Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSarah Jones Weicksel, "A Nation Unraveled: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era" (UNC Press, 2026)
Episode 1588
During the American Civil War, clothing became central to the ways people waged war and experienced its cost. Through the clothes they made, wore, me…
8 months ago
American Masterpiece: The Civil War Diaries of George Templeton Strong with Brenda Wineapple and Geoff Wisner
Episode 1587
Wednesday, February 18—Called “the greatest American diary of the nineteenth century,” the journal of the patrician New York City lawyer George Templ…
8 months, 1 week ago
Colleen M. Moore, "The Peasants' War: Russia's Home Front in the First World War and the End of the Autocracy" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
Episode 1586
During the First World War, Russia relied on the mass mobilization of its peasant population. In the summer of 1914, approximately four million peasa…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Amos Fox and Franz-Stefan Gady, "Multidomain Operations: The Pursuit of Battlefield Dominance in the 21st Century" (Howgate Publishing, 2026)
Episode 1585
In Multidomain Operations: The Pursuit of Battlefield Dominance in the 21st Century (Howgate Publishing Limited, 2026), Amos Fox and Franz-Stefan Gad…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Claire Morelon, "Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague, 1914–1920" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 1584
Prague entered the First World War as the third city of the Habsburg empire, but emerged in 1918 as the capital of a brand new nation-state, Czechosl…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Mark Stout, "World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
Episode 1583
Ask an American intelligence officer to tell you when the country started doing modern intelligence and you will probably hear something about the Of…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Rosina Buckland and Oleg Benesch, "Samurai" (British Museum, 2025)
Episode 187
Samurai (British Museum Press 2026) is a richly illustrated volume co-authored by exhibition curator Rosina Buckland (British Museum) and Oleg Benesc…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Andrew Monaghan, "Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War" (Manchester UP, 2025)
Episode 1581
A cutting-edge investigation of how Russia makes war.
Russian strategy in the twenty-first century has been described in terms of 'hybrid' warfare, a…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Peter Stansky, "The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 87
Few English writers wielded a pen so sharply as George Orwell, the quintessential political writer of the twentieth century. His literary output at o…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Nicole Wegner, "Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Episode 71
Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) by Dr. Nicole Wegner is not a book about peacekeep…
9 months ago