Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA Discussion with Kelly McFall about Using "Reacting to the Past" in College Courses
Episode 706
How best to teach history and, for that matter any social science subject, to college students? The traditional answer has been to lecture them. Give…
6 years, 6 months ago
Peter Fritzsche, "Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich" (Basic Books, 2020)
Episode 113
We've grown to understand in the past few weeks how worlds can change in just a few days. Peter Fritzsche's new book Hitler's First Hundred Days: Whe…
6 years, 6 months ago
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Episode 46
Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician's purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat…
6 years, 7 months ago
Nancy Sinkoff, "From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History" (Wayne State UP, 2020)
Episode 704
From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History (Wayne State University Press, 2020) is the fi…
6 years, 7 months ago
Paul Hanebrink, "A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Episode 182
In A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism (Harvard University Press, 2018), Paul Hanebrink, Professor of History and Jewish Studies …
6 years, 7 months ago
Great Books: Hillary Chute on Art Spiegelman's "Maus"
Episode 71
Art Spiegelman's Maus is the story of an American cartoonist's efforts to uncover and record his father's story of survival of the Holocaust. It is …
6 years, 7 months ago
Steven Ross and Wolf Gruner, "New Perspectives on Krystallnacht" (Purdue UP, 2019)
Episode 122
It's possible to organize a 20th-century German history course around the date 9 November. In 1918, Phillipp Schedemann proclaimed the creation of a …
6 years, 8 months ago
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 154
How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times (Princeton University Press, 2020), Phillip…
6 years, 8 months ago
In the Aftermath of the Rohingya Genocide: Our Failure to Protect
Episode 6
Despite the post-Holocaust UN convention to ensure the protection of minority communities globally, the International community has failed to notice …
6 years, 9 months ago
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Episode 103
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change. Howe…
6 years, 9 months ago