New Books in History

Richard Vinen, "The Last Titians: How Churchill and De Gaulle Saved Their Nations and Transformed the World" (Simon & Schuster, 2026)

Seth S. Tannenbaum, "Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites: Democracy and Division at the Twentieth-Century Ballpark" (U Illinois Press, 2026)

Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Paul Poast, "Wheat at War: Allied Economic Cooperation in the Great War" (Oxford UP, 2025)

E. T. Dailey, "Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Christine Loh, "Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong" (Hong Kong UP, 2018)

Aaron Donaghy, "The Second Cold War: Carter, Reagan, and the Politics of Foreign Policy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Alice Wiemers, "Village Work: Development and Rural Statecraft in Twentieth-Century Ghana" (Ohio UP, 2021)

Sandra E. Greene, “Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition” (Indiana UP, 2017)

Sarah Jones Weicksel, "A Nation Unraveled: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era" (UNC Press, 2026)

The Shtetl: Myth and Reality with Samuel Kassow

Leah Astbury, "Making Babies in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Anna-Luna Post, "Galileo’s Fame: Science, Credibility, and Memory in the Seventeenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025)

Andrea Mansker, "Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Postrevolutionary France" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Lillian Guerra, "Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961-1981" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

Lillian Guerra discusses her book, Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961 to 1981, focusing on the concept of "citizen complicity" in maintaining the Communist Party's rule. Guerra argues that Cubans, even when resisting the state, often found themselves complicit due to the state's pervasive influence. The ...

Martin Heidegger, "Being and Time: An Annotated Translation" (Yale UP, 2026)

Mark Thomas Edwards, "Walter Lippmann: American Skeptic, American Pastor" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Sally Frances Low, "Colonial Law Making: Cambodia Under the French" (NUS Press, 2023)

Marc Masters, "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" (UNC Press, 2023)

Cecilia Márquez, "Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation" (UNC Press, 2023)

Jeremy Black, "The Short History of Russia: Returning to Another Country" (Amberley, 2026)