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Emanuela Trevisan Semi’s Taamrat Emmanuel: An Ethiopian Jewish Intellectual, Between Colonized and C
The engaging story of Intellivision, an overlooked videogame system from the late 1970s and early 19
Over 4.5 billion years, Earth's climate has transformed tremendously. Before our more temperate rece
A. L. McClanan's Griffinology: The Griffin's Place in Myth, History and Art (Reaktion, 2024) is a fa
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural worl
The processes of secularization and desegregation were among the two most radical transformations of
From rock & roll to contemporary pop, Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Musi
By the 1970s, World War II had all but disappeared from US popular culture. But beginning in the mid
Pagan Religions in Five Minutes (Equinox, 2024) provides an accessible set of essays on questions re
Death in war matters. It matters to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of
During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, more than twelve million enslaved Africans were forcibly
Today’s book is: Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials (Scribner, 2024), by Dr. Marion Gibson, which ex
David J Collins, SJ joins Jana Byars to talk about Disenchanting Albert the Great: the Life and Afte
An illuminating history of religious and political controversy in nineteenth-century Bengal, where P
In 1929, the United States government approved two ground-breaking and controversial drug addiction
Today I talked to Mie Nakachi about Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar
In 1918, South Africa’s climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed that rainfall was dwin
Today, I am excited to talk to Marissa Greenberg and Rachel Trubowitz about the new collection of es
In How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America (Princeton UP, 2024), Caroline
Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s: The Intimate Life of Computers (U Minnesota Press, 2024) shows
