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Katherine Grandjean, "Kingdom of Devils: A Tale of Murder in the Shadow of the American Revolution" (Random House, 2026)
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Sep 21, 2026 |
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Joshua Specht, "Property Values: The Rise and Fall of the American Homeowner" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Sep 21, 2026 |
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Eileen Luhr, "Golden States: How California Religion Went from Cautionary Tale to Global Brand" (U California Press, 2024)
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Sep 21, 2026 |
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The American Right in Ferment: A Conversation with Writer Matthew Continetti
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Sep 21, 2026 |
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Brian L. Porto, "Twin States, Different Paths: The Politics of New Hampshire and Vermont" (U Mass Press, 2026)
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Sep 19, 2026 |
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Conor Harrison, "Brokers of Power: The Financialization of the US Electricity System" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
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Sep 19, 2026 |
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Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, "Pierogi: An American Story of Polish Food" (Columbia UP, 2026)
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Sep 18, 2026 |
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Class Struggle and the New York Mets: A Conversation with AM Gittlitz
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Sep 18, 2026 |
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John Gilbert McCurdy, "Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh" (JHU Press, 2024)
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Sep 17, 2026 |
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Bryant Simon, "For Customers Only: Public Bathrooms and the Making of American Inequality" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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Sep 17, 2026 |
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Samantha Barbas, "Hate Speech: The Legal and Cultural History of an American Dilemma" (U California Press, 2026)
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Sep 15, 2026 |
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R. Douglas Hurt, "The Country People: An Agricultural History of the American Revolution" (U Georgia Press, 2026)
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Sep 14, 2026 |
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Jennifer Hoewe, "Enjoyment Is Breaking News: How We Became Less Informed and More Divided (and How to Fix It)" (MIT Press, 2026)
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Sep 13, 2026 |
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Charles Lachman, "They Shall Not See the Dawn: The Manhunt for the Third Reich's Most Wanted" (Diversion Books, 2026)
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Sep 12, 2026 |
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Michael E. Neagle, "Chasing Bandits: America's Long War on Terror" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Sep 11, 2026 |
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Patrick Griffin, "The Age of Atlantic Revolution: The Fall and Rise of a Connected World" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Sep 11, 2026 |
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A Nation Wrestles With God: American Prophets, Philosophers, and Firebrands
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Sep 10, 2026 |
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William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe, "Trajectory of Power: The Rise of the Strongman Presidency" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Sep 10, 2026 |
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Patrick Griffin, "The Age of Atlantic Revolution: The Fall and Rise of a Connected World" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Sep 10, 2026 |
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Lucas L. Johnson II, "Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World" (Broadleaf Books, 2026)
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Sep 09, 2026 |
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Michelle Adams, "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North " (FSG, 2025)
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Sep 09, 2026 |
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Claudia Verhoeven, "Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders" (Verso, 2026)
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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Lee Alan Dugatkin, "Nary a Horse Left Standing: How a Nineteenth-Century Epidemic Transformed Medicine, Animal Welfare, and the Modern City" (MIT Press, 2026)
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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Marita Sturken, "Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Sep 06, 2026 |
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Autumn Lorimer Linford, "Extra! Extra! A History of America's Girl Newsies" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)
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Sep 05, 2026 |
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Alfie Marcus on How Great Companies Can Rise Again
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Sep 04, 2026 |
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Deirdre Mayer Dougherty, "Race and Place: School Desegregation in Prince George's County, Maryland" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
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Sep 04, 2026 |
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Holly N. S. White, "Constructing American Childhood: Age-Based Laws and the Illusion of Protection in the Early United States" (U Virginia Press, 2026)
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Sep 03, 2026 |
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The Political Philosophy of Mark Twain: On His Absurd, Noble Americans with Ivan Kenneally
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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Filmmaker Peter Santenello on Your Fellow Americans: Dispatches from Across the Country We Call Home
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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Erin Osmon, "Won't Back Down: Heartland Rock and the Fight for America" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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Kamau Ware, "Battle in the Margins: Black Experiences in New York City During the American Revolution" (Black Gotham Experience)
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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Eran A. Zelnik, "American Laughter, American Fury: Humor and the Making of a White Man's Democracy, 1750–1850" (JHU Press, 2025)
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Aug 31, 2026 |
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Steven Herman: Behind the White House Curtain
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Aug 30, 2026 |
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Alejandro E. Camacho and Brigham Daniels, "Lessons for a Warming Planet: A Vital History of US Environmental Law" (NYU Press, 2026)
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Aug 29, 2026 |
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Courtney Weikle‑Mills, "Sugarcoated Ethics: Children’s Literature and Atlantic Enslavement" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
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Aug 29, 2026 |
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John Davie, "Greek To Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Aug 27, 2026 |
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Jamie L. Brummitt, "Protestant Relics in Early America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Aug 27, 2026 |
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Malcolm Murfett, "Eden's Alternative to Appeasement: The Anglo-American Strategy that Might Have Been, 1937–38" (Tithebarn Press, 2026)
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Aug 26, 2026 |
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A.J.A. Woods, "The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West" (Verso, 2026)
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Aug 24, 2026 |
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Eran Shalev, "The Star-Spangled Republic: Political Astronomy and the Rise of the American Constellation" (U Virginia Press, 2025)
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Aug 24, 2026 |
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Sandeep Vaheesan, "Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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Mark Leonard, "Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When the Rules Fail" (Polity Press, 2026)
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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Ashanté M. Reese, "Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
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Aug 21, 2026 |
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A. J. Murphy, "Pentagon Capitalism: How the Cold War US Military Modeled Itself on Private Business" (Harvard UP, 2026)
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Aug 21, 2026 |
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Arturo Chang, "A New World of Revolutions: Popular Imaginations and Movements Across the Americas" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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Seth Masket, "The Elephants in the Room: How Trump Voters Seized the Party from Republican Leaders" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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WE HEREBY REFUSE: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration with Bruce Rutledge
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Aug 19, 2026 |
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Nancy Folbre, "Making Care Work: Why Our Economy Should Put People First" (U California Press, 2026)
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Aug 19, 2026 |
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Dan Du, "This World in a Teacup: Credit, Taste, and Power in the U. S.-China Tea Trade, 1784–1911" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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Edward E. Andrews, "Newport Gardner's Anthem: A Story of Slavery, Struggle, and Survival in Early America" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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Jeana Jorgensen, "Sex Education 101: Approachable Essays on Folklore, Culture, & History" (Fox Folk Press, 2023)
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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Kiara Wyndham, "Diversityland: Hiding Racial Inequality in an American Suburb" (U California Press, 2026)
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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Rick Ramseyer, "Girl Without a Country: The Untold Story of a Landmark Fight for U.S. Citizenship" (Purdue UP, 2026)
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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James Loeffler, "Exceptional Hatred: Antisemitism and the Fight over Free Speech in Modern America" (Metropolitan Books, 2026)
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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Daniel Byman, "American Pogroms: How Forgotten Massacres Shape America" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Aug 14, 2026 |
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David W. Congdon, "Who is a True Christian?: Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Aug 14, 2026 |
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Bordering On Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality
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Aug 13, 2026 |
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John E. McDonough, "America's Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
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Aug 11, 2026 |
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David N. Gellman, "Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Aug 10, 2026 |
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Caryl Flinn and Dana B. Polan, "The Patty Duke Show and the American Sixties: Hot Dogs and Crêpes Suzette" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Aug 09, 2026 |
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Margaret E. Farrar and Adam Kaul, "Becoming Utopia: History, Heritage, and Sustainability in the American Midwest" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)
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Aug 09, 2026 |
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Max Perry Mueller, "Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West" (Basic Books, 2025)
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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Edlie Wong, "Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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Matthew Pinsker, "Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln" (Norton, 2026)
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Aug 05, 2026 |
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Samuel Marquis, "Empire and Frontier: Colonel Peter Schuyler and the Valiant Iroquois in King William's War: 1689-1701" (Pegasus Books, 2026)
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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Blair L.M. Kelley, "Black Freedom: A Visual History of Juneteenth and Emancipation Days" (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2026)
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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Emily Sneff, "When the Declaration of Independence Was News" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Aug 03, 2026 |
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Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel, "Seeking Freedom in Indian Country: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Resistance Within the Five Tribes, 1790–1861" (LSU Press, 2026)
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Aug 03, 2026 |
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Eric O Silva, "Contested Realities and Identity Destigmatization: Identity Construction in the Culture Wars" (De Gruyter, 2026)
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Aug 02, 2026 |
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Vaneesa Cook, "Empire and Liberty: The Tied Histories of Two American Landmarks" (Beacon Press, 2026)
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Aug 01, 2026 |
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Robert Lee Maril, "Hungry Oklahoma: Confronting Poverty and Food Insecurity" (U Oklahoma Press, 2026)
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Jul 31, 2026 |
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Devin Kennedy, "Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy" (Columbia UP, 2026)
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Jul 31, 2026 |
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Jinwon Kim, "Koreatown, NYC: The Consumption of a Transnational Brand" (NYU Press, 2026)
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman, "The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature: Representations from 1932 to 2024" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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Elijah Wald, "Rock ‘N’ Roll: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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Steven K. Green, "American Infidelity: The Gilded Age Battle Over Freethought, Free Love, and Feminism" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Jul 29, 2026 |
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Andrew N. Buchanan and Ruth Lawlor eds., "The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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Linford Fisher, "Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History" (Liveright, 2026)
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Jul 27, 2026 |
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Samuel Moyn, "Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It" (FSG, 2026)
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Jul 25, 2026 |
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Samantha Iyer, "Agrarian Superpower: Food, Development, and the Global Ascendancy of the United States" (Columbia UP, 2026)
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Jul 25, 2026 |
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Cast Out: A Call For A Forgiving Society in an Age of Incarceration
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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Julia R. Azari, "Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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David Denby, "Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer" (Henry Holt, 2025)
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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Michael Patrick Cullinane, "Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Court Cabinet" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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R. Joseph Parrott, "Dream the Size of Freedom: How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism" (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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Richard Bell, "The American Revolution and the Fate of the World" (Penguin, 2025)
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Jul 20, 2026 |
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Gabriella Soto, "Border Afterlives: Migrant Deaths, Forensic Investigations, and the Politics of Haunting" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
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Jul 19, 2026 |
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Martin Fitzgerald, "The Umbrella Man and Other Stories: What We Talk about When We Talk about the JFK Assassination" (Biteback Publishing, 2026)
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Jul 19, 2026 |
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Molly M. Brookfield, "Watching the Girls Go By: A History of Street Harassment in the United States" (UNC Press, 2026)
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Jul 19, 2026 |
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US 250: A Conversation with Peter John Loewen
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Jul 19, 2026 |
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Gretchen Heefner, "Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Jul 18, 2026 |
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Laura B. McGrath, "Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Jul 18, 2026 |
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Angela Frederick, "Disabled Power: A Storm, A Grid, and Embodied Harm in the Age of Disaster" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Jul 18, 2026 |
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Fenwick McKelvey, "SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers" (MIT Press, 2026)
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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Nora L. Rubel, "Recipes for the Melting Pot: The Lives of the Settlement Cook Book" (Columbia UP, 2026)
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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Gayle F. Wald, "This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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Soraya Murray, "Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination" (MIT Press, 2026)
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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Robert G Parkinson, "Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier" (Norton, 2024)
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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Nelson Lichtenstein on Clinton and Neoliberalism
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Jul 13, 2026 |
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Jeffrey A. Marx, "Jewish Firebugs: Arson and Antisemitism from the Civil War to World War I" (NYU Press, 2026)
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Jul 13, 2026 |
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Mary E. Mendoza, "Deadly Divide: How Insects, Pathogens, and People Defied the US-Mexico Border" (UNC Press, 2026)
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Jul 11, 2026 |
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“American Elegy” with author Ed Simon
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Jul 11, 2026 |
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Diana Cucuz, "Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
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Jul 11, 2026 |
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Paul Helseth and David P. Smith eds., "New Perspectives on Old Princeton, 1812-1929" (Routledge, 2024)
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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Doubled Up: Shared Households and the Precarious Lives of Families
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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Gregg Andrews, "Shoe Workers in Hannibal, Missouri: The Rise and Fall of Manufacturing in America’s Hometown, 1890–1970" (LSU Press, 2026)
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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Daniel Rood, "In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America" (Norton, 2026)
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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Nicholas Freudenberg, "Fighting for New York: Activism for Health and Social Justice Since The 1960s" (Columbia UP, 2026)
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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Krzysztof Rowiński, "Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption: Twentieth Century Literature and Film" (Routledge, 2026)
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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Lila Corwin Berman, "Who Is American? Belonging and the Question of Jewish Citizenship" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Jul 06, 2026 |
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Stephen Robertson, "Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Jul 06, 2026 |
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Lauren Duval, "The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Jul 06, 2026 |
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How “They” See “Us” with editor Madeleine Schwartz
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Jul 04, 2026 |
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Jonathan L. Friedmann, "Chai Noon: Jews and the Cinematic Wild West" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)
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Jul 04, 2026 |
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250 Years of Special Providence: On American Grand Strategy Since the Declaration with Walter Russell Mead
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Jul 03, 2026 |
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Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory
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Jul 03, 2026 |
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A.D. Carson, "Owning My Masters (Mastered): The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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Rosa Campbell, "The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and Then Disappeared: Shere Hite and the Hite Report" (Melville House, 2026)
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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Thomas Paine at the Semiquincentennial: A Conversation with Gregory Claeys
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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The Once and Future Republic: On Cicero, Locke, and the Making of America with Michael C. Hawley
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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Scott Reich, "One Day in September: Baseball, Brotherhood, and the Birth of the All-Star Game" (Compass Rose, 2026)
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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John Wills, "Doom Town, USA: The Nevada Test Site As Ground Zero of 1950s American Culture" (UP of Kansas, 2026)
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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Shawn William Miller, "Dream Road to Pan America: A Century in Pursuit of the World's Longest Highway" (U California Press, 2026)
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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Ranita Ray, "Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
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Jun 28, 2026 |
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John Kapusta, "Self-Realization Nation: How Artists of the Creative Counterculture Made a New America" (U California Press, 2026)
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Jun 27, 2026 |
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John K. Roth, "Saving the American Dream: Meditations for Dark Times" (Wipf and Stock, 2026)
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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Gina M. Pérez, "Sanctuary People: Faith-Based Organizing in Latina/o Communities" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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Where Harlem Rests at the Woodlawn Cemetery
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Rebecca Kosick, "Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press" (Wayne State UP, 2026)
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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Jeremy J. Holland, "The Political Worldviews of American Social Movements: Partisan Politics and the Future of Democracy" (Routledge, 2026)
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Jun 21, 2026 |
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James O'Leary, "The Middlebrow Musical: Between Broadway and Opera in 1940s America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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Blair LM Kelley, "Black Freedom: A Visual History of Juneteenth and Emancipation Days" (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2026)
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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Inside the Mississippi Marathon: How Mississippi Dramatically Improved Its Education System with Rachel Canter
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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Charlotte Brooks, "The Moys of New York and Shanghai: One Family’s Extraordinary Journey Through War and Revolution" (U California Press, 2026)
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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Anna O. Law, "Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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Adrian Ciani, "Contesting Zion: The Vatican, American Catholics, and the Partition of Palestine" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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Anna Harwell Celenza, "On the Record: Music that Changed America (Norton, 2026)
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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Robert Suits, "The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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Jesse Montgomery, "It Is Not Enough to Survive: The Young Patriots Story" (UNC Press, 2026)
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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Brook Wilensky-Lanford, "A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2026)
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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Pamela Walker Laird, "Self-Made: The Stories that Forged an American Myth" (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
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Jun 14, 2026 |
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Stephanie Coontz, "For Better and Worse: The Complicated Past and Challenging Future of Marriage" (Viking, 2026)
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Jun 14, 2026 |
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Curtis Dozier, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" (Yale UP, 2026)
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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Poet-Prophet of American Democracy: Walt Whitman’s Vital Political Prose
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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Richard Bennet and Alexander Noyes, "War at Arm's Length: How America Can Build Effective Partners Through Military Assistance" (Yale UP, 2026)
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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Sarah McNamara, "Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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Karine Premont and Christopher J. Devine eds., "Second in Command: Reevaluating the Role of Vice Presidents and Running Mates in Modern American Politics" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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“America’s Founding Son”: Author & Musician Bob Crawford on the Life of John Quincy Adams
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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Justin F Jackson, "The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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Michael Staudenmaier, "White, Black, Brown: Becoming Puerto Rican in Chicago" (UNC Press, 2026)
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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Margaret O’Mara on the Clintons, Tech, and Memory
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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Bruce Dearstyne, "Revolutionary New York: 250 Years of Social Change" (SUNY Press, 2026)
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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Kristian Williams, "Policing the Progressive City: Portland, Oregon, from Settlement to Uprising" (AK Press, 2026)
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Jun 07, 2026 |
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Eileen Otis, "Walmart: Made in China" (Stanford UP, 2026)
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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Robert W. Snyder, "When the City Stopped: Stories from New York's Essential Workers" (Cornell UP, 2026)
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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Ashok Malhotra, "Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri La, 1900-1969" (UCL Press, 2026)
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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Michael Brownstein et al., "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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Mollie Barnes, "Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902" (U South Carolina Press, 2026)
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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David Cunningham on Contesting Confederate Monuments (JP)
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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Lauren Duval, "The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2025)
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, "Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word and Me" (37 Ink, 2026)
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Kati Curts, "Assembling Religion: The Ford Motor Company and the Transformation of Religion in America" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Homes of the Past
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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Annette Gordon-Reed ed., "Jefferson on Race: A Reader" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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May 31, 2026 |
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Craig Fehrman, "This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark" (Simon & Schuster, 2026)
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May 31, 2026 |
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Joanna Dee Das, "Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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May 31, 2026 |
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Julie J. Park, "Race, Class, and Affirmative Action: College Admissions in a New Era" (Harvard Education Press, 2026)
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May 31, 2026 |
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Chloe Chapin, "Suitable: The Sartorial Revolution and the Fashioning of Modern Men" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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May 31, 2026 |
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Charlie Qiuli Xue and Arwen Yingting Chen, "American-Designed Shopping Malls in China" (Hong Kong UP, 2026)
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May 30, 2026 |
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Ashley Rose Young, "Nourishing Networks: The Public Culture of Food in New Orleans" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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May 30, 2026 |
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Robin R. Means Coleman and Novotny Lawrence eds., "The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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May 30, 2026 |
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Timothy Mason Roberts, "After Barbary: Algeria's Roles in the French and American Empires" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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May 29, 2026 |
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Chunmei Du, "Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians in the Aftermath of World War II" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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May 29, 2026 |
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Paige Towers, "What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption" (U Iowa Press, 2026)
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May 28, 2026 |
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The Instigators
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May 28, 2026 |
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Christopher S. Celenza, "The Evolution of Western Thought: Volume 1, From the Ancient World to Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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May 27, 2026 |
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Andrea Zarafshon Moore, "Audible Loss: New Music and the Crisis of Memory" (Fordham UP, 2025)
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May 27, 2026 |
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Jason S. Spicer, "Co-Operative Enterprise in Comparative Perspective: Exceptionally Un-American?" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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May 26, 2026 |
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Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America
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May 26, 2026 |
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Jeffrey Whyte, "The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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May 25, 2026 |
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Thomas Xavier Sarmiento, "The Heartland of US Empire: Race, Region, and the Queer Filipinx Midwest" (Temple UP, 2026)
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May 25, 2026 |
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Timothy K. August, "The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America" (Temple UP, 2020)
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May 25, 2026 |
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James O'Neil Spady, "Take Freedom: Recovering the Fugitive History of the Denmark Vesey Affair" (UNC Press, 2026)
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May 25, 2026 |
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Shane Breaux, "Reverberations of Culture: Racialized Performance in Early Twentieth-Century Musical Variety by Just a Buncha Clowns" (Routledge, 2026)
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May 24, 2026 |
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Stuart Schrader, "Blue Power: How Police Organized to Serve and Protect Themselves" (Basic Books, 2026)
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May 24, 2026 |
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Mary T. Freeman, "Abolitionists and the Politics of Correspondence" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
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May 23, 2026 |
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Ellen Levitt, "Former Synagogues of the United States: Looking at Buildings That Once Housed Synagogues, Schools, and Other Jewish Institutions" (Resource Publications, 2026)
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May 23, 2026 |
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Anna O. Law, "Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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May 22, 2026 |
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Kori Schake, "The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States" (Wiley, 2025)
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May 22, 2026 |
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Nathan K. Finney, "Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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May 21, 2026 |
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Evelyn Iritani, "Safe Passage: The Untold Story of Diplomatic Intrigue, Betrayal, and the Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea During World War II" (FSG, 2026)
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May 21, 2026 |
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Debating the Constitution: On Originalism's Most Pressing Quarrels with Sherif Girgis
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May 20, 2026 |
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Rachel Deblinger, "Saving Our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the Holocaust" (Indiana UP, 2025)
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May 20, 2026 |
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Thomas Doherty, "How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America" (Columbia UP, 2026)
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May 20, 2026 |
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George Baylon Radics, "Emotional Filipinos: The American Myth of the 'Lazy Native' and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines" (U Georgia Press, 2026)
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May 20, 2026 |
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Steven W. Thrasher, "The Overseer Class: A Manifesto" (Amistad, 2026)
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May 19, 2026 |
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Tom Meschery, "The Mad Manchurian: From the Internment Camps of Tokyo to the Hardwood Courts of the NBA" (Coffeetown Press, 2025)
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May 19, 2026 |
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David Eisler, "Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present" (U Iowa Press, 2022)
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May 18, 2026 |
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Heather Ann Thompson, "Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage" (Pantheon, 2026)
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May 18, 2026 |
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Justin Randolph, "Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside (UNC Press, 2026)
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May 17, 2026 |
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Under the Tenement Rooftops: Immigrant and Migrant Families in New York
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May 17, 2026 |
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Ayşehan Jülide Etem, "Film Diplomacy: A Media History of Turkey-US Relations" (Columbia UP, 2026)
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May 16, 2026 |
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Paul Stob, "Empire of Skulls: Phrenology, the Fowler Family, and a New Nation's Quest to Unlock the Secrets of the Mind" (Counterpoint Publishing, 2026)
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May 15, 2026 |
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Gordon Simmons, "Mutiny in the Mountains: West Virginia Public Workers, 1969-2019" (PM Press, 2026)
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May 15, 2026 |
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Amy D. McDowell, "Whispers in the Pews: Evangelical Uniformity in a Divided America" (NYU Press, 2026)
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May 14, 2026 |
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Stephen F. Knott, "Conspirator in Chief: The Long Tradition of Conspiracy Theories in the American Presidency" (UP Kansas, 2025)
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May 14, 2026 |
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Charles L. Glaser, "Retrench, Defend, Compete: Securing America's Future Against a Rising China" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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May 13, 2026 |
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Kira Ganga Kieffer, "Unvaccinated Under God: Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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May 13, 2026 |
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Wil Haygood, "The War within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home" (Knopf, 2026)
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May 12, 2026 |
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Brenda Boyle, "American War Stories" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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May 10, 2026 |
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Shannon McKenna Schmidt, "You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson’s Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode With Her" (Sourcebooks, 2026)
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May 10, 2026 |
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Terror, Hope, & Exodus: The Testimony of Henry Adams, Freedman
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May 09, 2026 |
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Mark Peterson, "The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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May 09, 2026 |
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Sharon Zukin, "Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change" (Rutgers UP, 2014)
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May 08, 2026 |
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Julia Bowes, "Every Man's Home a Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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May 08, 2026 |
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Fighting for a Foothold: How Government and Markets Undermine Black Middle-Class Suburbia
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May 07, 2026 |
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Frontier Films for America250: On the Western Genre and Beyond with Matthew J. Franck
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May 06, 2026 |
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What Does the American Presidency Mean?
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May 05, 2026 |
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Lerone Martin, "Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr." (Amistad, 2026)
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May 05, 2026 |
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Alice Echols, "Black Power, White Heat: From Solidarity Politics to Radical Chic" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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May 03, 2026 |
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Nicholas Tochka, "The Musical Lives of Charles Manson: The Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Invention of the Sixties" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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May 03, 2026 |
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Katie Batza, "AIDS in the Heartland: How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics" (UNC Press, 2025)
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May 02, 2026 |
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Scott Kurashige, "American Peril: The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism" (U California Press, 2026)
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May 02, 2026 |
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Charles W. A. Prior, "Treaty Ground: Diplomacy and the Politics of Sovereignty, from Roanoke to the Republic" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)
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May 01, 2026 |
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Jason R. Young, "The Mask of Memory: White Racial Fantasy After the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2026)
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May 01, 2026 |
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Miranda Yaver, "Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Samira K. Mehta, "God Bless the Pill: The Surprising History of Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion" (UNC Press, 2026)
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Rugged Individualism
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Jack Cheevers, "Kennedy’s Coup: A White House Plot, a Saigon Murder, and America's Descent into Vietnam" (Simon and Schuster, 2026)
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Caste and Race: Ambedkar and King with the Ambedkar King Study Circle
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Douglas Waller, "The Determined Spy: The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank Wisner" (Penguin, 2026)
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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Zaakir Tameez, "Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation" (Henry Holt, 2025)
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Constance Bailey et al. "Get It While It's Hot: Gas Station, Roadside, and Convenience Cuisine in the U.S. South" (LSU Press, 2026)
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Vanda Krefft, "Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women" (Algonquin Books, 2026)
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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The Information State: How is the State Surveilling and Manipulating us These Days?
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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The Crisis of American Political Economy: On the New Conservative Policy Agenda with Chris Griswold
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Jim Downs, "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Adam Henig, "Baseball's Outcast: The Story of Ron LeFlore" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Nathaniel Greenberg, "The Long War of Ideas: American Public Diplomacy in Arabic After 9/11" (Columbia UP, 2026)
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Kasey Jernigan, "Commod Bods: Embodied Heritage, Foodways, and Indigeneity" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Miranda Banks and Kate Fortmueller, "Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers" (U California Press, 2026)
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Emely Rumble, "Bibliotherapy in The Bronx" (Row House, 2025)
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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Mark A. Johnson, "American Bacon: The History of a Food Phenomenon" (U Georgia Press, 2026)
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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169* Hannah Arendt on Oases (JP)
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Alisa Kessel, "Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence of Sexual Violence" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Victor Li, "Supreme Pressure: The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birth of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation Process" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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David-James Gonzales, "Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics and Civil Rights in Orange County, California" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Larry M. Bartels and Katherine J. Cramer, "The Politics of Social Change: From the Sixties to the Present Through the Eyes of a Generation" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Donald Sassoon, "Revolutions: A New History" (Verso Books, 2025)
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Voices from a Century of Struggle: Writings of the Jim Crow Era
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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John Bechtold, "U.S. Militarism and the Terrain of Memory: Negotiating Dead Space" (Taylor & Francis, 2024)
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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Cedric de Leon, "Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity" (U California Press, 2025)
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Michael W. Tuck, "The Castle Slaves of the Gambia River: A Creole Community in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World" (Brill, 2026)
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Melissa Butcher, "The Trouble with Freedom: Love, Hate and America’s Future" (Manchester UP, 2026)
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Scott M. Kenworthy, "The People's Patriarch: Tikhon Bellavin and the Orthodox Church in North America and Revolutionary Russia" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Priyanka Kumar, "Light Between Apple Trees: Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit" (Island Press, 2025)
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Daniel Rachel, "This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika, and the Third Reich" (Akashic Books, 2026)
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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Lindsay Rae Smith Privette, "The Surgeon's Battle: How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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Danielle Bainbridge, "Currencies of Cruelty: Slavery, Freak Shows, and the Performance Archive" (NYU Press, 2026)
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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The Club: Where American Artists Found Refuge in Belle Epoque Paris
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Amelia Frank-Vitale, "Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds" (U California Press, 2026)
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Lee Ann S. Wang, "The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women" (Duke UP, 2026)
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Tyesha Maddox, "A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Nick Juravich, "Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese Food
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Matthew Guariglia and Brian Hochman, "The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation into the National Security State" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2026)
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Erica Morawski, "Development Design: Hotels and Politics in the Hispanic Caribbean" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025)
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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Mark Hlavacik, "Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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On Our Continuing Age of Oil with Journalist Stanley Reed
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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Nicholas W. Gentile, "Enemies to Their Country: The Marblehead Addressers and Consensus in the American Revolution" (U Mass Press, 2025)
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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Tom Wells, "The Kissinger Tapes: Inside His Secretly Recorded Phone Conversations" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Cathryn J. Prince, "For the Love of Labor: The Life of Pauline Newman" (U Illinois Press, 2026)
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, "The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Joanna Siekiera ed., "NATO Stability Policing: Beneficial Tool in Filling the Security Gap and Establishing the Rule of Law, and a Safe and Secure Environment" (NATO Stability Policing Centre Of Excellence, 2024)
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Maya L. Kornberg, "Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress" (JHU Press, 2026)
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Sarah Jaffe, "Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone" (Bold Type Books, 2021)
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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On Trump as a “World Historical Individual” with author John B. Judis
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Steven Pinker, "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life" (Scribner, 2025)
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Elizabeth Mitchell Elder, "Company Towns: Industry Power and the Historical Foundations of Public Mistrust" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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Doug Crandell, "Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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Gabrielle Oliveira, "Now We Are Here: Family Migration, Children’s Education, and Dreams for a Better Life" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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Imagining Independence; or, Why Does Rip Van Winkle Sleep Through the Revolution?
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Sunmin Kim, "The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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A.J. Bauer, "Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against The Press" (Columbia UP, 2026)
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Lisa Nakamura, "The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Entrepreneurial Work Ethic
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Abe Walker, "Reassembling the UAW: Insurgency, Contention, and the Struggle for Unionism in the American South" (Temple UP, 2026)
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Eurie Dahn, "Snack" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Courtney Humphries, "Climate Change and the Future of Boston" (Anthem Press, 2026)
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Ethelene Whitmire, "The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram" (Viking, 2026)
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Tristan J. Rogers, "Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction" (Routledge, 2025)
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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Suzanne Mettler and Trevor E. Brown, "Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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An Evening with Philip Roth: A Conversation with Bernard Avishai, Igor Webb, and Steven Zipperstein
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Katelyn E. Stauffer, "The Politics of Perception: How Beliefs About Women’s Inclusion Shape Democratic Legitimacy in the U.S." (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Michelle Adams, "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North" (FSG Press, 2025)
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Austin McCoy, "Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made" (Atria/One Signal, 2026)
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Dana A. Williams, "Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship" (Amistad, 2025)
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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George Frazier, "Riverine Dreams: Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City with Henry Sapoznik
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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Danielle Wiggins, "Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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Patrick Chung, "Standardizing Empire: The US Military, Korea, and the Origins of Military-Industrial Capitalism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Catherine Boland Erkkila, "Spaces of Immigration: American Ports, Railways, and Settlements" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025)
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Michael James Roberts et al., "Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing" (San Diego State UP, 2024)
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Jennifer Randles, "Living Diaper to Diaper: The Hidden Crisis of Poverty and Motherhood" (U California Press, 2026)
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Elizabeth Suhay, "Debating the American Dream: How Explanations for Inequality Polarize Politics" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2025)
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Seth S. Tannenbaum, "Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites: Democracy and Division at the Twentieth-Century Ballpark" (U Illinois Press, 2026)
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Helen Redmond, "Liquid Handcuffs: Policing and Punishment in Methadone Clinics and the Future of Opioid Addiction Treatment" (North Atlantic Books, 2026)
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Coming Out as Dalit with Yashica Dutt
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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James Giesler, "Francisco de Saavedra's American Revolutionary War, The Spanish Contribution to the Battle of Yorktown" (James Giesler, 2025)
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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Jonathan D. Sarna and Benjamin Shapell, "Lincoln and the Jews: A History" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Clarissa E. Francis, "Black Women's Bodily Autonomy, Sexual Freedom, and Pleasure: Explorations of the Hot Girl Movement" (Routledge, 2025)
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Sarah Jones Weicksel, "A Nation Unraveled: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era" (UNC Press, 2026)
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss, "Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Dorothy Denetclaw and Matt Fitzsimons, "The Sons of Gunshooter: A Navajo Resistance Story" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Fred Turner on Countercultures, Cybercultures, and Californian and Texan Ideologies
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Jamila Michener and Mallory E. Sorelle, "Uncivil Democracy: How Access to Justice Shapes Political Power" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Stephen Stacks, "The Resounding Revolution: Freedom Song After 1968" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Josh Seim, "The Welfare Assembly Line: Public Servants in the Suffering City" (U California Press, 2026)
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Zalman Newfield, "Brooklyn Odyssey: My Journey Out of Hasidism" (Temple UP, 2026)
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Allison Powers, "Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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American Masterpiece: The Civil War Diaries of George Templeton Strong with Brenda Wineapple and Geoff Wisner
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Cecilia Márquez, "Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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Mark Thomas Edwards, "Walter Lippmann: American Skeptic, American Pastor" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Mark D. Steinberg, "Moral Storytelling in 1920s New York, Odessa, and Bombay: Sex, Crime, Violence, and Nightlife in the Modern City" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Erick Guerra, "Overbuilt: The High Costs and Low Rewards of US Highway Construction" (Island Press, 2025)
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Kenneth Lowande, "False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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David M. Henkin, "Out of the Ballpark: How to Think about Baseball" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Emily Dufton, "Addiction, Inc: Medication-assisted Treatment and America's Forgotten War on Drugs" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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John Drabinski, "So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic" (Northwestern UP, 2025)
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Brian Hallstoos, "Sol Butler: An Olympian's Odyssey through Jim Crow America" (U Illinois Press, 2026)
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Cassandra Shepard, "Settler Colonialism is the Disaster: A Critique of New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina and During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (U Illinois Press, 2026)
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Marc James Carpenter, "The War on Illahee: Genocide, Complicity, and Cover-Ups in the Pioneer Northwest" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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Laura K. Field, "Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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Digestive Belonging, Trans-Species Sensing & Care in America’s Dairyland
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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Zaid Adhami, "Dilemmas of Authenticity: The American Muslim Crisis of Faith" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Heather Ann Thompson, "Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage" (Pantheon, 2026)
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Ron Hayduk, "Untangling the Political Roots of Immigration and Inequality in the United States" (Routledge, 2026)
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Joshua Clark Davis, "Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Jameson R. Sweet, "Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Nicholas Boggs, "Baldwin: A Love Story" (FSG, 2025)
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Charles Alistair McCrary, "Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Gloria Browne-Marshall, "A Protest History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2026) Revisited
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Ashlyn Hand, "Prioritizing Faith: International Religious Freedom and U.S. Foreign Policy" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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Isaac Butler, "The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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Garrett Felber, "A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre" (AK Press, 2025)
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Nina Bandelj, "Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson, "A Black Woman for President: Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris" (UP of Mississippi)
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Dafeng Xu, "Chinatown: San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake and the Paradox of American Immigration Policy" (JHU Press, 2026)
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Luca Cottini, "The Rise of Americanism in Italy, 1888-1919" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Jens Ludwig, "Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Michael Casiano, "Let Us Alone: The Origins of Baltimore's Police State" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Rolando Pujol, "The Great American Retro Road Trip: A Celebration of Roadside Americana" (Artisan Publishers, 2025)
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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Stephen Bezruchka, "Born Sick in the USA: Improving the Health of a Nation" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Mark Anthony Neal, "New Black Man" (Routledge, 2015)
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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LiLi Johnson, "Technologies of Kinship: Asian American Racialization and the Making of Family" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Betty Boyd Caroli, "A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Dream of Affordable Housing" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Terry Williams, "Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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George Fisher, "Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Karin Wulf, "Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Kong Pheng Pha, "Queering the Hmong Diaspora: Racial Subjectivity and the Myth of Hyperheterosexuality" (U Washington Press, 2025)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Justin Owen Rawlins, "Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Damon Scott, "The City Aroused: Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Kimberley Johnson, "Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Gerald F. Goodwin, "Race in the Crucible of War: African American Servicemen and the War in Vietnam" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Elizabeth Kelly Gray, "Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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Andrew Burstein, "Being Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Ryan Donovan, "Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Emilie Connolly, "Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Oline Eaton, "Finding Jackie: The Second Act of America's First Lady" (Diversion Books, 2023)
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Brian D. Behnken, "Brown and Blue: Mexican Americans, Law Enforcement, and Civil Rights in the Southwest, 1935-2025" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Kendra D. Boyd, "Freedom Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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O. Jennifer Dixon-McKnight, "We Paved the Way: Black Women and the Charleston Hospital Workers' Campaign" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Kellen Hoxworth, "Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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John Samuel Harpham, "Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2025)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Mark Christian Thompson, "Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Christopher Lynch, "Formulating Foster: Stephen C. Foster and the Creation of a National Musical Myth" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Sonya Lea, "American Bloodlines: Reckoning with Lynch Culture" (UP of Kentucky, 2025)
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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Zeke Hernandez, "The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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A. Mechele Dickerson, "The Middle-Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream" (U California Press, 2026)
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Keidrick Roy, "American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Lottie Whalen, "Radicals & Rogues: The Women Who Made New York Modern" (Reaktion, 2023)
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Jose Eos Trinidad, "Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Emily Walton, "Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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T. R. Johnson, "New Orleans: A Writer's City" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Michael J. Illuzzi, "Mending the Nation: Reclaiming We The People in a Populist Age" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Lukas Foss: A "New American Music Series" Gallatin Lecture, April 15, 1982
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Mary E. Stuckey, "Remembering Jefferson: Who He Was, Who We Are" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Theodore J. Karamanski, "Great Lake: An Unnatural History of Lake Michigan" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Steven J. Brady, "Less Than Victory: American Catholics and the Vietnam War" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Fernando Luiz Lara, "Spatial Theories for the Americas: Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2024)
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Robert D. Bland, "Requiem for Reconstruction: Black Countermemory and the Legacy of the Lowcountry's Lost Political Generation" (UNC Press, 2026)
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Adam S. Ferziger. "Agents of Change: American Jews and the Transformation of Israeli Judaism" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Brian Martin, "From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge: Canada and the Civil War" (ECW Press, 2022)
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Brooke Kroeger, "Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism" (Knopf, 2023)
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Chris Boucher, "Harry "Bucky" Lew: A Biography of the First Black Professional Basketball Player" (McFarland, 2026)
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Book Talk 69: American Medium, with Eyal Peretz
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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Jason Isralowitz, "Nothing to Fear: Alfred Hitchcock and the Wrong Men" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2023)
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Paul J. Gutacker, "The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Mary M. Burke, "Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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W. Ralph Eubanks, "When It's Darkness on the Delta: How America's Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land" (Beacon Press, 2026)
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Kelsey Klotz, "Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Ashley Brown, "Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Matthew Davis, "A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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Philip A. Wallach, "Why Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 03, 2026 |
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Scott A. Mitchell, "The Making of American Buddhism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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Jean Pfaelzer, "California, a Slave State" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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Anna Zeide, "US History in 15 Foods" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Kathryn Cornell Dolan, "Breakfast Cereal: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Helle Strandgaard Jensen, "Sesame Street: A Transnational History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Andrew Porwancher, "American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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Jack Z. Bratich, "On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death" (Common Notions, 2022)
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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Ruby Oram, "Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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Joel S. Wit, "Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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Trymaine Lee, "A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America" (St. Martins, 2025)
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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Elizabeth Suhay, "Debating the American Dream: How Explanations for Inequality Polarize Politics" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2025)
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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Sustainability, Identity, Artisans and Designers
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Colin Williamson, "Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Brittany Michelle Friedman, "Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Liberation & the Literature of the Women’s Movement with Bess Wohl and Honor Moore
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Christian Smith, "Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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David Fleming, "A Big Mess in Texas: The Miraculous, Disastrous 1952 Dallas Texans and the Craziest Untold Story in NFL History" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Leo R. Chavez, "The Latino Threat: How Alarmist Rhetoric Misrepresents Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Dec 21, 2025 |
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Terry Kirby, "The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
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Dec 20, 2025 |
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Amy Erdman Farrell, "Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Jeff Roche, "The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right" (U Texas Press, 2025)
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Peter Mancina, "On the Side of ICE: Policing Immigrants in a Sanctuary State" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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David Nasaw, "The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II" (Penguin, 2025)
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Joseph L Graves, "Why Black People Die Sooner: What Medicine Gets Wrong about Race and How to Fix It" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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Mirya Holman, "The Hidden Face of Local Power: Appointed Boards and the Limits of Democracy" (Temple UP, 2025)
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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Matt Sleat, "Post-Liberalism" (Polity, 2025)
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Julian Schmid, "Marvel, DC and US Security: The Superhero Genre and Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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René Esparza, "From Vice to Nice: Midwestern Politics and the Gentrification of AIDS" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Caitlin Wiesner, "Between the Street and the State: Black Women’s Anti-Rape Activism Amid the War on Crime" (U Pennsylvania, 2025)
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Michael D. Dwyer, "Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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James Sears, "Queering Rehoboth Beach: Beyond the Boardwalk" (Temple UP, 2024)
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Benjamin Schneider, "The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution" (Island Press, 2025)
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Gloria Browne-Marshall, "A Protest History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2026)
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Sylvia D. Hoffert, "Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle: Gossip, Rumor, and Reputation in a Small Southern Town" (U Georgia Press, 2025)
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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José Blanco F. and Raúl J. Vázquez-López, "Dress, Fashion, and National Identity in Puerto Rico: Taínos to Beauty Queens" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Gwyneth Mellinger, "Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Jonathan S. Jones, "Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Brooke Barbier, "King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Julia Wagner, "Hester Street" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Stefania Marghitu, "Teen TV" (Routledge, 2021)
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Michael McCulloch, "Building a Social Contract: Modern Workers’ Houses in Early Twentieth-Century Detroit" (Temple UP, 2023)
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Benjamin Balthaser, "Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left" (Verso Books, 2025)
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Sabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023)
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Deborah Carr, "Aging in America" (U California Press, 2023)
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Jonathan Eig, "King: A Life" (FSG, 2023)
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Philip Rocco, "Counting Like a State: How Intergovernmental Partnerships Shaped the 2020 US Census" (UP Kansas, 2025)
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Christina Cecelia Davidson, "Dominican Crossroads: H.C.C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Renata Keller, "The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Eric King, "A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon" (PM Press, 2025)
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Amy Hughes, "An Actor's Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Jim Cullen, "1980: America's Pivotal Year" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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John Bodnar, "Divided by Terror: American Patriotism after 9/11" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, "Videotape" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Julie Dobrow, "Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Yanqiu Zheng, "In Search of Admiration and Respect: Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Can America Still Lead? Foreign Policy in an Age of Division with Joel Rubin
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Simon Appleford, "Drawing Liberalism: Herblock's Political Cartoons in Postwar America" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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160* Hannah Arendt's Refugee Politics (JP)
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Karen Auman, "The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for Georgia" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Ana Patricia Rodríguez, "Avocado Dreams: Remaking Salvadoran Life and Art in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area" (University of Arizona Press, 2025)
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Nicholas Buccola, "One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle Over an American Ideal" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Tim Seiter, "Wrangling Pelicans: Military Life in Texas Presidios" (U Texas Press, 2025)
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Vanessa S. Williamson, "The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History" (Basic Books, 2025)
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Heath Pearson, "Life Beside Bars: Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Doug MacCash, "Mardi Gras Beads" (Louisiana UP, 2022)
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Ethan W. Ris, "Other People's Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Lester D. Friedman, "Citizen Spielberg" (U of Illinois Press, 2022)
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Joe Allen, "The Package King: A Rank and File History of UPS" (Haymarket Books, 2020)
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Christina Lane, "Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock" (Chicago Review Press, 2020)
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Miranda S. Spivack, "Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back" (The New Press, 2025)
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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Carolyn T. Adams et. al, "Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century" (Penn Press, 2025)
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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David Kieran, "Signature Wounds: The Untold Story of the Military's Mental Health Crisis" (NYU Press, 2019)
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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David Garland, "Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Ronald Angelo Johnson, "Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy During the American Revolution" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Caroline Jack, "Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Joseph P. Viteritti, "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Lars Cornelissen, "Neoliberalism and Race" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Jason A. Higgins, "Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Clint Smith, "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America" (Little, Brown and Company, 2021)
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Shoshana Walter, "Rehab: An American Scandal" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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David T. Beito, "FDR: A New Political Life" (Open Universe, 2025)
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Diane T. Feldman, "Borrowed Land, Stolen Labor, and the Holy Spirit: The Struggle for Power and Equality in Holmes County, Mississippi" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr.
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Carol Mason, "From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary" (U California Press, 2025)
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Jack B. Greenberg and John A. Dearborn, "Congressional Expectations of Presidential Self-Restraint" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Mimi Abramovitz, "Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present" (Routledge, 2025)
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Rebecca L. Davis, "Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America" (Norton, 2024)
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Eram Alam, "The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare" (JHU Press, 2025)
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Shaul Kelner, "A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized To Free Soviet Jews" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Linda Upham-Bornstein, "'Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender': Taxpayers’ Associations, Pocketbook Politics, and the Law during the Great Depression" (Temple UP, 2023)
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Rob Wells, "The Insider: How the Kiplinger Newsletter Bridged Washington and Wall Street" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Joshua Clark Davis, "Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Democratic Dialogues: Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Patrick Parr, "Malcolm Before X" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Javier Wallace, "Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams" (Duke UP, 2025)
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Sarah Smarsh, "Bone of the Bone: Essays on America from a Daughter of the Working Class" (Scribner, 2024)
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Hector Vera, "Yardstick Nation: The Metric System in America" (Vanderbilt UP, 2025)
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Tami Parr, "Goats in America: A Cultural History" (Oregon State UP, 2025)
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Becky M. Nicolaides, "The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles After 1945" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Aileen Teague, "Policing on Drugs: The United States, Mexico, and the Origins of the Modern Drug War, 1969-2000" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Peter D. Blackmer, "Unleashing Black Power: Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers" (UVA Press, 2025)
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Ada Ferrer, "Cuba: An American History" (Scribner, 2021)
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Nancy Newman, "Songs and Sounds of the Anti-Rent Movement in Upstate New York: Including Twenty-Two New Settings of Period Tunes" (SUNY Press, 2025)
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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Andrea Freeman, "Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: America’s Politics of Food, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch" (Metropolitan Books, 2024)
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Michael T. Bertrand, "Southern History Remixed: On Rock 'n' Roll and the Dilemma of Race" (UP Florida, 2024)
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Francis L. Sampson, "Look Out Below!: A Story of the Airborne by a Paratrooper Padre" (Catholic U of America Press, 2023)
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Darren Mueller, "At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Gustav Meibauer, "The No-Fly Zone in US Foreign Policy: The Curious Persistence of a Flawed Instrument" (Policy Press, 2025)
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Lawrence Grossman, "Living in Both Worlds: Modern Orthodox Judaism in the United States, 1945-2025" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Naomi R. Williams, "A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community in Wisconsin" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Jason Schneider, "That Gun in Your Hand: The Strange Saga of Hey Joe' and Popular Music's History of Violence" (Anvil Press, 2025)
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Melissa M. Matthes, "When Sorrow Comes: The Power of Sermons from Pearl Harbor to Black Lives Matter" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Aaron Sheehan-Dean, "Fighting with the Past: How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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David Singerman, "Unrefined: How Capitalism Reinvented Sugar" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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Anthony J. Knowles, "Driving Productivity: Automation, Labor, and Industrial Development in the United States and Germany" (Brill, 2025)
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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Kevin M. Schultz, "Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Meghan Crnic, "The Beach Cure: A History of Healing on Northeastern Shores" (U Washington Press, 2025)
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Maria Fedorova, "Seeds of Exchange: Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in Agriculture, 1921–1935" (Northern Illinois UP, 2025)
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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John Minton, "Folk Music and Song in the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Clay Risen, "Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Zara Anishanslin, "The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution" (Harvard UP, 2025)
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Michael Glass, "Cracked Foundations: Debt and Inequality in Suburban America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Vartan Matiossian, "The Color of Choice: The Armenians and the Politics of Race in the United States and Germany (1890-1945)" (Brill, 2025)
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Marion Orr, "House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr." (UNC Press, 2025)
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Jill Elaine Hasday, "We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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Emma Ashford, "First Among Equals: U. S. Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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Raymond J. McKoski, "David Davis, Abraham Lincoln's Favorite Judge" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Kathleen B. Casey, "The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Robert F. Williams, "The Airborne Mafia: The Paratroopers Who Shaped America's Cold War Army" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Disco Sucks
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Scott Beekman, "The Last Gladiator: William Muldoon and the Making of American Sports" (U Texas Press, 2025)
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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John L. Campbell, "Pay Up!: Conservative Myths about Tax Cuts for the Rich" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Aaron Cayer, "Incorporating Architects: How American Architecture Became a Practice of Empire" (U California Press, 2025)
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Ecodefense: Dave Foreman and Earth First!’s Deep Ecology
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Debra Michals, "She's the Boss: The Rise of Women’s Entrepreneurship since World War II" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Mark Archuleta, "The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr: From Gentleman Bandit to Movie Star and Back Again" (U North Texas Press, 2025)
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Constance Bailey, "Conversations with Kiese Laymon" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Kate Haulman, "The Mother of Washington in Nineteenth-Century America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Tim Weiner, "The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century" (Mariner Books, 2025)
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Bob Wyss, "Black Gold: The Rise, Reign, and Fall of American Coal" (University of California Press, 2025)
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Nicholas Jacobs and Sidney M. Milkis, "Subverting the Republic: Donald J. Trump and the Perils of Presidentialism" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Calvin Schermerhorn, "The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Jonathan White and Lucas Morel, "Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln" (Reedy Press, 2025)
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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Marcus Rediker, "Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea" (Penguin Group, 2025)
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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Rebecca Nagle, "By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land" (Harper, 2024)
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Michael Poznansky, "Great Power, Great Responsibility: How the Liberal International Order Shapes US Foreign Policy" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Jessica B. Harris, "Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine" (Clarkson Potter, 2025)
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Keisha N. Blain, "Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Lucy Sante, "Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City (The Experiment, 2022)
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Laura Hobson Faure, "Who Will Rescue Us?: The Story of the Jewish Children who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl, "Crusading for Globalization: US Multinationals and Their Opponents Since 1945" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Alfred L. Martin Jr. and Taylor Cole Miller eds., "The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Andrea Louise Campbell, "Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Thomas Graham, "Getting Russia Right" (Polity Press, 2023)
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the 19th Century Circus
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Breanne Pleggenkuhle and Joseph A. Schafer, "Crime, Corrections, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Responses and Adaptations in the US Criminal Justice System" (Southern Illinois UP, 2025)
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Is the U.S. helping speed up its own decline? with Damon Linker
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Kevin J. Hayes, "Understanding Hunter S. Thompson" (U South Carolina Press, 2025)
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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Katherine Fusco, "Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Star System" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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Molly Worthen, "Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump" (Random House, 2025)
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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Daniel Horowitz, "Bear With Me: A Cultural History of Famous Bears in America" (Duke UP, 2025)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Brendan A. Shanahan, "Disparate Regimes: Nativist Politics, Alienage Law, and Citizenship Rights in the United States, 1865-1965" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Flannery Burke, "Back East: How Westerners Invented a Region" (U Washington Press, 2025)
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Wade Davies, "Native Hoops: The Rise of American Indian Basketball, 1895-1970" (UP of Kansas, 2020)
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Donald G. Nieman, "The Path to Paralysis: How American Politics Became Nasty, Dysfunctional, and a Threat to the Republic" (Anthem Press, 2024)
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Glenn Ligon, "Distinguishing Piss from Rain" (Hauser & Wirth, 2024)
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Daniel Wortel-London, "The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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LaShawn Harris, "Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City" (Beacon, 2025)
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Andrew Fialka, "Hope Never to See It: A Graphic History of Guerrilla Violence during the American Civil War" (U Georgia Press, 2025)
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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John Lisle, "Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Peter Conti-Brown and Sean H. Vanatta, "Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Steve Luxenberg, "Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation" (Norton, 2019)
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Kathleen B. Casey, "The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Patrice D. Douglass, "Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Tracy Slater, "Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp" (Chicago Review Press, 2025)
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Tom Arnold-Forster, "Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Timothy Messer-Kruse, "Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution" (LSU Press, 2024)
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Elaine Weiss, "Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr., "Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune" (Ballantine, 2013)
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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K. Ian Shin, "Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art and the Making of America's Pacific Century" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Gregory A. Daddis, "Faith and Fear: America's Relationship with War Since 1945" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Susan C. Boyd, "Heroin: An Illustrated History" (Fernwood, 2022)
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2025)
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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Marlee S. Bunch, "Unlearning the Hush: Oral Histories of Black Female Educators in Mississippi in the Civil Rights Era"
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Ben A. Vagle and Stephen G. Brooks, "Command of Commerce: America's Enduring Economic Power Advantage over China" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Aug 22, 2025 |