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NBN Episodes hosted by Craig:

Ancient History October 8, 2021

The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome

The History of a Dangerous Idea

Edward J. Watts

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history. The …
General History August 12, 2021

Disruption

Why Things Change

David Potter

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
Today I talked to David Potter about his new book Disruption: Why Things Change (Oxford UP, 2021). Disruption is about radical change-why it happens and how. Drawing on case studies ranging …
German Studies April 23, 2021

Taking Nazi Technology

Allied Exploitation of German Science after the Second World War

Douglas M. O'Reagan

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In his new book Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science After the Second World War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), Douglas O’Reagan describes how the Western Allies gathered teams …
German Studies November 30, 2020

Empire of Law

Nazi Germany, Exile Scholars and the Battle for the Future of Europe

Kaius Tuori

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In his new book Empire of Law: Nazi Germany, Exile Scholars, and the Battle for the Future of Europe (Cambridge UP, 2020),  Kaius Tuori examines the inherent unity of European legal traditions that …
German Studies October 13, 2020

The Nazi Spy Ring in America

Hitler’s Agents, the FBI and the Case that Stirred the Nation

Rhodri Jeffreys Jones

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In his new book, The Nazi Spy Ring in America: Hitler’s Agents, the FBI & the Case that Stirred the Nation (Georgetown University Press, 2020), Rhodri Jeffreys Jones tells the …
German Studies September 17, 2020

Hitler’s Northern Utopia

Building the New Order in Occupied Norway

Despina Stratigakos

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In her new book Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway (Princeton University Press, 2020), Despina Stratigakos investigates the Nazi occupation of Norway. Between 1940 and 1945 …
German Studies August 31, 2020

The Perfect Fascist

A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy

Victoria de Grazia

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In her new book, The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy (Belknap Press), Dr. Victoria de Grazia takes the story of Attilio Teruzzi and …
German Studies July 16, 2020

Learning Empire

Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919

Erik Grimmer-Solem

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In his new book, Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919 (Cambridge University Press) Erik Grimmer-Solem examines the process of German globalization that began in the …
German Studies July 6, 2020

After the Berlin Wall

Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present

Hope M. Harrison

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In her new book, After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Hope M. Harrison, examines the history …
German Studies May 29, 2020

Planet Auschwitz

Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television

Brian Crim

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In his new book, Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Brian Crim explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust …
German Studies May 7, 2020

The German Epic in the Cold War

Peter Weiss, Uwe Johnson, and Alexander Kluge

Matthew Miller

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In his new book, The German Epic in the Cold War: Peter Weiss, Uwe Johnson, and Alexander Kluge (Northwestern University Press, 2018), Matthew Miller explores the literary evolution of the …
German Studies April 10, 2020

The Fourth Reich

The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In his new book, The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Gavriel D. Rosenfeld reveals, for the first time …
German Studies April 7, 2020

West Germany and Israel

Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics and the Cold War

Carole Fink

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In her new book, West Germany and Israel: Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics and the Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Carole Fink examines the relationship between West Germany and Israel …
German Studies March 17, 2020

Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Maternalism, Eugenics and Professional Identity

Melissa Kravetz

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In her new book, Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany: Maternalism, Eugenics and Professional Identity (University of Toronto Press, 2019), Melissa Kravetz examines how German women physicians gained a …
German Studies October 22, 2019

Transnational Nazism

Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919-1936

Ricky W. Law

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In his new book, Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919-1936 (Cambridge University Press, 2019), associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University Ricky W. Law examines the …
German Studies August 21, 2019

The Plots Against Hitler

Danny Orbach

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In his new book, The Plots Against Hitler (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), Danny Orbach, Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem offers a profound and complete examination of …
German Studies July 31, 2019

Sisters in Arms

Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968

Katharina Karcher

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In her new book, Sisters in Arms: Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968 (Berghahn, 2017), Katharina Karcher Lecturer in German at the University of Birmingham, examines …
German Studies July 26, 2019

The Genocidal Gaze

From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich

Elizabeth R. Baer

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In her new book, The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich (Wayne State University Press, 2017), Elizabeth R. Baer, professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College …
German Studies May 21, 2019

The First Soldier

Hitler as a Military Leader

Stephen Fritz

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In his new book, The First Soldier: Hitler as a Military Leader (Yale University Press, 2018), Stephen Fritz professor of history at East Tennessee State University reexamines Hitler as a …
German Studies April 30, 2019

Fegelein’s Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare

The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union

Henning Pieper

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In his book, Fegelein’s Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare: The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Dr. Henning Pieper, examines the conduct of the SS Cavalry Brigade …
German Studies April 2, 2019

Mussolini and Hitler

The Forging of the Fascist Alliance

Christian Goeschel

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In his new book, Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance (Yale University Press, 2018), Christian Goeschel, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Manchester …
German Studies December 21, 2018

Our Germans

Project Paperclip and the National Security State

Brian Crim

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In his new book, Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), Brian Crim, Associate Professor of History at the University of Lynchburg, looks …
German Studies November 26, 2018

Stormtroopers

A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts

Daniel Siemens

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In his new book, Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts (Yale University Press, 2017, Daniel Siemens, professor of European history at Newcastle University, writes a comprehensive history of the …
German Studies October 15, 2018

The Good Occupation

American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace

Susan Carruthers

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In her new book, The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace (Harvard University Press, 2016), Dr. Susan Carruthers, professor of American Studies at the University of Warwick …