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Back to SearchAnne Irfan, "A Short History of the Gaza Strip" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
In this episode, Joe Williams speaks to historian Anne Irfan about her new book, A Short History of the Gaza Strip (Simon & Schuster, 2025). Drawing …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Brooke Barbier, "King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father" (Harvard UP, 2023)
King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father (Harvard UP, 2023) is a rollicking portrait of the paradoxical patriot, whose measu…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
James Lacey, "Rome: Strategy of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 11
From Octavian's victory at Actium (31 B.C.) to its traditional endpoint in the West (476), the Roman Empire lasted a solid 500 years -- an impressive…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress
At the heart of University College London lies a long-forgotten map library packed with thousands of maps and atlases. Professor James Cheshire stumb…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Carolyn J. Eichner, "Feminism's Empire" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 1247
Feminism's Empire (Cornell UP, 2022) investigates the complex relationships between imperialisms and feminisms in the late nineteenth century and dem…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Patricia Anne Simpson, "Early Modern Women's Work: Kinship, Community, and Social Justice" (Routledge, 2025)
Patricia Anne Simpson joins Jana Byars to talk about Early Modern Women's Work: Kinship, Community, and Social Justice (Routledge, 2025). The book ex…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Darcie Fontaine, "Modern France and the World" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 116
As she taught university-level courses on modern French history, Darcie Fontaine felt like she could not find a textbook that provided an up-to-date …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Marc Sommers, "We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone (U Georgia Press, 2023) by Dr. Marc Sommers is at once a history of a nation, the…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Jonathan Eig, "King: A Life" (FSG, 2023)
Episode 238
Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life (FSG, 2023) is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Allison Christine Meier, "Grave" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 13
Grave (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Allison C. Meier takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they continue to change…
5 months, 4 weeks ago