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Episodes

Charles Watkins, "Trees Ancient and Modern: Woodland Cultures and Conservation" (Reaktion, 2025)

05 Nov 2025

55m

Mimi Abramovitz, "Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present" (Routledge, 2025)

04 Nov 2025

29m

Rebecca L. Davis, "Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America" (Norton, 2024)

03 Nov 2025

59m

Elizabeth R. Hyman, "The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising" (Harper, 2025)

03 Nov 2025

40m

Kalathmika Natarajan, "Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy: Caste, Class and Indenture Abroad, 1914-67" (Oxford UP, 2026)

02 Nov 2025

1h 16m

Cynthia Paces, "Prague: The Heart of Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)

02 Nov 2025

46m

C. Yamini Krishna, "Film City Urbanism in India: Hyderabad, from Princely City to Global City ,1890-2000" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

01 Nov 2025

49m

Elissa Bemporad, "Jews in the Soviet Union: A History: Revolution, Civil War, and New Ways of Life, 1917–1930, Vol. 1" (NYU Press, 2025)

30 Oct 2025

57m

Anthony Tucker-Jones, "The Secret War: Spies, Lies and the Art of Deception in World War II" (Sirius, 2025)

30 Oct 2025

1h 41m

Amanda Laury Kleintop, "Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation After the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2025)

29 Oct 2025

1h 0m

Paula Oppermann, "Thunder Cross: Fascist Antisemitism in Twentieth-Century Latvia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)

29 Oct 2025

1h 4m

Kenneth G. Appold, "Luther and the Peasants: Religion, Ritual, and the Revolt Of 1525" (Oxford UP, 2025)

28 Oct 2025

49m

Joshua Clark Davis, "Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back" (Princeton UP, 2025)

28 Oct 2025

1h 25m

Deana Heath, "Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colonial India" (Oxford UP, 2021)

27 Oct 2025

26m

Mark Mazower, "On Antisemitism: A Word in History" (Penguin Press, 2025)

26 Oct 2025

45m

Stephen Fritz, "The First Soldier: Hitler as a Military Leader" (Yale UP, 2018)

26 Oct 2025

1h 16m

Ashley D. Farmer, "Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore" (Pantheon, 2025)

25 Oct 2025

25m

Anthony Valerio, "Semmelweis: The Women's Doctor" (Zantedeschi Books, 2019)