Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKate Dannies, "Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire: Family, Law and War" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)
Season 1 Episode 1701
Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire: Family, Law and War (Edinburgh UP, 2026) by Dr. Kate Dannies examines the gender and fa…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Jeremy D. Popkin, "The First Emancipation: The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Season 1 Episode 1702
The First Emancipation: The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France (Princeton UP, 2026) is a dramatic account of how slavery and rac…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Daniel Krcmaric, "Above the Law" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Season 1 Episode 1700
The United States has traditionally been a great promoter of international justice – forging the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals after World War II and…
4 months ago
Cyanne E. Loyle, "Escaping Justice: Impunity for State Crimes in the Age of Accountability" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1699
Now more than ever, the international community plays a central role in pressing governments to hold themselves to account. Despite pressure to adher…
4 months, 1 week ago
Jonathon W. Penney, "Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1698
In Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age (Cambridge UP, 2025), Jonathon W. Penney explores the increasing weaponizat…
4 months, 1 week ago
Anna O. Law, "Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Season 1 Episode 1697
Anna O. Law, the Herbert Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights in the Department of Political Science at City University of New York-Brooklyn Campus, h…
4 months, 1 week ago
Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity
Season 1 Episode 1696
A woman miscarries and is charged with murder. A new mother tests positive for a drug her hospital administers and loses custody of her newborn. Four…
4 months, 1 week ago
Jake Dyble, "Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe: General Average in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany" (Boydell Press, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1695
Commercial seafaring, both dangerous and with large amounts of capital at stake, was the source of the risk-management institutions that still underg…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Stephanie Coontz, "For Better and Worse: The Complicated Past and Challenging Future of Marriage" (Viking, 2026)
Season 1 Episode 1694
Marriage rates have fallen dramatically since the 1970s. Yet far from devaluing marriage, people still overwhelmingly describe marriage as the hi…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Jake Dyble, "Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe: General Average in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany" (Boydell Press, 2025)
Commercial seafaring, both dangerous and with large amounts of capital at stake, was the source of the risk-management institutions that still unde…
4 months, 2 weeks ago