Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchElizabeth Farfán-Santos, "Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Episode 210
Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the te…
3 years, 4 months ago
James Morton, "Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 24
Southern Italy was conquered by the Norman Hauteville dynasty in the late eleventh century after over five hundred years of continuous Byzantine rule…
3 years, 4 months ago
Adam Lajeunesse, "Lock, Stock, and Icebergs: A History of Canada's Arctic Maritime Sovereignty" (UBC Press, 2016)
Episode 16
In April 1988, after years of failed negotiations over the status of the Northwest Passage, Brian Mulroney gave Ronald Reagan a globe, pointed to the…
3 years, 4 months ago
Wolfgang P. Müller, "Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 23
Wolfgang Muller, Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215- 1517 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). From the establishment of a coherent doctr…
3 years, 4 months ago
Viola Franziska Müller, "Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South" (UNC Press, 2022)
Episode 351
In Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South (UNC Press, 2022), Viola Franziska Müller examines runaways who camouflaged them…
3 years, 4 months ago
Emily A. Owens, "Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 350
In histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence…
3 years, 4 months ago
Patrick Bixby, "License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 94
This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to d…
3 years, 4 months ago
Steffen Mau, "Sorting Machines: The Reinvention of the Border in the 21st Century" (Polity Press, 2022)
Episode 350
It is commonly thought that, thanks to globalization, nation-state borders are becoming increasingly porous. In Sorting Machines: The Reinvention of …
3 years, 4 months ago
Robert Ovetz, "We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Episode 170
We have been ruled long enough. It is time to govern ourselves. If we are to get past the Constitution and all systems based on constitutions, we nee…
3 years, 4 months ago
Shifting Blame: What Should You "Own" and What Shouldn't You?
Episode 17
We claim to judge people for what they intentionally do, but accidents often influence our judgments. In our justice systems, people can be harshly a…
3 years, 4 months ago