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About Beth Mauldin
NBN Episodes hosted by Beth:
December 31, 2019
Public City/Public Sex
In his provocative new book, Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Temple University Pre…
August 22, 2019
The Caesar of Paris
In her book, The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession That Shaped An Empire (Pegasus Books, 2018), Susan Jaques offer…
August 15, 2019
Daughters of 1968
May ’68 marked a watershed moment in French society, culture, and political life. The feminist movement was no exception. Women took to the streets an…
August 7, 2019
Making Space for the Dead
In Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830 (Cornell University Press, 2019), Dr. Erin-Marie Legacey,…
March 25, 2019
A Bite-Sized History of France
From the cassoulet that won a war to the crêpe that doomed Napoleon, from the rebellions sparked by bread and salt to the new cuisines forged by empir…
March 14, 2019
Generation Stalin
In his 1924 biography of Mahatma Gandhi, writer Romain Rolland embraced the Gandhian philosophy of non-violence and decried the “dictators of Moscow” …
September 5, 2018
Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being
In his speech delivered to the National Convention on 18 Floréal (May 7, 1794), Maximilien Robespierre shocked his listeners as he attacked the propon…
August 22, 2018
Planning the Greenspaces of Nineteenth-Century Paris
Beginning in the mid-1800s, Paris experienced an unprecedented growth in the development of parks, squares, and gardens. This greenspace was part of N…