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Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270 (UCL Press, 2020) is
One of the most famous rulers in Chinese history, the Yongle emperor (r. 1402–24) gained renown for
In Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood (Duke University Press, 2018), D
In Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central Amer
Based on an understanding of scholasticism as a cross-cultural phenomenon, undertaken by rabbinic, G
Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 2020) tr
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Joshua Brinkman, Assistant Teaching Professor of S
Amy Aronson is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Fordham University and form
In the late nineteenth century, as much of the world adopted some variant of the gold standard, Chin
The Rhodes blood libel of 1840, an outbreak of anti-Jewish violence, was initiated by the island’s g
Thinking together the histories of European integration and African decolonization, Emily Marker's B
Joseph Smith, the nineteenth-century American prophet who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latt
Nara Milanich’s Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father (Harvard University Press, 2019) explain
Signed on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay by Japanese and
Joshua Rothman’s The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America was published b
In Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era (Duke University Press, 2020) Jie Li traces the c
In a narrative-redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning
Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or
When the Great War began, the Russian Empire was home to more than five million Jews, the most dense
Avi Shlaim is a celebrated "New Historian” whose earlier work established him as an influential hist
