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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:
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…
December 17, 2023
How to Be Healthy
The second-century Greek physician Galen—the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates—is a central figure in Western medicine. A talented doc…
December 5, 2023
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…
December 1, 2023
How We Age
All of us would like to live longer, or to slow the debilitating effects of age. In How We Age: The Science of Longevity (Princeton UP, 2023), Coleen …
November 15, 2023
The Dialectic Is in the Sea
Beatriz Nascimento (1942-1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader in Brazil's Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker whos…
November 1, 2023
The Career Arts
Young people coming out of high school today can expect to hold many jobs over the course of their lives, which is why they need a range of essential …
October 15, 2023
American Classicist
Edith Hamilton (1867-1963) didn't publish her first book until she was sixty-two. But over the next three decades, this former headmistress would beco…