Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Jew Who Would Be King: A True Story of Shipwreck, Survival, and Scandal in Victorian Africa with Adam Rovner (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 647
This vivid reconstruction of one man’s life reveals the harsh realities and moral ambiguities of colonial power.
The Jew Who Would Be King: A True Sto…
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Still with Joanna Cockerline (The Porcupine's Quill, 2025)
Episode 650
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Joanna Cockerline about her acclaimed novel, Still (The Porcupine's Quill, 2025).
Longlisted for …
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Treasures on Earth: Buried Wealth in Landscape and Legend with Jeremy Harte (Reaktion, 2026)
Episode 653
Jeremy Harte, President of the Folklore Society, joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book Treasures on Earth: Buried Wealth in Landscape and Legen…
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Lives, Land, and Labour: A Social History of Eighteenth-Century Sri Lanka with Luc Bulten (Brill, 2026)
Episode 646
The "Thombos" are a rather unique collection of eighteenth-century land and population registers detailing the lives lived, lands held, and labour pr…
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Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control with Kelly Lytle Hernández (Norton, 2026)
Episode 648
Kelly Lytle Hernández joins Michael Stauch to discuss how the US immigration system has always been “racist by design.” Many Americans’ understanding…
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The Real Pain of Punishment: Prison, Belonging, and the Quest for Humanized Justice with Federica Coppola (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 649
The Real Pain of Punishment: Prison, Belonging, and the Quest for Humanized Justice (Cambridge UP, 2026) highlights the concept of 'belonging' as a…
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Who Gets to Write History? Wikibiases.org by Shlomit Aharoni Lir
Episode 622
Most of us use Wikipedia without thinking very much about it. A name comes up in conversation, an argument breaks out, or we suddenly need to know wh…
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Into the Reich: The Red Army’s Advance to the Oder in 1945 with Prit Buttar (Osprey, 2025)
Episode 638
Enriched by extraordinary first-hand accounts, Prit Buttar's Into the Reich: The Red Army’s Advance to the Oder in 1945 (Osprey Publishing, 2025) is …
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The Best 100 TV Shows of the 21st Century
Episode 640
It’s the Pop Culture Professors, and the New York Times has published its list of the best 100 television shows of the 21st Century. We react to this…
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The Integrity Compass: Leading with Ethics in a Changing World with Massoud Amin (Wisdom Editions, 2026)
Episode 644
The Integrity Compass: Leading with Ethics in a Changing World is a practical, readable guide to ethical decision-making for engineers, technologist…
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