Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAndrew Porwancher, "American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 704
A scion of the Protestant elite, Theodore Roosevelt was an unlikely ally of the waves of impoverished Jewish newcomers who crowded the docks at Ellis…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Lin Hongxuan, "Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 173
In contemporary Indonesia the idea that Islam and Marxism are inherently incompatible has become deeply entrenched. However, as Lin Hongxuan's work U…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Lin Hongxuan, "Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 173
In contemporary Indonesia the idea that Islam and Marxism are inherently incompatible has become deeply entrenched. However, as Lin Hongxuan's work U…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Ruby Oram, "Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
In Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930 (U Chicago Press, 2025) historian Ruby Oram tells the story …
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Sven Beckert, "Capitalism: A Global History" (Allen Lane, 2025)
Episode 164
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Aaron G. Fountain Jr., "High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America" (UNC Press, 2025)
In High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America (UNC Press, 2025), Aaron G. Fountain Jr. high…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Simon Avenell, "A History of Postwar Japan: Recovery, Prosperity, and Transformation" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)
Episode 182
This sweeping history tells the story of contemporary Japan from its defeat in the Asia-Pacific War in 1945 until the early decades of the new millen…
5 months ago
Riley Linebaugh, "Curating the Colonial Past: The 'Migrated Archives' and the Struggle for Kenya's History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 235
In the early 1960s, British colonial administrations in East Africa organized the systematic destruction and removal of secret documents from colonie…
5 months ago
Irvin Ibargüen, "Caught in the Current: Mexico's Struggle to Regulate Emigration, 1940-1980" (UNC Press, 2025)
Episode 242
Migration between the United States and Mexico is often compared to the river that runs along the border: a "flow" of immigrants, a "flood" of docume…
5 months ago
Deanna Ferree Womack, "Re-Inventing Islam: Gender and the Protestant Roots of American Islamophobia" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 37
From the end of the American Civil War to the start of World War II, the Protestant missionary movement unintentionally tilled the soil in which Amer…
5 months ago