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About Mark Klobas
NBN Episodes hosted by Mark:
Biography
February 16, 2021
Vera Rubin
A Life
Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton
Hosted by Mark Klobas
Few astronomers in the 20th century did as much to expand our understanding of the universe as Vera Rubin. To tell her remarkable story in their biography Vera Rubin: A …
History
February 11, 2021
Inca Apocalypse
The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World
R. Alan Covey
Hosted by Mark Klobas
The arrival in 1532 of a small group of Spanish conquistadores at the Andean town of Cajamarca launched one of the most dramatic – and often misunderstood – events in …
History
February 2, 2021
Hotel London
How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories
Barbara Black
Hosted by Mark Klobas
During the nineteenth century, the grand hotel emerged as a vital part of London life. Originally catering to elite visitors needing a place to stay in the short term, they …
Biography
January 22, 2021
Poet of Revolution
The Making of John Milton
Nicholas McDowell
Hosted by Mark Klobas
Decades before he wrote his epic work Paradise Lost, John Milton was an active republican and polemicist. How Milton came to espouse such radical views is just one of the …
Biography
January 4, 2021
Before the Sidewalk Ended
A Walk with Shel Silverstein
Anthony Valerio
Hosted by Mark Klobas
Anthony Valerio's Before the Sidewalk Ended: A Walk with Shel Silverstein (Daisy H. Productions, 2020) is a startling portrait of the great writer of children's books, songs and plays Shel Silverstein. What …
History
December 29, 2020
Neighborhood of Fear
The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975–2001
Kyle Riismandel
Hosted by Mark Klobas
One of the lures that drew Americans to the suburbs in the years after World War II was the promise of a secure life. By the mid-1970s, however, it seemed …
History
December 18, 2020
Burning the Books
A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
Richard Ovenden
Hosted by Mark Klobas
Living in an age awash with information can sometimes obscure its extraordinary fragility. Indeed, as Richard Ovenden demonstrates in Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge …
Biography
December 16, 2020
Reconsidering Reagan
Racism, Republicans, and the Road to Trump
Daniel S. Lucks
Hosted by Mark Klobas
Ronald Reagan is regarded today as one of the most consequential presidents of the postwar era, yet many aspects of his legacy are largely unappreciated. In Reconsidering Reagan: Racism, Republicans …
Biography
December 14, 2020
Legal Sabotage
Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany
Douglas Morris
Hosted by Mark Klobas
During the mid-1930s, Germans opposed to Adolf Hitler had only a limited range of options available to them for resisting the Nazi regime. One of the most creative and successful …
History
December 7, 2020
Rome Is Burning
Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty
Anthony A. Barrett
Hosted by Mark Klobas
Ancient Rome had experienced many fires before 64 CE, yet none of the previous blazes proved as significant as the conflagration that swept through the city that year. In Rome Is …
Biography
December 1, 2020
The Life of William Faulkner
This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962
Carl Rollyson
Hosted by Mark Klobas
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 Hollywood. As Carl …
History
December 1, 2020
Isolationism
A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World
Charles A. Kupchan
Hosted by Mark Klobas
In the past few years isolationism, which had long been derided in the national discourse, has been making a comeback as a political force. In Isolationism: A History of America’s …
Biography
November 16, 2020
Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez
The Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star
Kat D. Williams
Hosted by Mark Klobas
For many of its participants, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) offered them an opportunity to change their lives, yet few were as transformed as that of Isabel “Lefty” …
British Studies
November 9, 2020
The Bloody Flag
Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution
Niklas Frykman
Hosted by Mark Klobas
The 1790s were a decade of turmoil and strife across the West. With the French Revolution, a new era of wars began that invoked the language of equal rights. In …
World Affairs
October 21, 2020
The New Twenty Years' Crisis
A Critique of International Relations, 1999-2019
Philip Cunliffe
Hosted by Mark Klobas
At the end of the 20th century, the liberal international order appeared unassailable after its triumph over the authoritarian challenges of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Twenty years later, however …
European Studies
October 16, 2020
All the Horrors of War
A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
Bernice Lerner
Hosted by Mark Klobas
One was a teenage Jewish girl, forcibly transported from her home in Hungary to a Nazi concentration camp. The other was a British doctor, whose experiences serving in two world …
British Studies
October 5, 2020
The First Serious Optimist
A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics
Ian Kumekawa
Hosted by Mark Klobas
The work of Alfred Cecil Pigou may not be as well known to people today as that of his contemporary John Maynard Keynes, but as Ian Kumekawa details in his …
British Studies
September 29, 2020
Churchill's Hellraisers
The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress
Damien Lewis
Hosted by Mark Klobas
On the night of March 27, 1945, a small group of partisans and British soldiers from the elite Special Air Service (SAS) stormed two villas in northern Italy that were …
Music
September 18, 2020
A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany
Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69
Julia Sneeringer
Hosted by Mark Klobas
The Beatles’ sojourn in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg during the early 1960s is part of music legend. As Julia Sneeringer reveals in A Social History of Early Rock …
British Studies
September 11, 2020
Wireless Internationalism and Distant Listening
Britain, Propaganda, and the Invention of Global Radio, 1920-1939
Simon J. Potter
Hosted by Mark Klobas
In the aftermath of the First World War, many people sought to use the new mass medium of radio as a tool for world peace, believing that it could promote …
Biography
September 11, 2020
Political Godmother
Nackey Scripps Loeb and the Newspaper That Shook the Republican Party
Meg Heckman
Hosted by Mark Klobas
Despite her nearly two decades as the publisher of the largest newspaper in a politically pivotal state, the role of Nackey Scripps Loeb in American political and media history has …
British Studies
September 1, 2020
An Introduction to John Owen
A Christian Vision for Every Stage of Life
Crawford Gribben
Hosted by Mark Klobas
Though theology is often regarded as dealing primarily with abstract issues of belief, the prolific 17th-century English Puritan John Owen focused much of his attention on the role of Christian …
American Studies
August 26, 2020
Henry Kissinger and American Power
A Political Biography
Thomas A. Schwartz
Hosted by Mark Klobas
Over the past six decades, Henry Kissinger has been America's most consistently praised--and reviled--public figure. He was hailed as a "miracle worker" for his peacemaking in the Middle East, pursuit …
Middle Eastern Studies
August 26, 2020
The Last Empire of Iran
Michael R. Jackson Bonner
Hosted by Mark Klobas
Despite the competition it posed to the Romans’ eastern empire and the longevity it enjoyed compared to its Iranian predecessors, English-language histories of the Sassanian Empire are few and far …
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