Recent Archive

Features Tim Nunan, lecturer in global history at the Free University of Berlin.

Discusses the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism. Features Fritz Bartel, assistant professor at the Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M University.

A series featuring Aziz Rana, the J. Donald Monan, S.J., professor of law and government at Boston College, based on his book The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them.

Featuring Jonathan Hunt, assistant professor at the U.S. Naval War College and a fellow of the Nuclear Security Program at Yale University, about his book The Nuclear Club.

Featuring Bryan Pitts, assistant director of the Latin American Institute at UCLA and author of Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil’s Military Dictatorship.

Daniel Hummel, director of the Lumen Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Upper House, takes us through the 200+ years of Christian-led efforts to create a Jewish nation-state.

A three-part series with historian Margaret O’Mara on her book The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America.

A three-part series with historian Margaret O’Mara on her book The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America.

This series features Samuel Huneke, assistant professor of history at George Mason University, and discusses his book States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany.

This series features Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, and focuses on his book The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017.

Features Lisandro Claudio, associate professor at UC Berkeley.

Explores “new lefts” from the antifascist 1920s to the anti-establishment 1960s. Features Terry Renaud, assistant instructional professor in social sciences at the University of Chicago.

Discusses the formation and proliferation of the military-industrial complex in the Cold War. Features Michael Brenes, associate director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and lecturer in history at Yale University.

Samuel Huneke, guest contributor of this series, has graciously provided a series reading list.

Historian Alexander Aviña tells the story of two peasant guerrilla organizations led by schoolteachers which waged revolutionary armed struggles in 1960s Mexico.

Grab a copy of [Alexander Aviña's](https://alexanderavina.com/) book inspiring the series, *[Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/specters-of-revolution-9780199936595?cc=us\&lang=en&)*.

Features James Lin, assistant professor of international studies at the University of Washington.

Works cited from our series on Vietnam with Sean Fear.

Sean Fear, lecturer in international history at the University of Leeds, takes us through the history of Vietnam dating back to the 19th century.