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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

Professor Lucas Richert Publishes New Book on the Global History of Cannabis

Posted on November 22, 2021

Lucas Richert, Associate Professor and George Urdang Chair in the History of Pharmacy and History Department faculty affiliate, has published a new book titled Cannabis: Global Histories (MIT Press, 2021). The book, co-edited by Lucas Richert …

Posted in 2021, All News, Books, History News, History of Science Medicine and Technology

Alumnus David Harrisville Publishes First Book on WWII German Soldiers on the Eastern Front

Posted on October 29, 2021

Congratulations to alumnus David Harrisville (PhD 2017) on the publication of his first book, The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 (Cornell University Press, 2021). Set to …

Posted in 2021, All News, Alumni, Books, European History, History News

Professor Gregg Mitman Publishes New Book

Posted on October 28, 2021

Professor Gregg Mitman‘s new book, Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia, will be available this November 2021 from The New Press. “In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of …

Posted in 2021, All News, Books, History News, History of Science Medicine and Technology

Alumnus Gregory Jones-Katz Publishes New Book

Posted on September 27, 2021

Alumnus Gregory Jones-Katz has a new book published through The University of Chicago Press. Deconstruction: An American Institution is an intellectual history of the deconstruction movement that transformed the humanities during the 20th century. “Deconstruction begins well before …

Posted in 2021, All News, Alumni, Books, History News, U.S./North American History

Professor Pablo Gómez Publishes New Book

Posted on September 15, 2021

Professor Pablo Gómez has a new book published this week, titled The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021). The book was co-edited by Diego Armus, a professor of …

Posted in 2021, All News, Books, History News, Latin American and Caribbean History
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