New Books in History (http://newbooksinhistory.com) is a weekly podcast series featuring discussions with historians about their work, and particularly their new books. The program is hosted by Marshall Poe.
Submissions from 2012
Russell Martin, "A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage in Early Modern Russia", Marshall Poe and Russell Martin
Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, "The Massacre in Jedwabne, July 10, 1941: Before, During, After", Marshall Poe and Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
Astrid M. Eckert, "The Struggle for the Files: The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War", Marshall Poe and Astrid M. Eckert
Jennifer Hall-Witt, "Fashionable Acts: Opera and Elite Culture in London, 1780-1880", Marshall Poe and Jennifer Hall-Witt
Jennifer Guglielmo, "Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City", Marshall Poe and Jennifer Guglielmo
David Brandenberger, "Propaganda State in Crisis: Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror under Stalin", Marshall Poe and David Brandenberger
Samuel Morris Brown, "In Heaven as it is on Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death", Marshall Poe and Samuel Morris Brown
Stuart Henderson, "Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s", Marshall Poe and Stuart Henderson
James M. Banner, Jr., "Being a Historian: An Introduction to the Professional World of History", Marshall Poe and James M. Banner Jr.
Gregory Crouch, "China's Wings: War, Intrigue, Romance, and Adventure in the Middle Kingdom during the Golden Age of Flight", Marshall Poe and Gregory Crouch
Marnie Anderson, "A Place in Public: Women's Rights in Meiji Japan", Marshall Poe and Marnie Anderson
Kimberly Zarecor, "Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity: Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960", Marshall Poe and Kimberly Zarecor
Monica Black, "Death in Berlin: From Weimar to Divided Germany", Marshall Poe and Monica Black
Jen Huntley, "The Making of Yosemite: James Mason Hutchings and the Origins of America's Most Popular National Park", Marshall Poe and Jen Huntley
Carolina Armenteros, "The French Idea of History: Joseph de Maistre and his Heirs, 1794-1854", Marshall Poe and Carolina Armenteros
Francis Spufford, "Red Plenty: Industry! Progress! Abundance! Inside the Fifties Soviet Dream", Marshall Poe and Francis Spufford
Cynthia Wachtell, “War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914″, Marshall Poe and Cynthia Wachtell
Michael David-Fox, “Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941″, Marshall Poe and Michael David-Fox
Submissions from 2011
Gerald Steinacher, “Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice”, Marshall Poe and Gerald Steinacher
Kariann Akemi Yokota, “Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation”, Marshall Poe and Kariann Akemi Yokota
Jay Rubenstein, “Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse”, Marshall Poe and Jay Rubenstein
David Ciarlo, “Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany”, Marshall Poe and David Ciarlo
Colin Woodard, “American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America”, Marshall Poe and Colin Woodard
Rosamund Bartlett, “Tolstoy: A Russian Life”, Marshall Poe and Rosamund Bartlett
Edith Sheffer, “Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain”, Marshall Poe and Edith Sheffer
Andrew Curran, “The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment”, Marshall Poe and Andrew Curran
Sandy Zipp, “Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York”, Marshall Poe and Sandy Zipp
Charles McKinney, Jr., “Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina”, Marshall Poe and Charles McKinney
Mikaila Lemonik Arthur, “Student Activism and Curricular Change in Higher Education”, Marshall Poe and Mikaila Lemonik Arthur
Elizabeth Heineman, “Before Porn Was Legal: The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse”, Marshall Poe and Elizabeth Heineman
Rodric Braithwaite, “Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89″, Marshall Poe and Rodric Braithwaite
Keith Pomakoy, “Helping Humanity: American Policy and Genocide Rescue”, Marshall Poe and Keith Pomakoy
Robert Thurston, “Lynching: American Mob Murder in Global Perspective”, Marshall Poe and Robert Thurston
Anthony Penna, “The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History”, Marshall Poe and Anthony Penna
Christopher Krebs, “A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich”, Marshall Poe and Christopher Krebs
Eric Schneider, “Smack: Heroin and the American City”, Marshall Poe and Eric Schneider
Elizabeth Abel, “Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow”, Marshall Poe and Elizabeth Abel
Adam Hochschild, “To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918″, Marshall Poe and Adam Hochschild
Jonathan Steinberg, “Bismarck: A Life”, Marshall Poe and Jonathan Steinberg
Blair Ruble, “Washington’s U Street: A Biography”, Marshall Poe and Blair Ruble
Ricardo Duchesne, “The Uniqueness of Western Civilization”, Marshall Poe and Ricardo Duchesne
Francis Fukuyama, “The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution”, Marshall Poe and Francis Fukuyama
David Shneer, “Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust”, Marshall Poe and David Shneer
Michael A. Reynolds, “Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908-1918″ (Cambridge UP, 2011), Marshall Poe and Michael A. Reynolds
Erik Jensen, “Body by Weimar: Athletes, Gender, and German Modernity” (Oxford UP, 2010), Marshall Poe and Erik Jensen
Daniel Sidorick, “Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century” (Cornell UP, 2009), Marshall Poe and Daniel Sidorick
Giancarlo Casale, “The Ottoman Age of Exploration” (Oxford UP, 2010), Marshall Poe and Giancarlo Casale
Hans Kundnani, “Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust” (Columbia UP, 2010), Marshall Poe and Hans Kundnani
Louis Hyman, “Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink” (Princeton UP, 2011), Marshall Poe and Louis Hyman
Lesley Hazleton, “After the Prophet: the Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split” (Doubleday, 2009), Marshall Poe and Lesley Hazleton
J. E. Lendon, “Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins” (Basic, 2010), Marshall Poe and J. E. Lendon
Virginia Scharff, “The Women Jefferson Loved” (HarperCollins, 2010), Marshall Poe and Virginia Scharff
Joyce Appleby, “The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism” (Norton, 2010), Marshall Poe and Joyce Appleby
Catherine Epstein, “Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland” (Oxford UP, 2010), Marshall Poe and Catherine Epstein
Joyce Salisbury, “The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages” (Routledge, 2011), Marshall Poe and Joyce Salisbury
Nell Irvin Painter, “The History of White People” (Norton, 2010), Marshall Poe and Nell Irvin Painter
Ian Sample, “Massive: The Missing Particle that Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science” (Basic Books, 2010), Marshall Poe and Ian Sample
Submissions from 2010
Ann Fabian, “The Skull Collectors: Race, Science and America’s Unburied Dead”, Marshall Poe and Ann Fabian
David Shearer, “Policing Stalin’s Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953″, Marshall Poe and David Shearer
Thomas Weber, “Hitler’s First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War”, Marshall Poe and Thomas Weber
Deborah Kaple, “Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir”, Marshall Poe and Deborah Kaple
Kyra Hicks, “This I Accomplish: Harriet Powers’ Bible Quilt and Other Pieces”, Marshall Poe and Kyra Hicks
Joe Maiolo, “Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931–1941″, Marshall Poe and Joe Maiolo
David Farber, “The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism”, Marshall Poe and David Farber
Abbott Gleason, “A Liberal Education”, Marshall Poe and Abbott Gleason
James Fleming, “Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control”, Marshall Poe and James Fleming
Aram Goudsouzian, “King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution”, Marshall Poe and Aram Goudsouzian
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, “Russian Orientalism”, Marshall Poe and David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
Fred Spier, “Big History and the Future of Humanity”, Marshall Poe and Fred Spier
Norman Naimark, “Stalin’s Genocides”, Marshall Poe and Norman Naimark
Thomas Kessner, “The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh & the Rise of American Aviation”, Marshall Poe and Thomas Kessner
Kip Kosek, “Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy”, Marshall Poe and Kip Kosek
Elaine Tyler May, “America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation”, Marshall Poe and Elaine Tyler May
Valerie Hébert, “Hitler’s Generals on Trial: The Last War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg”, Marshall Poe and Valerie Hébert
Amanda Podany, “Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East”, Marshall Poe and Amanda Podany
Jeffrey H. Jackson, “Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910″, Marshall Poe and Jeffrey H. Jackson
Gary Bruce, “The Firm: The Inside Story of the Stasi”, Marshall Poe and Gary Bruce
Todd Moye, “Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II”, Marshall Poe and Todd Moye
Azar Gat, “War in Human Civilization”, Marshall Poe and Azar Gat
John Steinberg, “All the Tsar’s Men: Russia’s General Staff and the Fate of the Empire, 1898-1914″, Marshall Poe and John Steinberg
Michael Kranish, “Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War”, Marshall Poe and Michael Kranish
Jerry Muller, “Capitalism and the Jews”, Marshall Poe and Jerry Muller
Ruth Harris, “Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century”, Marshall Poe and Ruth Harris
Joanna Levin, “Bohemia in America, 1858-1920″, Marshall Poe and Joanna Levin
Heather Cox Richardson, “Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre”, Marshall Poe and Heather Cox Richardson
Audrey Kurth Cronin, “How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns”, Marshall Poe and Audrey Kurth Cronin
Fearghal McGarry, “The Rising: Ireland, Easter 1916″, Marshall Poe and Fearghal McGarry
Jeffrey Reznick, “John Galsworthy and the Disabled Soldiers of the Great War”, Marshall Poe and Jeffrey Reznick
Greg Castillo, “Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design”, Marshall Poe and Greg Castillo
P. Bingham and J. Souza, “Death From a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe”, Marshall Poe, Paul Bingham, and Joanne Souza
Andrew Donson, “Youth in the Fatherless Land: War Pedagogy, Nationalism, and Authority in Germany, 1914-1918″, Marshall Poe and Andrew Donson
Amy Bass, “Those About Him Remained Silent: The Battle Over W. E. B. Du Bois”, Marshall Poe and Amy Bass
Patrick Manning, “The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture”, Marshall Poe and Patrick Manning
David Laskin, “The Long Way Home. An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War”, Marshall Poe and David Laskin
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, “The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew”, Marshall Poe and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Joel Wolfe, “Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity”, Marshall Poe and Joel Wolfe
David Aaronovitch, “Voodoo Histories: The Role of Conspiracy Theory in the Shaping of Modern History”, Marshall Poe and David Aaronovitch
Charles King, “The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus”, Marshall Poe and Charles King
Hilary Earl, “The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History”, Marshall Poe and Hilary Earl
Nicholas Thompson, “The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War”, Marshall Poe and Nicholas Thompson