Yale University Press Podcast

The Yale University Press Podcast is a series of in-depth conversations with experts and authors on a range of topics including politics, history, science, art, and more for those who are intellectually curious.

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Historian of Abolition R. J. M. Blackett on Samuel Ringgold Ward

Posted May 8, 202300:51:34

This episode of our podcast features a conversation with historian R.J.M. Blackett about the 19th century newspaper editor, Congregational minister,...

A conversation with John Darlington about his new book, Amongst the Ruins: Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear

Posted April 27, 202300:37:31

The archaeologist shares compelling stories of ruins and lost civilizations, from the Garamantes of ancient northern Africa to Port Royal, Jamaica to...

Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

Posted April 25, 202300:46:36

In this episode, director of Yale University Press, John Donatich, talks with Ned Blackhawk about his new book, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples...

David Pullins and Vanessa K. Valdés on Juan de Pareja

Posted April 21, 202300:41:18

A conversation about the 17th-century Spanish painter, famously depicted by Diego Velázquez, on his own terms.

The Original Psychonauts

Posted April 18, 202300:39:35

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