Τα καλύτερα Modern Scholar podcast (2024)

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Understanding Eisenhower and the Holocaust with Jason Lantzer 1:13:51

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Dr. Jason Lantzer serves as the Assistant Director of the Butler University Honors Program. An historian by training, his research and writing interests generally center on religion, politics, and law, with some work about Disney thrown in for good measure. He is the author of eight books, including Dwight Eisenhower & the Holocaust (DeGruyter, 202…

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Demystifying Libraries with Cari Dubiel 37:01

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Cari Dubiel is the Assistant Director of the Twinsburg Public Library in Twinsburg, Ohio and is the author of the Author's Guide to Libraries, which is the subject of our conversation today. Enjoy!

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Researching Counterinsurgency with Terrence Peterson 38:53

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Terrence G. Peterson is Assistant Professor of History at Florida International University. He researches and teaches on France, modern Europe, and their connections to the wider world, with a particular focus on war, empire, and migration. His first book, Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency, was just published…

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Turning Your Dissertation into a Book with Katelyn Knox and Allison van Deventer 57:34

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My guests today are Katelyn Knox and Allison van Deventer, who recognized each other as kindred spirits during grad school at UCLA. Katelyn went on to land a tenure-track job at the University of Central Arkansas and eventually published a book based on her dissertation. She developed a "Dissertation-to-Book Boot Camp" to help other authors get thr…

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Exploring the Napoleonic World with Alexander Mikaberidze 1:14:55

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Join me for a fascinating tour through the Napoleonic era this week with the professor who has made it his life's work, Dr. Alexander Mikaberidze. Alexander Mikaberidze is Professor of History and Ruth Herrin Noel Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University-Shreveport. He has written and edited over two dozen books, including the award winning The …

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Becoming a Historian with Alycia Asai 53:18

3M ago53:18

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Welcome to Season Six of The Modern Scholar Podcast! In this episode we nerd out with our FIRST EVER repeat guest—the wonderful and creative Alycia Asai from the Civics and Coffee podcast! Alycia first appeared during Season Two, and I would encourage you all to taken a listen to that conversation here. Since that time, Alycia completed her MA in H…

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Happy One Hundred! 19:22

7M ago19:22

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Today we are celebrating EPISODE ONE HUNDRED of The Modern Scholar Podcast! It's hard to believe we are here already, and thanks goes out to all the wonderful guests and the great conversations that have characterized this series. Today the fun continues with a brief look at how to get the most out of the academic conference experience—definitely a…

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It's a bird! It's a Plane! It's Episode 99! 29:52

7M ago29:52

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Join me for a little bit of a different episode this week as we mark Episode 99 with a Q&A, some brief cameos from previous guests, and a quick reminder about National Library Week coming up April 7-13!

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Building a Modern Library 58:59

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David Johnson has been a proud Fayetteville community member for over 20 years. Originally from Little Rock, he received his undergraduate and masters degree from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and his Master of Library Science degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In 2012, he returned to the nationally recognized Fayettevil…

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Podcasting and Modern War 57:38

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John Amble is the Editorial Director of the Modern War Institute at West Point and Co-Director of the Urban Warfare Project. He is also a military intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Reserve and a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan. Before assuming his current role, John served as managing editor of War on the Rocks, a digital media outlet feat…

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World War II and Chemical Warfare 44:36

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M. Girard Dorsey is Professor of History, Program Coordinator of Justice Studies, and core faculty of Medical Humanities, Society, & Ethics at the University of New Hampshire, focusing on military and medical history. Under the name Marion Girard, she is author of A Strange and Formidable Weapon. Her most recent book is Holding Their Breath: How th…

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Becoming Veterans 37:33

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Dr. Sarah Parry Myers is an Associate Professor of History at Messiah University in central Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on 20th century United States history, gender, public history, and military history. She is the recent recipient of a Dialogues on the Experience of War grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, focused on …

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What a Wonderful World 49:23

9M ago49:23

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Steve Biernacki is the Executive Director of the South Arkansas Historical Preservation Society, following roles as Executive Director of City Connections in Little Rock, AR and various positions with the Habitat for Humanity of Central Arkansas. Steve is here to talk about the world of nonprofits and community leadership - so don't miss this conve…

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Life in the Cyber Age 1:05:36

9M ago1:05:36

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Derek Reveron is Chair and Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He specializes in strategy development, non-state security challenges, intelligence, and U.S. defense policy. He has authored or edited fourteen books. Dr. Reveron is a faculty affiliate at the Belfer Center for Science and Inte…

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Exploring Catastrophic Diplomacy 33:18

9M ago33:18

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Dr. Julia Irwin is the T. Harry Williams Professor of History at Louisiana State University, and the Co-Editor of the Journal of Disaster Studies. Her research focuses on the place of humanitarian aid in twentieth-century U.S. foreign relations, and we will be talking about her second book, Catastrophic Diplomacy: U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance i…

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The Information Hunters 41:45

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Dr. Kathy Peiss is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History (emerita) at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe, published by Oxford University Press in 2020. Other books include Cheap Amusements: Working Women and…

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Food and Farming in Our Modern Society 57:44

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Michael Kilpatrick is a farmer, presenter, inventor, and leader whose mission is to help farmers apply business principles and practical solutions to grow their businesses and simplify their lives. He has managed large organic farms and businesses, consulted for industry experts, and spoken at dozens of conferences. In 2004 Michael launched a highl…

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Exploring the History of Psychological Warfare 38:14

10M ago38:14

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Dr. Jared Tracy is the deputy command historian for the US Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he researches and publishes on the history of propaganda, psychological operations, and other facets of special operations. Dr. Tracy served six years in the Army himself, received his MA in History from Virginia Commonwea…

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Cyber Conflict and National Power 42:15

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Dr. Max Smeets is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich and Director of the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative. He is the author of No Shortcuts: Why States Struggle to Develop a Military Cyber-Force from Oxford University Press and co-editor of two additional cyber-related titles, from Georgetown Unive…

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Technology and Innovation in Modern Libraries 34:10

10M ago34:10

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Shelby Fleming holds a BFA in Studio Art from the Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville and an MFA from the University of Arkansas School of Art with an emphasis in Digital Fabrication. She serves as the Fabrication and Robotics Lab Coordinator at the Fayetteville Public Library in Northwest Arkansas. In her first year she has assisted with …

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Please Judge Books By Their Covers! 59:28

10M ago59:28

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Happy New Year, and welcome to SEASON 5! It’s no secret that we are very interested in the publishing process here on The Modern Scholar Podcast, and I am very excited for today’s episode because we have an opportunity to explore a very interesting and very important part of that process—cover design. I have Scott Levine and William Oates with me t…

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The American Air War in Europe 1:44:15

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Dr. Luke Truxal is an American military historian who focuses on the application of American air power during the Second World War. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Texas in 2011 and 2018. His teaching fields include Europe in the twentieth century, United States history, United States military history, and United States …

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West Point and Courageous Leadership 1:05:05

11M ago1:05:05

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Dr. Raymond James Raymond is a retired British diplomat. He is an adjunct professor in the department of social sciences, United States Military Academy, adjunct fellow of the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, Newport, Rhode Island, and professor emeritus of government and history at the State University of New York campus …

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Physics, Gardening, and Writing about Science 30:04

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Dr. Katherine Kornei is a freelance science writer based in Portland, Oregon. She covers Earth and space science for outlets such as Science News, Scientific American, and The New York Times. Katherine has reported stories from Asia, Europe, and the United States. She holds a BS in astrophysics from Yale University and an MS and PhD in astronomy fr…

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Military Entrepreneurship in Hapsburg Europe 39:57

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Dr. Suzanne Sutherland is an Associate Professor of History and General Education Director at Middle Tennessee State University. Dr. Sutherland’s teaching and research focus on the relationships between war and other developments in the early modern period including the scientific revolution, the republic of letters, and the growth of states and em…

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Political Science, National Security, and Baseball 1:17:01

12M ago1:17:01

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Dr. Terilyn Johnson Huntington is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she also works with the Center for Teaching Excellence, is involved with student mentorship programs, and serves on the Faculty Senate. Dr. Huntington received her MA and PhD in political science from the University of Kansas, …

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Understanding the U.S. Military 1:01:00

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Dr. Katherine Carroll is an Associate Professor of political science at Vanderbilt University. She earned her MA (1996) and PhD (2001) from the University of Virginia’s Department of Politics with a specialization in the comparative politics of the Middle East. She came to Vanderbilt University in 2001 as the Assistant Dean of the College of Arts a…

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Ronald Reagan and the Power of Pop Culture 38:45

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Major Ben Griffin is the Chief of the Military History Division in the History Department at the United States Military Academy. He is the author of the recently published Reagan’s War Stories which examines how the Reagan Administration used fiction to think about the military balance of power in Europe and throughout the world. Ben holds a PhD an…

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Abolitionism, the Jay Family, and Radio 1:05:23

1y ago1:05:23

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Dr. David Gellman is Professor of History at DePauw University, where he has taught since 1999. His book Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York was published in Spring 2022 by Three Hills, and imprint of Cornell University Press. Among his other publications are Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom…

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BONUS EPISODE: A Chat with Cari Dubiel at the Twinsburg Public Library 11:45

1y ago11:45

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Today I visited the Twinsburg Public Library in Twinsburg, Ohio to deliver a book talk about my book Rise of the Mavericks—the last book event of the year! It was a very special opportunity, because this is the library where I started my library career, first as a volunteer and then as a page, shelving books! Cari is the assistant director here, an…

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The Father of American Military Cryptology 1:15:35

1y ago1:15:35

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Betsy Rohaly Smoot is an intelligence historian interested in early twentieth-century cryptology and communications who has published articles in both Cryptologia and Intelligence and National Security. She spent 34 years at the National Security Agency as an analyst, manager, and, for her final ten years, as a historian in the Center for Cryptolog…

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Baking in the American South 42:55

1y ago42:55

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Dr. Rebecca Sharpless is a Professor of History at Texas Christian University, where she teaches American history, women’s history, history of food in America, the history of Texas, and Southern history. She is a past-president of the Oral History Association, a past-president of the Southern Association for Women Historians, and she has also serve…

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Reinterpreting Counterinsurgency and Grand Strategy 50:15

1y ago50:15

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Dr. Jacqueline Hazelton is Executive Editor of the journal International Security at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. Dr. Hazelton came to the Belfer Center from the Naval War College where she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Strategy and Policy. At the Naval War College, Hazelto…

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Special Libraries, Scholarship, and the Future 48:26

1y ago48:26

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Dr. Karin Wulf is a Professor of History at Brown University and the Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library. Before coming to the John Carter Brown Library and Brown University in 2021, she was the Executive Director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture a and Profes…

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The Cold War in the American South 1:06:18

1y ago1:06:18

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Dr. Kari Frederickson is a professor of history and past chair of the department of history at the University of Alabama. She is author of The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968 and coeditor of Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-Century Florida. She is also the author of Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernizat…

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Addiction and Atrocity in Nazi Germany 49:00

1y ago49:00

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Dr. Edward B. Westermann received his PhD from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and is a Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. He has published extensively in the areas of the Holocaust, genocide, and German military history. He is the author of four books and two co-edited volumes including Hitler’s Police …

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History, Myth, and the Future in Totalitarian Regimes 48:13

1y ago48:13

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Katie Stallard is a senior editor at the New Statesman magazine where she writes about China and global affairs. She’s also a non-resident global fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., and she has written for various publications including The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, and The Diplomat, and has appeared as an anal…

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The Rise and Struggles of the U.S. Air Force 38:45

1y ago38:45

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Dr. Brian Laslie is the Command Historian at the United States Air Force Academy. He previously served as the Deputy Command Historian at the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) and as the Historian, 1st Fighter Wing, Langley Air Force Base, home to the 94th and 27th Fighter Squadrons. A …

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America at Sea 1:07:07

1y ago1:07:07

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Eric Jay Dolin is the author of fifteen books, including Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, which was chosen as one of the best nonfiction books of 2007 by the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe, and also won the 2007 John Lyman Award for U.S. Maritime History. His most recent book before Rebels at Sea is A Furious Sky: The Five-Hund…

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Teacher, Historian, Curator, Spy 51:43

1y ago51:43

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Dr. Mark Stout is former Senior Lecturer in the Governmental Studies department at Johns Hopkins University. From 2013 to 2021 he was the director of the MA in Global Security Studies and he directed the post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Intelligence from 2014 to 2019. He previously worked for thirteen years as an intelligence analyst, first with t…

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Food, Sustainability, and the Future 50:49

1y ago50:49

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Rachel Bair is the Director for Sustainable Food Systems at Kalamazoo Valley Community College, where she has led the development of programming that focuses on sustainability and community economic development in the food system, including the launch and growth of the ValleyHUB food hub at the Food Innovation Center. Prior to her role at Kalamazoo…

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Occupied Experience and Requisition Politics in World War II 44:33

1y ago44:33

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Dr. Cameron Zinsou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Dr. Zinsou received his Ph.D. in History at Mississippi State University, and his master’s and bachelor’s in History at the University of North Texas. He is an active member of the Societ…

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Great Power Competition and America's Future 1:16:53

1+ y ago1:16:53

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*Apologies for a slight difference in audio quality on today's episode.* Ali Wyne is a senior analyst with Eurasia Group’s Global Macro-Geopolitics practice, focusing on US-China relations and great-power competition. He has served as a junior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a research assistant at the Belfer Center for Sc…

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The Secret Art of Grant Writing 34:41

1+ y ago34:41

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Dr. Betty Lai is an Associate Professor in Counseling Psychology at Boston College. Dr. Lai’s research focuses on the impacts of the climate crisis and disasters such as hurricanes, floods, wildfires on children. Dr. Lai is the author of The Grant Writing Guide: A Road Map for Scholars from Princeton University Press, and this book is the subject o…

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The Origins of BBQ and African-American Traditions 47:12

1+ y ago47:12

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Adrian Miller is a food writer, James Beard Award winner, attorney, and certified barbecue judge who lives in Denver, Colorado. Adrian received an A.B in International Relations from Stanford University in 1991, and a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1995. From 1999 to 2001, Miller served as a special assistant to President Bill Cl…

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World War II and the Women with Silver Wings 50:39

1+ y ago50:39

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Katherine Sharp Landdeck is a Professor of History at Texas Woman’s University, the home of the WASP archives. A Guggenheim Fellow at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and a graduate of the University of Tennessee, where she was a Normandy Scholar and earned her Ph.D. in American History, Landdeck has received numerous awards for her wo…

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Germany, the Cold War, and the Profession of History 1:22:51

1+ y ago1:22:51

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Dr. Ron Granieri is Professor of History in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the US Army War College, where he is the editor and principal host of A Better Peace, the official podcast of The War Room. A graduate of Harvard and the University of Chicago, he also serves as Director of the Center for the Study of America and the Wes…

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Imperial Japan and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere 46:13

1+ y ago46:13

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Dr. Jeremy Yellen is a historian of modern Japan based in Hong Kong. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University, and since 2014 has been teaching at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Jeremy’s research focuses on modern Japan’s international, diplomatic, and political history. His work largely grapples with questions of warfare, empire, …

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Military History, the Profession, and Barbeque 1:02:28

1+ y ago1:02:28

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Dr. Robert “Bob” Wettemann is an Associate Professor of History at the United States Air Force Academy. He holds a B.A. with Honors in History from Oklahoma State University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in History from Texas A&M University. He is the author of Privilege vs. Equality: Civil Military Relations in the Jacksonian Era, 1815-1845 (Praeger…

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The New Cold War, the Middle East, and the Future of History 1:15:49

1+ y ago1:15:49

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Benjamin Allison is a PhD student in History and a Graduate Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin specializing in 20th century US foreign relations, especially vis-á-vis the Middle East and Russia. He is the lead author of the forthcoming book Die in Your Rage: The Logic of Violence in Jihadist Ins…

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