Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBradley C. S. Watson, "Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)
Episode 186
“Only recently have scholars outside the historical profession identified progressivism for what it was and continues to be: a fundamental rupture wi…
2 years, 8 months ago
Ngaire Naffine, "Criminal Law and the Man Problem" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Episode 190
Men have always dominated the most basic precepts of the criminal legal world – its norms, its priorities and its character. Men have been the regula…
2 years, 8 months ago
Postscript: Politics, Identity, and the US Supreme Court
Episode 17
Postscript invites authors to react to contemporary political events that engage their scholarship. Since the Supreme Court is wrapping up their term…
2 years, 8 months ago
J. Barton Scott, "Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 266
Why is religion today so often associated with giving and taking offense? To answer this question, Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious…
2 years, 8 months ago
David Cressy, "Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 42
Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea (Oxford University Press, 2022), Dr. David Cressy is a work of social history examining community relationships,…
2 years, 8 months ago
Samuel G. Freedman, "Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 226
From one of the country's most distinguished journalists, a revisionist and riveting look at the American politician whom history has judged a loser,…
2 years, 8 months ago
Giulia Pecorella, "The United States of America and the Crime of Aggression" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 189
Giulia Pecorella's The United States of America and the Crime of Aggression (Routledge, 2021) traces the position of the United States of America on …
2 years, 8 months ago
Anna Schur, "The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Episode 239
The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia (Northwestern UP, 2022) explores the fraught relationship between writers…
2 years, 8 months ago
Jacqueline Beatty, "In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 57
Patriarchal forces of law, finance, and social custom restricted women’s rights and agency in revolutionary America. Yet women in this period exploit…
2 years, 8 months ago
Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn, "The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule Within America's Universities" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 200
Critics of contemporary US higher education often point to the academy’s “corporatization” as one of its defining maladies. However, in The Autocrati…
2 years, 9 months ago