Rahmaninejad's memoir provides a fascinating glimpse into the political and artistic life of Iran...

In this episode, we begin with Eisler’s testimony before the skeptical Senators of the Committee on Banking and Currency in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 1934...

Though not as well known today as many of his contemporaries, few American mob bosses were as feared as Albert Anastasia....

In the middle of the twentieth century, a newspaper photographer who went by the name of Weegee took memorable pictures of New York City’s street life...

Youthful arrogance. Hipster alienation. A lot of reading. A lot of drinking. Struggles to adjust to a land radically different from the one that one has left in youth....

In this episode, we focus on one of Eisler’s most controversial works, a reconstruction of the 1st-century Roman Jewish historian Josephus’ account of the events surrounding the death of Jesus...

Jeffers draws on fifteen years of research in archives and locations across America, Europe and Africa to envision the world of Phillis Wheatley Peters...

Keynes was not only an economist but the preeminent anti-authoritarian thinker of the 20th century,..

Lundberg finds within his seemingly contradictory positions a consistent belief in the power of print to forge American nationalism...

Lewis lays out a new paradigm for understanding R. Nachman’s thought and writing...

Clemmons offers a touching coming of age story that reveals what it felt like to be young, gifted, black, and gay during a time of intense racism and homophobia....

Jabour's rediscovers this groundbreaking American figure...

Redmond explores the ways in which Paul Robeson, silenced by state repression in his lifetime, still speaks to us today....

In this episode, we talk with Michael Gubser about the pioneering art historian Alois Riegl, one of Eisler’s teachers in Vienna and a major influence on his thought...

Philip A. Craig’s new book on John Owen, the premier puritan theologian, demonstrates how carefully his subject tracked the influence of antinomianism in his writing...

In 1978, Evan Pederick, a naive 22-year-old in the thrall of a radical religious movement, Ananda Marga, placed an enormous bomb outside Sydney's Hilton Hotel...

In this episode (# 2), we discuss Eisler’s early years as a member of the Jewish bourgeoisie in turn-of-the-century Vienna with historian Steven Beller...

In 1883, a young woman named Anandi Joshi set out from her native India to the United States to study medicine..,

"The Subhedar's Son" provides a fascinating insight into Brahmanical-Christian conversions of the era, along with attitudes surrounding such conversions...

Eisler argues that modern humans are descended from primates who imitated the hunting practices and pack hierarchies of wolves during the scarcity of the ice age...

Reyes examines the ways Colombian artist Beatriz González and Argentine-born art critic Marta Traba railed against international forms of modernism...

Harmer explores how a young Chilean woman pursued her political commitments and navigated patriarchal strictures as a militant leftist...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Wasyl Kushnir goes back to the second half of the 19th century and takes the reader to the present moment: the story provides a glimpse into a family that seems to be shaped by all the atrocities of the 20th century...