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On Religion
June 29, 2022
On the Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of the Religious Left
A Discussion with L. Benjamin Rolsky
L. Benjamin Rolsky
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
L. Benjamin Rolsky received his PhD from Drew University in American Religious Studies. His work has appeared in a variety of academic and popular venues including Method and Theory in …
General History
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Interviews with historians about their new books.
Genocide Studies
June 29, 2022
Torture, Humiliate, Kill
Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System
Hikmet Karčić
Hosted by
Christopher Davey
Half a century after the Holocaust, on European soil, Bosnian Serbs orchestrated a system of concentration camps where they subjected their Bosniak Muslim and Bosnian Croat neighbors to torture, abuse …
History of Science
June 29, 2022
Women Healers
Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia
Susan H. Brandt
Hosted by
Corinne Doria
In her eighteenth-century medical recipe manuscript, the Philadelphia healer Elizabeth Coates Paschall asserted her ingenuity and authority with the bold strokes of her pen. Paschall developed an extensive healing practice …
German Studies
June 29, 2022
Fear of the Family
Guest Workers and Family Migration in the Federal Republic of Germany
Lauren K. Stokes
Hosted by
Paul Lerner
Beginning in 1955, West Germany recruited millions of people as guest workers from Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and especially Turkey. This labor force was essential to creating the postwar …
Economic and Business History
June 29, 2022
Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich
How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and Art Carden
Hosted by
Bernardo Batiz-Lazo
The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes …
African American Studies
June 29, 2022
The Families' Civil War
Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice
Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.
Hosted by
Omari Averette-Phillips
The Families' Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice (U Georgia Press, 2022) tells the stories of freeborn northern African Americans in Philadelphia struggling to maintain families …
Food
June 29, 2022
Edible Insects
A Global History
Gina Louise Hunter
Hosted by
Amir Sayadabdi
From grasshoppers to grubs, an eye-opening look at insect cuisine around the world. An estimated two billion people worldwide regularly consume insects, yet bugs are rarely eaten in the West …
Intellectual History
June 28, 2022
The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton
Bradford P. Wilson and Carson Holloway, eds.
Hosted by
Hope J. Leman
How much does the average person know about Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757-1804)? Would we have guessed that this hero of many fiscal conservatives wrote, “A national debt, if it …
Biblical Studies
June 28, 2022
Satan and the Problem of Evil
From the Bible to the Early Church Fathers
Archie T. Wright
Hosted by
Jackson Reinhardt
Satan's transformation from opaque functionary to chief antagonist is one of the most striking features of the development of Jewish theology in the Second Temple Period and beyond. Once no …
On Religion
June 28, 2022
On Byzantium and 'Romanland'
A Discussion with Anthony Kaldellis
Anthony Kaldellis
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Anthony Kaldellis is Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics at The Ohio State University. He is the author of many books, including The Christian Parthenon, Hellenism in Byzantium …
Middle Eastern Studies
June 28, 2022
The Irish Imperial Service
Policing Palestine and Administering the Empire, 1922–1966
Seán William Gannon
Hosted by
Roberto Mazza
Seán William Gannon's book The Irish Imperial Service: Policing Palestine and Administering the Empire, 1922–1966 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) explores Irish participation in the British imperial project after ‘Southern’ Ireland’s independence in 1922 …
African American Studies
June 28, 2022
Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution
The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth
Claire Bellerjeau and Tiffany Yecke Brooks
Hosted by
Katrina Anderson
Today I talked to Claire Bellerjeau about her book (co-authored with Tiffany Yecke Brooks) Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth (Lyons Press, 2021). In January 1785 …
Irish Studies
June 28, 2022
The Fadden More Psalter
The Discovery and Conservation of a Medieval Treasure
John Gillis
Hosted by
Danica Ramsey-Brimberg
In The Faddan More Psalter: The Discovery and Conservation of a Medieval Treasure Dr. John Gillis explores the conservation, construction, and context of an early medieval psalter discovered by chance in …
On Religion
June 28, 2022
On the Roman Catacombs
A Discussion with William Gruen
Willliam Gruen
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Ever wonder about the Roman catacombs? Look no further. Today I talked to William "Chip" Gruen of Muhlenberg College about his article "Roman Catacombs" from the collection The Reception of Jesus in the First …
General History
June 28, 2022
Who Killed Jane Stanford?
A Gilded-Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
Richard White
Hosted by
Ryan Tripp
In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the …
General History
June 28, 2022
Benjamin Franklin
Cultural Protestant
D. G. Hart
Hosted by
Zachary McCulley
Benjamin Franklin grew up in a devout Protestant family with limited prospects for wealth and fame. By hard work, limitless curiosity, native intelligence, and luck (what he called "providence"), Franklin …
East Asian Studies
June 28, 2022
From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945
Yin Cao
Hosted by
Shatrunjay Mall
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Shanghai became a cosmopolitan hub with communities of Japanese, British, Russians, Jews, and others including Indians – most of whom were Sikhs …
Literary Studies
June 27, 2022
Ahab Unbound
Melville and the Materialist Turn
Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder
Hosted by
John Yargo
Today’s guests are Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D.S. Schroeder, the co-editors of a bracing new collection of essays about the figure of Ahab in Melville’s novel Moby-Dick. Meredith is the …
Literary Studies
June 27, 2022
Citizens and Rulers of the World
The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire
Mahshid Mayar
Hosted by
John Yargo
In this episode of New Books in Literary Studies, John Yargo spoke with Mahshid Mayar about how children’s puzzles and schoolbooks at the turn of the 20th century helped shape …
Middle Eastern Studies
June 24, 2022
Nine Quarters of Jerusalem
A New Biography of the Old City
Matthew Teller
Hosted by
Roberto Mazza
In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Maps divide the walled Old City into four quarters, yet that division doesn’t reflect the reality of …
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