Recent Faculty Publications
2021
Kate Masur
Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction (Norton, 2021)
2020
Dyan Elliott
The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
Michael S. Sherry (emeritus)
The Punitive Turn in American Life: How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War (University of North Carolina Press, 2020)
Carl Smith (emeritus)
Chicago's Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020)
Amy Stanley
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World (Scribner, 2020)
Lina Britto
Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise (University of California Press, 2020)
Jacob Lassner (emeritus)
Middle Eastern Politics and Historical Memory: Martyrdom, Revolution, National Identities (I.B. Tauris/ Bloomsbury, 2020)
2019
Lydia Barnett
After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)
T.H. Breen (emeritus)
The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America (Harvard University Press, 2019)
Haydon Cherry
Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019)
Hollis Clayson
Illuminated Paris: Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Époque (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019)
Peter Hayes (with Christopher Browning and Raul Hilberg)
German Trains, Jewish Souls: The Reichsbahn, Bureaucracy, and the Final Solution (New York: Berghahn Books, 2019)
Daniel Immerwahr
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019)
Robert E. LERNER (emeritus) with Pavlina Rychterova
John of Rupescissa: Vade mecum in tribulatione. Translated into Medieval Vernaculars (Vita e Pensiero, 2019)
2018
Laura Hein
Post-Fascist Japan: Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).
Kate Masur (new edition of John E. Washington)
They Knew Lincoln (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
Paul Ramírez
Enlightened Immunity: Mexico's Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018).
Keith Woodhouse
The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).
2017
John Bushnell
Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry: Spasovite Old Believers in the 18th-19th Centuries (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017).
Dyan Elliott
A Hole in the Heavens (Tempe: Bagwyn Books, 2017).
Paul Gillingham (translation of Óscar Xavier Altamirano)
Poe: The Trauma of an Era (Oxford; New York: Peter Lang, 2017).
Peter Hayes
Why? Explaining the Holocaust (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2017).
Jacob Lassner (emeritus)
Medieval Jerusalem: Forging an Islamic City in Spaces Sacred to Christians and Jews (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017).
Robert Lerner (emeritus)
Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017).
Sarah Maza
Thinking About History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017).
David Shyovitz
A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).
2016
Caitlin Fitz
Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions (Norton, 2016).
Prof. Fitz was interviewed about the book for Dissent, June 2016
Winner of 2017 PROSE Award, Honorable Mention, U.S. History
Joel Mokyr
A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016).
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (with Paul Robert Magocsi)
Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016).
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