Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA Discussion with Kelly McFall about Using "Reacting to the Past" in College Courses
How best to teach history and, for that matter any social science subject, to college students? The traditional answer has been to lecture them. Give…
6 years ago
David G. Garcia, "Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality" (U California Press, 2018)
Episode 59
Most Americans have a limited understanding of the history of segregation in the United States. While many are taught that segregation was as an inst…
6 years ago
J. S. Hirsch and S. Khan, "Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus" (Norton, 2020)
Episode 133
The fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. Research has shown that by the time they graduate, as ma…
6 years ago
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Episode 46
Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician's purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat…
6 years ago
Erin Hatton, "Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment" (U California Press, 2020)
Episode 129
What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they are al…
6 years, 1 month ago
Alan Taylor, "Thomas Jefferson’s Education" (W. W. Norton, 2019)
Episode 703
Alan Taylor is the author of Thomas Jefferson’s Education published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2019. Thomas Jefferson’s Education tells the story o…
6 years, 1 month ago
AfroAm Studies Roundtable: Robert Greene II and Tyler D. Parry on the Becoming Historians
Episode 190
Today, instead of discussing a new book, I am convening a “New Books in African American Studies Roundtable” to talk with two historians early in the…
6 years, 1 month ago
Jennifer E. Gaddis, "The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools" (U California Press, 2019)
Episode 122
There’s a problem with school lunch in America. Big Food companies have largely replaced the nation’s school cooks by supplying cafeterias with cheap…
6 years, 1 month ago
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 154
How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times (Princeton University Press, 2020), Phillip…
6 years, 2 months ago
Kate Lockwood Harris, "Beyond the Rapist: Title IX and Sexual Violence on US Campuses" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 65
On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the State University of New York at…
6 years, 2 months ago