Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEmerald Garner, "Finding My Voice" (Haymarket, 2022)
Episode 327
In this unforgetable memoir, Emerald Garner recounts her father's cruel and unjust murder, the immense pain that followed, the pressures of an exploi…
3 years, 8 months ago
On the Life and Legacy of Queen Elizabeth II
Episode 21
Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8, 2022. She reigned for 70 years, longer than any other British sovereign. In this interview, Charles Coutinho …
3 years, 8 months ago
Sanjay Krishnan, "V. S. Naipaul's Journeys: From Periphery to Center" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Episode 180
The author of more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018) is one of the m…
3 years, 8 months ago
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink, "Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 59
The first biography of trailblazing legislator Patsy Takemoto Mink, best known as the legislative champion of Title IX.
"Every girl in Little League, …
3 years, 8 months ago
Alison Melnick Dyer, "The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Episode 89
Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindröling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldrön (1699–1769) levera…
3 years, 8 months ago
R. E. Evans and B. E. Kinnear, "'Richard Eager'": A Pilot's Story from Tennessee Eagle Scout to General Montgomery's 'Flying Fortress'" (Kieran Publishing, 2021)
Episode 125
Captain Richard E. Evans was an American B-17 "Flying Fortress" pilot. He flew 55 combat missions and during that time was also chosen to fly British…
3 years, 8 months ago
NBN Classic: Fred S. Naiden, "Soldier, Priest, and God: A Life of Alexander the Great" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Episode 138
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time.
The Macedonian king Alexander …
3 years, 8 months ago
Robert P. Watson, "George Washington's Final Battle: The Epic Struggle to Build a Capital City and a Nation" (Georgetown UP, 2021)
Episode 197
George Washington is remembered for leading the Continental Army to victory, presiding over the Constitution, and forging a new nation, but few know …
3 years, 8 months ago
Beverly Weintraub, "Wings of Gold: The Story of the First Women Naval Aviators" (Lyons Press, 2021)
Episode 34
On Feb. 2, 2019, the skies over Maynardville, Tennessee, filled with the roar of four F/A-18F Super Hornets streaking overhead in close formation. In…
3 years, 9 months ago
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, "Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
Episode 188
Franz Boas is remembered today as one of the most important figures in the history of anthropology. In the United States, he is widely created with c…
3 years, 9 months ago