrella Man and Other Stories: What We Talk About When We Talk About the JFK Assassination, (B…
July 13, 2026
Jewish Firebugs
Why were Jews once stereotyped as America's arsonists? In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with historian Jeffrey Marx to discuss his fascinati…
July 13, 2026
Cats
For more than 10,000 years, cats have prowled at the edges of human life. But, starting only a few decades ago, hundreds of millions of them bec…
July 13, 2026
Heart of American Darkness
We are divided over the history of the United States, and one of the central dividing lines is the frontier. Was it a site of heroism? Or was it where…
July 11, 2026
Contested Continent
In Contested Continent: The Struggle for America, c.1000-1680 (Oxford University Press, 2026), the newest installment of the acclaimed Oxford History …
July 7, 2026
Gullah-Geechee Diasporas
Gullah-Geechee Diasporas: Knowledge, Culture, and Black Lowcountry Legacies (University of South Carolina Press, 2026) counters romantic portrayals of…