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Jane Draycott, "Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome" (Yale UP,…

8/22/2026 • 63 min

Fulvia was born into wealth, privilege, and prestige around the year 80 BCE, yet there was nothing inherently special about her—she was not a saint, an empress, or a queen. But during the years leading up to the fall of the Roman Republic, Fulvia was moving in the most powerful social circles, and by her death in 40 BCE she had amassed a degree of political and … Play episode

Emile Chabal, "The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian"…
Beronda L. Montgomery, "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and …
Edward E. Andrews, "Newport Gardner's Anthem: A Story of Slavery, Struggle…
Jeana Jorgensen, "Sex Education 101: Approachable Essays on Folklore, Cult…
Sarah Ellen Zarrow, "Displays of Belonging: Polish Jewish Collecting and M…
Thomas F. Rzeznik, "A Monument of Charity: St. Vincent’s Hospital and Cath…
William Whyte, "The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood" (Harv…
David N. Gellman, "Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family…
Stefan Al, "Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call H…
Yana Skorobogatov, "Fate in My Hands: The Death Penalty in the Soviet Unio…
Max Perry Mueller, "Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Foun…
Matthew Pinsker, "Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln" (Nor…
Blair L.M. Kelley, "Black Freedom: A Visual History of Juneteenth and Eman…
Emily Sneff, "When the Declaration of Independence Was News" (Oxford UP, 2…
Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel, "Seeking Freedom in Indian Country: Slavery, Sov…
Vaneesa Cook, "Empire and Liberty: The Tied Histories of Two American Land…
Virginia McGee Richards, "The Inner Passage: An Untold Story of Black Resi…
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "Parallel Journeys: Eurasian History Through Trav…
Murat C. Yildiz, "The Ottoman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies, Men, a…
Steven K. Green, "American Infidelity: The Gilded Age Battle Over Freethou…
Anna Lively, "Revolutionary Connections: Russia and Ireland, 1905-1923" (O…
Meredith Gamer, "City of the Gallows: Art and Execution in Eighteenth-Cent…
Ashton Lazarus, "Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japa…
Lily Kelting, "Against Heritage: The Reinvention of Traditional Foods" (UN…
Michael Patrick Cullinane, "Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Court Cabine…
Nick Yablon, "From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower: C. G. Hine's 1905 Pho…
Ian J. McNiven, "Sentient Seas: Archaeologies of Seascapes and Maritime Ri…
Kelly M. Duke Bryant, "Negotiating Childhood: French Colonialism and Afric…
Brendan Greeley, "The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World's Most Power…
Richard Bell, "The American Revolution and the Fate of the World" (Penguin…
Martin Fitzgerald, "The Umbrella Man and Other Stories: What We Talk about…
Robert G Parkinson, "Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror o…
Jeffrey A. Marx, "Jewish Firebugs: Arson and Antisemitism from the Civil W…
Rod Phillips, "Cats: A History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
Peter C. Mancall, "Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c.…
Paul Helseth and David P. Smith eds., "New Perspectives on Old Princeton, …
Daniel Rood, "In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantatio…
Gullah-Geechee Diasporas: Knowledge, Culture, and Black Lowcountry Legacies
Lauren Duval, "The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupati…
Stephen Robertson, "Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Vi…
Ted Powell, "Churchill and the Crown" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Xian Aubin Wang, "Islam and Maoism in Southern Yunnan: State Violence and …
Thomas Paine at the Semiquincentennial: A Conversation with Gregory Claeys
Jonathan Schneer, "Nine Days in May: The General Strike Of 1926" (Oxford U…
Kate Dannies, "Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empir…
Chiara Formichi, "Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernit…
Christopher de Bellaigue, "The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King" (Bodley…
Fred S. Naiden, "Railroaded: A Motorman’s Story of the New York City Subwa…

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