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Adam Franklin-Lyons joins Jana Byars to talk about Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of
In Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931 (Princeton UP, 2024), A. G. Hop
As he prepared to wage his war of annihilation on the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler repeatedly drew pa
Portuguese India was tiny—a handful of trading posts and enclaves, centered on the colony of Goa. Th
Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation, in both the Third Rei
Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. And yet, to Ukrainians, this
Dr. Yanni Kotsonis, Professor of History and Russian & Slavic Studies at New York University, is
What are numbers, and where do they come from? Based on her groundbreaking study of material devices
Berlin, November 1937. Adolf Hitler meets with his military commanders to impress upon them the urge
This volume utilises the personal papers of Sir Ronald Storrs, as well as other archival materials,
Today I talked to Peter Harmsen about his book Fury and Ice: Greenland, the United States and German
The U.S. government, military, and industry once saw ocean incineration as the safest and most effic
In this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political thought and ide
With From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union (Cornell UP, 20
The Holocaust in Thessaloniki: Reactions to the Anti-Jewish Persecution, 1942-1943 (Routledge, 2021)
Dogs are our constant companions: models of loyalty and unconditional love for millions around the w
G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped
Today I’m speaking with Adam Jortner, Goodwin-Philpott Professor of History at Auburn University. We
Shoes are everyday objects but they are loaded with meaning. Shoes and the Georgian Man (Bloomsbury,
After World War II, when a new German democracy was born in the western region of the vanquished Thi
