KIlbourn offers the first comprehensive study published in the English-speaking world on one of the most compelling figures in twenty-first century European film...

In this episode, I look at Eisler’s last days in England, where he found that the Oxford readership he had been promised before being sent to Dachau was taken by someone else....

On May 20th, Eisler was arrested and spent the next fifteen months in Dachau and Buchenwald...

Among the tens of thousands of Americans who volunteered their services during the Civil War was Mary Walker, a daring young woman who was one of the handful of female doctors in the nation at that time...

Linden analyzes Karl Kraus’s oeuvre while engaging in the conversation about modernism and modernity, which is shaped and conditioned by the already post-postmodern condition...

Whitehead ask Eisler "Is a frequent occurrence that men see The Christ; and are there occasions known when the visions are free from religiosity and at the same time full of life and power?”

Gershenhorn's award-winning study recovers the life and activism of Louis Austin and the influence of his newspaper, the Carolina Times...

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...

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

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 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 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...