The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly

Donovan Hohn

lqworldintimepodcast@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

This historical interview podcast features conversations with historians, writers, and journalists about books that connect the past with contemporary life, alongside occasional archival interviews and audio essays. Credible pitches include established historians, authors, journalists, and public intellectuals with substantive books or scholarship in history, politics, and related fields; booking is likely high difficulty because recent guests include prominent, widely published scholars.

Metrics

Episodes: 139

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Instagram: 15.0k followers

Contact Information

lqworldintimepodcast@gmail.com

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Host

Donovan Hohn - Acting editor of Lapham’s Quarterly and interviewer focused on books, history, and the relationship between past and present.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Established historians, acclaimed nonfiction authors, journalists, and public intellectuals with recognized expertise and substantial published work, particularly books addressing history, politics, or society.
Required Achievements:  
Author of acclaimed history or nonfiction books, Distinguished academic or journalistic career, Recognized expertise in a historical or political subject

Recent Guest Discussions

Holger Hoock - The Violence Of The American Revolution And The Conflict Within The British Empire.

Joseph J. Ellis - The American Revolution, Its Political Ideals, Internal Conflicts, And Discontents.

Gordon S. Wood - The American Revolution, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, And American National Identity.

Jill Lepore - American History, National Identity, And The Historical Foundations Of The United States.

Recent Topics

History, American History, Books, Politics, Journalism

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly
:

America's Violent Birth (with Joseph J. Ellis and Holger Hoock)

July 17, 2026

“America’s founding is not just your conventional heroic struggle for noble ideas and ideals,” says historian Holger Hoock on today’s episode of The World in Time. “It is also a profoundly violent civil war—America’s first civil war—and a civil war in the British Empire.”  This second, war-torn episode of Lapham’s Revolutionary America, a special series of The World in Time, collects historical dispatches from the battlefields, excerpting two conversations that Lewis Lapham recorded: one...

Lapham’s Revolutionary America: Jill Lepore and Gordon S. Wood

July 03, 2026

“What’s extraordinary in those speeches that Lincoln gave on the eve of the war,” says Gordon S. Wood in this episode of The World in Time, “is his realization of how diverse Americahad become. We’ve got Frenchmen, we’ve got Spaniards, we’ve got Germans, we’ve got Irish, we’ve got all these different Scots, how are we going to hold together? We’re not a nation. Lincoln says, Well, we have an answer to that, and it’s that good old Declaration of Independence. All men are created equal.” &...

Lapham's Revolutionary America [Teaser]

June 30, 2026

A series from The World in Time, beginning Friday, July 3, 2026. Voices heard here: Lewis H. Lapham, Jill Lepore, Gordon S. Wood. Illustration: The 1795 flag that flew from Fort McHenry and inspired Francis Scott Key’s “Star-Spangled Banner.”See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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