Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDoris L. Bergen, "Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 167
During the Second World War, approximately 1000 Christian chaplains accompanied Wehrmacht forces wherever they went, from Poland to France, Greece, N…
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Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2021)
Episode 249
Photography emerged in the 1840s in the United States, and it became a visual medium that documents the harsh realities of enslavement. Similarly, th…
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Hugh Wilford, "The CIA: An Imperial History" (Basic Books, 2024)
Episode 112
As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created the CI…
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Richard Blakemore, "Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Piracy" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
Episode 90
A masterful narrative history of the dangerous lives of pirates during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, revealing their unique impact on col…
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Vicky Davis, "Central Asia in World War Two: The Impact and Legacy of Fighting for the Soviet Union" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 40
Central Asia in World War Two: The Impact and Legacy of Fighting for the Soviet Union (Bloomsbury, 2024) is the first book to tackle the subject of m…
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Kit Kowol, "Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 1529
We think we know all there is to know about Britain's Second World War. We don't.
This radical re-interpretation of British history and British Conser…
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Amy Helen Bell, "Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Blackout London" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 150
Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets of London during the Second World War; fear not only of death from the German bombers circli…
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Dianne Ashton and Melissa R. Klapper, "The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 269
Emma Mordecai lived an unusual life. She was Jewish when Jews comprised less than 1 percent of the population of the Old South, and unmarried in a cu…
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Barbara A. Biesecker, "Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State" (Penn State Press, 2024)
Episode 285
By the 1970s, World War II had all but disappeared from US popular culture. But beginning in the mid-eighties it reemerged with a vengeance, and for …
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Lucy Noakes, "Dying for the Nation: Death, Grief and Bereavement in Second World War Britain" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Episode 255
Death in war matters. It matters to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones. It matters to groups and communities…
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