Marshall Poe · History

New Books in History

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Episodes

Jenny Linford, "Repast: The Story of Food" (Thames & Hudson, 2025)

27 Nov 2025

49m

Natalie Porter, "Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders" (ECW Press, 2025)

27 Nov 2025

45m

Erika Pani, "Torn Asunder: Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848-1867" (UNC Press, 2025)

26 Nov 2025

57m

Maia Kotrosits, "After Transformation: Rewriting Time, Christian Late Antiquity, and the Present" (Duke UP, 2025)

26 Nov 2025

52m

Jochen Hellbeck, "World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews" (Penguin Group, 2025)

25 Nov 2025

1h 27m

Renata Keller, "The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War" (UNC Press, 2025)

25 Nov 2025

37m

Jim Cullen, "1980: America's Pivotal Year" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

24 Nov 2025

41m

Adam Jones, "Sites of Genocide" (Routledge, 2022)

23 Nov 2025

1h 11m

Shatema Threadcraft, "Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2025)

22 Nov 2025

58m

Faisal Devji, "Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam" (Yale UP, 2025)

22 Nov 2025

1h 4m

Carol Lilly, "Death and Burial in Socialist Yugoslavia: The Politicization of Cemeteries and Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans" (Bloomsbury, 2024).

21 Nov 2025

57m

Yanqiu Zheng, "In Search of Admiration and Respect: Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974" (U Michigan Press, 2024)

21 Nov 2025

1h 12m

Karen Auman, "The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for Georgia" (U Georgia Press, 2024)

20 Nov 2025

50m

Emily Callaci, "Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor" (Seal Press, 2025)

20 Nov 2025

46m

John Goodall, "The Castle: A History" (Yale UP, 2022)

19 Nov 2025

56m

David Boyk, "Provincial Metropolis: Intellectuals and the Hinterland in Colonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

19 Nov 2025

1h 25m

Thomas Piketty, "A Brief History of Equality" (Harvard UP, 2022)

18 Nov 2025

28m

Ethan W. Ris, "Other People's Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

17 Nov 2025

1h 6m

Philip Nash, "Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman" (Routledge, 2022)