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About Jonathan Megerian
Jonathan is an educational consultant. He pursued a doctorate in history at Johns Hopkins University, but left with his MA to work outside academia. He works stay connected to the field of history through reading and, of course, interviewing for the New Books Network.Jonathan Megerian is an educational consultant. He pursued a doctorate in history at Johns Hopkins University, but left with his MA to work outside academia. He works to stay connected to the field of history through reading and, of course, interviewing for the New Books Network.
NBN Episodes hosted by Jonathan:
May 26, 2022
The Dissolution of the Monasteries
In a mere four years, England’s monastic tradition—one of the richest in all of Europe—came to an end. The Dissolution of the Monasteries, as it’s com…
March 14, 2022
Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean
Long before Herodotus told the story of the Greeks, the ancient Mediterranean teemed with what the Greeks themselves would recognize as hallmarks of c…
May 12, 2021
That Most Precious Merchandise
Before the Transatlantic slave trade ravaged the western coast of Africa, immense numbers of persons were taken from their homes and carried across th…
March 25, 2021
Savages, Romans, and Despots
Take a look at a globe. Europe is there in big letters, and, to us, this hardly merits a passing thought. But Europe is a concept, a construct, an i…
March 9, 2021
Past and Prologue
Michael Hattem’s Past and Prologue: Politics and Memory in the American Revolution (Yale, 2020) is a fascinating new look at how eighteenth-century Am…
December 17, 2020
Time's Monster
How we see the past helps shape our understanding of the present. In the realm of statecraft and empire, understandings of the meaning of history, the…
November 25, 2020
Neoliberalism's Demons
It’s hard to avoid conversations about ‘neoliberalism’ these days. The meaning of the term—indeed its very existence—is hotly contested. Adam Kotsko a…
November 13, 2020
Ireland in the Virginian Sea
In Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), Audrey Horning revisits the fraught c…
November 2, 2020
Humanism and Empire
Renaissance humanists and the Holy Roman Empire haven’t mixed well in most scholarship. Humanists were supposed to be learned exponents of liberty. Of…
October 20, 2020
Permanent Revolution
The Protestant Reformation looms large in our cultural imagination. In the standard telling, it’s the moment the world went modern. Casting off the sh…
October 7, 2020
Ruling the Savage Periphery
Intrinsic to the practice of empire is the creation of boundaries. We tend to think of such boundaries as borders, physical lines of demarcation past …