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Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

A History of Racist Ideas

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09.01.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped From the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Lucretius and On The Nature of Things

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08.31.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.  He is the author of many books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

The Birth of Christianity and the Destruction of the Classical World Part I

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08.30.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Catherine Nixey is a journalist and a classicist. She is the author of The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World. She is the winner of a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

The Birth of Christianity and the Destruction of the Classical World Part II

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08.29.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the development of early Christianity.  He is the author of The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

How the Islamic Empires Saved the Classical World

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08.28.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Violet Moller is a historian and writer who specializes in intellectual history. She is the author of the book The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

How Climate Change Brought Rome to Its Knees

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08.27.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Kyle Harper is a historian of the classical world and the Senior Vice President and Provost at his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Ancient Traditions of the Middle East

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08.26.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Gerard Russell, former British and United Nations diplomat, Senior Fellow with the New America Foundation’s International Security Program and the Foreign Policy Center in London, and author of the book Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

The Destruction of Ancient Sites

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08.24.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Dr. Edmund Ghareeb, Adjunct Professor of Middle East history and politics in the School of International Service at American University, internationally recognized expert on the Kurds, Iraq, and media issues, and co-author of the Historical Dictionary of Iraq.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

The Caliphates and the Empire of the Mind

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08.22.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Jonathan Lyons, author of The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization. He served as editor and foreign correspondent for Reuters for more than twenty years.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

5000 Year History of Debt

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08.18.21

By Mitch Jeserich

David Graeber, renown anthropologist, one of the original Occupy Wall St activists and author of the books Debt: The First 5,000 Years

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