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Episodes


Nancy Castaldo, "Squirrel: How a Backyard Forager Shapes Our World" (Island Press, 2025)

Hilary French, "Ballroom: A People’s History of Dancing" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Florian Wagner, "Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Lucy Donkin, "Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Gloria Browne-Marshall, "A Protest History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2026) Revisited

Thomas Kuehn, "Patrimony and Law in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Leslie James, "The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought, 1935-1960" (Harvard UP, 2025)

Jacqueline Riding, "Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London" (Profile Books, 2025)

164 Maurice Samuels: Jewish Assimilation, Integration and the Dreyfus Affair (JP)

Andreas Killen, "Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War" (Harper, 2023)

Itohan I. Osayimwese, "Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)

Luca Cottini, "The Rise of Americanism in Italy, 1888-1919" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

Arnoud S. Q. Visser, "On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Jessica Lake, "Special Damage: The Slander of Women and the Gendered History of Defamation Law" (Stanford UP, 2025)

Michael Casiano, "Let Us Alone: The Origins of Baltimore's Police State" (U Illinois Press, 2025)

Peter H. Wilson, "Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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