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A masterful narrative history of the dangerous lives of pirates during the seventeenth and eighteent
A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCU
The British Marxist Historians, originally published in 1995, remains the first and most complete st
In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile
How did humans come to be who we are? In his marvelous, eccentric, and widely lauded book Being a Be
Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India (Cambridge UP, 2024) tells a
In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive
In The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective (Yale UP, 2024), Sara Lodge tells stories o
Who is Jacques Derrida? For some, he is the originator of a relativist philosophy responsible for th
Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975 (Cornell UP, 2021) m
We think we know all there is to know about Britain's Second World War. We don't.This radical re-int
Central Asia in World War Two: The Impact and Legacy of Fighting for the Soviet Union (Bloomsbury, 2
After World War II, a new kind of playground emerged in Northern Europe and North America. Rather th
Today I talked to Daniel B. Hinshaw about his book Journey to Simplicity: The Life and Wisdom of Arc
Ninety years after the discovery of human influenza virus, Modern Flu: British Medical Science and t
John Eglin talks with Jana Byars about The Gambling Century: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Resto
In the eighteenth century, tens of thousands of travelers journeyed to Italy on the Grand Tour. Thes
In this deeply personal account, University of Oklahoma associate professor of Native American Studi
Based on original sources, The State, Antisemitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderla
