Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChristine M. Larson, "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 226
As writers, musicians, online content creators, and other independent workers fight for better labor terms, romance authors offer a powerful example—…
1 year, 4 months ago
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, "Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 255
In Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire (Princeton UP, 2024), Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers a new and provocative histor…
1 year, 4 months ago
Paula Fredriksen, "Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 1526
The ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods. For centuries, a practical religious pluralism prevailed. How, then, did one particular god come to domin…
1 year, 4 months ago
Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 1520
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for …
1 year, 4 months ago
Caroline Winterer, "How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 31
In How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America (Princeton UP, 2024), Caroline Winterer, William Robertson Coe Professor of Hist…
1 year, 5 months ago
George Steinmetz, "The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 395
It is only in recent years that sociologists and historians of the social sciences have given empire the attention it deserves in histories of the di…
1 year, 5 months ago
Andrew Hui, "The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 110
With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. A…
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Required Reading
Episode 147
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay develops the concept of the functional archive of empire, consisting of texts ranging from licenses and other bureaucratic docu…
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Peter Singer, "Consider the Turkey" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 72
A turkey is the centerpiece of countless Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Yet most of us know almost nothing about today’s specially bred, commerc…
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S4E15 To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: A Conversation with Dr. Benjamin Nathans
Episode 127
In this episode of Madison’s Notes, host Laura Laurent sits down with historian Benjamin Nathans to explore his groundbreaking new book, To the Succe…
1 year, 5 months ago