Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMònica Calabritto, "Murder and Madness on Trial: A Tale of True Crime from Early Modern Bologna" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)
Episode 34
Monica Calabritto of Hunter College talks to us today about her new book, Murder and Madness on Trial: A Tale of True Crime from Early Modern Bologna…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ana Schwartz, "Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America" (UNC Press, 2022)
Episode 218
New England's Puritans were devoted to self-scrutiny. Consumed by the pursuit of pure hearts, they latched on to sincerity as both an ideal and a soc…
3 years, 3 months ago
Vanessa Wilkie, "A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England" (Atria Books, 2023)
Episode 33
For readers of historical biography, meet Alice Spencer Stanley Egerton—the 16th century English noblewoman who was determined to bring her family in…
3 years, 3 months ago
Elizabeth Elbourne, "Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842" (Cambridge UP., 2022)
Episode 83
Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842 (Cambridge University Press, 2022)…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ângela Barreto Xavier, "Religion and Empire in Portuguese India: Conversion, Resistance, and the Making of Goa" (SUNY Press, 2022)
Episode 254
How did the colonization of Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries take place? How was it related to projects for the conversion of Goan colo…
3 years, 3 months ago
Benjamin E. Park, "American Nationalisms: Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783-1833" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 220
America was born in an age of political revolution throughout the Atlantic world, a period when the very definition of 'nation' was transforming. Ben…
3 years, 3 months ago
Timothy Sean Quinn, "Apiqoros: The Last Essays of Salomon Maimon" (Hebrew Union College Press, 2021)
Episode 393
Although Kant considered him the greatest critic of his work, and Fichte thought him the most impressive mind of the generation, Salomon Maimon (1753…
3 years, 3 months ago
George Washington and American Honor: A Conversation with Craig Bruce Smith
Season 1 Episode 17
What made George Washington the "greatest man in the world"? What is his legacy outside the United States? What did "honor" mean to America's Foundin…
3 years, 3 months ago
Christopher S. Celenza, "The Italian Renaissance and the Origin of the Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 180
Christopher Celenza is one of the foremost contemporary scholars of the Renaissance. His ambitious new book The Italian Renaissance and the Origin of…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Roots of Equity and Equality: A Conversation with Teresa Bejan
Episode 72
The ideas of equity and equality are all over the news, yet there seems to be little agreement on what exactly each term means. Political theorist an…
3 years, 3 months ago