Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchE. Wakild and M. K. Berry, "A Primer for Teaching Environmental History: Ten Design Principles" (Duke UP, 2018)
Episode 45
Emily Wakild and Michelle K. Berry have written a practical, informative, and inspiring guide to teaching environmental history. It also happens to b…
6 years, 5 months ago
Stanley Fish, "The First: How to Think About Hate Speech" (One Signal, 2019)
Episode 76
Stanley Fish is a well-known scholar regarding the First Amendment and free speech. In his latest book, The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Ca…
6 years, 5 months ago
Ajantha Subramanian, "The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Episode 53
What is merit? How is it claimed? In her much-awaited book The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India (Harvard University Press, 2019), Ajant…
6 years, 6 months ago
David Brooks, "The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life" (Random House, 2019)
Episode 64
Colleges and universities can play a virtual role in the moral, intellectual and spiritual development of a student’s life. But there is a growing mi…
6 years, 6 months ago
Joshua Sperber, "Consumer Management in the Internet Age: How Customers Became Managers in the Modern Workplace" (Lexington, 2019)
Episode 63
In Consumer Management in the Internet Age: How Customers Became Managers in the Modern Workplace (Lexington Books, 2019), Joshua Sperber analyzes on…
6 years, 6 months ago
A. R. Ruis, "Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
Episode 50
In this this interview, Dr. Carrie Tippen talks with A.R. Ruis about the 2017 book Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in t…
6 years, 6 months ago
Daniel T. Kirsch, "Sold My Soul for a Student Loan" (ABC-CLIO, 2019)
Episode 386
With free college in the national conversation, there’s been no better time for Daniel T. Kirsch’s new book Sold My Soul for a Student Loan: Higher E…
6 years, 6 months ago
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Episode 42
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, infogr…
6 years, 6 months ago
Paul Reville, "Broader, Bolder, Better: How Schools and Communities Help Students Overcome the Disadvantages of Poverty" (Harvard Ed Press, 2019)
If we want children from poor families and communities to succeed in school, then we must pay attention to more than merely what happens in school. W…
6 years, 7 months ago
William P. Hustwit, "Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education" (UNC Press, 2019)
Episode 74
In this episode of Talking Legal History, Siobhan talks with William P. Hustwit about his book Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Ji…
6 years, 7 months ago