Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMichael F. Conlin, "The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 596
In an incisive analysis of over two dozen clauses as well as several 'unwritten' rules and practices, The Constitutional Origins of the American Civi…
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Alex J. Kay, "The Making of an SS Killer: the Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905-1990" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Episode 99
Alex Kay’s The Making of an SS Killer: the Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905-1990 (Cambridge University Press, 2016) is a must read for those inte…
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Matthew Crow, "Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Episode 591
Today I talked to Matthew Crow about his book Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection, published by Cambridge University Press i…
6 years, 6 months ago
David Doddington, "Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 176
Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South (Cambridge University Press, 2018) demonstrates the significance of internal divisions, comparison…
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Jenny Huangfu Day, "Qing Travelers to the Far West: Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 290
Historians in the English-speaking world have long studied how European and American travelers and diplomats conceptualized China, but, especially in…
6 years, 6 months ago
David M. Wrobel, "America's West: A History, 1890-1950" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Episode 38
In America's West: A History, 1890-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), David M. Wrobel describes a sixty year period of remarkable change for th…
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Martin T. Fromm, "Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 288
With China’s northwestern and southern edges justifiably being sources of global attention at present, Martin Fromm’s Borderland Memories: Searching …
6 years, 7 months ago
Shai Lavi, "Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel: Socio-legal, Political and Empirical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 4
Once upon a time, or so we’ve been told, medical ethics were confined to the patient-doctor relationship. As long as doctors were true to their Hippo…
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Cynthia Nicoletti, "Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Episode 560
Cynthia Nicoletti is the author of Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis, published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. S…
6 years, 7 months ago
Jessica Lowe, "Murder in the Shenandoah: Making Law Sovereign in Revolutionary Virginia" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 552
Jessica Lowe is the author of Murder in the Shenandoah: Making Law Sovereign in Revolutionary Virginia published by Cambridge University Press in 201…
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