New Books in History
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Elizabeth Goldring, "Nicholas Hilliard: Life of...
Limning – the painting of miniature portraits – was an important art form in 16th-century Europe. Among its greatest practitioners was Nicholas Hilliard...
57 min
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John Hardman, "Marie-Antoinette: The Making of ...
Who was the real Marie-Antoinette?
72 min
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Steve Vogel, "Betrayal in Berlin: The True Stor...
Vogel tells the astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage operations of the Cold War—and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it...
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Jamie L. H. Goodall, "Pirates of the Chesapeake...
The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy...
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Cole Roskam, "Improvised City: Architecture and...
Accompanied by a rich array of archival photos, maps and designs, Roskam’s book takes us down to street level,..
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Loretta E. Kim, "Ethnic Chrysalis: China’s Oroc...
Kim's book is the first monograph published in English on the early modern history of the Orochen, an ethnic group that has inhabited northeast Asia for centuries...
60 min
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Walter Nugent, "Color Coded: Party Politics in ...
Nugent provides a detailed analysis of each Western state’s modern political history...
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AfroAm Studies Roundtable: Robert Greene II and...
Today, instead of discussing a new book, I am convening a “New Books in African American Studies Roundtable” to talk with two historians early in their careers about their recent transitions from graduate school into the professorate...
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Sarah Burns, "The Politics of War Powers: The T...
Burns pulls together distinct threads in analyzing the theoretical framing of presidential power in the American constitutional system and then tracing that power through forty-five presidents...
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Larry Wolff, "Woodrow Wilson and the Reimaginin...
Wolff traces how Wilson's emerging definition of national self-determination and his practical application of the principle changed over time as negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference unfolded...
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Adrian Wisnicki, "Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-190...
Adrian Wisnicki talks about the British expeditionary literature of the late 1800s.
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Rebecca E. Zietlow, "The Forgotten Emancipator:...
Though the story of emancipation is well known in American history, the roles of many of the key figures involved in it are often overlooked. Among them is James Mitchell Ashley...
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Aimee Fox, "Learning to Fight: Military Innovat...
Learning, innovation and adaptation are not concepts that we necessarily associate with the British Army of the First World War. Yet the need to learn from mistakes, to exploit new opportunities and to adapt to complex and novel situations are always necessary...
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Justin Nystrom, "Creole Italian: Sicilian Immig...
Nystrom argues that the discourse about New Orleans has been narrowed to a single story and controlled by something vaguely defined as “Creole” which has “long robbed the city of the potential for a richer cultural self-image.”
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Steven Ross and Wolf Gruner, "New Perspectives ...
On November 9, 1938, the Nazis launched a pogrom against German Jews...Kristallnacht.
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Kathy Peiss, "The Information Hunters" (Oxford ...
While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause...
31 min
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Jeffrey James Byrne, "Mecca of Revolution: Alge...
Byrne places Algeria at the center of many of the twentieth-century’s international dynamics: decolonization, the Cold War, détente,..
81 min
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Alex Hidalgo, "Trail of Footprints: A History o...
Hidalgo sheds new light on the purpose, production, and preservation of maps as well as the lives of Indigenous peoples and Spaniards alike involved in their production...
46 min
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David Morton, "Age of Concrete: Housing and the...
Who built Africa’s cities?
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Lana Dee Povitz, "Stirrings: How Activist New ...
Povitz demonstrates how grassroots activism continued to thrive, even as it was transformed by unrelenting erosion of the country's already fragile social safety net...
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Diana Lemberg, "Barriers Down: How American Pow...
Since the 1940s, America’s relations with the rest of the world have been guided by the idea of promoting the free flow of information...
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Ellen Griffith Spears, "Baptized in PCBs: Race,...
Griffen Spears discusses the decades long struggle for environmental and civil rights justice in Anniston, Alabama...
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SherAli Tareen, "Defending Muhammad in Modernit...
Tareen takes us into the fascinating world of the ‘ulama (theologians) of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century South Asian Islam...
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Sher Banu Khan, "Sovereign Women in a Muslim Ki...
Khan provides a rare and empirically rich view of queenship in early modern maritime Southeast Asia...
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Sarah Abrevaya Stein, "A Sephardic Journey Thro...
Stein weaves a narrative tapestry whose threads are drawn from the archives of one Sephardic family, with roots in the city of Salonica, then in the Ottoman Empire, now Thessaloniki in Greece...
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