Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMarek Kohn, "The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey Through Cities at the Heart of Europe" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 41
Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War—some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfur…
11 months, 1 week ago
John Bodnar, "Divided by Terror: American Patriotism after 9/11" (UNC Press, 2021)
Episode 1537
September 11th, 2001 marked the beginning of the so-called war on terror, but the attacks of that day also re-ignited battles over the nature of Amer…
11 months, 1 week ago
Tim Seiter, "Wrangling Pelicans: Military Life in Texas Presidios" (U Texas Press, 2025)
Episode 1536
A richly detailed history of daily life for colonial Spanish soldiers surviving on the eighteenth-century Texas Gulf Coast.
In 1775, Spanish King Car…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
John Goodall, "The Castle: A History" (Yale UP, 2022)
Episode 119
In The Castle: A History (Yale University Press, 2022) Dr. John Goodall presents a vibrant history of the castle in Britain, from the early Middle Ag…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Jennifer Yip, "Grains of Conflict: The Struggle for Food in China’s Total War, 1937-1945" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1534
How did China’s Nationalists feed their armies during the long war against Japan? In her new book, Grains of Conflict: The Struggle for Food in China…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Sonia Faleiro, "The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism Is Shaping Modern Asia" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Episode 1532
When the robe becomes a weapon, who can stop the violence?
We think of Buddhism as a faith of peace—rooted in compassion, patience, and nonviolence. …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
David Kieran, "Signature Wounds: The Untold Story of the Military's Mental Health Crisis" (NYU Press, 2019)
Episode 1533
The surprising story of the Army's efforts to combat PTSD and traumatic brain injury
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a tremendous toll on…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Mila Burns, "Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War" (UNC Press, 2025)
Episode 1531
Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War (UNC Press, 2025) offers a groundbreaking perspective on the 1973 Chilean…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Eric H. Cline, "Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 1530
From the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C., a spellbinding account of the archaeological find that opened a window onto the vibrant diplomatic world of t…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Phillips Payson O'Brien, "War and Power: Who Wins Wars--And Why" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
Episode 1529
A bold, revisionist study of modern warfare, showing that military victory is rooted not in large armies and decisive battles, but in the full spectr…
11 months, 3 weeks ago