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 2010
Ben Kiernan, “Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur”, Marshall Poe and Ben Kiernan
Brian Balogh, “A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in 19th-Century America”, Marshall Poe and Brian Balogh
Kenneth Moss, “Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution”, Marshall Poe and Kenneth Moss
Alan E. Steinweis, “Kristallnacht 1938″, Marshall Poe and Alan E. Steinweis
Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson, “Natural Experiments of History”, Marshall Poe, Jared Diamond, and James A. Robinson
Julian E. Zelizer interview, "Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security From WWII to the War on Terrorism", Marshall Poe and Julian E. Zelizer
Toby Lester interview, "The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America its Name", Marshall Poe and Toby Lester
Submissions from 2009
Stephen Kotkin interview, "Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment", Marshall Poe and Stephen Kotkin
Harvey Schwartz interview, "Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of the ILWU", Marshall Poe and Harvey Schwartz
Sarah Ross interview, "The Birth of Feminism. Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England", Marshall Poe and Sarah Ross
Benjamin Binstock interview, "Vermeer's Family Secrets: Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice", Marshall Poe and Benjamin Binstock
Michaela Hoenicke interview, "Know Your Enemy. American Debate on Nazism, 1933-1945", Marshall Poe and Michaela Hoenicke
Rebecca Manley interview, "To the Tashkent Station. Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War", Marshall Poe and Rebecca Manley
Mark Bradley and Marilyn Young interview, "Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars: Transnational and International Perspectives", Marshall Poe, Mark Bradley, and Marilyn Young
Padraic Kenney interview, "1989: Democratic Revolutions at the Cold War's End", Marshall Poe and Padraic Kenney
Stevan Allen interview, "Roaming Ghostland: The Final Days of East Germany.", Marshall Poe and Stevan Allen
Sally G. McMillen interview, "Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement", Marshall Poe and Sally G. McMillen
Steve Gillon interview, "The Kennedy Assassination-24 Hours After: Lyndon B: Johnson's Pivotal First Day as President", Marshall Poe and Steve Gillon
Jennifer Burns interview, "Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right", Marshall Poe and Jennifer Burns
Jack Greene and Philip Morgan interview, "Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal", Marshall Poe, Jack Greene, and Philip Morgan
Peter Fritzsche interview, "Life and Death in the Third Reich", Marshall Poe and Peter Fritzsche
Brett Whalen interview, "Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages", Marshall Poe and Brett Whalen
Lawrence Wittner interview, "Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement", Marshall Poe and Lawrence Wittner
Peter Mancall interview, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson", Marshall Poe and Peter Mancall
Kevin Kenny interview, "Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment", Marshall Poe and Kevin Kenny
Nick Reding interview, "Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town", Marshall Poe and Nick Reding
Alexander Watson interview, "Enduring the Great War: Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918", Marshall Poe and Alexander Watson
Leslie Schwalm interview, "Emancipation's Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest", Marshall Poe and Leslie Schwalm
Charles Postel interview, "The Populist Vision", Marshall Poe and Charles Postel
Susan Brewer interview, "Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq", Marshall Poe and Susan Brewer
Mark Bradley interview, "Vietnam at War", Marshall Poe and Mark Bradley
Giles MacDonogh interview, "After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation", Marshall Poe and Giles MacDonogh
Thomas Wheatland interview, "The Frankfurt School in Exile", Marshall Poe and Thomas Wheatland
Benjamin Carp interview, "Rebels Rising: Cities in the American Revolution", Marshall Poe and Benjamin Carp
James Banner, Jr. and John Gillis interview, "Becoming Historians", Marshall Poe; James Banner, Jr.; and John Gillis
Matthew Algeo interview, "Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip", Marshall Poe and Matthew Algeo
Norman Stone interview, "World War One: A Short History", Marshall Poe and Norman Stone
William Beezley interview, "Mexicans in Revolution, 1910-1946", Marshall Poe and William Beezley
Adrian Goldsworthy interview, "How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower", Marshall Poe and Adrian Goldsworthy
Godfrey Hodgson interview, "The Myth of American Exceptionalism", Marshall Poe and Godfrey Hodgson
Joel Lewis interview, "Youth Against Fascism: Young Communists in Britain and the United States, 1919-1939", Marshall Poe and Joel Lewis
Tony Michels interview, "Fire in their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York", Marshall Poe and Tony Michels
Yuma Totani interview, "The Tokyo War Crimes Trials: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II", Marshall Poe and Yuma Totani
Kristin Celello interview, "Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States", Marshall Poe and Kristin Celello
James Mann interview, "The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War", Marshall Poe and James Mann
Robert Hendershot interview, "Family Spats: Perception, Illusion and Sentimentality in the Anglo-American Special Relationship", Marshall Poe and Robert Hendershot
Gregory Cochran interview, "The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution", Marshall Poe and Gregory Cochran
Kees Boterbloem interview, "The Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys: A Seventeenth-Century Dutch Globetrotter", Marshall Poe and Kees Boterbloem
Simon Morrison interview, "The People's Artist: Prokofiev's Soviet Years", Marshall Poe and Simon Morrison
Carl Bon Tempo interview, "Americans at the Gates: The United States and Refugees during the Cold War", Marshall Poe and Carl Bon Tempo
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern interview, "Jews in the Russian Army, 1827-1917", Marshall Poe and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Samuel Kassow interview, "Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive", Marshall Poe and Samuel Kassow
Matthew Goodman interview, "The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York", Marshall Poe and Matthew Goodman
Kathleen Johnson, Laura Turner O'Hara and Matt Wasniewski interview, "Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007", Marshall Poe, Kathleen Johnson, Laura Turner O'Hara, and Matt Wasniewski
Submissions from 2008
John H. Summers interview, "Every Fury on Earth", Marshall Poe and John H. Summers
Vicki Ruiz interview, "From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America", Marshall Poe and Vicki Ruiz
Donald Worster interview, "A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir", Marshall Poe and Donald Worster
Katherine Jellison interview, "It's Our Day: America's Love Affair with the White Wedding", Marshall Poe and Katherine Jellison
Edwin Burrows interview, "Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War", Marshall Poe and Edwin Burrows
Laura Wittern-Keller interview, "The Miracle Case: Film Censorship and the Supreme Court", Marshall Poe and Laura Wittern-Keller
Richard Fogarty interview, "Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-1918", Marshall Poe and Richard Fogarty
Ray Boomhower interview, "Robert F: Kennedy and the 1968 Indiana Primary", Marshall Poe and Ray Boomhower
W. Taylor Fain interview, "American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region", Marshall Poe and W. Taylor Fain
David Kaiser interview, "The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy", Marshall Poe and David Kaiser
Mark Mazower interview, "Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe", Marshall Poe and Mark Mazower
Andrew Gentes interview, "Exile to Siberia, 1590-1822", Marshall Poe and Andrew Gentes
James Willbanks interview, "Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War", Marshall Poe and James Willbanks
Alex Rabinowitch interview, "The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd", Marshall Poe and Alex Rabinowitch
Joyce Tyldesley interview, "Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt", Marshall Poe and Joyce Tyldesley
Howard Jones interview, "The Bay of Pigs", Marshall Poe and Howard Jones
Ian McNeely interview, "Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet", Marshall Poe and Ian McNeely
Heather Prescott interview, "Student Bodies: The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society & Medicine", Marshall Poe and Heather Prescott
Charles Lane interview, "The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction", Marshall Poe and Charles Lane
William Beezley interview, "Mexican National Identity: Memory, Innuendo and Popular Culture", Marshall Poe and William Beezley
Christopher Capozzola interview, "Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of The Modern American Citizen", Marshall Poe and Christopher Capozzola
John Lukacs interview, "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Dire Warning", Marshall Poe and John Lukacs
David Day interview, "Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others", Marshall Poe and David Day
Tim Snyder interview, "The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of A Habsburg Archduke", Marshall Poe and Tim Snyder
James Zug interview, "The Guardian: The History of South Africa's Extraordinary Anti-Apartheid Newspaper", Marshall Poe and James Zug
Walter Moss interview, "An Age of Progress? Clashing Twentieth Century Global Forces", Marshall Poe and Walter Moss
Colin Grant interview, "Negro With A Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey", Marshall Poe and Colin Grant
Katy Turton interview, "Forgotten Lives: The Role of Lenin's Sisters in the Russian Revolution, 1864-1937", Marshall Poe and Katy Turton
Kimberly Jensen interview, "Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War", Marshall Poe and Kimberly Jensen
John Randolph interview, "The House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism", Marshall Poe and John Randolph
Colin Gordon interview, "Mapping Decline: St: Louis and the Fate of the American City", Marshall Poe and Colin Gordon
Donald A. Ritchie interview, "Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932", Marshall Poe and Donald A. Ritchie
Robert Gellately interview, "Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe", Marshall Poe and Robert Gellately
Eric Gardner interview, "Jennie Carter: A Black Journalist of the Early West", Marshall Poe and Eric Gardner
Laura Wittern-Keller interview, "Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to Film Censorship 1915-1981", Marshall Poe and Laura Wittern-Keller
J. D. Bowers interview, "Joseph Priestley and English Unitarianism in America", Marshall Poe and J. D. Bowers
Matt Wasniewski interview, "Women in Congress, 1917-2006", Marshall Poe and Matt Wasniewski
Abigail Foerstner interview, "James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles", Marshall Poe and Abigail Foerstner
Kevin Mumford interview, "Newark: A History of Race, Rights and Riots in America", Marshall Poe and Kevin Mumford
Malcolm Rohrbough interview, "The Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850", Marshall Poe and Malcolm Rohrbough