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Back to SearchAndrew Fisher, "Nathan Straus: From Macy's Magnate to International Humanitarian" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
Episode 2037
In New York City in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centauries, Nathan Straus was famous as a co-owner of the Macy’s and Abraham and Straus d…
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Sandip Roy, "Chapal Rani, the Last Queen of Bengal" (Seagull Books, 2026)
Episode 2036
Chapal Rani was one of India’s most famous performers of jatra, Bengal’s popular theater. Traditionally, all the roles, including female roles, were …
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Happy to Help: Adventures of a People Pleaser
Episode 2035
As a big sister, Girl Scout, personal assistant, sitcom sidekick, and, finally, mother of three, Amy believed it was her destiny to be a people pleas…
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Edward E. Andrews, "Newport Gardner's Anthem: A Story of Slavery, Struggle, and Survival in Early America" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Episode 2034
Newport Gardner's Anthem: A Story of Slavery, Struggle, and Survival in Early America (Cornell UP, 2025) explores the remarkable life of Occramer Mar…
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Scott Peeples, "How Many Roads: A Life of Bob Dylan" (Reaktion, 2026)
Episode 2033
Scott Peeple's How Many Roads: A Life of Bob Dylan (Reaktion, 2026) chronicles Bob Dylan’s rise from apprenticeships in Minneapolis cafés and Greenwi…
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Shimon Redlich, "Bridge Builder: My Life Since the Holocaust" (Academic Studies Press, 2026)
Episode 2032
How do you build bridges after living through one of history's greatest ruptures? In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with historian Shimon Re…
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Echoes of Incense on the Shikoku Pilgrimage with Don Weiss
Episode 2031
Amy Chavez talks to Don Weiss, currently mid-way through the Shikoku Pilgrimage — Japan's 1,300 km Buddhist route that has been walked for almost as…
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Caroline Bicks, "Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King" (Hogarth, 2026)
Episode 2030
After Caroline Bicks was named the University of Maineʼs inaugural Stephen E. King Chair in Literature, she became the first scholar to be granted e…
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Why the Roman Empire Fell: On Edward Gibbon with Hugh Liebert
Episode 2029
250 years ago when the United States declared independence, Edward Gibbon across the ocean published the first volume of his magisterial series, The …
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Paul French, "The Last Emperor of China: Twilight of the Forbidden City" (St. Martin's Press, 2026)
Episode 2028
The life of Puyi, the last emperor of China, often feels like a spectacle—in no small part due to the 1987 Oscar-winning film The Last Emperor. Yet t…
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