Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAlan McPherson, "Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet's Terror State to Justice" (UNC Press, 2019)
Episode 869
On September 21, 1976, a car bomb exploded in Washington DC, killing a former Chilean diplomat named Orlando Letelier and his American colleague Ronn…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Megan Brown, "The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 1196
In The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community (Harvard University Press, 2022), Dr. Megan Brown details the surprising sto…
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Robert Hutchinson, "After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals" (Yale UP, 2022)
Episode 140
Robert Hutchinson's After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals (Yale UP, 2022) is about the fleeting nature of American punishment for…
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Maxim Samson, "Earth Shapers: How Humans Mastered Geography and Remade the World" (Profile Books, 2025)
Episode 127
Mountains, meridians, rivers, and borders--these are some of the features that divide the world on our maps and in our minds. But geography is far le…
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David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic History" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 671
This book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding rol…
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Christy Pichichero, "The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Episode 98
Covering the pivotal period from the mid-seventeenth century through the era of the French Revolution, Christy Pichichero's The Military Enlightenmen…
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Giles Tremlett, "The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 1066
When civil war broke out in Spain in 1936, tens of thousands of young men and women from across the world flocked there to fight against the Nationa…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Chiara Formichi, "Islam and Asia: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 182
Challenging the geographical narrative of the history of Islam, Chiara Formichi’s new book Islam and Asia: A History (Cambridge University Press, 202…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Julia Sneeringer, "A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Episode 800
The Beatles’ sojourn in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg during the early 1960s is part of music legend. As Julia Sneeringer reveals in A Social His…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Y. Kokosalakis and F. J. Leira-Castiñeira, "Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 1595
Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars explores the complex interplay between violence and propaganda during the continent's major civil conf…
9 months, 3 weeks ago