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General History
Interviews with historians about their new books.
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The Making of China's Post Office
How did a vast, nationwide institution like a modern postal system come into being in Qing China—right at the very end of the empire? In The Making…
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Empires of the Southern Ocean
From about the middle of the first millennium of the Common Era through to the fifteenth century, Southeast Asian societies underwent a political tran…
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The Predictable Shock of Brexit
Was Brexit really a sudden, populist shock, or was the writing on the wall for decades? This week on International Horizons, Eli Karetny sits down wit…
May 31, 2026
Faith, Family, and Flag
Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America (University of Chicago Press, 2025) examines the history of Branson, Missouri…
May 30, 2026
How Plague Got Rats
Today, rats are nearly synonymous with plague, but this association is surprisingly recent. For centuries, plague devastated populations without b…
May 30, 2026
Jefferson on Race
From The New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’…
May 29, 2026
A Fair Day's Work
Australia has a special place in the history of struggle for a Fair Day's Work. In giving a history of Australian worker struggles over the length of…
May 28, 2026
The Wisdom of the Ancients
The Wisdom of the Ancients: Four Ideas That Changed the World (Oxford UP, 2025) is about four cornerstones of modern thought that were put in place by…
May 28, 2026
After Barbary
After Barbary: Algeria's Roles in the French and American Empires (Cornell University Press, 2025) by Dr. Timothy Mason Roberts explores the connectio…
May 27, 2026
The Narrowing Sea
In The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region (U California Press, 2025), Hannah Shepherd examines the shared hist…
May 27, 2026
The Evolution of Western Thought
A rich and immersive reinterpretation of the history of Western thought, The Evolution of Western Thought: Volume 1, From the Ancient World to Late An…
May 26, 2026
Lost Worlds
There’s a familiar story about us humans: we went from hunting and gathering to farming, wandering bands to villages and cities, clans and chieftains …
May 25, 2026
Stories of Struggle
In Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina (U South Carolina Press, 2020), longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson detail…
May 25, 2026
The Birth of Psychological War
Jeffrey Whyte's book The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War (Oxford UP, 2023) explo…
May 25, 2026
Catastrophic Diplomacy
Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century (UNC Press, 2023) offers a sweeping history of US foreign disaster assi…
May 25, 2026
Making the Renaissance Man
Looking beyond the marble elegance of Michelangelo's David, the pugnacious, passionate, and--crucially--important story of Renaissance manhood. Timo…
May 25, 2026
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Jeremy Yellen’s The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War (Cornell University Press, 2019) is a challenging transnat…
May 23, 2026
Abolitionists and the Politics of Correspondence
Mary Freeman, associate professor of history at the University of Maine, joins Michael Stauch to discuss her new book Abolitionists and the Politics o…
May 22, 2026
Destination Elsewhere
In this unique “history from below," Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe (Cornell University Press, 2021)…
May 21, 2026
The State and the Soldier
One of the biggest worries of the US Constitution's Framers was the danger of a standing army to a democracy, so they designed a system to ensure civi…