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New Books in History

New Books in History


New Books in History

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Interviews with Historians about their New Books
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Episodes1 - 10 of 484 episodes

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Colin Elliott, "Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World" (Princeton UP, 2024)

In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. T...

50 minutes
Mar 19, 2024

Yaacov Nir, "Establishment and History of the Cyprus Detention Camps for Jewish Refugees (1946-1949)" (Cambridge Scholars, 2024)

Yaacov Nir's Establishment and History of the Cyprus Detention Camps for Jewish Refugee...

64 minutes
Mar 19, 2024

Coretta M. Pittman, "Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteent...

50 minutes
Mar 19, 2024

Rachel Gordan, "Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American" (Oxford UP, 2024)

The period immediately following World War II was an era of dramatic transformation for...

63 minutes
Mar 18, 2024

The Pioneering Life of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Manu Bhagavan and Ellen Chesler discuss Bhagavan’s latest book on Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit...

46 minutes
Mar 18, 2024

Dan Stone, "The Holocaust: An Unfinished History" (Mariner Books, 2023)

The Holocaust is much-discussed, much-memorialized and much-portrayed. But there are ma...

69 minutes
Mar 18, 2024

Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar" (Navayana Press, 2023)

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) is perhaps the most iconised historical figure in In...

123 minutes
Mar 18, 2024

Xaq Frohlich on the History of Food Labeling

Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Xaq Frolich, Associate Professor of History...

90 minutes
Mar 18, 2024

Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa, "The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust" (Simon & Schuster, 2024)

World War II and the Holocaust have been the subject of many remarkable stories of resi...

74 minutes
Mar 17, 2024

Erica L. Fraser, "Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union" (U Toronto Press, 2019)

Catastrophic wartime casualties and postwar discomfort with the successes of women who ...

64 minutes
Mar 17, 2024

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Interviews with Historians about their New Books