New Books in History

10149 Episodes

1. Felix Cowan, "The Kopeck Press: Popular Journalism in Revolutionary Russia, 1908-1918" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

   Published: 6/30/2025
2. Sergey Radchenko, "To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 6/29/2025
3. Sarah Gold McBride "Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2025)

   Published: 6/29/2025
4. Talin Suciyan, "Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces" (Syracuse UP, 2023)

   Published: 6/28/2025
5. Michael Grunwald, "We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)

   Published: 6/28/2025
6. Stacy Horn, "Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York" (Algonquin Books, 2019)

   Published: 6/27/2025
7. Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024)

   Published: 6/27/2025
8. Louis P. Masur, "A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison, and the Forging of a Friendship" (Oxford UP, 2025)

   Published: 6/26/2025
9. Louis P. Masur, "A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison, and the Forging of a Friendship" (Oxford UP, 2025)

   Published: 6/26/2025
10. Vali Nasr, "Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History" (Princeton UP, 2025)

    Published: 6/25/2025
11. Yaroslav Hrytsak, "Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation" (PublicAffairs, 2024)

    Published: 6/25/2025
12. Philip Kadish, "The Great White Hoax: Frauds, Forgeries, and 200 Years of Selling Racism in America" (The New Press, 2025)

    Published: 6/24/2025
13. Bernd Roeck, "The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance" (Princeton UP, 2025)

    Published: 6/22/2025
14. Vivian Kong, "Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910–45" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 6/22/2025
15. John Barr, "1960s University Buildings: The Golden Age of British Modern Architecture" (Lund Humphries, 2025)

    Published: 6/21/2025
16. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings" (Harper, 2025)

    Published: 6/20/2025
17. David Crystal, "Bookish Words and Their Surprising Stories" (Bodleian Library, 2025)

    Published: 6/20/2025
18. Chris Horton, "Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival" (MacMillan, 2025)

    Published: 6/19/2025
19. John Man, "Conquering the North: China, Russia, Mongolia: 2,000 Years of Conflict" (Oneworld Publications, 2025)

    Published: 6/19/2025
20. Violet Moller, "Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe" (OneWorld, 2024)

    Published: 6/18/2025