Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEllen Muehlberger, "Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge, and the Late Ancient World" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 9
How do you know the nature of another person: who she is, or what she is capable of? In four exploratory essays, a seasoned historian examines the m…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Karine Gagné, "Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas" (U Washington Press, 2019)
Episode 59
In her new book, Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas (University of Washington Press, 2019), Karine Gagné explores how …
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Shoshana Walter, "Rehab: An American Scandal" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
Episode 1645
In Rehab: An American Scandal (Simon and Schuster, 2025), Pulitzer finalist Shoshana Walter exposes the country’s failed response to the opioid cri…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Marcus Chown, "A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage" (Apollo, 2025)
Episode 1644
What is space? What is time? Where did the universe come from? The answers to mankind's most enduring questions may lie in science's greatest enigma:…
1 year ago
Fang Yu Hu, "Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule" (U Washington Press, 2024)
Episode 1643
In Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule (U Washington Press, 2024), female education and citizenship serve as a…
1 year ago
Christopher Nelson, "When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Contemporary Okinawa" (Duke UP, 2025)
Episode 178
Haunted by the past, ordinary Okinawans struggle to live with the unbearable legacies of war, Japanese nationalism, and American imperialism. They ar…
1 year ago
Joshua Castellino, "Calibrating Colonial Crime: Reparations and The Crime of Unjust Enrichment" (Policy Press, 2025)
Episode 1641
While decolonization liberated territories, it left the root causes of historical injustice unaddressed. Governance change did not address past wrong…
1 year ago
Rebecca van Laer, "Cat" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 1640
Dr. Rebecca van Laer and her partner purchase a home and move in with their senior cats, Toby and Gus. Their loved ones see this as a step toward an …
1 year ago
James Elwick, "Making a Grade: Victorian Examinations and the Rise of Standardized Testing" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Episode 1639
Making a Grade: Victorian Examinations and the Rise of Standardized Testing (U Toronto Press, 2025) takes historiographic and sociological perspectiv…
1 year ago
Rachel Myrick, "Polarization and International Politics: How Extreme Partisanship Threatens Global Stability" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 1638
Polarization is a defining feature of politics in the United States and many other democracies. Yet although there is much research focusing on the e…
1 year ago