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The Next Issue: Fall 2026 (26.3)
Sep 4, 202638 min
Michael Diniscia and Ellyn M Toscano eds. "Civility Unbound: Contesting a Democratic Value" (NYU Press, 2026)
Sep 3, 20261h 2m
Holly N. S. White, "Constructing American Childhood: Age-Based Laws and the Illusion of Protection in the Early United States" (U Virginia Press, 2026)
Sep 3, 202637 min
Done in a Day with the Vietnam War: Elisa Tamarkin (JP)
Sep 3, 202641 min
Stephen Lee Naish, "Point Break: Movies Minute by Minute" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Sep 3, 202646 min
Tatjana Kochetkova and Anway Mukhopadhyay eds., "Transhumanism and Divine Humanity in Global Traditions" (Routledge, 2026)
Sep 3, 202634 min
Jieun Baek, "Privileged But Powerless: How North Korean Elite Grievances Reveal the Regime’s Greatest Weakness" (Yale UP, 2026)
Sep 3, 202651 min
Jonathan Quong, "Political Philosophy: The Puzzle of Legitimate Injustice" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Sep 3, 20261h 1m
Marnie Hughes-Warrington, "Artificial Historians" (Routledge, 2025)
Sep 3, 20261h 2m
The Grant Writing Guide: A Road Map for Scholars
Sep 3, 202659 min
Xiaochang Li, "Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Making of Algorithmic Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Sep 2, 202640 min
Whistling Arrows and Heavenly Horses: The Han-Xiongnu War
Sep 2, 202632 min
Linguistic Unease in Healthcare
Sep 2, 202639 min
Sarah M. Rios, "Diseases Have No Eyes: Valley Fever and Environmental Health Justice" (Temple UP, 2026)
Sep 2, 202626 min
The Political Philosophy of Mark Twain: On His Absurd, Noble Americans with Ivan Kenneally
Sep 2, 20261h 2m
"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in Court: The Bern Trial (1933-1935) and the "Antisemitic International"
Sep 2, 20261h 7m
Elizabeth Anne Davis, "Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing" (Duke UP, 2023)
Sep 2, 20261h 6m
Téa Obreht, "Sunrise" (Random House, 2026)
Sep 2, 202655 min
Filmmaker Peter Santenello on Your Fellow Americans: Dispatches from Across the Country We Call Home
Sep 2, 20261h 3m
Erin A. Craig, "Our Strange Duet: Inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera" (Delacorte Press, 2026)
Sep 1, 202638 min
David Keohan, "The Wind Beneath the Stone: My Quest to Unearth a Piece of Ireland's Folklore" (Bloomsbury and Chelsea Green, 2026)
Sep 1, 202624 min
Kamau Ware, "Battle in the Margins: Black Experiences in New York City During the American Revolution" (Black Gotham Experience)
Sep 1, 202637 min
Muy Lang Lim, "In the Shadow of the Khmer Rouge: A Child Survivor's Memoir" (NUS Press, 2026)
Sep 1, 202646 min
Edward Cutler, "This Beautiful Country: How Italy's Nature Shaped Its Culture and Civilisation" (Chelsea Green, 2026)
Sep 1, 202655 min
Erin Osmon, "Won't Back Down: Heartland Rock and the Fight for America" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
Sep 1, 202644 min
Emily Charlotte, "Catching Feelings" (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2026)
Sep 1, 202632 min
Duty, Banality, and Hopefulness with Alex Cain
Sep 1, 202631 min
Aonghus MacKechnie, "Edinburgh: City of Romanticism" (Lund Humphries, 2026)
Sep 1, 202651 min
Karin Barber, "Much Matter in a Penny Paper: Early Yoruba Print Culture in Lagos, 1910–1930" (Ohio UP, 2026)
Aug 31, 202643 min
John Trafton, "Los Angeles and Film: A Cultural History of 20th-Century Hollywood" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Aug 31, 20261h 0m
Gastronomy as Sensory Engineering
Aug 31, 202636 min
Eran A. Zelnik, "American Laughter, American Fury: Humor and the Making of a White Man's Democracy, 1750–1850" (JHU Press, 2025)
Aug 31, 202659 min
Nancy Yunhwa Rao, "Inside Chinese Theater: Community and Artistry in Nineteenth Century California and Beyond" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
Aug 31, 202659 min
Raf de Bont et al eds., "Globalizing Wildlife" (UNC Press, 2026)
Aug 31, 202646 min
Dog Day Afternoon
Aug 31, 202625 min
Special Episode: Accounting for Computing, or Why We So Badly Need a New Social and Economic History of Everyday Digital Technology Use
Aug 31, 202624 min
Paul Chambers In Conversation with Duncan McCargo
Aug 31, 202632 min
Fr. Dwight Longenecker, "Bloodshed and Blessing: Stories of Sacrifice from Ancient Altars to the Holy Mass" (Sophia Institute Press, 2026)
Aug 30, 202637 min
Tom Trier, "Blue Sea, Black Gold, Red Banner: The South Caucasus and Scandinavia, 1880s–1920s" (Northern Illinois UP, 2026)
Aug 30, 20261h 3m
María Angélica Thumala Olave, "The Love of Books: Attachment to a Changing Cultural Object" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Aug 30, 202641 min
Richard Ned Lebow, "Why Nations Still Fight" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Aug 30, 20261h 12m
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Michael Quinlan, "Unfree Workers: Insubordination and Resistance in Convict Australia, 1788–1860" (Springer Nature, 2022)
Aug 30, 202652 min
Steven Herman: Behind the White House Curtain
Aug 30, 202637 min
Corrado Neri, "Taiwanese Horror Cinema in the 21st Century: Spectral Narratives and Screen Culture" (Anthem Press, 2026)
Aug 30, 202631 min
Prakash Kashwan, "Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Aug 30, 20261h 8m
Bernadette Ludwig, "Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
Aug 29, 202644 min
Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell, "'PS: Burn after Reading': The Kellock-Taschereau Commission and Soviet Espionage" (U Toronto Press, 2026)
Aug 29, 202656 min
Alejandro E. Camacho and Brigham Daniels, "Lessons for a Warming Planet: A Vital History of US Environmental Law" (NYU Press, 2026)
Aug 29, 202642 min
Darlene Madott, "Closing Ceremonies and Dying Times" (Guernica Editions, 2026)
Aug 29, 20261h 3m
Stefan Collini, "Literature and Learning: A History of English Studies in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Aug 29, 20261h 15m