Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMichelle Moffat, "Scottish Society in the Second World War: Tradition, Tension, Transformation" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Episode 129
Surprisingly little is known about Scottish experiences of the Second World War. Scottish Society in the Second World War (Edinburgh University Press…
2 years, 3 months ago
Bill Lascher, "A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)
Episode 195
Melville Jacoby was a U.S. war correspondent during the Sino-Japanese War and, later, the Second World War, writing about the Japanese advances from …
2 years, 3 months ago
Jacob Lee, "Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions Along the Mississippi" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Episode 23
America’s waterways were once the superhighways of travel and communication. Coursing through a central line across the landscape, with tributaries c…
2 years, 3 months ago
Jonathan Marc Gribetz, "Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 101
How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO's relationship to Zionism and Israel
In September 1982, the Israeli militar…
2 years, 3 months ago
Alfred Peredo Flores, "Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 2
In Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962 (Cornell University Press, 2023), Dr. Alfred Peredo Flores argues th…
2 years, 3 months ago
Mark L. Haas, "Frenemies: When Ideological Enemies Ally" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 101
Alliances among ideological enemies confronting a common foe, or "frenemy" alliances, are unlike coalitions among ideologically-similar states facing…
2 years, 3 months ago
Huan Jin, "The Collapse of Heaven: The Taiping Civil War and Chinese Literature and Culture, 1850-1880" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Episode 97
The Collapse of Heaven: The Taiping Civil War and Chinese Literature and Culture, 1850-1880 (Harvard UP, 2024) investigates a long-neglected century …
2 years, 3 months ago
Laura Robson, "Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 100
When Americans and other citizens of advanced capitalist countries think of humanitarianism, they think of charitable efforts to help people displace…
2 years, 3 months ago
Karine Varley, "Vichy's Double Bind: French Collaboration between Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 1455
Karine Varley's book Vichy's Double Bind: French Collaboration between Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War (Cambridge UP, 2023) advances…
2 years, 3 months ago
Rachel Williams, "Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront" (Kent State UP, 2024)
Episode 269
Examining how a civilian organization used the Civil War to advance their religious mission.
Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commissio…
2 years, 4 months ago