All episodes

John Campbell, "Causation in Psychology" (Harvard UP, 2020)

O. Carter Snead, "What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Rana Mitter, "China's Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Dominique Kirchner Reill, "The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Helen Sword, "Stylish Academic Writing" (Harvard UP, 2012)

Sharon T. Strocchia, "Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy" (Harvard UP, 2019)

R. H. Helmholz, "Natural Law in Court: A History of Legal Theory in Practice" (Harvard UP, 2015)

Tera W. Hunter, "Bound In Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century" (Harvard UP, 2017)

Felicia Angeja Viator, "To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Sianne Ngai, "Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form" (Harvard UP, 2020)

James Simpson, "Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Mira L. Siegelberg, "Statelessness: A Modern History" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Benjamin D. Hopkins, "Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State" (Harvard UP, 2020)

James L. Nolan, Jr., "Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Annelien de Dijn, "Freedom: An Unruly History" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Christopher Robertson, "Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance is Incomplete and What can be Done About" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Alexander Keyssar, "Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Sana Aiyar, "Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora" (Harvard UP, 2015)

Ann-Sophie Barwich, "Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Tamar Herzig, "A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Ann-Sophie Barwich, "Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)

A. Meleagrou-Hitchens, "Incitement: Anwar al-Awlaki’s Western Jihad" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Guy Raffa, "Dante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Julia Rose Kraut, "Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Patrice Gueniffey, "Napoleon and de Gaulle: Heroes and History" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Lindsay M. Chervinsky, "The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Tamar Herzog, "A Short History of European Law: The Last Two and a Half Millennia" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Gregory Afinogenov, "Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Sally Nuamah, "How Girls Achieve" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Alec Ryrie, "Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Henry M. Cowles, "The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Joshua Bennett, "Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Viet Thanh Nguyen, "Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War" (Harvard UP, 2016)

Magda Teter, "Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Vincent Brown, "Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Brian A. Hatcher, "Hinduism Before Reform" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Loretta E. Kim, "Ethnic Chrysalis: China’s Orochen People and the Legacy of Qing Borderland Administration" (Harvard Asia Center, 2019)

Jürgen Melzer, "Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Neil Maher, "Apollo in the Age of Aquarius" (Harvard UP, 2017)

Jessica Lynne Pearson, "The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa" (Harvard UP, 2018)

John Danaher, "Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World without Work" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Benjamin Francis-Fallon, "The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Ajantha Subramanian, "The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Giuliana Chamedes, "A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Daniel Schwartz, "Ghetto: The History of a Word" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Elisabeth Köll, "Railroads and the Transformation of China" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Gregory P. Downs, "After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War" (Harvard UP, 2015)

Evan N. Dawley, "Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s-1950s" (Harvard UP, 2019)

William Sturkey, "Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Paul Finkelman, "Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court" (Harvard UP, 2018)

Lukas Rieppel, "Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Monica Muñoz Martinez, "The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas" (Harvard UP, 2018)

Jonathan Gienapp, "The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era" (Harvard UP, 2018)

Christian List, "Why Free Will is Real" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Eleonory Gilburd, "To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture" (Harvard UP, 2018)

Heidi Tworek, "News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Brett Grainger, "Church in the Wild: Evangelicals in Antebellum America" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Peter Guardino, "The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War" (Harvard UP, 2017)

Noam Maggor, "Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America's First Gilded Age" (Harvard UP, 2017)

Maren A. Ehlers, "Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan" (Harvard U Asia Center, 2018)

Max Edelson, "The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence" (Harvard UP, 2017)

James Doyle, "No Morality, No Self: Anscombe's Radical Skepticism" (Harvard UP, 2018)

William Poole, "Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost" (Harvard UP, 2017)

Sally Nuamah, "How Girls Achieve" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Margaret Arnold, "The Magdalene in the Reformation" (Harvard UP, 2018)

Nico Slate, "Lord Cornwallis is Dead: The Struggle for Democracy in the United States and India" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Matthew Bowman, "Christian: The Politics of a Word in America" (Harvard UP, 2018)

Joy Lisi Rankin, "A People’s History of Computing in the United States" (Harvard UP, 2018).

Duncan Williams, “American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War” (Harvard UP, 2019

Julian Jackson, "De Gaulle" (Harvard UP, 2018)

Angelos Chaniotis, "Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian" (Harvard UP, 2018)

Snigdha Poonam, "Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing the World" (Harvard UP, 2018)

James M. Turner and Andrew C. Isenberg, “The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump” (Harvard UP, 2018)

J.R. Osborn, “Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design” (Harvard UP, 2017)

Philip Lutgendorf, “The Epic of Ram” (Harvard University Press, 2016-)

Caitlin C. Rosenthal, “Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management” (Harvard UP, 2018)

Susan Carruthers, “The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace” (Harvard UP, 2016)

David Stuttard, “Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens” (Harvard UP, 2018)

Megan Black, “The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power” (Harvard UP, 2018)

Kathleen Belew, “Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America” (Harvard UP, 2018)

Nick Kapur, “Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo” (Harvard UP, 2018)

Quinn Slobodian, “Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism” (Harvard UP, 2018)

Samuel Moyn, “Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World” (Harvard UP, 2018)

Rupali Mishra, “A Business of State: Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company” (Harvard UP, 2018)

Sarah E. Igo, “The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America” (Harvard UP, 2018)

Katherine Benton-Cohen, “Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy” (Harvard UP, 2018)

Sarah Igo, “The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America” (Harvard UP, 2018)

Heather Curtis, “Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid” (Harvard UP, 2018)

Alexander Bevilacqua, “The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment” (Harvard UP, 2018)

Christopher G. White, “Other Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions” (Harvard UP, 2018)

Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey, “Waste of a Nation: Growth and Garbage in India” (Harvard UP, 2018)

Waitman Beorn, “The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

Steven Lubar, “Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present” (Harvard UP, 2017)

Dawn Peterson, “Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion” (Harvard UP, 2017)

Beth Lew-Williams, “The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America” (Harvard UP, 2018)

Jon D. Michaels, “Constitutional Coup: Privatization’s Threat to the American Republic” (Harvard UP, 2017)

Matthew Karp, “This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at The Helm of American Foreign Policy” (Harvard UP, 2016)

Sam Lebovic, “Free Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America” (Harvard UP, 2016)