Podcast Episodes

Seeing China’s Belt and Road with Ed Schatz and Rachel Silvey

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What becomes visible when you shift the lens away from Beijing to how China’s Belt and Road projects unfold on the ground? Seeing Ch…

8 months, 1 week ago

Margaret Cook Andersen, "Fertile Expectations: The Politics of Involuntary Childlessness in Twentieth-Century France" (Manchester UP, 2025)

An engaging history of motherhood, demography, and infertility in twentieth-century France, Fertile expectations: The politics of involuntary childle…

8 months, 1 week ago

Kelsea Best, Kayly Ober, Robert A. McLeman, "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

This book provides insight into the impact of climate change on human mobility - including both migration and displacement - by synthesizing key conc…

8 months, 1 week ago

Didi Kuo, "The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't" (Oxford UP, 2025)

As the crisis of democratic capitalism sweeps the globe, The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't (Oxford University…

8 months, 1 week ago

Bridging History, Policy and Place with Bruce Harvey

Bruce Harvey is a historian and photographer based in Syracuse, NY, who works at the intersection of memory, place, and public history. As an indepen…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson, "Why America Didn't Become Great Again" (Routledge, 2025)

Examining the conditions that not only blocked attempts to make America great again, but actively made the country worse, Why America Didn't Become G…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Michael Grunwald, "We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)

Michael Grunwald is a well renown journalist, who over the last thirty years has focused on public policy and national politics, with the last fiftee…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Ross A. Kennedy, "The United States and the Origins of World War II in Europe" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)

The United States and the Origins of World War II in Europe (Taylor & Francis, 2025), spans 1914–1939 to provide a concise interpretation of the rol…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli, "Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2025)

Inflation is back, and its impact can be felt everywhere, from the grocery store to the mortgage market to the results of elections around the world.…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Elena Jackson Albarran, "Good Neighbor Empires: Children and Cultural Capital in the Americas" (Brill, 2024)

A class of child artists in Mexico, a ship full of child refugees from Spain, classrooms of child pageant actors, and a pair of boy ambassadors revea…

8 months, 2 weeks ago