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Paul Kelton
Author of Hidden Terrors, historian of Native American and medical history
Stony Brook University
Episode: Hidden Terrors: The Scourge of Cholera in Jackson's America with Paul Kelton (Oxford UP, 2026)
Elisa Prosperetti
Historian of modern Africa and global history
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University
Episode: An Anticolonial Development: Race, Schooling, and Emancipation in Twentieth-Century West Africa with Elisa Prosperetti (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Christina Firpo
Author of Beauty and the Nation, Women, Culture, and the National Image in Interwar Vietnam
Columbia University Press (publisher)
Episode: Christina E. Firpo, "Beauty and the Nation: Women, Culture, and the National Image in Interwar Vietnam" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Samantha Barbas
Law professor and legal historian
University of California Press (book publisher context in episode)
Episode: Samantha Barbas, "Hate Speech: The Legal and Cultural History of an American Dilemma" (U California Press, 2026)
Mubanga Kalimamukwento
Author of The Shipikisha Club
Cassava Republic Press / author
Episode: Mubanga Kalimamukwento, "The Shipikisha Club" (Cassava Republic Press, 2026)
Erin Maglaque
Historian of gender and early modernity, author of Presence, A Hidden History of the Female Body
Author, Presence, A Hidden History of the Female Body
Episode: Erin Maglaquel "Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body" (Astra House, 2026)
Ketil Slagstad
Author of Standardizing Sex, A History of Trans Medicine
University of Chicago Press (2025)
Episode: Ketil Slagstad, "Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Leah C. Stokes
Author of The Carbon Wave, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Barbara / MIT Press
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Leah Kim
Author, Mom, Unfiltered: Maternal Mental Health and Finding Freedom Through Motherhood
Bloomsbury publishing (book publisher mentioned)
Episode: Leah Kim, "Mom, Unfiltered: Maternal Mental Health and Finding Freedom Through Motherhood (Bloomsbury, 2026)

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Hidden Terrors: The Scourge of Cholera in Jackson's America with Paul Kelton (Oxford UP, 2026)
Q: What is the broader takeaway about cholera's impact on America and its democratic experiment?
The guest argues that cholera exposed deep-seated inequalities and fed into moral and cultural narratives about self-control, race, and class, while also highlighting the era's limitations in public health. He notes how elites tried to frame the crisis as a problem of moral failing or individual behavior and discusses how the episode foreshadowed later debates about public health and social policy.
Hidden Terrors: The Scourge of Cholera in Jackson's America with Paul Kelton (Oxford UP, 2026)
Q: Can you share a little more about yourself and how you arrived at this project?
Kelton explains his long-standing focus on indigenous histories and infectious diseases, describes how a segregated campus project on Indian removal led him to stumble upon cholera as a pivotal, under-studied topic in the 1830s, and emphasizes his aim to understand how communities perceived and coped with a disease that revealed stark social inequalities.
Christina E. Firpo, "Beauty and the Nation: Women, Culture, and the National Image in Interwar Vietnam" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Q: Could you speak more about the figure of the modern woman and how changing appearances became a way of negotiating Vietnam's modern image?
Firpo discusses the distinction between the 'new woman' and the 'modern girl,' noting that both existed in reality but in varying degrees, and explains how appearance choices—clothes, makeup, and grooming—became statements about national belonging, gender roles, and resistance or alignment with colonial modernity.
Christina E. Firpo, "Beauty and the Nation: Women, Culture, and the National Image in Interwar Vietnam" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Q: Could you give our listeners a general overview of Beauty and the Nation?
Firpo explains that the book investigates how beauty culture, fashion, cosmetics, and beauty contests served as sites where Vietnamese modernity, nationalism, and gendered identities were formed and contested, drawing on a wide range of archival sources to show how ordinary acts of dressing and grooming connected to larger political and social transformations.
Steve Feldstein, "Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Private Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare" (St. Martin's Press, 2026)
Q: Tell us a little about the journey between your 2021 book and the 2026Bytes and Bullets.
The interview highlights a through line on how technology shapes political decision-making, expanding from internal dynamics to external state competition, and how Ukraine's resistance, drones, and wider tech innovations influenced the framing of the new book.

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