New Books in History

Philip Mark Plotch and Jen Nelles, "Mobilizing the Metropolis: How the Port Authority Built New York" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

Gary S. Cross, "Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal" (NYU Press, 2024)

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, "Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State" (Stanford UP, 2024)

Jason Bell, "Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada's Greatest Spy" (Pegasus Books, 2024)

Chris Webb, "The Sobibor Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance" (Ibidem Verlag, 2017)

On the History and Evolution of Zionism

Michael Liu, "Forever Struggle: Activism, Identity, and Survival in Boston's Chinatown, 1880-2018" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)

Asif Siddiqi on Rockets, Prisons, Pop Songs, and So Much More

John Tolan, "England's Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

Julie Peakman, "Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis" (Reaktion, 2024)

Steven Nadler, "Spinoza: A Life" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

The podcast explores the life and philosophical contributions of Baruch Spinoza, a 17th-century philosopher. Steven Nadler, a scholar specializing in 17th-century philosophy and Jewish studies, discusses Spinoza's family background as refugees from the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions, his education within the Amste...

Jessica Cox, "Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (The History Press, 2023)

Peter Gray, "William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism" (U College Dublin Press, 2023)

Robert Rozett and Iael Nidam-Orvieto, "After So Much Pain and Anguish: First Letters After Liberation" (Yad Vashem, 2016)

Amanda Wunder, "Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV" (Yale UP, 2024)

Jeremy Black, "Paris: A Short History" (Thames & Hudson, 2024)

Coreen McGuire, "Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period" (Manchester UP, 2020)

Stephen Morillo, "War and Conflict in the Middle Ages" (Polity Press, 2022)

Guido Alfani, "As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Nicholas Terpstra, "Senses of Space in the Early Modern World" (Cambridge UP, 2024)