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Back to SearchEdwin P Rutan II, "High-Bounty Men in the Army of the Potomac: Reclaiming Their Honor" (Kent State UP, 2024)
Episode 42
In his recent book, High-Bounty Men in the Army of the Potomac: Reclaiming Their Honor (The Kent State University Press, 2024), Edwin P. Rutan II reh…
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Daniel Todman, "Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 92
The second of Daniel Todman's two sweeping volumes on Great Britain and World War II, Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947 (Oxford UP, 2020), begins…
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Aleksander Pluskowski, "The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation" (Reaktion, 2024)
Episode 74
Aleksander Pluskowski of the University of Reading joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Co…
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Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: : The Horse and the Rise of Empires
Episode 40
No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating t…
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Ellen Hampton, "Doctors at War: The Clandestine Battle Against the Nazi Occupation of France" (LSU Press, 2023)
Episode 1475
Ellen Hampton's Doctors at War: The Clandestine Battle Against the Nazi Occupation of France (LSU Press, 2023) tells the stories of physicians in Fra…
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Notes from the Field: A Personal View of the War on Gaza
Episode 150
We start this season of International Horizons with an interview with Dr. Eli Karetny, an American political scientist and administrative director of…
2 years, 2 months ago
Christian Bueger and Timothy Edmunds, "Understanding Maritime Security" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 103
Whether it is pirates, smugglers, illicit fishing, or disputes in the South China Sea, the oceans are of increasing importance in international secur…
2 years, 2 months ago
Holly Miowak Guise, "Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II" (U Washington Press, 2024)
Episode 167
The Japanese invasion of the Aleutian Islands during World War II changed Alaska, serving as justification for a large American military presence acr…
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Michelle Tusan, "The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 1474
In The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023), Michelle Tusan profoundly reshapes the story…
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Lori Gemeiner-Bihler, "Cities of Refuge: German Jews in London and New York, 1935-1945" (SUNY Press, 2019)
Episode 179
In the years following Hitler’s rise to power, German Jews faced increasingly restrictive antisemitic laws, and many responded by fleeing to more tol…
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