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Alum Tamara Feinstein Publishes New Book

Posted on September 12, 2023

Alum Tamara Feinstein (Ph.D., 2013) recently published a new book titled, The Fate of Peruvian Democracy: Political Violence, Human Rights, and the Legal Left. Description: Tamara Feinstein investigates the bloody Shining Path conflict’s effect on …

Posted in 2023, All News, Alumni, Books, History News, Latin American and Caribbean History

Alumnus Thomas McStay Adams Publishes New Book

Posted on August 2, 2023

Alumnus Thomas McStay Adams (Ph.D. 1972) published his two-volume work Europe’s Welfare Traditions Since 1500: Reform Without End in February of this year. Description: Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over …

Posted in 2023, All News, Alumni, Books, European History, History News

Alum Sinae Hyun Publishes New Book

Posted on August 1, 2023

Former Ph.D. student Sinae Hyun recently published a new book titled Indigenizing the Cold War: The Border Patrol Police and Nation-Building in Thailand (University of Hawaii Press, 2023). Description The Border Patrol Police (BPP) of …

Posted in 2023, All News, Alumni, Books, History News, Southeast Asian History

Alumnus Daniel G. Hummel Publishes New Book

Posted on July 24, 2023

Former Ph.D. student Daniel G. Hummel recently published a new book titled The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2023). …

Posted in 2023, All News, Alumni, Books, History News, U.S./North American History

Stephen Kantrowitz Publishes New Book

Posted on April 25, 2023

Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States by Stephen Kantrowitz offers a concise and revealing history that reconsiders the Civil War era by centering one Native American tribe’s encounter …

Posted in 2023, All News, Books, History News, U.S./North American History

Ashley Brown Publishes New Book

Posted on January 9, 2023

From her start playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem as a young teenager to her eleven Grad Slam tennis wins to her professional golf career, Althea Gibson became the most famous black sportswoman …

Posted in 2023, All News, Books, History News, U.S./North American History

Thongchai Winichakul’s recent book wins the European Southeast Asian Studies Humanities Book Prize

Posted on July 11, 2022

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Thongchai Winichakul whose recent book, Moments of Silence: the Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok (U Hawaii Press, 2020) has won the EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize from the …

Posted in 2022, All News, Awards, Books, Emeriti, History News, Southeast Asian History

Alumnus Russell King Publishes Book

Posted on April 5, 2022

Congratulations to alumnus Russell King (BA 2002) on the publication of his new book, Rajneeshpuram: Inside the Cult of Bhagwan and Its Failed American Utopia, out this month from the Chicago Review Press. “In 1981, ambitious …

Posted in 2022, All News, Alumni, Books, History News, South Asian History

Submission Period Now Open for Mosse First Book Prize

Posted on March 28, 2022

The submission period is now open for the George L. Mosse First Book Prize! The prize was established in 2020 to honor George L. Mosse’s commitment to scholarship and to mentoring new generations of historians. Winning books are …

Posted in 2022, All News, Awards, Books, History News

Professor Alfred McCoy Publishes New Book

Posted on November 23, 2021

Congratulations to Professor Alfred McCoy on the publication of his new book, To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change, out this month from Haymarket Books. From the publisher’s website: “In a tempestuous narrative …

Posted in 2021, All News, Books, History News, Southeast Asian History
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