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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 483 episodes

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Katie Gee Salisbury, "Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong" (Dutton, 2024)

In 2022, the U.S. Mint released the first batch of its American Women Quarters series, ...

46 minutes
May 02, 2024

Nancy M. Martin, "Mirabai: The Making of a Saint" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering ...

47 minutes
May 02, 2024

Shu Yang, "Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2023)

If you are familiar with traditional Chinese literature, you have likely come across th...

66 minutes
May 02, 2024

Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the...

39 minutes
May 01, 2024

Bryan K. Miller, "Xiongnu: The World's First Nomadic Empire" (Oxford UP, 2024)

In Xiongnu: The World’s First Nomadic Empire (Oxford UP, 2024), Bryan K. Miller weaves ...

63 minutes
May 01, 2024

Catherine Ceniza Choy, "Asian American Histories of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2022)

To begin the celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, this episode feature...

49 minutes
May 01, 2024

Hanne Elliot Fønss Nielsen, "Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

Antarctica is, and has always been, very much “for sale.” Whales, seals, and ice have a...

64 minutes
May 01, 2024

Jennifer M. Black, "Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

In the early nineteenth century, the American commercial marketplace was a chaotic, unr...

56 minutes
May 01, 2024

Jaume Aurell, "What Is a Classic in History?: The Making of a Historical Canon" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

What is a classic in historical writing? How do we explain the continued interest in ce...

48 minutes
Apr 30, 2024

Andre Schmid, "North Korea's Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953-1965" (U California Press, 2024)

Histories of North Korea typically focus on one man — Kim Il Sung — and one narrative —...

71 minutes
Apr 30, 2024