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Episodes


Michael Rembis, "Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Our History with AI is (much) Longer than You Think (with Kevin LaGrandeur)

Jeff Gomez, "There Was No Alternative: Generation X, AIDS, and the Making of a Classic Nineties Record" (McFarland, 2023)

Martin D. Brown et al., "The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon" (Routledge, 2024)

William Gallois, "Qayrawan: The Amuletic City" (Penn State UP, 2024)

Samantha Ege, "South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene" (U Illinois Press, 2024)

Eric Cline, "After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Peter Whitewood, "The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Soviet Military" (UP of Kansas, 2015)

Jonathan Haslam, "Hubris: The American Origins of Russia's War against Ukraine" (Harvard UP, 2025)

Anthony E. Kaye, "Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History" (FSG, 2024)

Rosemary Wakeman, "The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918–1941" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra

Lavanya Vemsani, "Handbook of Indian History" (Springer, 2024)

Sophia Rosenfeld, "The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Neil Fox, "Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Hal Brands, "The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World" (Norton, 2025)

Jean Strouse, "Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers" (FSG, 2024)

Ann Schmiesing, "The Brothers Grimm: A Biography" (Yale UP, 2024)
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