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As the first book-length study of auctions in early America, America Under the Hammer: Auctions and
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth carried out the first presidential assassination in United Stat
Henry Christophe was born to an enslaved mother on the Caribbean island of Grenada, and fought to ov
After student protests toppled Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina last year, New Delhi and Dhak
Using a wide range of archival material and a microhistorical approach, Plagues of the Heart: Crisis
Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in Scotland? Has the Sc
Queen of Sorrows: Plague, Piety, and Power in Late Medieval Italy (Cornell University Press, 2024) b
Today I talked to Anthony McElligott about The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean (
The 1950s looks placid from the outside, but underneath that calm post-war exterior roiled the intel
After years of research, journalist Kathleen Lippa has written about the shocking crimes of a truste
Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend (Getty Publications, 2023) tells
The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scr
Meltdown: Scandal, Sleaze and the Collapse of Credit Suisse (Pegasus Books, 2024) is a great busines
Andrew Laird, of Brown University, discusses Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Tradition
The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781–1844
This volume of Osiris places disability history and the history of science in conversation to foregr
California’s 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the “instant city” of San Francisco as a to base e
Between the 1870s and 1930s, American social reformers, working closely with the US government, tran
Chile is more than just spice, writes Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and Cal Poly Ethnic Studies
In the nineteenth century, the complex cultural meaning of hair was not only significant—it could af
