Faculty Books

Zach Fredman (Co-editor), and Judd Kinzley (Co-editor). Uneasy Allies: Sino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1937–1949. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Allison Powers Useche. Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Stephen Kantrowitz. Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States. The University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Kathryn McGarr. City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington. University of Chicago Press , 2022.

Ashley Brown. Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Simon Balto. Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power. University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

Monica Kim. The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History. Princeton University Press, 2019.

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Tony Michels (Co-editor), and Mitchell B. Hart (Co-editor). The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 8. The Modern World, 1815–2000. Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (Co-editor), Joel Isaac (Co-editor), James T. Kloppenberg (Co-editor), and Michael O’Brien (Co-editor). The Worlds of American Intellectual History. Oxford Universiity Press, 2016.

Cindy I-Fen Cheng (Editor). The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies. Routledge, 2016.

April Haynes. Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America. University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (Co-editor), James L. Baughman (Co-editor), and James P. Danky (Co-editor). Protest on the Page: Essays on Print and the Culture of Dissent since 1865. University of Wisconsin Press, 2015.

Cindy I-Fen Cheng. Citizens of Asian America: Democracy and Race During the Cold War. NYU Press, 2014.

William Reese. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. Harvard University Press, 2013.

Stephen Kantrowitz. All Men Free and Brethren: Essays on the History of African American Freemasonry. Cornell University Press, 2013.

Brenda Gayle Plummer. In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956–1974. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas. University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Stephen Kantrowitz. More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic. Penguin Press, 2012.

Tony Michels. Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History. NYU Press, 2012.

Finn Enke. Transfeminist Perspectives in and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies. Temple University Press, 2012.

John W. Hall. Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War. Harvard University Press, 2009.

William Reese. History, Education, and the Schools. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

William Reese. Rethinking the History of American Education. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Finn Enke. Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism. Duke University Press, 2007.

William Reese. America’s Public Schools: From the Common School to ‘No Child Left Behind’. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Tony Michels. A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York. Harvard University Press, 2005.

Brenda Gayle Plummer (Editor). Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988. University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Stephen Kantrowitz. Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. UNC Press, 2000.

William Reese. Hoosier Schools: Past and Present. Indiana University Press, 1998.

Brenda Gayle Plummer. Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

William Reese. The Origins of the American High School. Yale University Press, 1995.

Brenda Gayle Plummer. Haiti and the United States: The Psychological Moment. University of Georgia Press, 1992.

William Reese. The Social History of American Education. University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Brenda Gayle Plummer. Haiti and the Great Powers, 1902-1915. Louisiana State University Press, 1988.

William Reese. Power and the Promise of School Reform: Grassroots Movements During the Progressive Era. Rev. edition, Teachers College Press, 1986.