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Mark Hlavacik, "Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
29 mins; March 28, 2026
Why Did Langston Hughes's "Troubled Lands" Go Unpublished for Nearly a Century?: A Conversation with Ricardo Wilson
48 mins; March 27, 2026
Maya L. Kornberg, "Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress" (JHU Press, 2026)
49 mins; March 26, 2026
On Trump as a “World Historical Individual” with author John B. Judis
34 mins; March 25, 2026
Hsuan L Hsu, "Olfactory Worldmaking" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
26 mins; March 24, 2026
Steven Pinker, "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life" (Scribner, 2025)
34 mins; March 23, 2026
David Bather Woods, "Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
76 hours 34 mins; March 23, 2026
Daniel McClellan, "The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues" (St. Martin's Essentials, 2025)
62 hours 28 mins; March 22, 2026
Sidra Hamidi, "After Fission: Recognition and Contestation in the Atomic Age" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
56 mins; March 21, 2026
Gabrielle Oliveira, "Now We Are Here: Family Migration, Children’s Education, and Dreams for a Better Life" (Stanford UP, 2025)
27 mins; March 20, 2026
Emma Chapman, "Radio Universe: How to Explore Space Without Leaving Earth" (Hachette UK, 2026)
73 hours 20 mins; March 19, 2026
Lisa Nakamura, "The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
43 mins; March 18, 2026
Christopher Munn, "Penalties of Empire: Capital Trials in Colonial Hong Kong" (Hong Kong UP, 2025)
70 hours 45 mins; March 17, 2026
Antwain K. Hunter, "A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715-1865" (UNC Press, 2025)
49 mins; March 16, 2026
Susannah B. Mintz, "Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story" (Reaktion, 2026)
51 mins; March 15, 2026
Suzanne Mettler and Trevor E. Brown, "Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
40 mins; March 14, 2026
Understanding Iran Under Attack: A Discussion with Author Vali Nasr
48 mins; March 13, 2026
Wendy Brown, "States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2025)
41 mins; March 12, 2026
Mike Pitts, "Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
65 hours 48 mins; March 11, 2026
Pablo Zavala, "Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917-1968" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
65 hours 9 mins; March 10, 2026
Maud Anne Bracke, "Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Reproductive Rights in Modern France:Â Feminism, Contraception, and Abortion, 1950-1980 (Oxford UP, 2025)
71 hours 10 mins; March 09, 2026
Guoqi Xu, "The Idea of China: A Contested History" (Harvard UP, 2026)
71 hours 6 mins; March 08, 2026
Tamara Kay, "Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships" (Oxford UP, 2025)
45 mins; March 07, 2026
Bryan Caplan's Case Against Education
59 mins; March 06, 2026
Jennifer Randles, "Living Diaper to Diaper: The Hidden Crisis of Poverty and Motherhood" (U California Press, 2026)
41 mins; March 05, 2026
Elizabeth Suhay, "Debating the American Dream: How Explanations for Inequality Polarize Politics" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2025)
53 mins; March 04, 2026
Helen Redmond, "Liquid Handcuffs: Policing and Punishment in Methadone Clinics and the Future of Opioid Addiction Treatment" (North Atlantic Books, 2026)
56 mins; March 03, 2026
Amy Landry, "The Ocean of Yoga: A Complete Guide to Living the Teachings, Tradition, and Practice" (Shambhala, 2026)
44 mins; March 02, 2026
Aaron Donaghy, "The Second Cold War: Carter, Reagan, and the Politics of Foreign Policy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
61 hours 22 mins; March 01, 2026
Clarissa E. Francis, "Black Women's Bodily Autonomy, Sexual Freedom, and Pleasure: Explorations of the Hot Girl Movement" (Routledge, 2025)
66 hours 47 mins; February 28, 2026
Margaret S. Graves, "Invisible Hands: Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics" (Princeton UP, 2026)
57 mins; February 27, 2026
Leah Astbury, "Making Babies in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
56 mins; February 26, 2026
Anna-Luna Post, "Galileo’s Fame: Science, Credibility, and Memory in the Seventeenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025)
59 mins; February 25, 2026
Zalman Newfield, "Brooklyn Odyssey: My Journey Out of Hasidism" (Temple UP, 2026)
78 hours 55 mins; February 24, 2026
Ashely Alker, "99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them" (St. Martin's Press, 2026)
40 mins; February 23, 2026
Subodhana Wijeyeratne, "The Islands and the Stars: A History of Japan's Space Programs" (Stanford UP, 2026)
48 mins; February 22, 2026
Eray Çayli, "Earthmoving: Extractivism, War, and Visuality in Northern Kurdistan" (U Texas Press, 2025)
63 hours 10 mins; February 20, 2026
Thomas Zeitzoff, "No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis" (Oxford UP, 2026)
58 mins; February 19, 2026
Emily Dufton, "Addiction, Inc: Medication-assisted Treatment and America's Forgotten War on Drugs" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
60 hours 16 mins; February 18, 2026
Shelley Puhak, "The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
52 mins; February 17, 2026
Carl Death, "African Climate Futures" (Oxford UP, 2025)
62 hours 15 mins; February 16, 2026
Sugata Bose, "Asia after Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century" (Harvard UP, 2024)
63 hours 24 mins; February 15, 2026
Lynneth Miller Renberg, "Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640: Negotiating the Steps of Faith" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)
43 mins; February 14, 2026
Javiera Barandiaran, "Living Minerals: Nature, Trade, and Power in the Race for Lithium" (MIT Press, 2026)
54 mins; February 13, 2026
Laura K. Field, "Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right" (Princeton UP, 2025)
43 mins; February 12, 2026
Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo, "Governing Digital China" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
58 mins; February 11, 2026
Joshua Clark Davis, "Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back" (Princeton UP, 2025)
57 mins; February 10, 2026
Jameson R. Sweet, "Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
58 mins; February 09, 2026
Gloria Browne-Marshall, "A Protest History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2026) Revisited
60 hours 33 mins; February 08, 2026
Bill Kopp, "What's the Big Idea: 30 Great Concept Albums" (Hozac, 2025)
42 mins; February 07, 2026
Leslie James, "The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought, 1935-1960" (Harvard UP, 2025)
55 mins; February 06, 2026
Nina Bandelj, "Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting" (Princeton UP, 2026)
60 hours 49 mins; February 05, 2026
Andrew Billing, "Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-century Liberal Political Writing" (Routledge, 2023)
56 mins; February 04, 2026
Samuel Holley-Kline, "In the Shadow of El TajĂn: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico" (U Nebraska Press, 2025)
45 mins; February 03, 2026
Luca Cottini, "The Rise of Americanism in Italy, 1888-1919" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
59 mins; February 02, 2026
Michael Hurley, "Waterways of Bangkok: Memory, Landscape and Twilight" (NUS Press, 2025)
44 mins; February 01, 2026
Gaoheng Zhang, "Italian Dumplings and Chinese Pizzas: Transcultural Food Mobilities" (Fordham UP, 2025)
42 mins; January 31, 2026
Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, "By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates" (Columbia UP, 2025)
55 mins; January 30, 2026
Stephen Bezruchka, "Born Sick in the USA: Improving the Health of a Nation" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
35 mins; January 29, 2026
Saundra Weddle, "The Brothel and Beyond: An Urban History of the Sex Trade in Early Modern Venice" (Penn State UP, 2026)
56 mins; January 28, 2026
Jonathan Gleason, "Field Guide to Falling Ill" (Yale UP, 2026)
52 mins; January 27, 2026
Kay Dickinson, "Fernando: A Song by ABBA" (Duke UP, 2025)
56 mins; January 26, 2026
Jenny Banh, "Fantasies of Hong Kong Disneyland: Attempted Indigenizations of Space, Labor, and Consumption" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
55 mins; January 25, 2026
Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, "Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
66 hours 58 mins; January 24, 2026
Daisy Fancourt, "Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives" (Cornerstone Press, 2026)
27 mins; January 23, 2026
Jason Burke, "The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s" (Knopf, 2026)
53 mins; January 22, 2026
Andrew Burstein, "Being Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
54 mins; January 21, 2026
Patrick McGuigan and Carlos Yescas, "One Cheese to Rule Them All: In Search of the World's 100 Best Cheeses" (Murdoch Books, 2025)
60 hours 11 mins; January 20, 2026
Steve Ramirez, "How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past" (Princeton UP, 2025)
50 mins; January 19, 2026
Min Joo Lee, "Finding Mr. Perfect: K-Drama, Pop Culture, Romance, and Race" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
30 mins; January 18, 2026
Catherine Clarke, "A History of England in 25 Poems" (Penguin, 2025)
57 mins; January 17, 2026
Emily Walton, "Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England" (Stanford UP, 2025)
56 mins; January 16, 2026
Jose Eos Trinidad, "Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer, "Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior" (MIT Press, 2025)
71 hours 42 mins; January 13, 2026
Noam Sienna, "Jewish Books in North Africa: Between the Early Modern and Modern Worlds" (Indiana UP, 2025)
61 hours 26 mins; January 12, 2026
Robin F. Hansen, "Prison Born: Incarceration and Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow" (U Regina Press, 2024)
40 mins; December 26, 2025
Jonathan Sumption, "The Challenges of Democracy: And the Rule of Law" (Profile Books, 2026)
29 mins; December 26, 2025
Sven Beckert, "Capitalism: A Global History" (Allen Lane, 2025)
60 hours 59 mins; December 25, 2025
Marcus Willaschek, "Kant: A Revolution in Thinking" (Harvard UP, 2025)
65 hours 4 mins; December 24, 2025
Christian Smith, "Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
36 mins; December 22, 2025
David Fleming, "A Big Mess in Texas: The Miraculous, Disastrous 1952 Dallas Texans and the Craziest Untold Story in NFL History" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
52 mins; December 21, 2025
Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism’s High Tide: A Conversation with Howard W. French
48 mins; December 20, 2025
Mayu Fujikawa, "Envisioning Diplomacy: Japanese Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2025)
55 mins; December 19, 2025
Alexandra Ghiț, "Welfare Work Without Welfare: Women and Austerity in Interwar Bucharest" (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)
44 mins; December 18, 2025
Maddalena Alvi, "The European Art Market and the First World War: Art, Capital, and the Decline of the Collecting Class, 1910–1925" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
60 hours 8 mins; December 17, 2025
J Finley, "Sass: Black Women's Humor and Humanity" (UNC Press, 2024)
57 mins; December 16, 2025
Yasmin Cho, "Politics of Tranquility: The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet" (Cornell UP, 2025)
53 mins; December 15, 2025
Michelle Anya Anjirbag, "Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
63 hours 35 mins; December 14, 2025
Melissa Byrnes, "Making Space: Neighbors, Officials, and North African Migrants in the Suburbs of Paris and Lyon" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
69 hours 39 mins; December 13, 2025
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts" (Yale UP, 2025)
59 mins; December 12, 2025
Caitlin Wiesner, "Between the Street and the State: Black Women’s Anti-Rape Activism Amid the War on Crime" (U Pennsylvania, 2025)
75 hours 8 mins; December 11, 2025
Michael D. Dwyer, "Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt" (Oxford UP, 2025)
71 hours 48 mins; December 10, 2025
Jibola Fagbamiye and Conor McCreery, "Fela: Music Is the Weapon" (Amistad Press, 2025)
