# New Books in History Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748.md RSS feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LIT3360275696 Official site: https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/politics-society/history/ Author: New Books Network Episodes: 500 ## Resource 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 get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-history-160748 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748.md ## Episodes - [Rod Phillips, "Cats: A History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/rod-phillips-cats-a-history-johns-hopkins-up-2026) — 2026-07-13T08:00:00+00:00 - [Jeffrey A. Marx, "Jewish Firebugs: Arson and Antisemitism from the Civil War to World War I" (NYU Press, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/jeffrey-a-marx-jewish-firebugs-arson-and-antisemitism-from-the-civil-war-to-world-war-i-nyu-press-2026) — 2026-07-13T08:00:00+00:00 - [Peter C. Mancall, "Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c. 1000-1680" (Oxford UP, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/peter-c-mancall-contested-continent-the-struggle-for-north-america-c-1000-1680-oxford-up-2026) — 2026-07-11T08:00:00+00:00 - [Paul Helseth and David P. Smith eds., "New Perspectives on Old Princeton, 1812-1929" (Routledge, 2024)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/paul-helseth-and-david-p-smith-eds-new-perspectives-on-old-princeton-1812-1929-routledge-2024) — 2026-07-09T08:00:00+00:00 - [Daniel Rood, "In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America" (Norton, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/daniel-rood-in-the-shadow-of-the-great-house-a-history-of-the-plantation-in-america-norton-2026) — 2026-07-07T08:00:00+00:00 - [Gullah-Geechee Diasporas: Knowledge, Culture, and Black Lowcountry Legacies](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/gullah-geechee-diasporas-knowledge-culture-and-black-lowcountry-legacies) — 2026-07-07T08:00:00+00:00 - [Lauren Duval, "The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence" (UNC Press, 2025)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/lauren-duval-the-home-front-revolutionary-households-military-occupation-and-the-making-of-american-independence-unc-press-2025) — 2026-07-06T08:00:00+00:00 - [Ted Powell, "Churchill and the Crown" (Oxford UP, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/ted-powell-churchill-and-the-crown-oxford-up-2026) — 2026-07-06T08:00:00+00:00 - [Stephen Robertson, "Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935" (Stanford UP, 2024)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/stephen-robertson-harlem-in-disorder-a-spatial-history-of-how-racial-violence-changed-in-1935-stanford-up-2024) — 2026-07-06T08:00:00+00:00 - [Xian Aubin Wang, "Islam and Maoism in Southern Yunnan: State Violence and Resistance, 1949–2024" (Cornell UP, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/xian-aubin-wang-islam-and-maoism-in-southern-yunnan-state-violence-and-resistance-1949-2024-cornell-up-2026) — 2026-07-03T08:00:00+00:00 - [Thomas Paine at the Semiquincentennial: A Conversation with Gregory Claeys](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/thomas-paine-at-the-semiquincentennial-a-conversation-with-gregory-claeys) — 2026-07-01T21:24:00+00:00 - [Kate Dannies, "Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire: Family, Law and War" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/kate-dannies-conscripting-breadwinner-soldiers-in-the-late-ottoman-empire-family-law-and-war-edinburgh-up-2026) — 2026-07-01T08:00:00+00:00 - [Jonathan Schneer, "Nine Days in May: The General Strike Of 1926" (Oxford UP, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/jonathan-schneer-nine-days-in-may-the-general-strike-of-1926-oxford-up-2026) — 2026-07-01T08:00:00+00:00 - [Chiara Formichi, "Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia" (Stanford UP, 2025)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/chiara-formichi-domestic-nationalism-muslim-women-health-and-modernity-in-indonesia-stanford-up-2025) — 2026-06-30T08:00:00+00:00 - [Fred S. Naiden, "Railroaded: A Motorman’s Story of the New York City Subway" (Rutgers UP, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/fred-s-naiden-railroaded-a-motorman-s-story-of-the-new-york-city-subway-rutgers-up-2026) — 2026-06-29T08:00:00+00:00 - [Christopher de Bellaigue, "The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King" (Bodley Head, 2025)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/christopher-de-bellaigue-the-golden-throne-the-curse-of-a-king-bodley-head-2025) — 2026-06-29T08:00:00+00:00 - [John Kapusta, "Self-Realization Nation: How Artists of the Creative Counterculture Made a New America" (U California Press, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/john-kapusta-self-realization-nation-how-artists-of-the-creative-counterculture-made-a-new-america-u-california-press-2026) — 2026-06-28T08:00:00+00:00 - [Thomas S. Mullaney, "How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information" (W. W. Norton, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/thomas-s-mullaney-how-we-disappear-a-personal-history-of-information-w-w-norton-2026) — 2026-06-28T08:00:00+00:00 - [Fabio Lanza, "Urban Revolution: People's Communes in Beijing" (Cambridge UP, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/fabio-lanza-urban-revolution-people-s-communes-in-beijing-cambridge-up-2026) — 2026-06-27T08:00:00+00:00 - [Sharron Wilkins Conrad, "The Trinity: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Civil Rights in African American Memory" (UNC Press, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/sharron-wilkins-conrad-the-trinity-john-f-kennedy-lyndon-b-johnson-and-civil-rights-in-african-american-memory-unc-press-2026) — 2026-06-27T08:00:00+00:00 - [Andy Byford, "Science of the Child in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia" (Oxford UP, 2020)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/andy-byford-science-of-the-child-in-late-imperial-and-early-soviet-russia-oxford-up-2020) — 2026-06-27T08:00:00+00:00 - [Michelle Chase and Isabella Cosse eds., "The Cuban Revolution and the New Left: Transnational Histories of Gender, Sexuality, and Family" (U Florida Press, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/michelle-chase-and-isabella-cosse-eds-the-cuban-revolution-and-the-new-left-transnational-histories-of-gender-sexuality-and-family-u-florida-press-2026) — 2026-06-25T08:00:00+00:00 - [Ciruce A. Movahedi-Lankarani, "Accelerant: Energy Infrastructures and the Natural World in Making Modern Iran" (Stanford UP, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/ciruce-a-movahedi-lankarani-accelerant-energy-infrastructures-and-the-natural-world-in-making-modern-iran-stanford-up-2026) — 2026-06-24T08:00:00+00:00 - [Laura Borghetti and Thomas Arentzen, "Ecologizing Late Ancient and Byzantine Worlds" (Bloomsbury, 2025)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/laura-borghetti-and-thomas-arentzen-ecologizing-late-ancient-and-byzantine-worlds-bloomsbury-2025) — 2026-06-22T08:00:00+00:00 - [Olivier Krischer and Shuxia Chen, "Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s-1980s" (Australian Centre on China in the World, 2025)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/olivier-krischer-and-shuxia-chen-wayfaring-photography-in-taiwan-1950s-1980s-australian-centre-on-china-in-the-world-2025) — 2026-06-22T08:00:00+00:00 - [Mesrob Vartavarian, "Privileged Minorities: A History of Wealth Concentration on South Africa" (Ohio UP, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/mesrob-vartavarian-privileged-minorities-a-history-of-wealth-concentration-on-south-africa-ohio-up-2026) — 2026-06-21T08:00:00+00:00 - [Peter Paul Dobek, "The Public House in Central Europe: Inns, Tavern, and Alehouses in Cracow during the Jagiellonian Dynasty" (Lexington Books, 2024)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/peter-paul-dobek-the-public-house-in-central-europe-inns-tavern-and-alehouses-in-cracow-during-the-jagiellonian-dynasty-lexington-books-2024) — 2026-06-20T08:00:00+00:00 - [Alex Boodrookas, "Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf" (Stanford UP, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/alex-boodrookas-comrades-estranged-labor-and-citizenship-in-the-twentieth-century-persian-gulf-stanford-up-2026) — 2026-06-20T08:00:00+00:00 - [James O'Leary, "The Middlebrow Musical: Between Broadway and Opera in 1940s America" (Oxford UP, 2025)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/james-o-leary-the-middlebrow-musical-between-broadway-and-opera-in-1940s-america-oxford-up-2025) — 2026-06-19T08:00:00+00:00 - [Yoshiko Nakano and Georgina Challen, "Meiji Graves in Happy Valley: Stories of Early Japanese Residents in Hong Kong" (Hong Kong UP, 2024)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/yoshiko-nakano-and-georgina-challen-meiji-graves-in-happy-valley-stories-of-early-japanese-residents-in-hong-kong-hong-kong-up-2024) — 2026-06-19T08:00:00+00:00 - [Cristina Florea, "Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland" (Princeton UP, 2025)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/cristina-florea-bukovina-the-life-and-death-of-an-east-european-borderland-princeton-up-2025) — 2026-06-16T08:00:00+00:00 - [Cheryl Thompson, "Staging Blackface in Canada: Public Amusements, Variety Shows, and Racial Acts in an Age of Imitation, 1898-1919" (Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/cheryl-thompson-staging-blackface-in-canada-public-amusements-variety-shows-and-racial-acts-in-an-age-of-imitation-1898-1919-wilfrid-laurier-press-2026) — 2026-06-16T08:00:00+00:00 - [Brook Wilensky-Lanford, "A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/brook-wilensky-lanford-a-god-shaped-nation-five-hundred-years-of-religion-in-america-atlantic-monthly-press-2026) — 2026-06-15T08:00:00+00:00 - [Pamela Walker Laird, "Self-Made: The Stories that Forged an American Myth" (Cambridge University Press, 2025)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/pamela-walker-laird-self-made-the-stories-that-forged-an-american-myth-cambridge-university-press-2025) — 2026-06-14T08:00:00+00:00 - [Derek R. Peterson, "A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda" (Yale UP, 2025)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/derek-r-peterson-a-popular-history-of-idi-amin-s-uganda-yale-up-2025) — 2026-06-14T08:00:00+00:00 - [Sarah McNamara, "Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South" (UNC Press, 2023)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-history-160748/sarah-mcnamara-ybor-city-crucible-of-the-latina-south-unc-press-2023) — 2026-06-11T08:00:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. A page view does not automatically enqueue transcription.