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About Mark Klobas
I'm a history instructor at Scottsdale Community College in Scottsdale, Arizona. I earned my BA in History from the University of Arizona, and my MA and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University.NBN Episodes hosted by Mark:
July 15, 2024
Reading Herzl in Beirut
How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO's relationship to Zionism and Israel In September 1982, the Israeli milita…
July 15, 2024
A Fistful of Shells
All too often, the history of early modern Africa is told from the perspective of outsiders. In his book A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Ris…
July 1, 2024
Privileging Place
In recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates. In Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and…
June 15, 2024
The Last Human Job
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work ha…
June 2, 2024
How to Be Queer
The idea of sexual fluidity may seem new, but it is at least as old as the ancient Greeks, who wrote about queer experiences with remarkable frankness…
May 15, 2024
Breaking the Mold
The whole world has a stake in India's future, and that future hinges on whether India can develop its economy and deliver for its population--now the…
May 5, 2024
Promise and Peril of Credit
In 1647, the French author Étienne Cleirac asserted in his book Les us, et coustumes de la mer that the credit instruments known as bills of exchange …
May 1, 2024
Natural Magic
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for p…
April 29, 2024
The Winding Road to the Welfare State
The creation of the postwar welfare state in Great Britain did not represent the logical progression of governmental policy over a period of generatio…
April 29, 2024
The European Guilds
Guilds were prominent in medieval and early modern Europe, but their economic role has seldom been studied. In The European Guilds: An Economic Analys…
April 16, 2024
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have c…
April 15, 2024
Toxic Stress
Our stress response system is magnificent - it operates beneath our awareness, like an orchestra of organs playing a hidden symphony. When we are heal…
April 1, 2024
The Beauty of Falling
Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body's buoyancy in the Indian Ocean. As a pilot, soa…
March 21, 2024
Slouch
In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century's worth of nude "posture" photos of college stude…
March 1, 2024
AI Needs You
Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's power grows, so does the need to figure out what--and who--this…
February 15, 2024
A Real Right to Vote
Throughout history, too many Americans have been disenfranchised or faced needless barriers to voting. Part of the blame falls on the Constitution, wh…
February 13, 2024
Romanland
Though commonly used today to identify a polity that lasted for over a millennium, the label “Byzantine empire” is an anachronism imposed by more rece…
February 1, 2024
Making Democracy Count
What's the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What's the fairest way to allocate legislative seats to d…
January 19, 2024
Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930
Robert C. Post's book The Taft Court (10): Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930 (Cambridge UP, 2023) offers the definitive history of the Suprem…
January 18, 2024
Born in Blood
Scott Gac's Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America (Cambridge UP, 2023) investigates one of history's most violent undertakings: The United…
January 12, 2024
The Struggle for the People’s King
In the post-civil rights era, wide-ranging groups have made civil rights claims that echo those made by Black civil rights activists of the 1960s, fro…
January 2, 2024
Words and Distinctions for the Common Good
How social scientists' disagreements about their key words and distinctions have been misconceived, and what to do about it Social scientists do rese…
December 26, 2023
Henry Kissinger and American Power
Over the past six decades, Henry Kissinger has been America's most consistently praised--and reviled--public figure. He was hailed as a "miracle worke…
December 25, 2023
The Life of William Faulkner
By 1935 William Faulkner was well established as an author of critically praised novels, yet the low volume of his sales forced him to seek work in Ho…