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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 ... more

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Recent Guests

Emily Sneff
Author of When the Declaration of Independence Was News
College of William & Mary
Episode: Emily Sneff, "When the Declaration of Independence Was News" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel
Author of Seeking Freedom in Indian Country, Slavery, Sovereignty, and Resistance Within the Five Tribes, 1790-1861
University of Tulsa
Episode: Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel, "Seeking Freedom in Indian Country: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Resistance Within the Five Tribes, 1790–1861" (LSU Press, 2026)
Vaneesa Cook
Author of Empire and Liberty, The Tied Histories of Two American Landmarks
Beacon Press
Episode: Vaneesa Cook, "Empire and Liberty: The Tied Histories of Two American Landmarks" (Beacon Press, 2026)
Murat Yildiz
Associate professor at Skidmore College; author of The Ottoman World of Sports
Skidmore College
Episode: Murat C. Yildiz, "The Ottoman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies, Men, and Communities in Late Imperial Istanbul" (U Texas Press, 2026)
Steven K. Green
Fred H. Paulus, Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of History and Religious Studies, Willamette University
Willamette University
Episode: Steven K. Green, "American Infidelity: The Gilded Age Battle Over Freethought, Free Love, and Feminism" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Anna Lively
Historian of modern Ireland, Britain and Russia
University of Strathclyde (Liverhome Early Career Fellow)
Episode: Anna Lively, "Revolutionary Connections: Russia and Ireland, 1905-1923" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Meredith Gamer
Associate Professor of Art History at Columbia University
Columbia University
Episode: Meredith Gamer, "City of the Gallows: Art and Execution in Eighteenth-Century London" (Yale UP, 2026)
Linford Fisher
Professor of History at Brown University; author of Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History
Brown University
Episode: Linford Fisher, "Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History" (Liveright, 2026)
Lily Kelting
Author of Against Heritage, The Reinvention of Traditional Foods
Flame University Pune; author
Episode: Lily Kelting, "Against Heritage: The Reinvention of Traditional Foods" (UNC Press, 2026)

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Geraldine Gudefin
Host contributor with ties to New Books Network across multiple episodes
John Armenta
Host contributor with broad coverage and editorial role within history podcasts
Miranda Melcher
Regular host of interview segments with history authors
Michael Stauch
Long-running host on The New Books Network; conducts author interviews

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4.2 out of 5 stars from 334 ratings
  • Great Series

    Scholars are interviewed about their research, their books.

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    Lime Twig
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  • Comparative blame: Slavery v Holocaust

    How could the interviewer fail to ask the central question in a comparative discussion re black slavery and the shoa: were Jews involved in initiating and carrying out black slavery? They were. Were Africans involved in carrying out the shoa? They weren’t.

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    curious african american
    United States2 years ago
  • Chris

    I love this podcast. Have listened to so many fascinating interviews on all sorts of topics. Excellent stuff!!

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    Motzerrerr
    Australia2 years ago
  • Gone downhill

    Used to love the channel but now half the episodes are hosted by Ari Barbalat who is the most insufferable interviewer on the planet

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    AshP1928
    Canada2 years ago
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    Cop prison guard etc are not viable careers. They are soul crushing morally bankrupt lives of desperately reconciliation of evil activities

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Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel, "Seeking Freedom in Indian Country: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Resistance Within the Five Tribes, 1790–1861" (LSU Press, 2026)
Q: What legacies from this history are still relevant in the 21st century, particularly regarding Freedmen descendants and citizenship?
1866 treaties granted citizenship rights to freedmen descendants in each nation, but later expulsions largely erased those rights; recent court actions are attempting to reinstate them, signifying ongoing sovereignty debates and legal struggles that impact contemporary Indian country politics.
Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel, "Seeking Freedom in Indian Country: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Resistance Within the Five Tribes, 1790–1861" (LSU Press, 2026)
Q: What was life like for enslaved people in Indian Territory, and how did resistance manifest there?
Resistance mirrored the Atlantic experience, including revolts and escapes; runaways frequently used Indian Territory as a refuge, with Underground Railroad networks and Black communities like North Fork forming as safety havens, though many enslaved people faced continued oppression and re-enslavement.
Vaneesa Cook, "Empire and Liberty: The Tied Histories of Two American Landmarks" (Beacon Press, 2026)
Q: Why these two buildings specifically, and how did the idea evolve from Empire State Building to Statue of Liberty as a paired narrative?
The two landmarks were chosen because they personify distinct strands of American identity—empire and liberty—and the author notes the accidental framing from a WWII–era incident that catalyzed the project, followed by a deliberate juxtaposition of the buildings to illuminate their intertwined meanings.
Vaneesa Cook, "Empire and Liberty: The Tied Histories of Two American Landmarks" (Beacon Press, 2026)
Q: Tell me a little bit about that journey from your first book to Empire and Liberty and what got you interested in this topic?
Cook explains the throughline from her prior focus on the American left to exploring how liberty and empire have coexisted and conflicted in U.S. history, using two symbolic landmarks to illustrate that tension and to show how national identity has been crafted around competing narratives of power and freedom.
Ashton Lazarus, "Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan" (Harvard UP, 2026)
Q: How do you approach researching performances that left little to no direct recordings, relying on observer accounts and later compilations?
I foreground a relational approach that treats both the surviving material (diaries, treatises, and emaki images) and the imagined reenactments or reconstructions as complementary, recognizing the mediation and partiality in sources like Imaiyo lyrics and Kokiroku diaries, and using them to infer practices, bodies, and audience dynamics.

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What is New Books in History about and what kind of topics does it cover?

A rigorous history-focused interview series that centers scholars discussing recently published books and core archival or primary-source work. Guests span university professors, researchers, and authors across global histories—from postwar displacement and refugee policy to civil-military relations, labor history, policing in the Jim Crow era, and the social lives of everyday spaces like hotels and print culture. Episodes frequently unpack methodological approaches, archival practices, and the broader historical implications of their subjects, often linking past events to contemporary debates. A notable strength is the breadth of topics and the emphasis on deep scholarly context, making it a valuable resource for researchers, students, and... more

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