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Younus Y. Mirza, "The Islamic Mary: Maryam Through the Centuries" (Fortress Press, 2025)
Aug 12, 202646 min
Sima Qian–China’s Grand Historian
Aug 12, 202631 min
In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Yiddish Memories of Small-Town Jewish Life in Ukraine
Aug 12, 202659 min
John E. McDonough, "America's Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
Aug 11, 20261h 0m
Eckart Otto, "Max Weber's Studies of Ancient Judaism: The Historical Foundation for a Theory of the Modern Age" (Mohr Siebeck, 2002)
Aug 11, 202636 min
William Whyte, "The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood" (Harvard UP, 2026)
Aug 11, 202642 min
Seamus O’Reilly, "Prestige Drama" (Cardinal, 2026)
Aug 11, 202649 min
M. H. Ayinde, "A Song of Legends Lost" (Saga Press, 2025)
Aug 11, 202628 min
Christopher R. Rogers, "My City Need Something" (Common Notions, 2026)
Aug 11, 2026
Thomas F. Rzeznik, "A Monument of Charity: St. Vincent’s Hospital and Catholic Health Care in New York City" (NYU Press, 2026)
Aug 11, 202633 min
Julie Kliegman, "Finding Renée Richards: The Groundbreaking Story of Tennis’s Trans Pioneer" (HarperOne, 2026)
Aug 11, 202644 min
Naomi Kanakia, "What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You) (Princeton UP, 2026)
Aug 10, 202648 min
Marco Pompili, "Public Housing in Japan: The Dōjunkai Apartments One Hundred Years On" (Brill, 2026)
Aug 10, 202657 min
Caro Pirri, "Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England: Stages of Unsettlement" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Aug 10, 202647 min
Eckart Otto, "Deuteronomy in the Pentateuch and the Hexateuch: Studies of the Literary History of the Pentateuch and the Hexateuch within the Framework of Deuteronomy" (Mohr Siebeck, 2000)
Aug 10, 202640 min
Daniel Majchrowicz, "A Journey to Mecca and London: The Travels of an Indian Muslim Woman, 1909–1910" (Indiana UP, 2025)
Aug 10, 20261h 1m
Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan
Aug 10, 20261h 7m
David N. Gellman, "Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Aug 10, 202649 min
Christopher Campo-Bowen, "Visions of the Village: Ruralness, Identity, and Czech Opera" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Aug 10, 20261h 10m
Tsering Döndrup, "The Red Wind Howls" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Aug 10, 202646 min
Caryl Flinn and Dana B. Polan, "The Patty Duke Show and the American Sixties: Hot Dogs and Crêpes Suzette" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Aug 9, 202655 min
Marisa Karyl Franz, "Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Aug 9, 202656 min
Chad Wellmon, "After the University: Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work" (JHU Press, 2026)
Aug 9, 202658 min
Stefan Al, "Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home" (Norton, 2026)
Aug 9, 202630 min
Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought
Aug 9, 202658 min
Oli Mould, "Postcapitalist cities: Towards a common urban future" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Aug 9, 202640 min
Ka-ming Wu, "Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China: Volunteering, Infrastructures and Civic Imaginations" (Leiden UP, 2026)
Aug 9, 202652 min
Margaret E. Farrar and Adam Kaul, "Becoming Utopia: History, Heritage, and Sustainability in the American Midwest" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)
Aug 9, 202636 min
Yana Skorobogatov, "Fate in My Hands: The Death Penalty in the Soviet Union" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Aug 8, 20261h 0m
Leopoldina Fortunati, "The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital" (Verso, 2025)
Aug 8, 20261h 15m
Jin Y. Park and Sumi Lee eds., "Korean Buddhism: Selected Readings from Primary Texts" (U Hawaii Press, 2026)
Aug 8, 20261h 46m
Edward T. G. Anderson, "Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora: Transnational Politics and British Multiculturalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Aug 8, 20261h 5m
Hiroshima's Last Witnesses and Japan's Nuclear Future
Aug 8, 202633 min
Ryan Schweitzer, "Homosexuality in Central Asia: Stories of Hardship and Hope" (B&N Press, 2026)
Aug 8, 202645 min
Russia’s Jews in World War I
Aug 8, 2026
Deborah Barer, "Going Off Script: Improvisational Judgment in the Talmud" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Aug 8, 202651 min
Giulio Boccaletti, "The Environmental Republic: Why Citizens Will Save the World" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Aug 7, 20261h 26m
Donniel Hartman, "Who Are the Jews—And Who Can We Become?" (Jewish Publication Society, 2023)
Aug 7, 202646 min
Max Perry Mueller, "Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West" (Basic Books, 2025)
Aug 7, 20261h 20m
Gianluca Fantoni, "Soldiers, Angels, and Avengers: A History of the Jewish Brigade" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2026)
Aug 7, 20261h 5m
Andres Saenz de Sicilia, "Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society" (Brill, 2024)
Aug 7, 202643 min
Emma Parker, "Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Aug 7, 202639 min
Edlie Wong, "Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Aug 7, 202650 min
The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods
Aug 7, 2026
Georgia Kernell, "Inside Parties: How Party Rules Shape Membership and Responsiveness" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Aug 6, 202649 min
In The Scholar’s Workshop: Hidden Histories of Collaboration and Authorship
Aug 6, 202659 min
Cycling Cities: Lisbon and Tehran with M. Luísa Sousa and Kazem Afradi
Aug 6, 20261h 0m
Steven Veerapen, "Overlord: A New History of the Life and Reign of Henry VIII" (Simon & Schuster, 2026
Aug 6, 202637 min
Amy B. Scher, "The Unexpected Afterlife of Salon Rose" (Tiny Ghost Press, 2026)
Aug 6, 202638 min
Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust
Aug 6, 20261h 9m