Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSugata Bose, "Asia after Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Episode 1728
The balance of global power changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century, above all with the economic and political rise of Asia. Asia…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Lynneth Miller Renberg, "Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640: Negotiating the Steps of Faith" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)
Episode 1727
In Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640: Negotiating the Steps of Faith (Boydell & Brewer, 2022) Dr. Lynneth Miller Renberg presen…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Javiera Barandiaran, "Living Minerals: Nature, Trade, and Power in the Race for Lithium" (MIT Press, 2026)
Episode 400
A sobering investigation of the rush for lithium for electric vehicles, the problematic history of lithium mining, and the consequences for sustainab…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Laura K. Field, "Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 1725
Political Theorist Laura Field has written an insightful and detailed exploration of the people and the ideas that have shaped the second Trump Admin…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo, "Governing Digital China" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1724
China's approach to digital governance has gained global influence, often evoking Orwellian 'Big Brother' comparisons. Governing Digital China (Cambr…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Joshua Clark Davis, "Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 1723
Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back (Princeton UP, 2025) shatters one of the mo…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Jameson R. Sweet, "Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Episode 1722
Historical accounts tend to neglect mixed-ancestry Native Americans: racially and legally differentiated from nonmixed Indigenous people by U.S. gove…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Gloria Browne-Marshall, "A Protest History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2026) Revisited
Episode 1721
In December 2025, writer, civil rights attorney, playwright, speaker, and Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Gl…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Bill Kopp, "What's the Big Idea: 30 Great Concept Albums" (Hozac, 2025)
Episode 311
As long as there has been music, the form has been used as a vehicle for storytelling. Artists who have something to say often find that putting it i…
9 months ago
Leslie James, "The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought, 1935-1960" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Episode 1719
In the 1930s and 1940s, amid intensifying anticolonial activism across the British Empire, dozens of new West African and Caribbean newspapers printe…
9 months ago