Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWitchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
Season 1 Episode 242
Today’s book is: Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials (Scribner, 2024), by Dr. Marion Gibson, which explores the global history of witch trials across …
1 year, 10 months ago
Mie Nakachi, "Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Season 1 Episode 288
Today I talked to Mie Nakachi about Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union (Oxford UP, 2021)
In 1920, the Soviet…
1 year, 10 months ago
Casey B. K. Dominguez, "Commander in Chief: Partisanship, Nationalism, and the Reconstruction of Congressional War Powers" (UP of Kansas, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 752
The balance of power between the United States Congress and the president is particularly contested when it comes to war powers. The U.S. Constitutio…
1 year, 10 months ago
Richard J. Golsan, "Justice in Lyon: Klaus Barbie and France's First Trial for Crimes Against Humanity" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Season 1 Episode 1513
The trial of former SS lieutenant and Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie was France's first trial for crimes against humanity. Known as the "Butcher of Lyon"…
1 year, 11 months ago
Elyse Ona Singer, "Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Season 1 Episode 6
Mexico is at the center of the global battle over abortion. In 2007, a watershed reform legalized the procedure in the national capital, making it on…
1 year, 11 months ago
Carrie N. Baker, "Abortion Pills: US History and Politics" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 284
In this compelling and informative interview, Carrie N. Baker discusses her newest book, Abortion Pills: US History and Politics (Amherst College Pre…
1 year, 11 months ago
Olivia Chilcote, "Unrecognized in California: Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians" (U Washington Press, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 172
California has more unrecognized Native tribes than any other state - what led to this strange state of affairs, and what does this mean in practice?…
1 year, 11 months ago
Samantha A. Vortherms, "Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 106
The redistribution of political and economic rights is inherently unequal in autocratic societies. Autocrats routinely divide their populations into …
1 year, 11 months ago
Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan: Can He Really Do It?
Season 1 Episode 155
Kitty Calavita, Chancellor’s Professor Emerita of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine, discuss the historical contex…
1 year, 11 months ago
Daniel J. Mallinson and A. Lee Hannah, "Green Rush: The Rise of Medical Marijuana in the United States" (NYU Press, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 750
Political Scientists Dan Mallinson and Lee Hannah, both experts on state-level politics and the policy making process, have a new book that focuses o…
1 year, 11 months ago