The Financial Times recognized Professor Emerita of History, UW-Madison Colleen Dunlavy’s Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the US into a Manufacturing Powerhouse one of the best summer books of 2024. Small, Medium, and Large …
Books
Judith Houck Publishes New Book: Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement
The University of Chicago Press has published Professor Judith Houck’s new book, Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement. The work highlights local history to tell a national story about the evolution of …
John Suval (PhD 2018) Receives Book Award from the Southern Historical Association
Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2022) by John Suval received the Southern Historical Association’s 2023 James A. Rawley Award for the best book on secession and/or …
Viren Murthy’s Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution was just published with University of Chicago Press
Viren Murthy’s Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution was just published with University of Chicago Press. Recent proposals to revive the ancient Silk Road for the contemporary era and ongoing Western interest in …
Kathryn McGarr’s City of Newsmen Reviewed in New York Times
Associate Professor Kathryn McGarr, a History Department affiliate, was featured in The New York Times in a review of four new books on journalism. Read the review of City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional …
Alum Tamara Feinstein Publishes New Book
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 …
Alumnus Thomas McStay Adams Publishes New Book
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 …
Alum Sinae Hyun Publishes New Book
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 …
Alumnus Daniel G. Hummel Publishes New Book
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). …
Kate Jarvis (Ph.D., 2014) Publishes New Book
Kate Jarvis (Ph.D. 2014) published a new book titled Politics in the Markets: Work, gender, and citizenship in revolutionary France at the University Press of Rennes. From the editor: This book mobilizes politics, economics and …