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New Books in History

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Today we learn how computers learned to talk with Benjamin Lindquist, a postdoctoral researcher at N

Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium

Ghosts and Things: The Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism (Cornell University Press

Reform Judaism looks different today than it did a century ago. There are a lot of factors that lead

Historians have thoroughly documented the vast devastation of the Civil War. In the attention they h

Fifty-five years after the terrible shooting at Kent State University, I spoke with Brian VanDeMark,

Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her

Why did so many rulers throughout history risk converting to a new religion brought by outsiders? In

This week on International Horizons, RBI Director John Torpey interviews historian Tara Zahra, autho

Join me for a fascinating conversation with one of today’s leading voices in environmental studies,

They were crop dusters and debutantes, college girls and performers in flying circuses-all of them t

Marc Jaffré joins Jana Byars for a lively conversation about The Courtiers and the Court of Louis XI

A massive oil spill in the Pacific Ocean near Santa Barbara, California, in 1969 quickly became a la

Michael David Fox's Crucibles of Power: Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi Rule (Harvard UP, 2025) pr

Ever wonder who’s to blame for the noise and distraction of the open office? Our guest has answers.J

Covering the period from the end of the Anglo-French alliance in 1731 to the declaration of war betw

Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America (St. Martin's Press,

How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, and the persecuted not merely hold on to life but expand it

A powerful new history detailing the most significant military clashes between Islam and Christendom

Christopher Harding’s The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East (Allen Lane,