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About Zeb Larson
Zeb Larson is a recent graduate of The Ohio State University with a PhD in History. His research deals with the anti-apartheid movement in the United States. To suggest a recent title or to contact him, please send an e-mail to zeb.larson@gmail.com.
NBN Episodes hosted by Zeb:
September 1, 2024
Gateway State
One of my talking points when hanging out with my fellow diplomatic historians is the painful absence of scholarship on Hawaii. Too many political his…
August 4, 2024
The Politics of Peace
Earlier histories of the Cold War haven’t exactly been charitable toward the peace activists and pacifists who led peace initiatives. Pacifists in the…
February 11, 2024
How to Hide an Empire
“Is America an Empire?” is a popular question for pundits and historians, likely because it sets off such a provocative debate. All too often, however…
December 3, 2023
Days of Opportunity
Long before the 1979 Soviet invasion, the United States was closely concerned with Afghanistan. For much of the twentieth century, American diplomats,…
July 25, 2023
African Activists in a Decolonising World
As wars of liberation in Africa and Asia shook the post-war world, a cohort of activists from East and Central Africa, specifically the region encompa…
March 16, 2022
Before the Religious Right
The study of the religious right has in many ways overshadowed other strands of U.S. religious history in the 20th century. This is owe…
October 6, 2021
The End of Ambition
Histories of the Vietnam War are not in short supply. In U.S. history, it ranks alongside the Civil War and World War Two in terms of author coverage.…
September 29, 2021
Amlicar Cabral
Amilcar Cabral was one of the most significant African nationalists of his generation. Born in the Cape Verde Islands, Cabral led the African Party fo…
February 2, 2021
First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship
Being a great power almost seems to invite discussion of decline: whether you are declining, what can be done to prevent or arrest it, and…
December 3, 2020
For Might and Right
Donald Trump campaigned on a great many things in 2016, but one of the issues he used to criticize Democrats was their role in supporting …
March 30, 2020
The Movement and the Middle East
One of the most divisive international issues in American politics today is over Israel and Palestine. The close ties between Israel and the United St…
February 19, 2020
The White House and White Africa
The Rhodesian Unilateral Declaration of Independence was one of the last crises of formal imperialism. British settlers in present-day Zimbabwe, then …
January 30, 2020
Going Alt-Ac
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change. Howev…
December 23, 2019
The Myth of Triumphalism
Every time that I teach any portion of a course dealing with Ronald Reagan and the end of the Cold War, I gird myself for the inevitable myth-busting …
December 20, 2019
To Begin The World Over Again
Growing up as an American, you’re bound to be all-but-suffused with triumphalist histories of the American Revolution. Those histories might have a to…
November 7, 2019
Global Development
As Dr. Sara Lorenzini points out in her new book Global Development: A Cold War History (Princeton University Press, 2019), the idea of economic devel…
October 21, 2019
Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations, and the Decolonisation of Africa
Dag Hammarskjold was such a dynamic secretary-general that for years, the motto about him was simply “Leave it to Dag.” Only the second person to hold…
July 29, 2019
Globalizing Morocco
The story of Morocco’s independence struggle against France and Spain is a complicated one. Because it occurred around the same time of the long-runni…
April 15, 2019
Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War
Of all the blank spots in the mental maps of many Americans, Africa is one of the largest. Informed by a number of misconceptions and popular myths, k…
March 12, 2019
Lord Cornwallis is Dead
In the twenty-first century, India and the United States are two closely connected states. Some of this is economic, and with it comes a concern that …
January 4, 2019
Black Power and Palestine
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the great animating foreign policy issues of the twenty-first century, one that provokes fierce divisions a…
December 17, 2018
Dust Bowls of Empire
None of the climate news that we’re getting is good right now, especially now that a number of governments are reversing or failing to meet commitment…
October 31, 2018
The South of the Mind
When talking about the American South in the second half of the twentieth century, popular discourse tended to fall into one of three camps (on occasi…
October 2, 2018
The Global Interior
Of all of the departments of the U.S. government you might expect to be implicated in the exercise of imperialism, the Department of the Interior migh…