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General History
Interviews with historians about their new books.
November 6, 2026
Assembling Religion
How Henry Ford institutionalized a social gospel Henry Ford did not just mass produce cars. As a member of the Episcopal Church, reader of New Thought…
November 5, 2026
Daring to Be Free
Distinguished Oxford historian Sudhir Hazareesingh has written a stunning new study documenting the inevitable resistance that New World enslavement p…
November 5, 2026
Agents of Inertia
In the first half of the twentieth century, Asia's colonial trade, commerce, and enterprise pivoted on five cities- Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ca…
November 5, 2026
Applied History in the US Department of State
I sat down with Lydia Sizer to chat about her experience developing applied history initiatives at the US Department of State’s Office of the Historia…
November 5, 2026
Freedom Round the Globe
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE In a groundbreaking global exploration of the ideas that drove the American Revolution, a prize-winning…
November 3, 2026
Alive in the Sound
From the inside flap:In Alive in the Sound: Black Music as Counterhistory (Duke UP, 2025), Ronald Radano proposes a new understanding of US Black musi…
November 3, 2026
The Rediscovery of George "Nash" Walker
The Rediscovery of George "Nash" Walker: : The Price of Black Stardom in Jim Crow America (SUNY Press, 2025) is the first biography dedicated to the l…
November 2, 2026
Subalterns and the State
This episode features a conversation with historical anthropologist Lisa Mitchell and political theorist Hari Ramesh whose recent books make a case ag…
November 2, 2026
An Injury to All
Whatever happened to the working class? A compelling new social history of Britain since 1945From the picket lines of the Miners' Strike to the Amazon…
November 1, 2026
Sacred Betrayal
When German occupiers rolled into Paris in June 1940, they arrived wary of the French Catholic Church. In a country where more than 80 percent of citi…
November 1, 2026
Make China Great Again
Rongbin Han is a Professor of International Affairs at the University of Georgia, where he studies Chinese politics and the internet. Han’s latest boo…
November 1, 2026
National Parks and the Supreme Court
The national parks are loved by many Americans and visitors from around the world. Yet, few realize how often these landscapes and their history have …
October 31, 2026
The Quest for Re-enchantment
What is magic, and why does it keep returning in new disguises? For a special Halloween episode, host Ryan Shinkel is joined by essayist and novelist …
October 30, 2026
Research
Today I’m speaking with Peter N. Miller, historian and president of the American Academy in Rome, about his new book, Research: A Manifesto (Princeton…
October 29, 2026
Never Caught
When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation’…
October 29, 2026
The Course of Human Events
How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning Thomas Jefferson chose his words carefully. Few cou…
October 28, 2026
Mapping Medical Modernity
Mapping Medical Modernity: Urban Space and Public Health in Tokyo, 1868–1920 (U Pittsburgh Press, 2026) by Professor Susan L. Burns explores the histo…
October 25, 2026
Troop Movements
Tejasvi Nagaraja joins Michael Stauch to talk about Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II (U Pennsylvan…
October 24, 2026
On the Street of the Hidden Shops
Elizabeth Rodini joins Jana Byars to talk about her new forthcoming book, On the Street of Hidden Shops: One City Block, Two Thousand Years, and a Wal…
October 23, 2026
Runes
Tom Birkett, University College, Cork, joins Jana Byars to discuss his new book, Runes: A Concise History (Oxford UP, 2025) An accessible and illumina…