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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

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Vanda Krefft, "Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women" (Algonquin Books, 2026)

24 Apr 2026
46m
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Mattie Fitch, "The People, the Workers, and the Citizens: Antifascist Cultures and the Popular Front in France, 1934–1939" (Routledge, 2025)

24 Apr 2026
1h 10m
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Yair Mintzker, "I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern Condition" (Princeton UP, 2026)

23 Apr 2026
42m
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Jan Cress Dondi, "The Navigator's Letter" (Union Square, 2026)

22 Apr 2026
38m
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Drew Flanagan, "From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1955" (LSU Press, 2026)

22 Apr 2026
55m
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Francis Young, "Fairies: A History" (John Wiley & Sons, 2026)

21 Apr 2026
40m
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Stephen F. Jones, "The First Social Democracy: The Democratic Republic of Georgia, 1918–1921" (Harvard UP, 2026)

21 Apr 2026
1h 5m
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Jim Downs, "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine" (Harvard UP, 2023)

21 Apr 2026
51m
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Modern epidemiology originated from the confluence of war, imperialism, and slavery, which established the bureaucratic infrastructure necessary for large-scale disease surveillance. Historian Jim Downs argues that this field developed through the systematic collection of data across colonial and military environments ...

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Samuel Clowes Huneke, "I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany" (Aevo UTP, 2026)

18 Apr 2026
42m
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Penny Roberts, "Huguenot Networks: Truth and Secrecy in Sixteenth-Century Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

17 Apr 2026
52m
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Victor Li, "Supreme Pressure: The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birth of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation Process" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

15 Apr 2026
54m
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Donald Sassoon, "Revolutions: A New History" (Verso Books, 2025)

14 Apr 2026
55m
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David-James Gonzales, "Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics and Civil Rights in Orange County, California" (Oxford UP, 2025)

14 Apr 2026
3m
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Transnational Solidarities with Nico Slate

13 Apr 2026
1h 6m
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Money Beyond Borders with Barry Eichengreen

13 Apr 2026
59m
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Clifton Crais, "The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

12 Apr 2026
36m
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David Potter, "Master of Rome: A Life of Julius Caesar" (Oxford UP, 2025)

11 Apr 2026
50m
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Ruth Mandujano López, "Steamships Across the Pacific: Maritime Journeys between Mexico, China, and Japan, 1867–1914" (U Hong Kong Press, 2025)

09 Apr 2026
1h 20m
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Michael W. Tuck, "The Castle Slaves of the Gambia River: A Creole Community in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World" (Brill, 2026)

08 Apr 2026
1h 3m
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Karen L. Bowen and Dirk Imhof, "The Burgeoning European Print Trade: The Distribution of Prints Via the Plantin-Moretus Press of Antwerp" (Harvey Miller, 2025)

08 Apr 2026
44m
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