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About Monica Black
NBN Episodes hosted by Monica:
May 11, 2018
To Belong in Buenos Aires
Benjamin Bryce, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Northern British Columbia, has written a history of belonging within a culturally …
October 23, 2017
Agrarian Crossings
Tore C. Olsson's Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside (Princeton University Press, 2017) tells a remarkabl…
August 13, 2017
Modern Hungers
Food is a hot topic these days, and not just among the folks posting pictures of their dinner on Instagram. A growing number of scholars in many field…
July 26, 2017
Heresy and Dissent in the Carolingian Empire
In the popular imagination, heresy belongs to the Christian Middle Ages in much the way that the Crusades or courtly culture do. Non-specialists in th…
July 11, 2017
Hitler's Monsters
The idea that there is some unholy connection between Nazism and occultism has a lengthy history. It long predates 1933, when the National Socialist p…
July 6, 2017
Diminishing the Bill of Rights
William Davenport Mercer's Diminishing the Bill of Rights: Barron v. Baltimore and the Foundations of American Liberty (University of Oklahoma Press, …
April 12, 2017
Hitler's American Model
James Q. Whitman, Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School, began researching the book that became Hitler's America…
June 28, 2015
Excavating Nations
A recent book review I read began with the line "borderlands are back." It's certainly true that more and more historians have used borderland regions…
May 1, 2015
Empire's Children
For almost 100 years, it seemed like a good, even wholesome and optimistic idea to take young, working-class and poor British children and resettle th…
January 30, 2015
German Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democratic Renewal
The Federal Republic of Germany is often held up today as one of the world's great democracies, where the commitment to such ideals as transparency, c…
June 26, 2014
Religion, Race and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880
Luke E. Harlow, Religion, Race and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880 (Cambridge University Press, 2014) examines the role of religion, and…
February 4, 2014
Kindred by Choice
If you have spent a bit of time in Germany or with German friends, you may have noticed the deep interest and affinity many Germans have for American …
November 16, 2013
Terror and Democracy in West Germany
In West Germany in September and October of 1977, a group of self-described urban guerrillas of the Red Army Faction (RAF) kidnapped industrialist Han…
October 23, 2013
Raising Germans in the Age of Empire
Germany embarked on the age of imperialism a bit later than other global powers, and the German experience of empire was much shorter-lived than that …
September 11, 2013
Plutopia
Kate Brown's Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford University Press, 2013) is a tal…
August 5, 2013
Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies
Superstitions flourish in our world--think of the elaborate rituals of baseball players, or knocking wood to avoid tempting fate, or that bit of happi…