New Books in History

9994 Episodes

1. Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany

   Published: 9/01/2025
2. Dayne C. Riley, "Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751" (Bucknell UP, 2024)

   Published: 9/01/2025
3. Jacob Flaws, "Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

   Published: 9/01/2025
4. Peter Hessler, "Other Rivers: A Chinese Education" (Penguin, 2024)

   Published: 9/01/2025
5. Alex Cuadros, "When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon" (Grand Central Publishing, 2024)

   Published: 8/01/2025
6. Steven Shapin, "Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

   Published: 8/01/2025
7. Rebecca Charbonneau, "Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain" (Polity, 2024)

   Published: 8/01/2025
8. Benjamin Meiches, "The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)

   Published: 7/01/2025
9. David A. Harrisville, "The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944" (Cornell UP, 2021)

   Published: 7/01/2025
10. Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

    Published: 7/01/2025
11. Christopher Phelps and Robin Vandome, "Marxism and America: New Appraisals" (Manchester UP, 2021)

    Published: 7/01/2025
12. Simon Hall, "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s" (Faber and Faber, 2020)

    Published: 7/01/2025
13. Sarah B. Rodriguez, "The Love Surgeon: A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation" (Rutgers UP, 2020)

    Published: 7/01/2025
14. Elissa Bemporad, "Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets" (Oxford UP, 2019)

    Published: 7/01/2025
15. Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020)

    Published: 6/01/2025
16. Joshua Brinkman on American Farming Culture and the History of Technology

    Published: 6/01/2025
17. Dean Itsuji Saranillio, "Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood" (Duke UP, 2018)

    Published: 6/01/2025
18. Judith Giesberg, “Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality” (UNC Press, 2017)

    Published: 6/01/2025
19. Catherine Hezser, "Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism: The Development of the Talmud Yerushalmi" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

    Published: 6/01/2025
20. Peter Mandler, "The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain's Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2020)

    Published: 6/01/2025