Special Series

Big Ideas

Big Ideas

episodes

Interviews with scholars promoting big ideas.

Sabrina Strings, "The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance" (Beacon Press, 2024)

November 27, 2024

The End of Love

Sabrina Strings
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Brian Donahue, "Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests" (Yale UP, 2024)

November 26, 2024

Slow Wood

Brian Donahue
Hosted by Brian Hamilton
Celebration Studies

Celebration Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of celebration about their new books.

Hongwei Bao, "Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China" (NIAS Press, 2018)

December 31, 2023

Queer Comrades

Hongwei Bao
Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
Isabel Machado, "Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)

September 10, 2023

Carnival in Alabama

Isabel Machado
Hosted by Katrina Anderson
Co-Authored

Co-Authored

episodes

Interviews with social scientists who work in teams.

Co-Authored: A Discussion of "The Party Decides"

September 9, 2020

A Discussion of 'The Party Decides'

Hosted by Heath Brown
Co-Authored: Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward

July 2, 2020

Co-Authored

Hosted by Heath Brown
Cover Story

Cover Story

episodes

Interviews with journalists and editors about their work.

Covering Donald Trump: A Conversation with Allen Salkin

September 14, 2021

Covering Donald Trump

Allen Salkin
Hosted by Agata Popeda
Local Long-Form Journalism: An Interview with David Schmalz

August 31, 2021

Local Long-Form Journalism

David Schmalz
Hosted by Agata Popeda
Historical Materialism

Historical Materialism

episodes

Interviews with scholars of historical materialism about their new books.

Vanessa Christina Wills, "Marx's Ethical Vision" (Oxford UP, 2024)

October 21, 2024

Marx's Ethical Vision

Vanessa Christina Wills
Hosted by Sarah Tyson
Chris Cutrone, "Marxism and Politics: Essays on Critical Theory 2006-2024" (Sublation Media, 2024)

October 12, 2024

Marxism and Politics

Chris Cutrone
Hosted by David Kunsman
History Ex Silo

History Ex Silo

episodes

History Ex Silo is place where historians step outside of their expertise silos to engage with the work of other historians who focus on different chronological or geographical contexts. Brought to you by the journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, History Ex Silo is hosted by Kritika’s Special Topics Editor, Stephen V. Bittner.

Legal Cultures in the Russian Empire

March 13, 2024

Legal Cultures in the Russian Empire

Nancy Kollmann and Paolo Sartori
Hosted by Erika Monahan
Writing the History of Money and Monetary Policy

November 8, 2023

Writing the History of Money and Monetary Policy

Ekaterina Pravilova and Rebecca Spang
Hosted by Stephen Bittner
Interpretive Political and Social Science

Interpretive Political and Social Science

episodes

A special series featuring interviews with authors and editors of books on the epistemologies and methodologies of interpretive political and social science, alternately with authors of exemplary interpretivist monographs; streaming through the New Books in Political Science channel.

Sarah Ball, "Behavioural Public Policy in Australia: How an Idea Became Practice" (Routledge, 2022)

October 22, 2024

Behavioural Public Policy in Australia

Sarah Ball
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
Jason Blakely, "Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)

August 6, 2024

Lost in Ideology

Jason Blakely
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
Invested Investor

Invested Investor

episodes

A series of entrepreneurial podcasts, aimed at anyone who wants to create or is interested in successful start ups by learning from expertise, experience and war stories. Hosted by Peter Cowley.

Active Hotels, via Booking.com, to Angel Investing: A Discussion with Andy Phillipps (Part 2)

July 26, 2021

Active Hotels, via Booking.com, to Angel Investing

Andy Phillipps
Hosted by Peter Cowley
Active Hotels, via Booking.com, to Angel Investing: A Discussion with Andy Phillipps

July 19, 2021

Active Hotels, via Booking.com, to Angel Investing

Andy Phillipps
Hosted by Peter Cowley
Landscape Architecture

Landscape Architecture

episodes

Interviews with landscape architects and scholars of landscape architecture about their new books.

Amanda Shoaf Vincent, "Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City: Paris's New Parks, 1977-1995" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

October 18, 2024

Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City

Amanda Shoaf Vincent
Hosted by Sarah Miles
Karsten Jørgensen et al., "Teaching Landscape: The Studio Experience" (Routledge, 2019)

May 4, 2021

Teaching Landscape

Karsten Jørgensen et al.
Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Late Antiquity

Late Antiquity

episodes

Interviews with authors of books about Late Antiquity. Sponsored by Ancient Jew Review.

Julia Kelto Lillis, "Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity" (U California Press, 2022)

November 25, 2024

Virgin Territory

Julia Kelto Lillis
Hosted by Michael Motia
Matthew Elia, "The Problem of the Christian Master: Augustine in the Afterlife of Slavery" (Yale UP, 2024)

November 11, 2024

The Problem of the Christian Master

Matthew Elia
Hosted by Michael Motia
Mormonism

Mormonism

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Mormonism about their new books.

W. Paul Reeve et al., "This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah" (Oxford UP, 2024)

November 26, 2024

This Abominable Slavery

W. Paul Reeve, Christopher Rich, and LaJean Purcell Carruth
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Brent M. Rogers, "Buffalo Bill and the Mormons" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

March 24, 2024

Buffalo Bill and the Mormons

Brent M. Rogers
Hosted by Joseph Stuart
NBN Book of the Day

NBN Book of the Day

episodes

One book selected daily from those published on the New Books Network.

Adrian Tinniswood, "The Power and the Glory: Life in the English Country House Before the Great War" (Basic Books, 2024)

December 2, 2024

The Power and the Glory

Adrian Tinniswood
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain, "How Government Built America" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

December 1, 2024

How Government Built America

Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain
NBN Seminar

NBN Seminar

episodes

Interviews with authors of books that will appeal to the entire NBN audience.

Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)

June 2, 2020

Until the End of Time

Brian Greene
Hosted by John Weston
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)

April 28, 2020

Slavery and the University

Leslie M. Harris
Hosted by Adam McNeil
Postscript: Conversations on Politics and Political Science

Postscript: Conversations on Politics and Political Science

episodes

Co-hosts of New Books in Political Science, Lilly Goren and Susan Liebell, interview authors who bring their expertise to contemporary political events. Postscript hosts the experts on mainstream media — with a little more time for detail and nuance!

Postscript: Reflections on the 2024 American Presidential Election

November 14, 2024

Postscript: Reflections on the 2024 American Presidential Election

Julia Azari, Jonathan Bernstein, Meena Bose, Daniel E. Ponder
Hosted by Susan Liebell
Postscript: Harris, Trump, and the Politics of Presidential Debates

September 13, 2024

Harris, Trump, and the Politics of Presidential Debates

Meena Bose and Daniel E. Ponder
Practical History

Practical History

episodes

Practical History is an NBN Special Series that explores the practical uses of historical knowledge in all realms of life, but especially in business and tech. We examine the power of historical understanding to solve real problems in the here and now. Your host is Patryk Babiracki is historian, researcher and writer; professor & MA student advisor at the University of Texas at Arlington. PhD from Johns Hopkins. Promoter of #AppliedHistory: using historical concepts, frameworks, and methodologies to solve real-world organizational problems.


History and Law with Rodger Citron

November 7, 2024

History and Law

Rodger Citron
Hosted by Patryk Babiracki
Preparing for Life After Grad School

Preparing for Life After Grad School

episodes

Inspired by Bradley Sommer’s tweet this past summer about the ongoing challenges of the Humanities job market in the U.S., this four part podcast (produced by Erica Bennett, an M.A. student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama) talks with an early career scholar now looking for work in academia, a senior scholar with a view from the inside, and those who either earned their doctorate and established a career outside the university or those who decided early on that graduate work was not their preferred career path.

Psychology and Climate Change

Psychology and Climate Change

episodes

Exploring the psychological impact of global warming. This channel is sponsored by the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America.

CK Westbrook, "The Aftermath" (4 Horsemen Publications, 2024)

October 20, 2024

The Aftermath

CK Westbrook
Hosted by Karyne Messina
Heather White, "60 Days to a Greener Life: Ease Eco-Anxiety Through Joyful Daily Action" (Harper Horizon, 2024)

May 27, 2024

60 Days to a Greener Life

Heather White
Hosted by Karyne Messina
Syriac Studies

Syriac Studies

episodes

Interviews with authors of books about Syriac Christian culture, past and present.

Robin Darling Young et al, "Evagrius of Pontus: The Gnostic Trilogy" (Oxford UP, 2024)

July 28, 2024

Evagrius of Pontus

Charles M. Stang, Luke Dysinger, Robin Darling Young, Joel Kalvesmaki, Columba Stewart
Hosted by Michael Motia
Reyhan Durmaz, "Stories Between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond" (U California Press, 2022)

May 27, 2023

Stories Between Christianity and Islam

Reyhan Durmaz
Hosted by Zalman Newfield
The Chair: In The Room at the Fed

The Chair: In The Room at the Fed

episodes
Paul Volcker: “The only number that works is zero”

August 9, 2024

Paul Volcker: “The only number that works is zero”

William Silber
Hosted by Tim Jones
Arthur Burns: “The smartest guy in the room”

August 8, 2024

Arthur Burns: “The smartest guy in the room”

Wyatt Wells
Hosted by Tim Jones
New Books with Miranda Melcher

New Books with Miranda Melcher

episodes

A special series of interviews hosted by Dr. Miranda Melcher.

Joseph Harley, "At Home with the Poor: Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in England, c.1650-1850" (Manchester UP, 2024)

September 25, 2024

At Home with the Poor

Joseph Harley
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Steve Tibble, "Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land" (Yale UP, 2024)

September 24, 2024

Crusader Criminals

Steve Tibble
Hosted by Miranda Melcher