Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIrvin 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…
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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…
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Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism’s High Tide: A Conversation with Howard W. French
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide (Liveright, 2025), the second work in a trilogy from best-selling…
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Michael Braddick, "Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian" (Verso Books, 2025)
Christopher Hill was one of the leading historians of his generation. His work across more than 15 books and dozens of articles fundamentally rewrote…
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Terry Kirby, "The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Episode 86
The Newsmongers unfolds the seedy history of tabloid journalism, from the first printed ‘Strange Newes’ sheets of the sixteenth century to the sensat…
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Jeff Roche, "The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right" (U Texas Press, 2025)
Episode 194
American conservatism as we know it today is a West Texas export, argues College of Wooster professor Jeff Roche in The Conservative Frontier: Texas …
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Amy Erdman Farrell, "Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA" (UNC Press, 2025)
Episode 140
When eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean gir…
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Alexandra Ghiț, "Welfare Work Without Welfare: Women and Austerity in Interwar Bucharest" (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)
Welfare Work Without Welfare: Women and Austerity in Interwar Bucharest (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025) argues that women activists, wage workers, an…
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Maddalena Alvi, "The European Art Market and the First World War: Art, Capital, and the Decline of the Collecting Class, 1910–1925" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
The outbreak of the First World War shattered the established European art market. Amidst fighting, looting, confiscations, expropriation fears and p…
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John Tolan, "Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 369
A concise new narrative history of Islam that draws on the transformative insights of recent research to emphasize the diversity and dynamism of the …
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