Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRegina Kazyulina, "Women Under Suspicion: Fraternization, Espionage, and Punishment in the Soviet Union During World War II" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)
Episode 311
Officially, women in the Soviet Union enjoyed a degree of equality unknown elsewhere in Allied countries at the time. However, long-standing norms of…
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Ketian Zhang, "China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 114
Emerging from an award-winning article in International Security, China's Gambit examines when, why, and how China attempts to coerce states over per…
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Sean McMeekin, "Stalin's War: A New History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2021)
Episode 1014
World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was…
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Alex J. Kay and David Stahel, "Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe" (Indiana UP, 2018)
Episode 110
Alex J. Kay (senior lecture of History at Potsdam University in Berlin) and David Stahel (senior lecturer in History at the University of New South W…
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How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Historical Research
Episode 1444
Today I’m speaking with Marcus Golding, historian and Director of Educational Operations at ClioVis. ClioVis is an incredible software and learning …
1 year, 3 months ago
Gary Kulik, "Conscientious Objectors at War: The Vietnam War's Forgotten Medics" (Texas Tech UP, 2025)
Episode 1445
During the war in Vietnam, thousands of young men served as conscientious objector medics. They had been certified by their local draft boards as non…
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Peter Apps, "Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO" (Hachette UK, 2024)
Episode 1443
The history of the world’s most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
As they signed…
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Haley Cohen Gilliland, "A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
Episode 1442
In the early hours of March 24, 1976, the streets of Buenos Aires rumble with tanks as soldiers seize the presidential palace and topple Argentina’s …
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Kelly A. Spring, "SPAM: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)
Episode 1441
The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a conflict that solidified SPAM’s place in global food culture. Created …
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Lily Hamourtziadou, "Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq" (Bristol UP, 2021)
Episode 1440
Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq (Bristol University Press, 2021), Lily Hamourtziadou’s investigation into civilian victims …
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