Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDror Goldberg, "Easy Money: American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 68
Economists endlessly debate the nature of legal tender monetary systems--coins and bills issued by a government or other authority. Yet the origins o…
3 years, 4 months ago
This is My Body: Communion and Cannibalism in Colonial New England and New France
Episode 39
Carla Cevasco, Assistant Professor of American Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, discusses her recent article, "This is My Body…
3 years, 4 months ago
Tony K. Stewart, "Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination" (U California Press, 2019)
Episode 253
There is a vast body of imaginal literature in Bengali that introduces fictional Sufi saints into the complex mythological world of Hindu gods and go…
3 years, 4 months ago
God, The Founders, and Natural Law: A Conversation with Phil Muñoz
Season 1 Episode 5
How did the American Founders understand religious liberty? Why should students study the Founding? What is the relationship between the Declaration …
3 years, 4 months ago
Greta LaFleur et al., "Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 1311
Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna Klosowska's edited volume Transhistorical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern (Cornell University Press, 2…
3 years, 4 months ago
Katherine Johnston, "The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 648
The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World (Oxford UP, 2022) interrogates how people with an interest in Afr…
3 years, 4 months ago
Andrew D. Berns, "The Land Is Mine: Sephardi Jews and Bible Commentary in the Renaissance" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Episode 387
After their expulsion from Spain in 1492, Sephardi Jews such as Isaac Abravanel, Abraham Saba, and Isaac Arama wrote biblical commentaries that stres…
3 years, 4 months ago
David Lester and Marcus Rediker, "Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, a Graphic Novel" (Beacon Press, 2023)
Episode 1309
Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, A Graphic Novel (Beacon Press, 2023) is a comic adaptation of Rediker’s now classic 2004 Vil…
3 years, 4 months ago
School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education
Episode 71
Americans have always had mixed emotions about schooling: in popular literature and television, teachers are often depicted as tyrannical authorities…
3 years, 4 months ago
School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education
Episode 71
Americans have always had mixed emotions about schooling: in popular literature and television, teachers are often depicted as tyrannical authorities…
3 years, 4 months ago