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On the Street of the Hidden Shops: One City Block, Two Thousand Years, and a Walk Th…

10/24/2026 • 43 min

Elizabeth Rodini joins Jana Byars to talk about her new forthcoming book, On the Street of Hidden Shops: One City Block, Two Thousand Years, and a Walk Through the Layered Lives of Rome (U Chicago Press, 2026). Delve into Rome's lost history through the stories of a single city block. Cutting through the heart of Rome is Via delle Botteghe Oscure, a time-worn st… Play episode

Runes: A Concise History with Tom Birkett (Oxford UP, 2025)
Declarations of Independence: Indigenous Resilience, Colonial Rivalries, a…
Offshore Oildom: America’s Energy Expansion into the Ocean with Tyler Prie…
Fascists of the World, Unite?: A History of Fascist Internationalism in th…
Disability: A History of Resistance with David Turner (Random House, 2026)
Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America fro…
Spanish Louisiana: Contest for Borderlands, 1763–1803 with Frances Kolb Tu…
Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution with S…
Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany with Michelle Lynn Kahn and Laure…
Skipping School: A History of American Homeschooling and How It Went Mains…
Hidden Terrors: The Scourge of Cholera in Jackson's America with Paul Kelt…
Troubled Times: The Boston Courthouse Bombing Of 1976 with Kevin Galvin (B…
The French Médersa: Islamic Education and Empire in Northwest Africa with …
An Anticolonial Development: Race, Schooling, and Emancipation in Twentiet…
Painting Paranoia: Cold War Art and Anti-Communism with Julia Bailey (U Il…
Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qi…
The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818-1915
The Centrality of Slavery: Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and…
Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age o…
Egyptian Male Film Stars in the Nasser Era: Envisioning a National Identit…
Women in Comics: Iconic Characters and Influential Creators 1923-Today wit…
The Institutional Foundations of Ukrainian Democracy with Nataliya Kibita …
The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder: Giacomo Matteotti in Myth and Memory, 1…
The Steppe and Its Empires: The Russian Empire and Its Eurasian Counterpar…
Soviet Blocks: The Bizarre Puzzle of How Tetris Embraced Western Values wi…
The Crusader Storm: A Global History of the Wars for the Middle East with …
Creatures of Story and Song: Tracing Britain's Lost Species with Lee Raye …
Bernardo de Gálvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution with Gonzalo M…
Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control with Kelly Lyt…
Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing with Rahim Kurw…
Into the Reich: The Red Army’s Advance to the Oder in 1945 with Prit Butta…
Kennedy’s Only Hero: How JFK’s Obsession with Winston Churchill Defined Hi…
Let the Oppressed Go Free: Abolitionism in Colonial and Revolutionary Amer…
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Anta…
The Range of the River: A Riverine History of Empire Across China, India, …
Operation Sparrow: The Incredible True Story of the North American Spies W…
Strong State, Weak Links: Eugenics and the Southern Politics of Welfare wi…
Great Power Diplomacy: The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kiss…
How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Marc…
Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours with…
The Connoisseur: A Cultural History with Peter Burke (Reaktion, 2026)
Antisemitism, an American Tradition with Pamela S. Nadell (Norton, 2025)
Projecting Knowledge: The Optical Lantern and Science Communication, 1880s…
Aristotle Kallis, "Iconic Fascism: The Excess of Destruction and Creation …
Matthew Mason, "Seeking the High Ground: Slavery and Political Conflict in…
Michael R. Fischbach, "I Did It for My Country: Sirhan Sirhan, Palestine, …
Katherine Grandjean, "Kingdom of Devils: A Tale of Murder in the Shadow of…
Glenn Peers, "Strange and Familiar History of Byzantine Art: Interpretatio…
Pablo F. Gomez, "Bloody Numbers: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the In…

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