Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAlice Lovejoy, "Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 1518
The history of film calls to mind unforgettable photographs, famous directors, and the glitz and hustle of the media business. But there is another t…
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Aileen Teague, "Policing on Drugs: The United States, Mexico, and the Origins of the Modern Drug War, 1969-2000" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 1517
Today, images of cartels, security agents donning face coverings, graphs depicting egregious murder rates, and military guards at US border crossings…
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Stephen Fritz, "The First Soldier: Hitler as a Military Leader" (Yale UP, 2018)
Episode 1516
In his new book, The First Soldier: Hitler as a Military Leader (Yale University Press, 2018), Stephen Fritz professor of history at East Tennessee S…
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Angelos Chaniotis, "Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Episode 4
The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death in 323 BCE. In Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexande…
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Danny Orbach, "Plots Against Hitler" (Mariner, 2016)
Episode 73
In his new book, Plots Against Hitler (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), Danny Orbach, Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusa…
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William Doyle, "Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Episode 1280
The French Revolution facilitated the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, but after gaining power he knew that his first task was to end it. In this book Wil…
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Francis L. Sampson, "Look Out Below!: A Story of the Airborne by a Paratrooper Padre" (Catholic U of America Press, 2023)
Episode 31
A veteran of the Second World War and the Korean War, Francis L. Sampson was a real-life hero whose exploits inspired one of the most famous war film…
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Aaron Sheehan-Dean, "Fighting with the Past: How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War" (UNC Press, 2025)
Episode 254
Civil War Americans, like people today, used the past to understand and traverse their turbulent present. As Dr. Aaron Sheehan-Dean reveals in this f…
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Gustav Meibauer, "The No-Fly Zone in US Foreign Policy: The Curious Persistence of a Flawed Instrument" (Policy Press, 2025)
Episode 143
Suggested additional channels: Political Science, National Security, American Politics, Middle Eastern Studies, Eastern European Studies, New Books w…
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Nick Higham, "Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 1509
As the First World War drew to a close and regimes began to collapse across Europe, British officials plotted a daring campaign to send an unlikely b…
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