New Books in History

10149 Episodes

1. Martin Spychal, "Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act" (U London Press, 2024)

   Published: 3/18/2025
2. Laurel Leff, "Well Worth Saving: American Universities' Life-And-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe" (Yale UP, 2019)

   Published: 3/17/2025
3. Selena Wisnom, "The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

   Published: 3/16/2025
4. Chiara Faggella, "Becoming Couture: The Italian Fashion Industry after the Second World War" (Manchester UP, 2024)

   Published: 3/15/2025
5. Melissa Vise, "The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

   Published: 3/14/2025
6. Patrick Beldio, "The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga" (Lexington Books, 2024)

   Published: 3/13/2025
7. Harriet Atkinson, "Showing Resistance: Propaganda and Modernist Exhibitions in Britain, 1933-53" (Manchester UP, 2024)

   Published: 3/12/2025
8. Martha Bayless, "Entertainment, Pleasure, and Meaning in Early England" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 3/11/2025
9. Jamie Jelinski, "Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2024)

   Published: 3/10/2025
10. On Barak, "Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/10/2025
11. Kirsten L. Scheid, "Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950" (Indiana UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/9/2025
12. Kristin A. Olbertson, "The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/9/2025
13. Andrew C. Isenberg, "The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850" (UNC Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/9/2025
14. Lina-Maria Murillo, "Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands" (UNC Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/9/2025
15. Andrew G. Walder, "Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery" (Stanford UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/9/2025
16. Anthony Grafton, "Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa" (Harvard UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/8/2025
17. Jørgen Møller and Jonathan Doucette, "The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500" (Oxford UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/8/2025
18. Margaret Peacock, "Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East" (U California Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/8/2025
19. Jeremy Black, "A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/8/2025
20. Nir Arielli, "The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History" (Yale UP, 2025)

    Published: 3/7/2025