Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEdward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 162
In The People of the Ruins (originally published in 1920), Edward Shanks imagines England in the not-so-distant future as a neo mediaeval society who…
1 year, 8 months ago
Mark Walker, "Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 1465
Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler's regime? How did they justify themselves afterwards?
Examin…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jeremy Black, "Histories of War" (Pen & Sword Military, 2024)
Episode 242
A global account of histories of war, from Antiquity to the present day, Histories of War (Pen & Sword Military, 2024) shows how the varied modes of …
1 year, 8 months ago
Edward Kaplan, "The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 40
Waging and winning a nuclear war have been called “thinking about the unthinkable” but that’s exactly what Edward Kaplan and I discussed in our inter…
1 year, 9 months ago
Mitchel P. Roth and Mahmut Cengiz, "Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Episode 111
Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb (Reaktion, 2024) by Dr. Mitchel P. Roth and Dr. Mahmut Cengiz unfolds the gripping history of wea…
1 year, 9 months ago
Monica Berger, "Predatory Publishing and Global Scholarly Communications" (ACRL, 2024)
Episode 63
Predatory publishing is a complex problem that harms a broad array of stakeholders and concerns across the scholarly communications system. It shines…
1 year, 9 months ago
Kate McDonald on Asian Mobility History as Labor History
Episode 77
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Kate McDonald, Associate Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara, about her fasci…
1 year, 9 months ago
Bishnupriya Ghosh, "The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 12
Welcome to the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Globa…
1 year, 9 months ago
Tim Sweijs and Jeffrey H. Michaels, "Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 241
War in the 21st century will remain a chameleon that takes on different forms and guises. Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War (Oxford Universi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling
Episode 65
Early pollsters thought they had the psychological tools to quantify American mind, thereby enabling a truly democratic polity that would be governed…
1 year, 9 months ago