Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDisability: A History of Resistance with David Turner (Random House, 2026)
Episode 1542
Despite there being more than 16 million disabled people in the UK today, disability rarely features in mainstream accounts of our past. That absence…
1 week, 4 days ago
Spanish Louisiana: Contest for Borderlands, 1763–1803 with Frances Kolb Turnbell (LSU Press, 2024)
Episode 1538
Sandwiched between the long period of French colonization, and the brief return to the French empire before the Americans enter the scene, the Spanis…
1 week, 5 days ago
Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work with Annie McClanahan (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 1540
Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work (Princeton UP, 2026) retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service ec…
1 week, 6 days ago
Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women with Eleanor Johnson (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 1539
For as long as human societies have been telling stories, the patriarchy has felt threatened by women. In this book, Eleanor Johnson provides an enga…
2 weeks ago
Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life with Mona Sloane (U California Press, 2026)
Episode 1537
How AI is rewiring our social fabric—and how we can better shape our future.
The age of AI is not what you think. Rather than ushering in a fourth In…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Shanghai: The Story of China's Most Dynamic City with Michael Dillon (Yale UP, 2026)
Episode 1536
The Bund's grand facades and the leafy streets of the former French Concession are usually read as monuments to Western enterprise in China. But thos…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Hidden Terrors: The Scourge of Cholera in Jackson's America with Paul Kelton (Oxford UP, 2026)
Episode 1535
In this episode of In Conversation, Lilyanna D'Amato speaks with Paul Kelton about his new book, Hidden Terrors: The Scourge of Cholera in Jackson'…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Inquisition for Blood: The Making of a Black Female Serial Killer in the Jim Crow South with Lauren Nicole Henley (LSU Press, 2026)
Episode 1534
For three years in the early 1900s, a serial killer zigzagged across the rice belt region of the United States, using an everyday ax to slaughter Bla…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Civil Societies, Uncivil States: Government Repression of NGOs with Suparna Chaudhry (Cornell UP, 2026)
Episode 1533
Why would a government bother to go after groups that carry no weapons and hold no power? Suparna Chaudhry argues that the answer says a lot about wh…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
An Anticolonial Development: Race, Schooling, and Emancipation in Twentieth-Century West Africa with Elisa Prosperetti (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1532
In An Anticolonial Development: Race, Schooling, and Emancipation in Twentieth-Century West Africa (Cambridge UP, 2026), Elisa Prosperetti argues tha…
2 weeks, 6 days ago