New Books in History

Nana Osei-Opare, "Socialist De-Colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana's Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

James Lin, "The Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan" (U California Press, 2025)

Katharine Gerbner, "Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica" (Duke UP, 2025)

Andrew I. Port, "Germany" (Polity, 2025)

The Jews in Poland-Lithuania and Russia: 1350 to the Present Day

Craig Perry, "Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Danny Bate, "Why Q Needs U: A History of Our Letters and How We Use Them" (Bonnier Books, 2025)

The English alphabet reflects a complex, non-linear history shaped by thousands of years of cultural and linguistic evolution. Modern English spelling appears chaotic because writing systems often fail to keep pace with natural, context-dependent sound changes, leading to persistent orthographic lags. The alphabet’s st...

Philip C. Almond, "Noah and the Flood in Western Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez, "The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire" (Duke UP, 2025)

Timothy Manion, "Why Barbarossa Failed: Germany and Russia in the Second World War" (Helion, 2026)

Karima Moyer-Nocchi, "The Epic History of Macaroni and Cheese: From Ancient Rome to Modern America" (Columbia UP, 2026)

Macaroni and cheese serves as a historical thread linking centuries of cultural exchange, class dynamics, and technological innovation. Culinary historian Karima Moyer-Nocchi traces the dish from its amorphous medieval origins—where it functioned as a meatless staple during religious fasts—to its transformation into a ...

Sunmin Kim, "The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

Kalpana Karunakaran, "A Woman of No Consequence: Memory, Letters and Resistance in Madras" (Context, 2026)

A.J. Bauer, "Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against The Press" (Columbia UP, 2026)

Alistair Moffat, "Edinburgh: A New History" (Birlinn, 2024)

H. S. Jones, "Liberal Worlds: James Bryce and the Democratic Intellect" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Antwain K. Hunter, "A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715-1865" (UNC Press, 2025)

Foster Chamberlin, "Uncivil Guard: Policing, Military Culture, and the Coming of the Spanish Civil War" (Louisiana State UP, 2025)

Ethelene Whitmire, "The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram" (Viking, 2026)

Marianna Dudley, "Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain by Marianna Dudley" (Manchester UP, 2025)