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May 6, 2026
Career and Family
A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female coll…
November 1, 2025
Markets, Community and Just Infrastructures
A series of market-related crises over the past two decades – financial, environmental, health, education, poverty – reinvigorated the debate about ma…
May 10, 2025
Broken City
How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon, the simple answer is that land…
April 22, 2025
Vietnam
People of various political stripes in many countries (particularly those countries where various political stripes are allowed) have been arguing abo…
April 12, 2025
The Promise of Beauty
In The Promise of Beauty (Duke UP, 2024), Mimi Thi Nguyen explores the relationship between the concept of beauty and narratives of crisis and catastr…
November 3, 2024
Three Worlds
In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing from their beloved Iraq into the new state of Israel. Now the r…
October 9, 2024
Stalin's Genocides
Absolutely no one doubts that Stalin murdered millions of people in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. His ruthless campaign of "dekulakization," his pitiles…
July 30, 2024
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause
A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR--and still provides a model of opposition in Putin's Russia. …
July 22, 2024
The Road to Dallas
There are some topics that historians know not to touch. They are just too hot (or too cold). The assassination of JFK is one of them. Most scholars w…
July 21, 2024
The Kennedy Assassination
You could fill a large library with books about JFK's assassination. We've even touched on the subject here. The topic of the transfer of power from J…
June 2, 2024
The Allure of Battle
History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could…
May 5, 2024
Terracene
In Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics (Duke UP, 2023), Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of the scientific notion of the Anthropocene alongside …
January 31, 2024
Medina by the Bay
From the Black Power movement and state surveillance to Silicon Valley and gentrification, Medina by the Bay: Scenes of Muslim Study and Survival (Duk…
September 13, 2023
The Art of Being Dangerous
The idea that women are dangerous - individually or collectively - runs throughout history and across cultures. Behind this label lies a significant s…
August 11, 2023
Possible Histories
Many of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who immigrated to the US beginning in the 1870s worked as peddlers. Men were able to transgress Syrian no…
December 20, 2022
The Ghost of Craven Snuggs
Today I talked to the wonderful Sandy Moffett. Sandy joined the Grinnell faculty in 1971 and teaches Acting, Directing and American Theatre. Although …
December 7, 2022
Anthropological Lives
Anthropological Lives: An Introduction to the Profession of Anthropology (Rutgers UP, 2020) introduces readers to what it is like to be a professional…
November 21, 2022
All the Comfort Sin Can Provide
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Grant Faulkner. We discuss National Novel Writing Month, of which Grant is the executive director, 100 Word Sto…
November 14, 2022
University Presses Today
The NBN would not exist but for the work of university presses. So every year we celebrate the efforts of our colleagues at UPs during "University Pre…
November 1, 2022
Tomorrow in Shanghai and Other Stories
In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, May-lee Chai's latest collection Tomorro…
October 17, 2022
Athena Itonia
In Athena Itonia: Geography and Meaning of an Ancient Greek War Goddess (Brill, 2019) Gerald V. Lalonde offers a comparative study of the social, poli…
September 15, 2022
Lessons from Plants
We know that plants are important. They maintain the atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. They nourish other living organisms …
August 31, 2022
The Violence Project
Using data from the writers' groundbreaking research on mass shooters, including first-person accounts from the perpetrators themselves, The Violence …
August 15, 2022
Modern Mathematical Logic
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Joe Mileti, associate professor of mathematics at Grinnell College. Even if you are not "into" math, you will e…