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About Ryan Tripp
Ryan Tripp is an adjunct for universities and California community colleges.
NBN Episodes hosted by Ryan:
Critical Theory
January 26, 2021
Migrants in the Profane
Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization
Peter E. Gordon
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
A beautifully written exploration of religion's role in a secular, modern politics, by an accomplished scholar of critical theory, Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization (Yale University …
History
December 28, 2020
The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution
Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding
Simon J. Gilhooley
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding (Cambridge University Press, 2020) argues that conflicts over slavery and abolition in the early American …
History
November 27, 2020
The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration
Gaby Mahlberg
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 changed the lives of English republicans for good. Despite the Declaration of Breda, where Charles II promised to forgive those who had …
History
November 11, 2020
Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought
Joanne Paul
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
While it has often been recognized that counsel formed an essential part of the political discourse in early modern England, the precise role that it occupied in the development of …
British Studies
September 24, 2020
Inventing the English Massacre
Amboyna in History and Memory
Alison Games
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
My Lai, Wounded Knee, Sandy Hook: the place names evoke grief and horror, each the site of a massacre. Massacres-the mass slaughter of people-might seem as old as time, but …
American Studies
September 15, 2020
Bohemians West
Free Love, Family, and Radicals in Twentieth-Century America
Sherry L. Smith
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
The opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of radicals and reformers fighting for a new America, seeking change not only in labor picket lines and at …
Critical Theory
July 15, 2020
Splinters in Your Eye
Frankfurt School Provocations
Martin Jay
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the twenty-first century to unsettle …
British Studies
February 10, 2020
Walter Ralegh
Architect of Empire
Alan Gallay
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
Sir Walter Ralegh was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. She showered him with estates and political appointments. He envisioned her becoming empress of a universal empire. She gave him the …
American Studies
January 29, 2020
The Second American Revolution
The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic
Gregory P. Downs
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name the "Civil War." In reality, the Civil War was not merely civil--meaning national--and not …
Literary Studies
January 14, 2020
Thomas Mann's War
Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters
Tobias Boes
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
In Thomas Mann's War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters (Cornell University Press, 2019), Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most …
American Studies
December 19, 2019
The Puritans
A Transatlantic History
David D. Hall
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
This book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America. Shedding …
American Studies
December 12, 2019
Eloquence Embodied
Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
Céline Carayon
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
Taking a fresh look at the first two centuries of French colonialism in the Americas, Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas (University of North …
British Studies
December 11, 2019
Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans
The Genevans and the Irish in Time of Revolution
Richard Whatmore
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
In 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland. Many of the Irish were republicans …
Literary Studies
December 3, 2019
'There Is a North'
Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War
John L. Brooke
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
How does political change take hold? In the 1850s, politicians and abolitionists despaired, complaining that the “North, the poor timid, mercenary, driveling North” offered no forceful opposition to the power …
Literary Studies
December 2, 2019
Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples
Kerry Driscoll
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples (University of California Press, 2018; paperback edition, 2019) is the first book-length study of the writer’s evolving views regarding the aboriginal …
Critical Theory
November 22, 2019
The Habermas-Rawls Debate
James Gordon Finlayson
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls are perhaps the two most renowned and influential figures in social and political philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1990s …
American Studies
November 12, 2019
Heirs of an Honored Name
The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America
Douglas R. Egerton
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
John and Abigail Adams founded a famous political family, but they would not witness its calamitous fall from grace. When John Quincy Adams died in 1848, so began the slow …
European Studies
November 11, 2019
Before Boas
The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment
Han Vermeulen
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Winner of the 2017 International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize …
European Studies
November 1, 2019
Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune, 1871-1885
Julia Nicholls
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune, 1871-1885 (Cambridge University Press, 2019), is the first comprehensive account of French revolutionary thought in the years between the crushing of France's last nineteenth-century …
African American Studies
October 25, 2019
Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds
A History of Slavery in New England
Jared Hardesty
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves. By the eve of the American Revolution …
American Studies
October 23, 2019
The Partisan Republic
Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780s-1830s
Saul Cornell and Gerald Leonard
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780s-1830s (Cambridge University Press, 2019) is the first book to unite a top down and bottom up account …
Literary Studies
October 16, 2019
Incorrigibles and Innocents
Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics
Lara Saguisag
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
Histories and criticism of comics note that comic strips published in the Progressive Era were dynamic spaces in which anxieties about race, ethnicity, class, and gender were expressed, perpetuated, and …
African American Studies
October 9, 2019
After Appomattox
Military Occupation and the Ends of War
Gregory P. Downs
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
On April 8, 1865, after four years of civil war, General Robert E. Lee wrote to General Ulysses S. Grant asking for peace. Peace was beyond his authority to negotiate …
African American Studies
October 8, 2019
Caribbean New Orleans
Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society
Cécile Vidal
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society (University of North Carolina Press and the Omohundro Institute, 2019), offers a lively …
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