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Hannah Shepherd, "The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imp…

5/29/2026 • 78 min

In The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region (U California Press, 2025), Hannah Shepherd examines the shared histories of Pusan and Fukuoka over the eight decades from Japan's forced opening of Korea's ports in 1876 to the end of the Korean War in 1953. One city was Korean, the other Japanese; one was a burgeoning colonial po… Play episode

Timothy Mason Roberts, "After Barbary: Algeria's Roles in the French and A…
H. A. Drake, "The Wisdom of the Ancients: Four Ideas That Changed the Worl…
Timothy McCall, "Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of …
Christopher S. Celenza, "The Evolution of Western Thought: Volume 1, From …
Jeremy Yellen, "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Emp…
Patrick Wyman, "Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Buil…
Julia F. Irwin, "Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in…
Jeffrey Whyte, "The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and…
Mary T. Freeman, "Abolitionists and the Politics of Correspondence" (U Pen…
Mary T. Freeman, "Abolitionists and the Politics of Correspondence" (U Pen…
Ruth Balint, "Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to …
Kori Schake, "The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relat…
Thomas Doherty, "How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documen…
Denise Z. Davidson, "Surviving Revolution: Bourgeois Lives and Letters" (C…
Evan N. Dawley, "Taiwan: A People′s History" (Reaktion Books, 2026)
Eloise Moss, "The Secret Life of the Hotel: Sex, Crime and Protest in Brit…
Justin Randolph, "Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Cr…
Gordon Simmons, "Mutiny in the Mountains: West Virginia Public Workers, 19…
Stephen F. Knott, "Conspirator in Chief: The Long Tradition of Conspiracy …
Benjamin Robert Siegel, "Markets of Pain: Opium, Capitalism, and the Globa…
Es-pranza Humphrey, "Act Black: Posters from Black American Stage & Screen…
Wil Haygood, "The War within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at H…
Angus Burgin on the Rise of the Internet
Holly EJ Black, "The Story of Printmaking: A Global History of Art" (Yale …
Shannon McKenna Schmidt, "You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson’s Trailbla…
Mark Peterson, "The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Th…
Julia Bowes, "Every Man's Home a Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings o…
Julia Stephens, "Worldly Afterlives: Tracing Family Trails Between India a…
Odd Arne Westad, "The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings from His…
Lerone Martin, "Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr." (Amistad…
Alice Echols, "Black Power, White Heat: From Solidarity Politics to Radica…
Sophie Rose, "Intimacy and Social (Dis)Order in Dutch Colonial Expansion: …
Benjamin Y. Fong and Paul Prescod, "Rustin's Challenge" (2026)
Michelle P. Brown, "Illumino: A History of Medieval Britain in Twelve Illu…
Paola De Santo, "The Ambassador and the Courtesan: Political Bodies in Ren…
Dylan Baun, "Beirut Radical: A Global Microhistory from the Sixties to the…
Scott Kurashige, "American Peril: The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism…
Anthony Kaldellis, "1453: The Conquest and Tragedy of Constantinople" (Oxf…
Jason R. Young, "The Mask of Memory: White Racial Fantasy After the Civil …
Susanna Elm and Kristina Sessa, "War and Community in Late Antiquity" (Cam…
Gennady Estraikh, "The History of Birobidzhan: Building a Soviet Jewish Ho…
Zaakir Tameez, "Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation" (Henry Holt, 2025)
Lukas Novotny, "Modern New York: The Illustrated Story of Architecture in …
Mattie Fitch, "The People, the Workers, and the Citizens: Antifascist Cult…
Vanda Krefft, "Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolu…
Yair Mintzker, "I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern Con…
Jan Cress Dondi, "The Navigator's Letter" (Union Square, 2026)
Drew Flanagan, "From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zo…
Jim Downs, "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transfor…

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