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With The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State (University of Geo
New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization (UP of Florida, 2017) examines the mo
When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were evacuated in
Welcome to the final episode of What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will he
Margaret Mehl’s Music and the Making of Modern Japan: Joining the Global Concert (Open Book 2024) ex
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay develops the concept of the functional archive of empire, consisting of texts
In Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness (University of North C
In The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to W
By most accounts, Blackdom, New Mexico existed from 1900-1930. However, as historian and artist Dr.
Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500 (Cornell U
Youcef Soufi’s Homegrown Radicals: A Story of State Violence, Islamophobia, and Jihad in the Post-9/
On a winter's night in 1951, shortly after Evensong, the interior of St Paul's Cathedral echoed with
With Mussolini's Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922–1943 (Cambri
The English Table: Our Food through the Ages (Reaktion, 2024) by Jill Norman is a delectable journey
A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Fa
Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of
Whether it’s in commerce or conflict, today’s world pays rapt attention to the Persian Gulf. But the
A turkey is the centerpiece of countless Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Yet most of us know alm
No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the
In Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance (Knopf, 2024) by Dr. Ramie Targoff, d
