New Books in History

10157 Episodes

1. Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, "Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter" (MIT Press, 2025)

   Published: 5/27/2025
2. Julia McClure, "Empire of Poverty: The Moral-Political Economy of the Spanish Empire" (Oxford UP, 2025)

   Published: 5/26/2025
3. From Hal to Siri: How Computers Learned to Speak

   Published: 5/25/2025
4. Aviva Briefel, "Ghosts and Things: The Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism" (Cornell UP, 2025)

   Published: 5/24/2025
5. Jennifer T. Roberts, "Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture" (Princeton UP, 2024)

   Published: 5/24/2025
6. Michael A. Meyer, "Above All, We Are Jews: A Biography of Rabbi Alexander Schindler" (CCAR Press, 2025)

   Published: 5/23/2025
7. Jennifer Lynn Gross, "Sisterhood of the Lost Cause: Confederate Widows in the New South" (LSU Press, 2025)

   Published: 5/22/2025
8. Brian VanDeMark, "Kent State: An American Tragedy" (Norton, 2024)

   Published: 5/21/2025
9. Elaine Pagels, "Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus" (Doubleday, 2025)

   Published: 5/20/2025
10. Alan Strathern, "Converting Rulers: Global Patterns, 1450-1850" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 5/19/2025
11. Globalization's Backlash: Echoes of the Interwar Era in Today’s World

    Published: 5/18/2025
12. Daniel MacFarlane, "The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)

    Published: 5/17/2025
13. Becky Aikman, "Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger during World War II" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

    Published: 5/16/2025
14. Marc Jaffré, "The Courtiers and the Court of Louis XIII, 1610-1643" (Oxford UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/15/2025
15. Pollyanna Rhee, "Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

    Published: 5/14/2025
16. Michael David-Fox, "Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule" (Harvard UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/13/2025
17. Noise and Information in the Office

    Published: 5/12/2025
18. Jeremy Black, "British Politics and Foreign Policy, 1727-44" (Routledge, 2014)

    Published: 5/11/2025
19. Hasia R. Diner, "Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)

    Published: 5/10/2025
20. Aaron Robertson, "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" (FSG, 2024)

    Published: 5/9/2025