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NBN Episodes hosted by Christopher:
July 8, 2024
Contraception
The beginning of the modern contraceptive era began in 1882, when Dr. Aletta Jacobs opened the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam. The founding o…
September 2, 2020
Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet
In Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet: Same-Sex Couples in Mississippi (University of Mississippi Press, 2020), John F. Marszalek III shares conversati…
August 5, 2020
Brain Magnet
Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina’s low-wage econ…
July 29, 2020
Newest Born of Nations
From the earliest stirrings of southern nationalism to the defeat of the Confederacy, analysis of European nationalist movements played a critical rol…
June 18, 2020
Family Matters
Dr. Hilde Løvdal Stephens is a Visiting Associate Professor of English at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Her first book is titled Family Matt…
June 9, 2020
To Bring the Good News to All Nations
Lauren Turek is an Assistant Professor of History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She earned her doctorate from the University of Virgini…
June 9, 2020
Tabernacles of Clay
Taylor Petrey is an Associate Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College and the Editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. His latest book is T…
May 7, 2020
City on a Hill
Abram Van Engen is an Associate Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Van Engen’s research examines early American literature, t…
April 2, 2020
Kingdom of Nauvoo
In Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier (W. W. Norton, 2020), Benjamin E. Park, an assistant professor …
December 5, 2019
Bodies in Blue
All wars, in a practical sense, center on the destruction of the human body, and in Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North(University of Ge…