New Books in History

Christopher de Bellaigue, "The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King" (Bodley Head, 2025)

Fred S. Naiden, "Railroaded: A Motorman’s Story of the New York City Subway" (Rutgers UP, 2026)

John Kapusta, "Self-Realization Nation: How Artists of the Creative Counterculture Made a New America" (U California Press, 2026)

Thomas S. Mullaney, "How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information" (W. W. Norton, 2026)

Information is not a stable entity but a fragile configuration constantly battling entropy. Human history relies on the "putting into formation" of knowledge, yet this process is inherently incomplete and prone to decay. Modern states disproportionately shape archives by prioritizing records that serve their own anxiet...

Fabio Lanza, "Urban Revolution: People's Communes in Beijing" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Sharron Wilkins Conrad, "The Trinity: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Civil Rights in African American Memory" (UNC Press, 2026)

Andy Byford, "Science of the Child in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia" (Oxford UP, 2020)

The emergence of the child as a critical object of scientific knowledge in late Imperial and early Soviet Russia reflects a broader transnational movement to mobilize expertise for societal management. Professor of Russian Studies Andy Byford examines how professional intelligentsia and emerging welfare states utilized...

Michelle Chase and Isabella Cosse eds., "The Cuban Revolution and the New Left: Transnational Histories of Gender, Sexuality, and Family" (U Florida Press, 2026)

Ciruce A. Movahedi-Lankarani, "Accelerant: Energy Infrastructures and the Natural World in Making Modern Iran" (Stanford UP, 2026)

Laura Borghetti and Thomas Arentzen, "Ecologizing Late Ancient and Byzantine Worlds" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Olivier Krischer and Shuxia Chen, "Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s-1980s" (Australian Centre on China in the World, 2025)

Mesrob Vartavarian, "Privileged Minorities: A History of Wealth Concentration on South Africa" (Ohio UP, 2026)

Peter Paul Dobek, "The Public House in Central Europe: Inns, Tavern, and Alehouses in Cracow during the Jagiellonian Dynasty" (Lexington Books, 2024)

Alex Boodrookas, "Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf" (Stanford UP, 2026)

James O'Leary, "The Middlebrow Musical: Between Broadway and Opera in 1940s America" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Yoshiko Nakano and Georgina Challen, "Meiji Graves in Happy Valley: Stories of Early Japanese Residents in Hong Kong" (Hong Kong UP, 2024)

Cheryl Thompson, "Staging Blackface in Canada: Public Amusements, Variety Shows, and Racial Acts in an Age of Imitation, 1898-1919" (Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2026)

Cristina Florea, "Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Brook Wilensky-Lanford, "A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2026)

Derek R. Peterson, "A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda" (Yale UP, 2025)