Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMahmood Kooria, "Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 52
Analyzing the spread and survival of Islamic legal ideas and commentaries in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean littorals, Islamic Law in…
4 years, 2 months ago
Ryan Hall, "Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877" (UNC Press, 2020)
Episode 96
No matter what people call them today the northwestern Great Plains have been and continue to be Blackfoot country, argues Colgate University assista…
4 years, 2 months ago
Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden, "From Servant to Savant: Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 144
Today’s copyright laws are predicated on the idea that music is intellectual property; a commodity that has value to its creator and to its publisher…
4 years, 2 months ago
Paul Conrad, "The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Episode 110
In The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021), Paul Conrad brings to life the stories of displaced…
4 years, 2 months ago
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, "Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 81
2019 marked the five-hundred year anniversary of the launch of Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage around the world–a milestone marked by commemorative saili…
4 years, 3 months ago
William Wayne Farris, "A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Episode 77
A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea (U Hawaii Press, 2019) is the first book in any language to describe and analyze the history o…
4 years, 3 months ago
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, "Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 1195
Maria Theresa (1717–1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. At the age of twenty-three, she ascended to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, …
4 years, 3 months ago
On Mary Magdalene in the Reformation
Season 1 Episode 76
Margaret Arnold is the Associate Rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Medford, Massachusetts. She received her PhD in Religious and Theological Studie…
4 years, 3 months ago
Joan DeJean, "Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast" (Basic, 2022)
Episode 18
In 1719, a ship named La Mutine (the mutinous woman), sailed from the French port of Le Havre, bound for the Mississippi. It was loaded with urgently…
4 years, 3 months ago
Rana A. Hogarth, "Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840" (UNC Press, 2017)
Episode 153
Medicine and slavery went hand-in-hand. But what was the nature of this vile partnership? In Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the …
4 years, 3 months ago