Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBrian Brege, "Tuscany in the Age of Empire" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 1256
A new history explores how one of Renaissance Italy's leading cities maintained its influence in an era of global exploration, trade, and empire. The…
3 years, 11 months ago
Johanna Drucker, "Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 1255
Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present (University of Chicago Press, 2022) by Dr. Johanna Drucker provides the …
3 years, 11 months ago
Tom Zoellner, "Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Episode 84
For five horrific weeks after Christmas in 1831, Jamaica was convulsed by an uprising of its enslaved people. What started as a peaceful labor strike…
3 years, 11 months ago
Matthew Mark Silver, "The History of Galilee, 47 BCE to 1260 CE: From Josephus and Jesus to the Crusades" (Lexington Books, 2021)
Episode 311
Galilee, the region where monotheism multiplied, where Christianity came into being, where Judaism reinvented itself, and where Islam won some of its…
3 years, 11 months ago
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Atlantic" (Robinson, 2022)
Episode 1250
The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In A Brief History of t…
3 years, 11 months ago
Adam Sundberg, "Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 10
By the early eighteenth century, the economic primacy, cultural efflorescence, and geopolitical power of the Dutch Republic appeared to be waning. Th…
3 years, 11 months ago
Helen Pfeifer, "Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 95
It’s the sixteenth century, and the Ottoman Empire has just defeated the Mamluk Sultanate, conquering Damascus and Cairo, important centers of Arab l…
3 years, 11 months ago
Saladin Ambar, "Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 615
Slavery and its lingering remnants remain a plague on the United States, continuing to foster animosity between races that hinders the understanding …
3 years, 11 months ago
Lindsay Starkey, "Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
Episode 124
What is holding the oceans back from entirely flooding the earth? While a twenty-first century thinker may approach the answer to this question withi…
3 years, 11 months ago
John Goodall, "The Castle: A History" (Yale UP, 2022)
Episode 119
In The Castle: A History (Yale University Press, 2022) Dr. John Goodall presents a vibrant history of the castle in Britain, from the early Middle Ag…
4 years ago