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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:
January 30, 2026
The City's Defense
In The City's Defense: The Bank of England and the Remaking of Economic Governance, 1914-1939, Robert Yee examines how the City of London maintained i…
January 21, 2026
Being Thomas Jefferson
The deepest dive yet into the heart and soul, secret affairs, unexplored alliances, and bitter feuds of a generally worshipped, intermittently reviled…
January 19, 2026
The Influencer Industry
Before there were Instagram likes, Twitter hashtags, or TikTok trends, there were bloggers who seemed to have the passion and authenticity that tradit…
January 11, 2026
Enough
Cervical cancer kills almost 350,000 women each year. What's more horrifying, is that millions have died of this disease that's nearly 100% preventabl…
January 6, 2026
New Orleans
New Orleans is an indispensable element of America's national identity. As one of the most fabled cities in the world, it figures in countless novels,…
January 3, 2026
Serving Herself
From her start playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem as a young teenager to her eleven Grand Slam tennis wins to her professional golf career…
January 1, 2026
Free Agents
Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As w…
December 30, 2025
Period
Menstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once…
December 25, 2025
Legal Sabotage
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 …
December 7, 2025
Gamble in the Coral Sea
Driven by extensive Japanese primary sources, Gamble in the Coral Sea: Japan's Offensive, the Carrier Battle, and the Road to Midway (Naval Institute …
December 2, 2025
King Hancock
King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father (Harvard UP, 2023) is a rollicking portrait of the paradoxical patriot, whose measur…
November 29, 2025
Rome
From Octavian's victory at Actium (31 B.C.) to its traditional endpoint in the West (476), the Roman Empire lasted a solid 500 years -- an impressive …
October 20, 2025
Semmelweis
Though his advice has saved the lives of millions of people, the name Ignaz Semmelweis is not one commonly known today. In his book Anthony Valerio’s …
October 14, 2025
Fuelling Empire
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, British companies used the resources of empire to create an imperial oil industry that controlled 20% of glo…
October 3, 2025
David Davis, Abraham Lincoln's Favorite Judge
One of Abraham Lincoln's staunchest and most effective allies, Judge David Davis masterminded the floor fight that gave Lincoln the presidential nomin…
September 2, 2025
Glorious Failure
This is a powerful new account of a chapter in history that is crucial to understand, yet often overlooked. For 150 years, from the reign of Louis XIV…
August 6, 2025
Kutuzov
Every Russian knows him purely by his patronym. He was the general who triumphed over Napoleon's Grande Armée during the Patriotic War of 1812, not me…
August 4, 2025
Julius Caesar and the Roman People
Julius Caesar was no aspiring autocrat seeking to realize the imperial future but an unusually successful republican leader who was measured against t…
August 4, 2025
The International Brigades
When civil war broke out in Spain in 1936, tens of thousands of young men and women from across the world flocked there to fight against the Nationali…
August 3, 2025
A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany
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 Hist…
May 12, 2025
Listen In
Radio, today, can feel like a faithful old companion, but its early history was sensational. Between 1922 and 1939, British life was transformed by wh…
April 23, 2025
War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era
Though Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh remains well known today for his role in shaping the post-Napoleonic peace settlement in Europe, his half-…
March 12, 2025
Mapping the State
The 1832 Reform Act was a landmark moment in the development of modern British politics. By overhauling the country’s ancient representative system, t…
February 5, 2025
The Age of Choice
Choice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to buy and where to live to whom to love, what profession to practice, and even what to …