Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDiana S. Kim, "Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition Across Southeast Asia" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 10
In Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia (Princeton University Press, 2020) Diana Kim situates the regulation of vice …
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Putin's Attempt to Hide the Crimes of Stalinism
Episode 181
For the past 30 years, a group of Russian scholars have dedicated themselves to uncovering the crimes of Stalinism. Their organization, Memorial, has…
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Joseph J. Ellis, "The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783" (Liveright, 2021)
Episode 1125
In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in decades, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Joseph J.…
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Patricia Gándara and Jongyeon Ee, "Schools Under Siege: The Impact of Immigration Enforcement on Educational Equity" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
Episode 152
Much has been reported and discussed about the hotly debated issue of immigration enforcement, yet a question is still to be explored: What is the im…
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Susan J. Pearson, "The Birth Certificate: An American History" (UNC Press, 2021)
Episode 1126
For many Americans, the birth certificate is a mundane piece of paper, unearthed from deep storage when applying for a driver’s license, verifying in…
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Noah Weisbord, "The Crime of Aggression: The Quest for Justice in an Age of Drones, Cyberattacks, Insurgents, and Autocrats" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 155
On July 17, 2018, starting an unjust war became a prosecutable international crime alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Inste…
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Mark S. Berlin, "Criminalizing Atrocity: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 84
Political Scientist Mark Berlin’s new book, Criminalizing Atrocity: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes (Oxford UP, 2020)…
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Seth Barrett Tillman, "What Oath (if any) did Jacob Henry take in 1809?: Deconstructing the Historical Myths"
Episode 147
Seth Barrett Tillman, an associate professor of law at Maynooth University in Ireland, has written two revisionist articles about an incident from 18…
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Ethan Blue, "The Deportation Express: A History of America Through Forced Removal" (U California Press, 2021)
Episode 1124
The Deportation Express: A History of America Through Forced Removal (University of California Press, 2021) details the history of the United States'…
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Luke Glanville, "Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 153
The idea that states share a responsibility to shield people everywhere from atrocities is presently under threat. Despite some early twenty-first ce…
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