Jonathan Zimmerman on how to publish your Op Ed
Jonathan Zimmerman, author of the new book Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education, also happens to be known for writing (and publishing) more op eds than any other living historian....
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An interview with Nancy Woloch, author of A Class by Herself
Nancy Woloch’s new book, A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers 1890s-1990s, looks at the historical influence of protective legislation for American women workers, which served as both...
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A Q&A with Cormac Ó Gráda, author of Eating People is Wrong
Cormac Ó Gráda’s new collection of essays on famine—which range in focus from from the economic history to the psychological toll—begins with a taboo topic. Ó Gráda argues that cannibalism, while by no...
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An interview with Josiah Ober, author of The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
The period considered classical Greece (roughly the 4th through 5th century BC) had a profound effect on Western civilization, forming the foundations of politics and philosophy, as well as artistic...
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Medieval Relativisms by John Marenbon
In a commencement speech at Dickinson College yesterday that focused on the virtues of free speech and free inquiry, Ian McEwan referenced the golden age of the pagan philosophers. But from the turn of...
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#WinnerWednesday: Congratulations, Ellen Wu!
Ellen D. Wu – The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority Finalist for the 2015 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society The...
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Q&A with Scott L. Montgomery & Daniel Chirot, authors of The Shape of the...
Scott L. Montgomery and Daniel Chirot, both of the University of Washington, recently sat down for a Q&A on their new book, The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World....
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Q&A with Konrad H. Jarausch, author of Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe...
Konrad H. Jarausch, eminent historian and Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is the author of the sweeping new history, Out of Ashes: A New...
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Mark Zuckerberg Selects “The Muqaddimah” as his Latest Book Club Read!
As part of a 2015 initiative entitled A Year of Books, Mark Zuckerberg has selected a new book every two weeks to share and discuss with the Facebook community. For the second time, A Princeton...
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Out of Ashes – the Birth of Modernism
Out of Ashes – Konrad H. Jarausch 29 May 1913. At the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s new ballet, The Rite of Spring, performed by Diaghilev’s Ballet’s Russes, descends...
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Out of Ashes – Descent into Totalitarianism
Out of Ashes – Konrad Jarausch To mark the release of Konrad H. Jarausch’s Out of Ashes, we continue with our series of vignettes describing some of the most compelling moments of twentieth century...
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On This Day – Galileo forced to cede to Church
On June 22, 1633, the Roman Catholic Church forced Galileo Galilei to renounce his view that the Sun is the center of the universe. By doing so, he avoided death and was instead placed on house arrest....
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Out of Ashes – Building a Union
Out of Ashes – Konrad Jarausch 25th March 1957. Twelve men meet on the Capitoline Hill in Rome to sign a treaty, two representatives each from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxemburg and the...
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Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe rise to the top, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? Why...
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Out of Ashes – The Cold War / Eastern Bloc
Out of Ashes – Konrad Jarausch To mark the release of Konrad H. Jarausch’s Out of Ashes, we continue with our series of vignettes describing some of the most compelling moments of twentieth century...
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Happy Independence Day!
The Fourth of July is a day of barbecues and bonding with the family… and American History books! If you find yourself needing a history fix after the fireworks, explore some of our best, including,...
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A Q&A with Eberhard L. Faber, author of BUILDING THE LAND OF DREAMS
New Orleans, iconic city of Mardi Gras, gumbo and jazz, was once little more than a sleepy outpost at the edge of Spain’s American empire. By the 1820s, with thriving cotton and sugar industries, the...
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A Q&A with Madeline Hsu, author of THE GOOD IMMIGRANTS
What lead to the radical shift in public perception of Asians from dangerous “yellow peril” to celebrated model immigrants and overachievers? Madeline Hsu, author of The Good Immigrants argues that the...
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Congratulations to Paula Rabinowitz! American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought...
American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street by Paula Rabinowitz Co-Winner of the 2015 SHARP DeLong Book History Book Prize, The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and...
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What does the Ancient Greek economy have to say about the current debt...
Josiah Ober, author of The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece, has conducted groundbreaking research into the ancient Greek economy, showing that contrary to popular opinion, democracy and economic...
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