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July 30, 2026
Rock ‘N’ Roll
Rock 'n' roll appeared in the 1950s as the high-energy, electrically amplified music of young dancers and listeners, first in the United States and th…
July 29, 2026
American Infidelity
Today I'm speaking with Steven K. Green, Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of History and Religious Studies at Willamette Unive…
July 28, 2026
Beyond Hope
In Beyond Hope: Rabbinic Eschatology of Late Antiquity in Comparative Perspective (Oxford UP, 2026) Jenny Labendz addresses distinct patterns within …
July 28, 2026
Beyond the Ocean
In Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions (Oxford University Press, 2026), Christopher Hodson and…
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 26, 2026
Heritage Fever
The early twenty-first century ushered in a period of change in Bolivia. The country welcomed its first Indigenous president, a new constitution, …
July 17, 2026
Animals and the Right to Politics
The assumption that only humans can engage in politics—that only humans are 'zoon politikon'—is foundational to the Western tradition of political phi…
July 17, 2026
Fakers
Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line (Oxford UP, 2026) reveals the rise and fall of the mavericks runn…
July 16, 2026
The Authoritarian Divide
Political Scientists Christopher Federico, Stanley Feldman, and Christopher Weber have an important and fascinating new book from Oxford University Pr…
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 8, 2026
Becoming the System
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick sits down with Dr. Nelson Flores to discuss his 2024 book entitled Becoming the Syste…
July 6, 2026
Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia
Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia (Oxford UP, 2026) offers a new framework for interpreting interactions with classical source materia…
July 6, 2026
Churchill and the Crown
Winston Churchill was born in a palace and was given a funeral worthy of a king. His family had enjoyed an intimate association with the British m…
July 5, 2026
21st Century Yakuza
Once dominant and institutionalised, the Yakuza, one of Japan's best known criminal organisations, is now shrinking under the combined pressure of…
July 5, 2026
Ctrl+Alt+Doubt
Ctrl+Alt+Doubt: Decoding the Language of Online Conspiracy Talk (Oxford UP, 2026) offers a new way to understand why conspiracy theories grow and pers…
July 4, 2026
Tamil Buddhism and Brahminism in Modern India
Tamil Buddhism and Brahminism in Modern India: Deep Resistance Against Caste (Oxford University Press, 2026) explores Tamil Buddhism in modern India, …
July 1, 2026
Nine Days in May
In May, 1926, nearly three million British workers downed tools to support nearly one million of their countrymen, miners whose employers meant to len…
June 29, 2026
News Machines
British daily newspapers transformed rapidly at the turn of the nineteenth century, ballooning in size and radically reorganizing staffing and p…
June 27, 2026
Science of the Child in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia
Between the 1880s and the 1930s, children became the focus of unprecedented scientific and professional interest in modernizing societies worldwide, i…
June 26, 2026
Imperfect Equilibrium
Why has Russia's military struggled to adapt to the challenges of contemporary warfare? Despite years of attempts to improve its military capabilities…