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General History
Interviews with historians about their new books.
June 18, 2026
The Moys of New York and Shanghai
The story of the Moy family—U.S.-born Chinese-American siblings who grow up in the first half of the 20th century—is one that spans the Pacific, cover…
June 17, 2026
On the Record
There is no shortage of books on music and politics, but Anna Harwell Celenza explores an interesting premise in her book On the Record: Music that Ch…
June 17, 2026
Contesting Zion
The modern relationship between the Vatican and the State of Israel is rooted in a long history of hostility between Judaism and Roman Catholicism. Th…
June 17, 2026
Meiji Graves in Happy Valley
The connections between Hong Kong and Japan began much earlier than most would imagine. Yet, it is only now that the historic Japanese community in H…
June 16, 2026
The Hobo
From the mid-nineteenth century through the dust bowl years of the Great Depression, a new kind of migrant worker became a familiar sight in communiti…
June 16, 2026
Staging Blackface in Canada
In the early twentieth century, as variety shows flooded Canadian stages, new forms of blackface, inspired by modern forms of amusements, changed the …
June 16, 2026
Bukovina
Bukovina, when it has existed on official maps, has always fit uneasily among its neighbors. The region is now divided between Romania and Ukraine but…
June 15, 2026
A God-Shaped Nation
Ever since conquistadores claimed Taino land in the name of their Catholic God and New England Puritans formed their strictly Protestant “city on a hi…
June 15, 2026
Artists and the People
Exploring the work of established and emerging artists in Indonesia’s vibrant art world, Artists and the People: Ideologies of Art in Indonesia (NUS P…
June 14, 2026
Self-Made
"Self-Made" success is now an American badge of honor that rewards individualist ambitions while it hammers against community obligations. Yet, four c…
June 14, 2026
A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda
Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the country. How did Amin's regime survive for eight …
June 14, 2026
For Better and Worse
Marriage rates have fallen dramatically since the 1970s. Yet far from devaluing marriage, people still overwhelmingly describe marriage as the highest…
June 11, 2026
The Shah's Party
In 1971, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi threw a party to celebrate the 2,500-year anniversary of the Persian Empire. It was planned to be a massive party,…
June 11, 2026
Ybor City
Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men from prerevolutionary Cuba crossed the Florida Straits…
June 10, 2026
The Work of Empire
In 1898, on the eve of the Spanish-American War, the US Army seemed minuscule and ill-equipped for global conflict. Yet over the next fifteen years, i…
June 9, 2026
Shanghai
Home to 25 million people, Shanghai is the most populous and wealthiest city in China. A meeting point between China and the wider world, the city …
June 8, 2026
Revolutionary New York
Revolutionary New York: 250 Years of Social Change (SUNY Press, 2026), edited by Bruce Dearstyne and published by SUNY Press, examines what the volum…
June 7, 2026
The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau
The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau examines Auschwitz-Birkenau as both a site and a symbol of Nazi genocide. Scholars from a range of discip…
June 6, 2026
When the City Stopped
The COVID-19 pandemic delivered its first and most devastating strike in the United States in New York City in the Spring of 2020. Closely connected t…
June 4, 2026
Iran and the Revolution
Iran's revolution in 1979 shook the world. The Pahlavi dynasty came crashing down, and the Islamic Republic rose in its place. But what led to this se…