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Episodes

Irvin Ibargüen, "Caught in the Current: Mexico's Struggle to Regulate Emigration, 1940-1980" (UNC Press, 2025)

24 Dec 2025

53m

Deanna Ferree Womack, "Re-Inventing Islam: Gender and the Protestant Roots of American Islamophobia" (Oxford UP, 2025)

23 Dec 2025

1h 1m

Michael Braddick, "Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian" (Verso Books, 2025)

22 Dec 2025

53m

Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism’s High Tide: A Conversation with Howard W. French

22 Dec 2025

48m

Terry Kirby, "The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

21 Dec 2025

52m

Jeff Roche, "The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right" (U Texas Press, 2025)

20 Dec 2025

1h 20m

Amy Erdman Farrell, "Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA" (UNC Press, 2025)

19 Dec 2025

57m

Alexandra Ghiț, "Welfare Work Without Welfare: Women and Austerity in Interwar Bucharest" (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)

18 Dec 2025

44m

Maddalena Alvi, "The European Art Market and the First World War: Art, Capital, and the Decline of the Collecting Class, 1910–1925" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

17 Dec 2025

1h 0m

David Nasaw, "The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II" (Penguin, 2025)

16 Dec 2025

55m

John Tolan, "Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present" (Princeton UP, 2025)

16 Dec 2025

51m

Katrina Navickas, "Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England" (Reaktion, 2025)

15 Dec 2025

29m

Jerry Moore, "Cat Tales: A History" (Thames & Hudson, 2025)

14 Dec 2025

38m

Mike Bird, "The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset" (Penguin, 2025)

14 Dec 2025

51m

Colm Murphy, "Futures of Socialism: ‘Modernisation', the Labour Party, and the British Left, 1973–1997" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

13 Dec 2025

1h 10m

Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts" (Yale UP, 2025)

12 Dec 2025

59m

Caitlin Wiesner, "Between the Street and the State: Black Women’s Anti-Rape Activism Amid the War on Crime" (U Pennsylvania, 2025)

11 Dec 2025

1h 15m

Dan Edelstein, "The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin" (Princeton UP, 2025)

10 Dec 2025