New Books In History
by Marshall Poe
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Description
Discussions with Historians about their New Books
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Erik Jensen, “Body by Weimar: Athletes, Gender, and German Modernity” (Oxford UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_5266" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Erik Jensen"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_5267" align="alignright" width="150" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Here's a simple--or should we say simplistic?--line of | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Daniel Sidorick, “Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century” (Cornel | [caption id="attachment_5243" align="alignright" width="198" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] When I was in college I had a summer job once working in an aircraft factory. My task was ... | 3/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Giancarlo Casale, “The Ottoman Age of Exploration” (Oxford UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_5210" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Giancarlo Casele"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_5211" align="alignright" width="150" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] You've probably heard of the "Age of Exploration." | 3/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hans Kundnani, “Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust” (Columbia UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_3371" align="alignleft" width="125" caption="Hans Kundnani"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_3372" align="alignright" width="123" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] It's pretty common in American political discourse to | 3/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Louis Hyman, “Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink” (Princeton UP, 2011) | [caption id="attachment_4818" align="alignleft" width="170" caption="Louis Hyman"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_4820" align="alignright" width="159" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] I remember clearly the day I was offered my first cre | 3/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lesley Hazleton, “After the Prophet: the Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split” (Doubleday, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_4768" align="alignright" width="150" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_4764" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Lesley Hazelton"][/caption] Sometimes a shallow explanation, the kind you rea | 2/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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J. E. Lendon, “Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins” (Basic, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_3363" align="alignleft" width="132" caption="J. E. Lendon"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_3364" align="alignright" width="135" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Reading J. E. Lendon's writerly Song of Wrath: The P | 2/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Virginia Scharff, “The Women Jefferson Loved” (HarperCollins, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_4691" align="alignleft" width="130" caption="Virginia Scharff"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_4693" align="alignright" width="200" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Most Americans could tell you who George Washing | 2/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joyce Appleby, “The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism” (Norton, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_3346" align="alignleft" width="185" caption="Joyce Appleby"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_3347" align="alignright" width="159" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Today everybody wants to be a capitalist, even Chin | 2/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Catherine Epstein, “Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland” (Oxford UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_4603" align="alignleft" width="153" caption="Catherine Epstein"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_4604" align="alignright" width="132" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] The term "totalitarian" is useful as it well desc | 1/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joyce Salisbury, “The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages” (Routledge, 2011) | [caption id="attachment_4479" align="alignleft" width="163" caption="Joyce Salisbury"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_4478" align="alignright" width="146" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] I have three cats. They have names (Fatty, Mini, | 1/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nell Irvin Painter, “The History of White People” (Norton, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_3355" align="alignleft" width="139" caption="Nell Irvin Painter"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_3356" align="alignright" width="129" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] We in the West tend to classify people by the | 1/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ian Sample, “Massive: The Missing Particle that Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science” (Basic Books, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_3382" align="alignleft" width="140" caption="Ian Sample"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_3381" align="alignright" width="114" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] You've probably read about the Large Hadron Collider ( | 1/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ann Fabian, “The Skull Collectors: Race, Science and America’s Unburied Dead” (University of Chicago, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_4465" align="alignleft" width="126" caption="Ann Fabian"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_4466" align="alignright" width="134" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] What should we study? The eighteenth-century luminary | 12/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Shearer, “Policing Stalin’s Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953″ (Yale UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_4465" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="David Shearer"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_4466" align="alignright" width="134" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] The question as to why the leaders of the Soviet Un | 12/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Thomas Weber, “Hitler’s First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War” (Oxford UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_3311" align="alignleft" width="123" caption="Thomas Weber"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_3312" align="alignright" width="120" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Here's something interesting. If you search Google B | 12/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Deborah Kaple, “Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir” (Oxford UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_3430" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Deborah Kaple"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_3429" align="alignright" width="130" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Here's something remarkable: at some point in the f | 11/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kyra Hicks, “This I Accomplish: Harriet Powers’ Bible Quilt and Other Pieces” (Black Threads Press, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_3418" align="alignleft" width="107" caption="Kyra Hicks"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_3421" align="alignright" width="115" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] I'll tell you something I've never really understood: | 11/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joe Maiolo, “Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931–1941″ (Basic Books, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_3303" align="alignleft" width="128" caption="Joe Maiolo"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_3302" align="alignright" width="124" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] In Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War | 11/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Farber, “The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism” (Princeton UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_3296" align="alignleft" width="136" caption="David Farber"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_3297" align="alignright" width="127" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] I think that many smart people, particularly on the | 11/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Abbott Gleason, “A Liberal Education” (TidePool Press, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_3265" align="alignleft" width="117" caption="Abbott Gleason"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_3266" align="alignright" width="140" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] I fear that most people think that "history" is "t | 10/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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James Fleming, “Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control” (Columbia UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_3241" align="alignleft" width="144" caption="James Fleming"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_3240" align="alignright" width="130" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] In the summer of 2008 the Chinese were worried abou | 10/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Aram Goudsouzian, “King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution” (University of California, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_3169" align="alignleft" width="128" caption="Aram Goudsouzian"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_3168" align="alignright" width="160" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] I imagine the guys who first faced Bill Russell | 10/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, “Russian Orientalism” (Yale UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_3156" align="alignleft" width="124" caption="David Schimmelpennick"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_3155" align="alignright" width="129" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] There's a saying, sometimes attributed to N | 10/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fred Spier, “Big History and the Future of Humanity” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_3114" align="alignleft" width="128" caption="Fred Spier"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_3113" align="alignright" width="114" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] My son Isaiah likes to play the "why" game. Isaiah: "W | 10/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Norman Naimark, “Stalin’s Genocides” (Princeton UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_3060" align="alignleft" width="112" caption="Norman Naimark"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_3061" align="alignright" width="126" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Absolutely no one doubts that Stalin murdered mill | 9/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Thomas Kessner, “The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh & the Rise of American Aviation” (Oxford UP, 2010) | -- | 9/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kip Kosek, “Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy” (Columbia UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_2969" align="alignleft" width="145" caption="Kip Kosek"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2960" align="alignright" width="130" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] There’s a quip that goes “Christianity is probably | 9/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elaine Tyler May, “America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation” (Basic Books, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_2925" align="alignleft" width="153" caption="Elaine Tyler May"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2933" align="alignright" width="108" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Don’t you find it a bit curious that there are | 9/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Valerie Hébert, “Hitler’s Generals on Trial: The Last War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg” (University Press of Kansas, 201 | [caption id="attachment_2885" align="alignleft" width="126" caption="Valerie Hébert"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2884" align="alignright" width="119" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Clausewitz famously said war was the “continuat | 8/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Amanda Podany, “Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East” (Oxford UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_2854" align="alignleft" width="142" caption="Amanda Podany"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2853" align="alignright" width="130" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] I have a (much beloved) colleague who calls all his | 8/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jeffrey H. Jackson, “Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910″ (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_2807" align="alignleft" width="125" caption="Jeffrey Jackson"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2808" align="alignright" width="116" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] In the late 19th century, French sociologist Émi | 8/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gary Bruce, “The Firm: The Inside Story of the Stasi” (Oxford UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_2780" align="alignleft" width="130" caption="Gary Bruce"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2781" align="alignright" width="130" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] I have a good friend who grew up in East Germany in th | 7/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Todd Moye, “Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II” (Oxford UP, 2010) | -- | 7/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Azar Gat, “War in Human Civilization” (Oxford UP, 2006) | [caption id="attachment_2720" align="alignleft" width="110" caption="Azar Gat"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2721" align="alignright" width="130" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Historians don’t generally like the idea of “human n | 7/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Steinberg, “All the Tsar’s Men: Russia’s General Staff and the Fate of the Empire, 1898-1914″ (Johns Hopkins UP, 2 | [caption id="attachment_2693" align="alignleft" width="151" caption="John Steinberg"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2694" align="alignright" width="130" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 was the most impo | 7/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Kranish, “Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War” (Oxford UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_2658" align="alignleft" width="132" caption="Michael Kranish"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2657" align="alignright" width="116" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] The past is always with us, but it’s really alw | 7/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jerry Muller, “Capitalism and the Jews” (Princeton UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_2574" align="alignleft" width="106" caption="Jerry Muller"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2573" align="alignright" width="114" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] I confess I was attracted to this book by the title: | 6/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ruth Harris, “Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century” (Henry Holt, 2010) | -- | 6/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joanna Levin, “Bohemia in America, 1858-1920″ (Stanford UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_2517" align="alignleft" width="140" caption="Joanna Levin"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2516" align="alignright" width="130" caption="See at Amazon.com"] [/caption] You’ve probably heard of hipsters. Heck, you may | 6/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Heather Cox Richardson, “Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre” (Basic Books, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_2488" align="alignleft" width="120" caption="Heather Cox Richardson"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2489" align="alignright" width="131" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Of all the events in American history, two | 6/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Audrey Kurth Cronin, “How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns” (Princeton UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_2464" align="alignleft" width="107" caption="Audrey Kurth Cronin"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2465" align="alignright" width="119" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] It's one thing to say that the study of histo | 5/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fearghal McGarry, “The Rising: Ireland, Easter 1916″ (Oxford UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_2439" align="alignleft" width="125" caption="Fearghal McGarry"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2440" align="alignright" width="114" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Sometimes when you win you lose. That’s called | 5/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jeffrey Reznick, “John Galsworthy and the Disabled Soldiers of the Great War” (Manchester UP, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_2417" align="alignleft" width="130" caption="Jeffrey Reznick"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2416" align="alignright" width="135" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] You may not know who John Galsworthy is, but you | 5/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Greg Castillo, “Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design” (Minnesota UP, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_2388" align="alignleft" width="120" caption="Greg Castillo"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2387" align="alignright" width="160" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] If you grew up in the 1960s or 1970s in suburbia, y | 5/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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P. Bingham and J. Souza, “Death From a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe” (BookSurge, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_2365" align="alignright" width="135" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Long ago, historians more or less gave up on "theories of history." They determined that human nature was too ... | 4/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Andrew Donson, “Youth in the Fatherless Land: War Pedagogy, Nationalism, and Authority in Germany, 1914-1918″ (Harvard UP, | [caption id="attachment_2344" align="alignleft" width="136" caption="Andrew Donson"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2345" align="alignright" width="129" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] I was a little kid during the Vietnam War. It was o | 4/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Amy Bass, “Those About Him Remained Silent: The Battle Over W. E. B. Du Bois” (Minnesota UP, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_2327" align="alignleft" width="122" caption="Amy Bass"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2328" align="alignright" width="121" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] I asked my wife if she knew who W. E. B. Du Bois was. .. | 4/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Patrick Manning, “The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture” (Columbia UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_2300" align="alignleft" width="148" caption="Patrick Manning"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2301" align="alignright" width="119" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Africans were the first migrants because they wer | 4/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Laskin, “The Long Way Home. An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War” (HarperCollins, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_2281" align="alignleft" width="127" caption="David Laskin"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2273" align="alignright" width="122" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] One night my wife and I were on the road, staying in | 4/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, “The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew” (Yale UP, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_2244" align="alignleft" width="119" caption="Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2245" align="alignright" width="112" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] I've got a name for you: Robert Zimmerma | 3/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joel Wolfe, “Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity” (Oxford UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_2222" align="alignleft" width="135" caption="Joel Wolfe"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2211" align="alignright" width="130" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Here's something I learned by reading Joel Wolfe's ter | 3/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Aaronovitch, “Voodoo Histories: The Role of Conspiracy Theory in the Shaping of Modern History” (Penguin, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_2166" align="alignleft" width="154" caption="David Aaronovitch"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2167" align="alignright" width="109" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] In preparation for this interview I watched the | 3/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Charles King, “The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus” (Oxford UP, 2008) | [caption id="attachment_2152" align="alignleft" width="110" caption="Charles King"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2151" align="alignright" width="105" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] There's a concept I find myself coming back to again | 3/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hilary Earl, “The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History” (Cambridge UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_2126" align="alignleft" width="123" caption="Hilary Earl"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2125" align="alignright" width="115" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Hitler caused the Holocaust, that much we know (no Hi | 2/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nicholas Thompson, “The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War” (Henry Holt, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_2094" align="alignleft" width="113" caption="Nicholas Thompson"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2093" align="alignright" width="104" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] I met George Kennan twice, once in 1982 and aga | 2/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ben Kiernan, “Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur” (Yale UP, 2007) | [caption id="attachment_2071" align="alignleft" width="106" caption="Ben Kiernan"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2070" align="alignright" width="130" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Chimps, our closest relatives, kill each other. But c | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brian Balogh, “A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in 19th-Century America” (Cambridge UP, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_2047" align="alignleft" width="111" caption="Brian Balogh"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2048" align="alignright" width="107" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Americans don't like "big government" right? Not exa | 2/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kenneth Moss, “Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution” (Harvard UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_1946" align="alignleft" width="120" caption="Kenneth Moss"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1944" align="alignright" width="130" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] For us, every "nation" has and has always had a "cul | 1/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alan E. Steinweis, “Kristallnacht 1938″ (Harvard UP, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_1892" align="alignleft" width="105" caption="Alan E. Steinweis"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1893" align="alignright" width="133" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] One of the most fundamental--and vexing--questi | 1/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson, “Natural Experiments of History” (Harvard UP, 2010) | [caption id="attachment_1873" align="alignleft" width="107" caption="Jared Diamond"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1867" align="alignright" width="103" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] I remember telling my wife, the mathematician, that | 1/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Julian E. Zelizer, “Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security From WWII to the War on Terrorism” (Basic Books | [caption id="attachment_1837" align="alignleft" width="102" caption="Julian Zelizer"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1845" align="alignright" width="109" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Historians are by their nature public intellectual | 1/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Toby Lester, “The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave Americ | [caption id="attachment_1813" align="alignleft" width="117" caption="Toby Lester"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1814" align="alignright" width="102" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Why the heck is "America" called "America" and not, s | 1/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stephen Kotkin, “Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment” (Modern Library, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_1695" align="alignleft" width="134" caption="Stephen Kotkin"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1696" align="alignright" width="130" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Why did communism collapse so rapidly in Eastern E | 12/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Harvey Schwartz, “Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of the ILWU” (University of Washington Press, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_1672" align="alignleft" width="122" caption="Harvey Schwartz"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1673" align="alignright" width="120" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] One of my favorite bumper stickers reads "Unions: | 12/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sarah Ross, “The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England” (Harvard UP, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_1557" align="alignleft" width="100" caption="Sarah Ross"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1562" align="alignright" width="107" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] I'll be honest: I have a Ph.D. in early modern Europea | 12/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Benjamin Binstock, “Vermeer’s Family Secrets: Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice” (Routledge, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_1539" align="alignleft" width="130" caption="Ben Binstock"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1538" align="alignright" width="140" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Ben Binstock's Vermeer's Family Secrets: Genius, Dis | 12/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michaela Hoenicke, “Know Your Enemy: American Debate on Nazism, 1933-1945″ (Cambridge UP, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_1516" align="alignleft" width="121" caption="Michaela Hoenicke"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1517" align="alignright" width="107" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] To Americans, Hitler et al. were a confusing bu | 11/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rebecca Manley, “To the Tashkent Station: Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War” (Cornell UP, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_1492" align="alignright" width="132" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] By the time the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, the Bolshevik Party had already amassed ... | 11/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mark Bradley and Marilyn Young, “Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars” (Oxford UP, 2008) | [caption id="attachment_1471" align="alignright" width="127" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] What to think about the Vietnam War? A righteous struggle against global Communist tyranny? An episode in American imperialism? ... | 11/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Padraic Kenney, “1989: Democratic Revolutions at the Cold War’s End” (Bedford-St. Martin’s, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_1426" align="alignleft" width="127" caption="Padraic Kenney"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1427" align="alignright" width="113" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] There are certain dates that every European histor | 11/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stevan Allen, “Roaming Ghostland: The Final Days of East Germany” (2010) | [caption id="attachment_1400" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stevan Allen"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1401" align="alignright" width="130" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] We like to think of countries as permanent fixtures. | 10/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sally G. McMillen, “Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement” (Oxford, 2008) | [caption id="attachment_1382" align="alignleft" width="104" caption="Sally G. McMillen"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1381" align="alignright" width="131" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Think of this. From the origins of civilization | 10/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Steve Gillon, “The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After” (Basic Books, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_1368" align="alignleft" width="117" caption="Steve Gillon"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignright" width="115" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] You could fill a large library with books about JFK' | 10/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jennifer Burns, “Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right” (Oxford UP, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_1326" align="alignleft" width="130" caption="Jennifer Burns"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1327" align="alignright" width="130" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] When I was in high school I had several friends wh | 10/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jack Greene and Philip Morgan, “Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal” (Oxford UP, 2008) | [caption id="attachment_1291" align="alignright" width="116" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] This is the first in a series of podcasts that New Books in History is offering in conjunction with ... | 10/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peter Fritzsche, “Life and Death in the Third Reich” (Harvard UP, 2008) | [caption id="attachment_1263" align="alignleft" width="84" caption="Peter Fritzsche"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1264" align="alignright" width="118" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Germans and Nazis. They were different things, rig | 9/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brett Whalen, “Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages” (Harvard UP, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_1228" align="alignleft" width="130" caption="Brett Whalen"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1227" align="alignright" width="130" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] In the Gospels, the disciples come to Jesus and ask | 9/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lawrence Wittner, “Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement” (Stanford UP, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_1205" align="alignleft" width="115" caption="Lawrence Wittner"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1204" align="alignright" width="130" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] In 1983, when I was in college, I participated i | 9/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peter Mancall, “Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson” (Basic Books, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_1179" align="alignleft" width="121" caption="Peter Mancall"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1180" align="alignright" width="130" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] You've probably heard of the Hudson River, and you | 9/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kevin Kenny, “Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Holy Experiment” (Oxford UP, | [caption id="attachment_1156" align="alignleft" width="111" caption="Kevin Kenny"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1155" align="alignright" width="123" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] It's hard to be a Christian. It's even harder to be a | 8/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nick Reding, “Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town” (Bloomsbury, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_1133" align="alignleft" width="140" caption="Nick Reding"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1134" align="alignright" width="140" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] In 1980 I left Kansas to go to college in Iowa. A lot | 8/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alexander Watson, “Enduring the Great War: Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918″ (Cambri | [caption id="attachment_1104" align="alignleft" width="105" caption="Alexander Watson"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1105" align="alignright" width="129" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] It's a question I've long asked myself: Why and | 8/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leslie Schwalm, “Emancipation’s Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest” (University of North Carolina Pre | [caption id="attachment_1079" align="alignleft" width="134" caption="Leslie Schwalm"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1080" align="alignright" width="106" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] You've heard of "Reconstruction," that is, the ref | 7/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Charles Postel, “The Populist Vision” (Oxford UP, 2007) | [caption id="attachment_1063" align="alignleft" width="100" caption="Charles Postel"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1061" align="alignright" width="119" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Ever wonder where the term "populist" came from? I | 7/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Susan Brewer, “Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq” (Oxford UP, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_1044" align="alignleft" width="94" caption="Susan Brewer"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1045" align="alignright" width="177" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Like it or not, governments need to mobilize their po | 7/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mark Bradley, “Vietnam at War” (Oxford UP, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_1028" align="alignleft" width="111" caption="Mark Bradley"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1032" align="alignright" width="130" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] My uncle fought in Vietnam. He flew F-105 Thunderche | 7/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Giles MacDonogh, “After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation” (Basic Books, 2007) | [caption id="attachment_995" align="alignright" width="142" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Many years ago I had the opportunity to spend a summer in Germany, more specifically in a tiny town ... | 6/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Thomas Wheatland, “The Frankfurt School in Exile” (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_970" align="alignright" width="145" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] I have a friend who, as a young child, happened to meet Herbert Marcuse, by that time a rock-star ... | 6/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Benjamin Carp, “Rebels Rising: Cities in the American Revolution” (Oxford UP, 2007) | [caption id="attachment_940" align="alignleft" width="100" caption="Benjamin Carp"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_941" align="alignright" width="132" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] When I was in college about a million years ago, we u | 6/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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James Banner, Jr. and John Gillis, “Becoming Historians” (University of Chicago Press, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_924" align="alignright" width="150" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] When I was young, I remember going to my high school library (not to study, mind you) and thinking ... | 5/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Matthew Algeo, “Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip” (Chicago Review Press, | [caption id="attachment_910" align="alignleft" width="128" caption="Matthew Algeo"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_909" align="alignright" width="134" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Memorial day is coming up, and maybe you are going to | 5/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Norman Stone, “World War One: A Short History” (Basic Books, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_876" align="alignleft" width="111" caption="Norman Stone"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_877" align="alignright" width="130" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] When I was in high school, I really didn't go in for r | 5/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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William Beezley, “Mexicans in Revolution, 1910-1946″ (University of Nebraska Press, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_860" align="alignright" width="124" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] It's shocking and embarrassing how little I, as an American, know about Mexican history. Mexico shares a 2,000 mile ... | 5/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adrian Goldsworthy, “How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower” (Yale UP, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_843" align="alignleft" width="102" caption="Adrian Goldsworthy"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_844" align="alignright" width="131" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] It's the classic historical question: Why did th | 5/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Godfrey Hodgson, “The Myth of American Exceptionalism” (Yale UP, 2009) | [caption id="attachment_806" align="alignleft" width="105" caption="Godfrey Hodgson"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_807" align="alignright" width="131" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] How different is the United States from other natio | 4/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joel Lewis, “Youth Against Fascism: Young Communists in Britain and the United States, 1919-1939″ (VDM, 2007) | [caption id="attachment_789" align="alignleft" width="106" caption="Joel Lewis"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_778" align="alignright" width="104" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Most people know what "appeasement" is. You know, the Sp | 4/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tony Michels, “Fire in their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York” (Harvard UP, 2005) | [caption id="attachment_751" align="alignleft" width="101" caption="Tony Michels"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_750" align="alignright" width="140" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] I always assumed that the Jews who emigrated from East | 4/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yuma Totani, “The Tokyo War Crimes Trials: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II” (Harvard UP, 2008) | [caption id="attachment_726" align="alignleft" width="115" caption="Yuma Totani"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_725" align="alignright" width="135" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] Most everyone has heard of the Nuremberg Trials. Popula | 4/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kristin Celello, “Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the 20th-Century U.S.” (University of North Ca | [caption id="attachment_704" align="alignleft" width="116" caption="Kristin Celello"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_705" align="alignright" width="124" caption="See at Amazon.com"][/caption] When did Americans begin to think of marriage as "w | 3/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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