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About Ryan Tripp
Ryan Tripp is an adjunct for universities and California community colleges.
NBN Episodes hosted by Ryan:
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…
November 15, 2023
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 14, 2023
Understanding and Teaching Native American History
Understanding and Teaching Native American History (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023), co-edited by Kristofer Ray and Brady DeSanti, is a timely an…
January 10, 2023
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…
June 28, 2022
Who Killed Jane Stanford?
In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, …
January 4, 2022
The Transcendentalists and Their World
In The Transcendentalists and Their World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021), Robert A. Gross offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact …
November 17, 2021
Genesis and Validity
There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of an idea a…
October 1, 2021
Deconstruction
The basic story of the rise, reign, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical groundswell is well known among scholars. In this intel…
August 30, 2021
Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War
In Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), Joy Porter examines the extraordinary life of…
July 30, 2021
The Persistence of Party
Political parties are taken for granted today, but how was the idea of party viewed in the eighteenth century, when core components of modern, represe…
June 28, 2021
Native Providence
A city of modest size, Providence, Rhode Island, had the third-largest Native American population in the United States by the first decade of the nine…
June 7, 2021
The Free World
In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, acclaimed scholar and critic Louis Menand, Professor of English at Harvard Unive…
May 4, 2021
American Writers and World War I
In American Writers and World War I (Oxford University Press, 2020), David A. Rennie argues that authors' war writing continuously evolved in response…
March 29, 2021
The Time of Enlightenment
A new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France. With the development of modern biological, economic, and social engineering, the future…
January 26, 2021
Migrants in the Profane
A beautifully written exploration of religion's role in a secular, modern politics, by an accomplished scholar of critical theory, Migrants in the Pro…
December 28, 2020
The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution
The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding (Cambridge University Press, 2020) argues that conf…