New Books in History

9994 Episodes

1. Phillip Lieberman, "The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

   Published: 11/23/2024
2. 138c Herbert Hoover gave us Woody Guthrie (with David Cunningham)

   Published: 11/23/2024
3. Required Reading

   Published: 11/23/2024
4. Travis A. Weisse, "Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness" (UNC Press, 2024)

   Published: 11/23/2024
5. Fiona Smyth, "Pistols in St Paul's: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century" (Manchester UP, 2024)

   Published: 11/22/2024
6. Leila K. Norako, "Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500" (Cornell UP, 2024)

   Published: 11/22/2024
7. Jill Norman, "The English Table: Our Food Through the Ages" (Reaktion, 2024)

   Published: 11/22/2024
8. Youcef Soufi, "Homegrown Radicals: A Story of State Violence, Islamophobia, and Jihad in the Post-9/11 World" (NYU Press, 2025)

   Published: 11/22/2024
9. Roberta Pergher, "Mussolini's Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922–1943" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

   Published: 11/22/2024
10. Timothy E. Nelson, "Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)

    Published: 11/22/2024
11. Debra Bruno, "A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family" (Cornell UP, 2024)

    Published: 11/21/2024
12. Allen James Fromherz, "The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 11/21/2024
13. Joan L. Bryant, "Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-century America" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 11/21/2024
14. Peter Singer, "Consider the Turkey" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 11/21/2024
15. Dennis Romano, "Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 11/20/2024
16. S4E15 To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: A Conversation with Dr. Benjamin Nathans

    Published: 11/20/2024
17. Ramie Targoff, "Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance" (Knopf, 2024)

    Published: 11/20/2024
18. Benjamin Barson, "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)

    Published: 11/19/2024
19. Masha Kirasirova, "The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 11/19/2024
20. Park Jeong-Mi, "The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 11/19/2024