Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnnette Gordon-Reed ed., "Jefferson on Race: A Reader" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 1987
From The New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Lauren W. Westerfield, "Woman House: Essays and Assemblages" (U Massachusetts Press, 2026)
Episode 1986
A compelling and inventive memoir exploring how pain and pleasure are passed down through generations of women
For years, Lauren W. Westerfield look…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Tony Lee Moral, "A Century of Hitchcock: The Man, the Myths, the Legacy" (UP of Kentucky, 2026)
Episode 1985
For over a century, Alfred Hitchcock has remained one of cinema's most influential directors. Known as the Master of Suspense, this visionary filmm…
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Tom Meschery, "The Mad Manchurian: From the Internment Camps of Tokyo to the Hardwood Courts of the NBA" (Coffeetown Press, 2025)
Episode 1984
I was born in Harbin, Manchuria, (later China), in 1938. At the outbreak of the Second World War my mother, sister and I, along with other non-combat…
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Shannon McKenna Schmidt, "You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson’s Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode With Her" (Sourcebooks, 2026)
Episode 1983
From the author of The First Lady of WWII comes You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson’s Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode With …
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Lucy Stewart, "The Japanese Garden: Ella Christie and Cowden" (Birlinn, 2026)
Episode 1982
As detailed in The Japanese Garden: Ella Christie and Cowden (Birlinn, 2026) by Lucy Stewart, at the turn of the twentieth century, Scottish adventur…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Mary Lucia, " What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Episode 1981
In What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To (U Minnesota Press, 2025) an iconic rock DJ of the Twin Cities tells her harrowing s…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Lerone Martin, "Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr." (Amistad, 2026)
Episode 1980
We know who Martin Luther King Jr. became, but who was he at the beginning of his life? How did his youth inform his outlook and activism?
Before Mar…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Benjamin Y. Fong and Paul Prescod, "Rustin's Challenge" (2026)
Episode 311
There was no more trenchant and substantive critic of the Left from the Left in the 1960s and 1970s than Bayard Rustin. Some liberals and leftists to…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Nicholas Thompson, "The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports" (Random House, 2025)
Episode 1979
In this episode, Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, and University of Puerto Rico professors Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Maritza Stanchich, discuss…
5 months, 3 weeks ago