NBN Book of the Day

1490 Episodes

1. Peter Mandler, "The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain's Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2020)

   Published: 1/6/2025
2. Emily Marker, "Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era" (Cornell UP, 2022)

   Published: 1/5/2025
3. Simon Miles, "Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2020)

   Published: 1/4/2025
4. Adam Zucker, "Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 1/3/2025
5. Victor D. Cha, "The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea" (Columbia UP, 2024)

   Published: 1/2/2025
6. Brandon Keim, "Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World" (Norton, 2024)

   Published: 1/1/2025
7. Hugh Wilford, "The CIA: An Imperial History" (Basic Books, 2024)

   Published: 12/31/2024
8. Mike Madrid, "The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)

   Published: 12/30/2024
9. Emily Herring, "Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People" (Basic Books, 2024)

   Published: 12/29/2024
10. Kit Kowol, "Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/28/2024
11. Ben Highmore, "Playgrounds: The Experimental Years" (Reaktion, 2024)

    Published: 12/27/2024
12. Rebecca Ball, "A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)

    Published: 12/26/2024
13. Lisa Sheryl Jacobson. "Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey After Prohibition" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 12/25/2024
14. Jordan D. Rosenblum, "Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig" (NYU Press, 2024)

    Published: 12/24/2024
15. Paula Fredriksen, "Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/23/2024
16. Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, "The Unequal Effects of Globalization" (MIT, 2023)

    Published: 12/22/2024
17. Lindsay Weinberg, "Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/21/2024
18. Jan Machielsen, "The Basque Witch-Hunt: A Secret History" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

    Published: 12/20/2024
19. Erich Hatala Matthes, "What to Save and Why: Identity, Authenticity, and the Ethics of Conservation" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/19/2024
20. Stephanie Rutherford, "Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of Canada" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022)

    Published: 12/18/2024