New Books in History

10223 Episodes

1. Dorothy Armstrong, "Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)

   Published: 9/10/2025
2. Averill Earls, "Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972" (Temple UP, 2025)

   Published: 9/10/2025
3. Maria R. Montalvo, "Enslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)

   Published: 9/9/2025
4. Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the 19th Century Circus

   Published: 9/9/2025
5. William Kelleher Storey, "The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes" (Oxford UP, 2025)

   Published: 9/8/2025
6. Cynthia Paces, "Prague: The Heart of Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)

   Published: 9/8/2025
7. Brendan A. Shanahan, "Disparate Regimes: Nativist Politics, Alienage Law, and Citizenship Rights in the United States, 1865-1965" (Oxford UP, 2025)

   Published: 9/8/2025
8. Chris Millington, "A History of Fascism in France: From the First World War to the National Front" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

   Published: 9/7/2025
9. Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, "Rethinking Jewish History and Memory Through Photography" (SUNY Press, 2025)

   Published: 9/6/2025
10. Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao, "Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise" (Yale UP, 2022)

    Published: 9/6/2025
11. Molly Worthen, "Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump" (Random House, 2025)

    Published: 9/6/2025
12. Steve Luxenberg, "Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation" (Norton, 2019)

    Published: 9/5/2025
13. Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, "Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)

    Published: 9/5/2025
14. Matthew Bowser, "Containing Decolonization: British Imperialism and the Politics of Race in Late Colonial Burma" (Manchester UP, 2025)

    Published: 9/4/2025
15. Brendan Simms, "Hitler: A Global Biography" (Basic Books, 2019)

    Published: 9/4/2025
16. Nicholas Birman Trickett, "Empire of Austerity: Russia and the Breaking of Eurasia" (Hurst, 2025)

    Published: 9/3/2025
17. Oswyn Murray, "The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present" (Harvard UP, 2024)

    Published: 9/3/2025
18. David Woodman, "The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom" (Princeton UP, 2025)

    Published: 9/2/2025
19. Rhys Kaminski-Jones, "Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707-1819: True Britons and Celtic Empires" (Boydell & Brewer, 2025)

    Published: 9/1/2025
20. Raphael Cormack, "Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult" (Norton, 2025)

    Published: 9/1/2025