New Books in History

10152 Episodes

1. Matthew Shindell, "Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps and Matter" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

   Published: 6/4/2025
2. Roger Chickering, "The German Empire, 1871–1918" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 6/4/2025
3. Stephen R. Platt, "The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II" (Knopf, 2025)

   Published: 6/3/2025
4. Serhii Plokhy, "The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine" (Basic Books, 2015)

   Published: 6/3/2025
5. Carol A. Heimer, "Governing the Global Clinic: HIV and the Legal Transformation of Medicine" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)

   Published: 6/2/2025
6. Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine

   Published: 6/2/2025
7. Sven Trakulhun, "Confronting Christianity: The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

   Published: 6/1/2025
8. Katarina Kušic, "Beyond International Intervention: Politics of Improvement in Serbia" (University of Michigan Press, 2025)

   Published: 6/1/2025
9. Jack Ashby, "Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums" (Penguin, 2025)

   Published: 5/31/2025
10. Xing Hang, "The Port: Hà Tiên and the Mo Clan in Early Modern Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 5/30/2025
11. Nneka D. Dennie, "Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth Century Black Radical Feminist" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 5/30/2025
12. Antonio J. Muñoz, "Hitler's War Against the Partisans During Operation Barbarossa: June 1941 to the Spring of 1942" (Frontline, 2025)

    Published: 5/29/2025
13. Alex Davies, "Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)

    Published: 5/28/2025
14. Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, "Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter" (MIT Press, 2025)

    Published: 5/27/2025
15. Julia McClure, "Empire of Poverty: The Moral-Political Economy of the Spanish Empire" (Oxford UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/26/2025
16. From Hal to Siri: How Computers Learned to Speak

    Published: 5/25/2025
17. Jennifer T. Roberts, "Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 5/24/2025
18. Aviva Briefel, "Ghosts and Things: The Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism" (Cornell UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/24/2025
19. Michael A. Meyer, "Above All, We Are Jews: A Biography of Rabbi Alexander Schindler" (CCAR Press, 2025)

    Published: 5/23/2025
20. Jennifer Lynn Gross, "Sisterhood of the Lost Cause: Confederate Widows in the New South" (LSU Press, 2025)

    Published: 5/22/2025