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About Ryan Tripp
Ryan Tripp is an adjunct for universities and California community colleges.
NBN Episodes hosted by Ryan:
January 19, 2026
Worlds of Wartime
Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics (Oxford University Press, 2025) by Duncan Kelly is a new intellectual…
January 9, 2026
Intellectual Origins of American Slavery
The period from 1550 to 1700 was critical in the development of slavery across the English Atlantic world. During this time, English discourse about s…
January 2, 2026
Heidegger in Ruins
What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century's most important ph…
December 30, 2025
Immanent Critiques
The Frankfurt School’s own legacy is best preserved by exercising an immanent critique of its premises and the conclusions to which they often led. By…
November 9, 2025
Portraits in the Andes
In Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency, 1900-1950 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), Jorge Coronado, Professor of Spanish and Portugue…
October 27, 2025
Counting the Cost of Freedom
During the Civil War, the U.S. federal government abolished slavery without reimbursing enslavers, diminishing the white South’s wealth by nearly 50 p…
October 24, 2025
The World of Homer
Epic poetry, notably the Iliad and the Odyssey, stands as one of the most enduring legacies of ancient Greece. Although the impact of these epics on W…
October 19, 2025
Age of Conquests
The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death in 323 BCE. In Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander…
September 24, 2025
Making Antifascist War
Making Antifascist War: The International Brigades' Transnational Encounters with Civil-War Spain, 1936-1939 (Cambridge UP, 2025) is a study of the 35…
September 15, 2025
The Far Edges of the Known World
When Ovid was exiled from Rome to a border town on the Black Sea, he despaired at his bleak and barbarous new surroundings. Like many Greeks and Roman…
August 11, 2025
Fascism
The rise and popular support for authoritarianism around the world and within traditional democracies have spurred debates over the meaning of the ter…
August 6, 2025
The Puritans
This book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role…
July 29, 2025
Lincoln's Peace
More than a century and a half after Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, historians are still searching for exactly when the U.S. Civil War…
June 24, 2025
The Community College Reform Movement
In his new book, The Community College Reform Movement: Contentions and Ideological Origins (Routledge, 2025), political scientist Milton Clarke criti…
January 8, 2025
Domesticating Empire
Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens (Oxford University Press, 2019) is the first contextually-oriented monograph on Egyptian…
September 7, 2024
Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire
In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests, the Seleucid kings ruled a vast territory stretching from Central Asia to Anatolia, Armenia to th…
September 1, 2024
Pocahontas and the English Boys
In Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia (New York University Press, 2019), Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Silver Profes…
August 24, 2024
Indians on the Move
In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100,…
July 16, 2024
Masters of the Middle Waters
America’s waterways were once the superhighways of travel and communication. Coursing through a central line across the landscape, with tributaries co…
July 14, 2024
The City-State of Boston
In the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon a hill” and the “cradle of liberty” for an indepe…
February 16, 2024
Properties of Empire
In Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (NYU Press, 2019), Ian Saxine, Visiting Assistant Profes…
February 12, 2024
John Rawls
It is hard to overestimate the influence of John Rawls on political philosophy and theory over the last half-century. His books have sold millions of …
January 7, 2024
Building Mid-Republican Rome
Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy (Oxford University Press, 2018), offers a holistic treatment of the developme…
December 30, 2023
Beardmore
In 1936, long before the discovery of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, the Royal Ontario Museum made a sensational acquisition: the conten…