Harvard Press Podcast

Chris Gondek interviews Gretchen Heefner about the history of the Minuteman Missile System and how its deployment in the Plains altered the lives of ranching and farming communities.

Chris Gondek interviews John Turner about the life of Mormon pioneer, Brigham Young.

Chris Gondek interviews Jonathan Levy about how the idea of risk changed in 19th century America.

Chris Gondek interviews John Allen about our evolving relationship with food.

Chris Gondek interviews Victoria Nelson about the power of the Gothic imagination in modern culture..

Chris Gondek interviews Modris Eksteins about a scandal involving forged Van Gogh's in Weimar Berlin.

Chris Gondek interviews Lawrence Powell of Tulane University about the early history of New Orleans.

Chris Gondek interviews Sydney Nathans of Duke University about the efforts of escaped slave Mary Walker to liberate her family from North Carolina.

Chris Gondek interviews Brad Gregory of the University of Notre Dame about the ongoing consequences of the Protestant Reformation on modern society.

Chris Gondek interviews Mark McGurl of Stanford University about the history of Creative Writing Programs at American Universities.

Chris Gondek interviews Mark Peterson of Mt. Holyoke about how Galileo's artistic training influenced his scientific methods.

Chris Gondek interviews Denise Gigante of Stanford about the lives of the poet, John Keats and his brother, the Anglo-American businessman, George.

Chris Gondek interviews James Livingston of MIT about the amazing properties of magnetic levitation.

Chris Gondek interviews Joe Roman of the University of Vermont about the history and consequences of the Endangered Species Act.

Chris Gondek interviews Nicholas Frankel of VCU about the historical background of this Oscar Wilde classic.

Chris Gondek interviews Elizabeth Price Foley of FIU about the legal issues around life and death in American jurisprudence.

Chris Gondek interviews Niobe Way of NYU about the problems boys have maintaining emotionally intimate friendships with other boys as they enter their teens.

David Garland is Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University. Interview by Michael Orey, Public Affairs Director, NYU School of Law..

Chris Gondek interviews Kenneth Warren about the relationship between Jim Crow and African American Literature.

Chris Gondek interviews Bernd Heinrich, the author of The Nesting Season: Cuckoos, Cuckolds and the Invention of Monogamy.