New Books in American Studies

Ruha Benjamin, "Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code" (Polity, 2019)

19 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White su...

Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne, "Holding Onto Nothing" (Blair, 2019)

19 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Lucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing, but a drunken mistake forever tethers her to the town and one of ...

David McCraw, "Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts" (All Points Books, 2019)

18 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The First Amendment and a strong Fourth Estate are essential to a healthy democracy. David McCraw spends his days making sure that journalists can do ...

Pierre Asselin, "Vietnam’s American War: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

18 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Do we need another book on the Vietnam War? Pierre Asselin, Dwight E. Stanford Chair in the History of US Foreign Relations at San Diego State Univers...

Wendy Gonaver, "The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880" (UNC Press, 2019)

15 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Wendy Gonaver discusses her book, The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840-1880 (University of North Carolina Press, 201...

Dana Fisher, "American Resistance: From the Women's March to the Blue Wave" (Columbia UP, 2019)

14 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dana Fisher has written a big new book on the movement to oppose Donald Trump, titled American Resistance: From the Women's March to the Blue Wave (Co...

Dave Tell, "Remembering Emmett Till" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

14 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the State University of New York at ...

Jonathan Rees, "Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)

14 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Frederic Tudor was the “Ice King” of early nineteenth-century America. It was Tudor who realized that ice, harvested from New England ponds and ri...

Eyal Mayroz, "Reluctant Interveners: America's Failed Responses to Genocide from Bosnia to Darfur" (Rutgers UP, 2019)

14 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Why don’t governments do more to prevent genocide? What role does the public have in compelling their governments to take an active stand in the fac...

Johanna Taylor, "The Art Museum Redefined: Power, Opportunity, and Community Engagement" (Palgrave, 2019)

13 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What is the future of the museum? In The Art Museum Redefined: Power, Opportunity, and Community Engagement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Johanna Taylor...

Wendy Wickwire, "At The Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging" (UBC Press, 2019)

13 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The history of anthropology remembers James Teit as a field assistant and man-on-the spot for Franz Boas. But in At The Bridge: James Teit and an Anth...

Mary Anne Franks, “The Cult of the Constitution” (Stanford UP, 2019)

13 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We Americans are defined by our Constitution and we cherish especially the First and Second Amendments. But like all texts, the Constitution can be re...

Robert Mann, "Becoming Ronald Reagan: The Rise of a Conservative Icon" (Potomac Book, 2019)

12 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout much of his career as an actor in Hollywood, Ronald Reagan identified as a passionate New Deal Democrat, yet by the time he turned to a car...

William P. Hustwit, "Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education" (UNC Press, 2019)

12 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Talking Legal History, Siobhan talks with William P. Hustwit about his book Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of J...

Douglas R. Egerton, "Heirs of an Honored Name: The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America" (Basic Books, 2019)

12 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

John and Abigail Adams founded a famous political family, but they would not witness its calamitous fall from grace. When John Quincy Adams died in 18...

S. Deborah Kang, "The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954" (Oxford UP, 2017)

11 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to S. Deborah Kang about her book The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954, published by Oxford U...

Bert A. Rockman and Andrew Rudalevige, "The Obama Legacy" (UP of Kansas, 2019)

11 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Presidency scholars Bert A. Rockman and Andrew Rudalevige have compiled an excellent array of authors and essays in their edited volume, The Obama Le...

Robert Talisse, "Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in Its Place" (Oxford UP, 2019)

11 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In the United States in particular, there is almost no social space today, whether that’s Thanksgiving dinner or going shopping, that has not become...

Noelle Giuffrida, "Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America" (U California Press, 2018)

09 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Noelle Giuffrida’s book, Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America (University of California Press, ...

Iain MacGregor, "Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth" (Scribner, 2019)

08 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

There is perhaps no more iconic symbol of the Cold War than the Berlin Wall, the 96-mile-long barrier erected around West Berlin in 1961 to stem the f...

Kenneth Fones-Wolf, "Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie" (U Illinois Press, 2015)

08 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Kenneth Fones-Wolf of West Virginia University discusses his book, co-authored with Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Struggle for the Soul of the Postw...

AfroAm Studies Roundtable: Ashley Farmer on "Archiving While Black"

08 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For histories to be written, historians must engage archival material. What happens, though, when particular groups of historians do not feel like the...

Karen Routledge, "Do You See Ice?: Inuit and Americans at Home and Away" (U Chicago Press, 2018)

08 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In the 1800s, explorers and whalers returning home from the Arctic described a cold, desolate world, one that could swallow up expeditions without lea...

Sara Lorenzini, "Global Development: A Cold War History" (Princeton UP, 2019)

07 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As Dr. Sara Lorenzini points out in her new book Global Development: A Cold War History (Princeton UP, 2019), the idea of economic development was a r...

Steven Moore, "The Longer We Were There: A Memoir of a Part-Time Solider" (U Georgia Press, 2019)

07 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Popular public conception of war has a long and problematic history, with its origins in ancient texts like The Art of War to bestselling books like T...

John Shelton Reed, "Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s" (LSU Press, 2012)

07 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

John Shelton Reed, William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of sociology (emeritus) at the University of North Carolina, has been observing the South for deca...

Anne Nelson, "Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

07 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What is the most important organization you’ve never heard of? Anne Nelson has an answer: the Council for National Policy. Nelson is Adjunct Associa...

Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "Stuck on Communism: Memoir of a Russian Historian" (Northern Illinois UP, 2019)

06 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This memoir by one of the foremost scholars of the Soviet period spans three continents and more than half a century―from the 1950s when Lewis Siege...

Carlton F. W. Larson, "The Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2019)

06 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Carlton F. W. Larson is the author of The Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2019). The Tria...

Serin D. Houston, "Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)

06 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), the geographer Serin Houston complicates Seattle’s lib...

Stuart Schrader, "​Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing​" (U California Press, 2019)

05 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Following World War II, in the midst of global decolonization and intensifying freedom struggles within its borders, the United States developed a wor...

Erica Armstrong Dunbar, "She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman" (37 Ink, 2019)

05 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Harriet Tubman is best known as one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad. As a leading abolitionist, her bravery and selflessness...

L. A. Kauffman, "How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance" (U California Press, 2018)

04 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When millions of people took to the streets for the 2017 Women’s Marches, there was an unmistakable air of uprising, a sense that these marches were...

Jonathan Rosa, "Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race" (Oxford UP, 2019)

04 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Rosa's new book Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (Oxford University Pr...

Aurélie Basha i Novosejt, "I Made Mistakes: Robert McNamara's Vietnam War Policy, 1960-1968 (Cambridge UP, 2018)

04 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Speaking to an advisor in 1966 about America's escalation of forces in Vietnam, American Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara confessed: 'We've mad...

Nina Sun Eidsheim, "The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre and Vocality in African American Music" (Duke UP, 2019)

04 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In 2018, Nicolle R. Holliday and Daniel Villarreal published the results of a study they conducted asking people to rank how “black” President Oba...

Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing

03 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They are different from most trad...

Eileen Boris, "Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019" (Oxford UP, 2019)

01 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Founded in 1919 along with the League of Nations, the International Labour Organization (ILO) establishes labor standards and produces knowledge about...

Jay Driskell, "Schooling Jim Crow: The Fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School" (UVA Press, 2014)

01 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Jay Driskell of Hood College, author of Schooling Jim Crow: The Fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School and the Roots of Black ...

Bruce Rydel, "Beirut 1958: How America's Wars in the Middle East Began" (Brookings, 2019)

01 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In July 1958, U.S. Marines stormed the beach in Beirut, Lebanon, ready for combat. Farcically. they were greeted by vendors and sunbathers. Fortunatel...

Timothy Lehman, "Up the Trail: How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In 1866, a sixteen year old cowboy—the name was literal in his case—named J.M. Daugherty bought 1,000 cattle, hired five cowboys, and headed north...

Perla Guerrero, "Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place" (U Texas Press, 2017)

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Perla Guerrero is the author of Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place (University of Texas Press, 2017). Nuevo South explores the...

W. Caleb McDaniel, "Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America" (Oxford UP, 2019)

30 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded wi...

Zoltan Hajnal, "Dangerously Divided: How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

30 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In his new book Dangerously Divided: How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Zoltan Hajna...

Jamie L. Pietruska, "Looking Forward: Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America" (U Chicago Press, 2017)

30 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A fortune teller, cotton prophet, and a weather forecaster walk into a bar—probably a more common occurrence than you might think in the Gilded Age ...

Nicholas Buccola, "The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America" (Princeton UP, 2019)

30 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Nicholas Buccola’s new book, The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (Princeton Universit...

Gary J. Adler, Jr., "Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

29 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so? In his new book Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic...

Jonathan Haidt, "The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure" (Penguin, 2018)

28 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We say on this show all the time that democracy is hard work. But what does that really mean? What it is about our dispositions that makes it so hard ...

David J. Silverman, "This Land Is Their Land" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

28 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What really happened at “the first Thanksgiving”? In This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of ...

Aisha Shillingford and Terry Marshall, "Black Freedom Beyond Borders: Re-Imaging Gender in Wakanda" (WDL, 2019)

28 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Wakanda Dream Lab’s anthology, Black Freedom Beyond Borders: Re-Imaging Gender in Wakanda, features the work of writers, artists, and activists, as ...

Samuel Goldman, "God’s Country: Christian Zionism in America" (U Penn Press, 2018)

28 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Samuel Goldman, who teaches political science at George Washington University, Washington DC, has written a powerfully impressive new book on the long...

Jared Hardesty, "Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England" (Bright Leaf, 2019)

25 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous people...

Anthony Kronman, "The Assault on American Excellence" (Free Press, 2019)

25 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony Kronman, former dean of Yale Law School, has written an account of his view of the decline of the American university from a bastion of free i...

Marc Dollinger, "Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s" (Brandeis UP, 2018)

25 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s (Brandeis University Press, 2018), Professor Marc Dollinger who holds the Rich...

Greta de Jong, "You Can’t Eat Freedom: Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2016)

25 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Greta de Jong of the University of Nevada, Reno, discusses her book, You Can’t Eat Freedom: Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil...

J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)

24 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The things that make people academics -- as deep fascination with some arcane subject, often bordering on obsession, and a comfort with the solitude t...

Saul Cornell, "The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780s-1830s" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

23 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780s-1830s (Cambridge University Press, 2019) is the first...

Julia Young, "Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War" (Oxford UP, 2019)

23 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War (Oxford UP, 2019), Julia G. Young reframes the Cristero war as a transnational ...

Brenna Wynn Greer, "Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined American Citizenship" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)

23 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Brenna Wynn Greer’s new study Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined American Citizenship (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), p...

Francesco Duina, "Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country" (Stanford UP, 2018)

22 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In his new book, Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country (Stanford University Press 2018), Professor Francesco Duina asks why impov...

Binyamin Appelbaum, "The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society" (Little Brown, 2019)

22 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Think economics is the "dismal science" with abstract formulas that have no impact on life as it is actually lived? Think again.  In The Economists' ...

Lorena Oropeza, "The King of Adobe: Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)

22 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Lorena Oropeza, Professor of History at the University of California at Davis, sheds new light on one of Chicano history’s most notorious figures in...

Larry Diamond, "Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency" (Penguin, 2019)

21 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Larry Diamond joins us this week to talk about the threat China’s model of authoritarian capitalism poses to liberal democracy in the United States ...

Noah Cohan, "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers: Fan Narratives and the Reading of American Sport" (U Nebraska, 2019)

18 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are joined by Noah Cohan, Lecturer in American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, and the author of We Average Unbeautifu...

Karen Cox, "Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South" (UNC Press, 2017)

18 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Karen Cox, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, discusses her new book, Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, a...

Steven White, "World War II and American Racial Politics: Public Opinion, the Presidency, and Civil Rights Advocacy" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

18 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

World War II played an important role in the trajectory of race and American political development, but the War's effects were much more complex than ...

Valerie Olson, "Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)

18 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Valerie Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem. Olson is an assoc...

Andrew C. Baker, "Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rural History of the Metropolitan South" (U Georgia Press, 2018)

18 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The history of metropolitan expansion and suburbanization is often written from the perspective of the city. In Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rural History...

David Lindsay Roberts, "Republic of Numbers: Unexpected Stories of Mathematical Americans through History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)

17 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The institutional history of mathematics in the United States comprises several entangled traditions—military, civil, academic, industrial—each of...

Jolyon Baraka Thomas, "Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

17 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jolyon Baraka Thomas’s Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan (University of Chicago Press, 2019) challenges the commonsensi...

Matthew A. Sutton, "Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War" (Basic Books, 2019)

17 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Offi...

Jon K. Lauck, "The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History" (U Iowa Press, 2013)

17 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The guest this week on Historically Thinking is Jon Lauck. He’s the author of The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History (University of...

Lara Saguisag, "Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics" (Rutgers UP, 2018)

16 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Histories and criticism of comics note that comic strips published in the Progressive Era were dynamic spaces in which anxieties about race, ethnicity...

Richard Bell, "Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)

16 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Bell is the author of Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home, published by Simon & Schuster in 2019....

David D. Vail, "Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945" (U Alabama Press, 2019)

15 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Over fifty years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) scolded the agricultural industry for its profligate spread of “poison” and pesticide...

T. L. Bunyasi and C. W. Smith, "Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter" (NYU Press, 2019)

14 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith have written an accessible and important book about the #BlackLivesMatter social movement and broader cons...

Wendy Brown, "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West" (Columbia UP, 2019)

14 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone. Wendy Brown is one of the world’s leading scholars on neoli...

Lucas Richert, “Strange Trips: Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs” (McGill-Queens UP, 2018)

11 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Strange Trips isn’t only the title of Dr. Lucas Richert’s new book; it’s also a good description of the journey substances take from the black m...

Rafia Zafar, "Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning" (U Georgia Press, 2019)

11 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this this interview, Dr. Carrie Tippen talks with Rafia Zafar about her 2019 book Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning, from the...

Matthew Hitt, "Inconsistency and Indecision in the United States Supreme Court" (U Michigan Press, 2019)

10 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The United States Supreme Court operates to resolve disputes among lower courts and the other branches of government, allowing elected officials, citi...

Nicole C. Kirk, "Wanamaker’s Temple: The Business of Religion in an Iconic Department Store" (NYU Press, 2018)

10 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"On Christmas Eve, 1911, John Wanamaker stood in the middle of his elaborately decorated department store building in Philadelphia as shoppers milled ...

Gregory P. Downs, "After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War" (Harvard UP, 2015)

09 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On April 8, 1865, after four years of civil war, General Robert E. Lee wrote to General Ulysses S. Grant asking for peace. Peace was beyond his author...

C. Strachan and L. Poloni-Staudinger, "Why Don′t Women Rule the World?: Understanding Women′s Civic and Political Choices" (Sage, 2019)

09 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Why Don′t Women Rule the World?: Understanding Women′s Civic and Political Choices (Sage, 2019) is a comprehensive and useful addition to the esta...

Cécile Vidal, "Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society" (UNC Press, 2019)

08 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives,Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society (University of North Carolina Pres...

Paul Musselwhite, "Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth: The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

08 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Early American colonialism is often distinguished by an urban and rural divide. Urban development was a sign of imperial progress. British writers fre...

Perin Gürel, "The Limits of Westernization: A Cultural History of America in Turkey" (Columbia UP, 2017)

06 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s podcast, host Robert Elliott speaks with Dr. Perin Gürel about her new book The Limits of Westernization: A Cultural History of America ...

Marisol LeBrón and Yarimar Bonilla, "Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm" (Haymarket, 2019)

04 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Marking the two year anniversary of Hurricane María making landfall in Puerto Rico, the September 2019 release of the anthology Aftershocks of Disast...

A Conversation with Acquisitions Editor Dawn Durante about How Manuscripts Become Books

04 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For a book to exist, there must be a lot more than a writer. Of course, the writer is the essential component. But what about all the other hard-worki...

Erika Milam, "Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America" (Princeton UP, 2019)

04 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Erika Milam talks about the scientific search for human nature, a project that captured the attention of paleontologists, anthropologists, and primato...

Evan Bennett, "When Tobacco Was King: Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont" (UP Florida, 2014)

04 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Evan Bennett of Florida Atlantic University, author of When Tobacco Was King: Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont (Univ...

Kathryn E. O’Rourke, "O’Neil Ford on Architecture" (U Texas Press, 2019)

04 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

O’Neil Ford on Architecture (University of Texas Press, 2019) brings together Ford’s major professional writings and speeches for the first time. ...

Nancy Langston, "Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World" (Yale UP, 2017)

01 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When people today visit or imagine Lake Superior, the largest freshwater lake in the world, they often perceive a cold, remote, and pristine body of w...

Andrew Sidman, "Pork Barrel Politics: How Government Spending Determines Elections in a Polarized Era" (Columbia UP, 2019)

30 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

n Andrew Sidman, Pork Barrel Politics: How Government Spending Determines Elections in a Polarized Era (Columbia University Press, 2019), offers a sys...

Candy Gunther Brown, "Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?" (UNC Press, 2019)

26 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of New Books in Law Siobhan talks with Candy Gunther Brown about her book Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming S...

Robert M. Alexander, "Representation and the Electoral College" (Oxford UP, 2019)

25 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Alexander’s new book, Representation and the Electoral College (Oxford UP, 2019) is an important analysis of the Electoral College, from the ...

Jonathan Sarna, "American Judaism: A History" (Yale UP, 2019)

25 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

American Judaism: A History (Yale University Press; second edition, 2019) chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America. Tracing A...

Christopher E. Mauriello, "Forced Confrontations: The Politics of Dead Bodies in Germany at the End of World War II" (Lexington Books, 2017)

25 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Christopher Mauriello’s groundbreaking book Forced Confrontations: The Politics of Dead Bodies in Germany at the End of World War II(Lexington Books...

Elizabeth Herbin-Triant, "Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods" (Columbia UP, 2019)

24 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Elizabeth Herbin-Triant is the author of Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods, published by Columbia U...

Emily Skidmore, "True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the 20th Century" (NYU Press, 2017)

23 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the 20th Century (New York University Press, 2017), Emily Skidmore weaves in a vibrant discussion o...

Ashanté M. Reese, "Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C." (UNC Press, 2019)

23 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), by Ashanté M. Reese, exa...