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New Books in History

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Many myths have grown up around President Harry S. Truman’s decision to use nuclear weapons against

How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the s

The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar langua

In The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War (Cambr

In this episode, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press) sits down with Cathie Carmichael (University of Eas

Today’s book is: We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance (Seal Press, 2024) by Dr. Kellie

In If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi (Columbia UP, 2024), Tyler W. Williams

In this episode, Alisa talks with Ali İğmen, Professor of Central Asian History and the Director of

When we think of Nazi camps, names such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau come instantly to mi

This is episode three Cited Podcast’s new season, the Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise. This se

Vaughn Scribner joins Jana Byars on the occasion of the paperback edition of Merpeople: A Human Hist

The horror genre has endured a long and controversial success within popular culture. Fraught with a

Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900 (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first study of women's philos

How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018) is the first comprehensive

During the early medieval Islamicate period (800–1400 CE), discourses concerned with music and music

The Problem of the Christian Master: Augustine in the Afterlife of Slavery (Yale UP, 2024) offers a 

Dr. Conor McCabe is a research fellow with Queen’s Business School, Queens University Belfast. He is

Paper, bottles, metal scrap, kitchen garbage, rubber, hair, fat, rags, and bones--the Nazi empire de

The United States incarcerates its citizens for property crime, drug use, and violent crime at a rat