New Books in History
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Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Sto...
"The Perfect Fascist" pivots from the intimate story of a tempestuous seduction and inconvenient marriage―brilliantly reconstructed through family letters and court records―to a riveting account of Mussolini’s rise and fall...
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Nathan Stoltzfus, “Hitler’s Compromises: Coerci...
How did the Nazi regime respond to protest? How did Hitler’s desire for popular authority shape the relationship between state and society? Nathan Stoltzfus challenges the idea that the Third Reich relied on terror to survive in his new book Hitler’s C...
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Michael Vorenberg, "Lincoln's Peace: The Strugg...
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Michael Stauch, "Wildcat of the Streets: Detroi...
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Ory Amitay, "Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: ...
44 min
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Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History...
75 min
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Julian Jackson, "De Gaulle" (Harvard UP, 2018)
If Sir Winston Churchill was (in the words of Harold Macmillan) the "greatest Englishman In history", then Charles de Gaulle was without a doubt, the greatest Frenchman since Napoleon Bonaparte...
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Michael John Witgen, "Seeing Red: Indigenous La...
An interview with Michael John Witgen
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Jo Teeuwisse, "Fake History: 101 Things That Ne...
An interview with Jo Teeuwisse
34 min
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Ashley Howard, "Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Re...
66 min
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M’hamed Oualdi, "A Slave between Empires: A Tra...
Oualdi explores the life and afterlife of one figure, the manumitted slave and Tunisian dignitary Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah...
38 min
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Kelefa Sanneh, "Major Labels: A History of Popu...
An interview with Kelefa Sanneh
58 min
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Alex J. Kay and David Stahel, "Mass Violence in...
The book argues for a more comprehensive understanding of what constitutes Nazi violence and who was affected by this violence...
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Luke A. Nichter, "The Year That Broke Politics:...
59 min
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Scott Harrison et al., "Socialist Subjectivitie...
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Darius Von Guttner-Sporzynski, "The Jagiellon D...
44 min
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Nicholas Thomas, "Voyagers: The Settlement of t...
An interview with Nicholas Thomas
53 min
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Sean McMeekin, "Stalin's War: A New History of ...
An interview with Sean McMeekin
72 min
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Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov, "American by ...
An interview with Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov
77 min
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Allan Doig, "A History of the Church through it...
An interview with Allan Doig
34 min
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How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Histo...
20 min
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Peter Apps, "Deterring Armageddon: A Biography ...
54 min
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Meegan Kennedy, "Writing Embodiment in Victoria...
38 min
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Haley Cohen Gilliland, "A Flower Traveled in My...
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Sonia C. Gomez, "Picture Bride, War Bride: The ...
58 min