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Back to SearchSasha D. Pack, "The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Hispano-African Border" (Stanford UP, 2019)
Episode 537
In his new book, The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Hispano-African Border(Stanford, 2019), Sasha D. Pack considers th…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Episode 94
In her new book, The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy (Belknap Press), Dr. Victoria de Grazia takes the sto…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Nathan Stoltzfus, “Hitler’s Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany” (Yale UP, 2016)
How did the Nazi regime respond to protest? How did Hitler’s desire for popular authority shape the relationship between state and society? Nathan St…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Michael Vorenberg, "Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War" (Knopf, 2025))
Episode 1593
More than a century and a half after Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, historians are still searching for exactly when the U.S. Civil Wa…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Michael Stauch, "Wildcat of the Streets: Detroit in the Age of Community Policing" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Episode 1594
The criminalization of Black youth was central to policing in urban America during the civil rights era and continued in Detroit even after the rise …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Ory Amitay, "Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History" (Oxford UP, 2025)
When I sat down with Dr. Ory Amitay, his passion for myth, history, and ancient cultures was infectious. Our conversation about his new book, Alexand…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 283
Much of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to A…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Julian Jackson, "De Gaulle" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Episode 470
Charles de Gaulle is one of the greatest figures of twentieth century history. If Sir Winston Churchill was (in the words of Harold Macmillan) the "g…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Michael John Witgen, "Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America" (UNC Press, 2021)
Episode 114
Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining much of their land in the Old Northwest—what’s now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota…
10 months ago
Jo Teeuwisse, "Fake History: 101 Things That Never Happened" (Ebury Press, 2022)
Episode 1378
Fake news about the past is fake history.
Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms? Did medieval people think the world was flat? Did Napoleon shoot th…10 months ago