Yale University Press Podcast

In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with Wesleyan president Michael S. Roth about the history of the student, current crises facing higher education, and building pluralistic campuses.

A conversation with Michael Beggs and Julie Thomson.

In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk with Philip Freeman about Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor (Ancient Lives Series).

The author’s new book offers insight into the Surrealism movement and why it continues to inspire.

In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with Helen Fry, author of Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars.

We discuss the celebrated art historian’s new book Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face.

In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato about How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy.

Vid Simoniti discusses the potential of contemporary art to bring about political change.

Abraham Burickson on his New Book, Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto.

In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk with Devorah Baum about her new book, On Marriage.

A Conversation With Owen Davies About His Illustrated History of Magical Texts

A conversation with the curator of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston about the book and exhibition America and Other Myths.

In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with award-winning sociologist Michael Mann about his new book, On Wars.

In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with Sarah Ruden, author of Vergil: The Poet’s Life (Ancient Lives Series).

In Conversation with Susan Brown and Alexa Griffith Winton.

In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with renowned physicist Piero Martin about his new book, The Seven Measures of the World.”

In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with Jean Pfaelzer, author of California, a Slave State. California, a Slave State is a survey of the untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict laborers to victims of modern t...

The two distinguished historians and critics of architecture compare the approaches they take in their new books.

A Conversation with Kelly Grovier about his new book, The Art of Colour .

A Conversation with artist Natalie Frank and translator Jack Zipes

In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk with Sean M. Kelley about his new book, American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865.

In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with conservation biologist Noah Charney about his new book, These Trees Tell a Story: The Art of Reading Landscapes.

This episode of our podcast features a conversation with historian R.J.M. Blackett about the 19th century newspaper editor, Congregational minister, and temperance advocate Samuel Ringgold Ward. Despite Ward’s prominent role in the abolitionist movement, his story has been lost because of the decades he spent in exile. In Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle, R. J. M. Blackett rediscovers a pi...

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

In this episode, director of Yale University Press, John Donatich, talks with Ned Blackhawk about his new book, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. Blackhawk offers a sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history, which recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.