books

• 
• SOURCE: AP
  5/15/19
  

  McCullough’s new book on pioneers’ history draws criticism

  With his latest book, “The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West,” McCullough is seeing some of the sharpest criticism of his career.

• 
• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/8/19
  

  Sarah Knott Looks at Pregnancy and Mothering Through the Ages

  Knott, a professor at Indiana University, uses her own path to motherhood, which includes a miscarriage and two successful pregnancies, as the scaffolding for her engaging and pleasingly radical “unconventional history” of this subject. 

• 
• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 5/14/19
  

  New Books Showcase Female Spies and Their Secrets

  An old-boy operation was transformed by women during World War II, and at last the unsung upstarts are getting their due.

• 
• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/3/19
  

  How John and John Quincy Adams predicted the Age of Trump

  by Carol Berkin

  “The Problem of Democracy” offers a final warning to its readers who live in an era of “alternate truths” and blind devotion to charismatic leaders.

• 
• SOURCE: New Yorker
  5/8/19
  

  Brenda Wineapple, Author of a New Book About Andrew Johnson, on the Right Reasons to Impeach a President

  "To reduce the impeachment of Andrew Johnson to a mistaken incident in American history, a bad taste in the collective mouth, disagreeable and embarrassing, is to forget the extent to which slavery and thus the very fate of the nation lay behind Johnson’s impeachment.”

• 
• SOURCE: G&LR
  4/27/19
  

  Historian Marc Stein On The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History

  by Marc Stein

  Why did the Stonewall Riots occur when and where they did? 

• 
• SOURCE: Undark
  4/26/19
  

  A Gripping History of the Nuclear Disaster at Chernobyl

  In “Midnight in Chernobyl,” Adam Higginbotham offers a thorough and readable account of one awful night in the Ukraine and its consequences.

• 
• SOURCE: The Nation
  4/26/19
  

  Chronicling the Age of Hobsbawm: A Q&A With Historian Richard Evans

  “The more I have read his writings, the more I have come to admire and respect him not just as an historian but as a person.”

• 
• 4/28/19
  

  Racism’s Longue Durée: Why the Citizens’ Councils Matter Now

  by Anders Walker

  A review of Stephanie Rolph's new book Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989.

• 
• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/24/19
  

  A 500-Year-Old Tale of Intrigue, Greed and Betrayal

  “The Lost Gutenberg” revolves around Margaret Leslie Doheny’s pursuit of her trophy and what became of it after her death.

• 
• SOURCE: WWD
  4/21/19
  

  Author Sarah Rose Writes the Women’s History of World War II With ‘D-Day Girls’

  Rose, who wrote "For All the Tea in China" in 2011, was inspired by her personal connections to the military for "D-Day Girls."

• 
• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  4/15/19
  

  Bonn Library Recovers More Than 600 Books Looted After World War II

  The trove was flagged after a Belgian woman unwittingly tried to auction the stolen books.

• 
• 4/14/19
  

  Is the Western World Declining and Russia Rising?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Yes, according to Glenn Diesen’s 2018 book The Decay of Western Civilization and Resurgence of Russia. But this isn't the first time scholars have made such a prediction and been wrong. 

• 
• SOURCE: inside Higher Ed
  4/9/19
  

  Henry Reichman Argues the Future of Academic Freedom Is Up To Us

  Reichman argues, the “time for engagement is now."

• 
• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/5/19
  

  Stony the Road: From black triumph to racial hysteria to the ‘new Negro’

  by Howell Raines

  An illuminating ook review of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s  “Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow.”

• 
• SOURCE: NY Times
  3/29/19
  

  Pamela S. Nadell's New book Shows How the Country Influenced Jewish American Women, and Vice Versa

  From Betty Friedan to Sonia Pressman, Bella Abzug and Gerda Lerner, Jewish women had an outsize role in the feminist struggle. 

• 
• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  3/25/19
  

  Justin Rose's New Book explores how Martin Luther King Jr. transformed the Christian notion of service into a politically salient concept

  Dr. Rose’s book aims to fill an important gap in the literature on Martin Luther King Jr. by exploring King’s notions of political service.

• 
• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  3/23/19
  

  The Historian Who Thinks Donald Trump Is a Movie Hero

  A new book argues Trump is the modern-day equivalent of a gun-toting cowboy riding into town to help inept lawmen and rescue damsels in distress.

• 
• SOURCE: Truth Out
  3/21/19
  

  Cigarettes Are Central to the History of Corporate Power

  In Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism, author Nan Enstad reveals how the definitive moments in the expansion of corporate power took place through one of the deadliest commodities.

• 
• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  3/25/19
  

  Aline Helg on her newly translated book, Slave No More

  Helg describes what examining self-liberation from a continental perspective—beyond the confines of a particular country—teaches us about slavery and liberation.