New Books in History

10146 Episodes

1. Richard Overy, "Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan" (Norton, 2025)

   Published: 4/25/2025
2. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, "The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity: A Study in Resilience" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

   Published: 4/24/2025
3. Gabe Henry, "Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell" (Dey Street, 2025)

   Published: 4/23/2025
4. Max Hastings, “Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975” (Harper, 2018)

   Published: 4/22/2025
5. Ulf Zander, "Raoul Wallenberg: Life and Legacy" (Lund UP, 2024)

   Published: 4/21/2025
6. Henry Jenkins, "Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America" (NYU Press, 2025)

   Published: 4/20/2025
7. Maurice Jackson, "Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience: How Black Washingtonians Used Music and Sports in the Fight for Equality" (Georgetown UP, 2025)

   Published: 4/19/2025
8. Davida Siwisa James, "Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries" (Fordham UP, 2024)

   Published: 4/18/2025
9. Davida Siwisa James, "Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries" (Fordham UP, 2024)

   Published: 4/17/2025
10. Lesley J. Gordon, "Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 4/15/2025
11. Stephen J. Campbell, "Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)

    Published: 4/14/2025
12. The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History

    Published: 4/13/2025
13. Stefanie Fischer and Kim Wünschmann, "Oberbrechen: a German Village Confronts Its Nazi Past" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 4/12/2025
14. Orit Rozin, "Emotions of Conflict, Israel 1949-1967" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 4/11/2025
15. Nathalie Cooke, "Tastes and Traditions: A Journey Through Menu History" (Reaktion, 2025)

    Published: 4/10/2025
16. Sam Klug, "The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

    Published: 4/9/2025
17. David G. Williamson, "Poland Betrayed: The Nazi-Soviet Invasions of 1939" (Pen & Sword, 2011)

    Published: 4/9/2025
18. Kathleen Thelen, "Attention, Shoppers!: American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy" (Princeton UP, 2025)

    Published: 4/8/2025
19. Ian Rapley, "Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880–1945" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

    Published: 4/7/2025
20. Robert J. Antony, "Outlaws of the Sea: Maritime Piracy in Modern China" (Hong Kong UP, 2024)

    Published: 4/6/2025