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Benjamin Fagan, "The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation" (U. of Georgia Press, 2016)
In the decades leading up to the Civil War, antebellum African Americans elites turned to the newspaper as a means of translating their belief in black "chosenness" into programs for black liberation.
John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco, "Cuba, the United States, and the Cultures of the Transnational Left, 1930-1975" (Cambridge UP, 2015)
John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco's new book, Cuba, the United States, and the Cultures of the Transnational Left, 1930-1975 (Cambridge University Press, 2015), reaches across the Atlantic ocean and connects journalists, musicians, activists and poets as they m...
William Cavert, "The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Air pollution may seem to be a problem uniquely of the modern age, but in fact it is one that has bedeviled people throughout history. In his book The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City (Cambridge University Press, 2016), ...
Anne Mac Lellan, "Dorothy Stopford Price: Rebel Doctor" (Irish Academic Press, 2014)
Among the achievements of Irish medicine in the twentieth century was ending the persistent epidemic of tuberculosis throughout the island, and one of the central figures in that effort was Dorothy Stopford Price. In her book
Campbell F. Scribner, "The Fight for Local Control: Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy" (Cornell UP, 2016)
Battles over school politics from curriculum to funding to voucher systems are key and contentious features of the political landscape today. Many of these familiar fights started in the 1970s. However, these battles have roots even earlier in mid-twen...
James Rodger Fleming, "Inventing Atmospheric Science: Bjerknes, Rossby, Wexler, and the Foundations of Modern Meteorology" (MIT Press, 2016)
This is a book about the future - the historical future as three interconnected generations of atmospheric researchers experienced it and envisioned it in the first part of the twentieth century.
Emile Chabal, "A Divided Republic: Nation, State and Citizenship in Contemporary France" (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Emile Chabal's A Divided Republic: Nation, State and Citizenship in Contemporary France (Cambridge Unive...
Akiko Takenaka, "Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan's Unending Postwar" (U. of Hawaii Press, 2015)
Akiko Takenaka's new book looks carefully at Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial, examining its role in waging war, honoring the dead, promoting peace, and building a modern national i...
Patricia Buckley Ebrey, "Emperor Huizong" (Harvard UP, 2014)
The Song Chinese emperor Huizong (r. 1100-1126 CE) has long been regarded as a failure due to his dynasty's defeat in their war against the Jurchens. In Emperor Huizo...
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, "Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol" (UC Press, 2010)
As evidenced by many of the conversations featured on this podcast, scholarship on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands composes a significant and influential genre within the field of U.S. Western History and Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies. Geographically rooted i...
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