Recent Faculty Books: Department of History

Recent Faculty Books

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2025 - 2026
Martha BIONDI, We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation (U of California Press, 2025).	Sarah M. CUSHMAN, co-editor with Joanne Pettitte and Dominic Williams of The Routledge Handbook of Auschwitz-Birkenau (Routledge, 2025).
Jeff EDEN, The Turkmen Wars: Abdysetdar Kazy's Jangnama (Brill, April 2026).
Paul GILLINGHAM, Mexico: A 500-Year History (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2025).	Doug KIEL, Unsettling Territory: The Resurgence of the Oneida Nation in the Face of Settler Backlash (Yale University Press, 2026).
Joel MOKYR, with Avner Greif and Guido Tabellini, Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000 (Princeton UP, 2025).	Yohanan PETROVSKY-SHTERN et al., Confronting Catastrophes: The Art of Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (‎ibidem Press, 2025).
Jane S. SMITH, A Blacklist Education: American History, a Family Mystery, and a Teacher Under Fire (Rutgers University Press, 2025).	Helen TILLEY, co-edited and co-translated with Michael O. Afọláyan, Joseph Odùmósù's Book of Healing (University of Wisconsin Press, 2026). Read the book flyer here.
2024 - 2025
Edited by Lina Britto with Ricardo Lopez-Pedreros, Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-1970s (Routledge).	Edited by Lina Britto with Ricardo Lopez-Pedreros, Histories of Perplexity: Colombia, 1970s-2010s (Routledge).
Leslie M. HARRIS, edited volume et al., Black Urban History at the Crossroads: Race and Place in the American City (University of Pittsburgh Press).	Peter HAYES (emeritus), Profits and Persecution: German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust (Cambridge University Press).
Edited by Robert LERNER (emeritus) with Ernst Kantorowicz, Radiances: Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State (Cornell University Press).	Kate MASUR, Freedom Was in Sight! A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region (University of North Carolina Press).
Rose MIRON, Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory (U of Minnesota Press).	Edited by Yohanan PETROVSKY-SHTERN, After Soviet State Antisemitism: Emigration, Transformation, and the Re-Building of Jewish Life Since 19 91 (‎ De Gruyter Oldenbourg).
Yohanan PETROVSKY-SHTERN, co-edited book —Besmirching the Denominational Enemy Within and Outside: Counter-history or Its Parody (Palgrave Macmillan).	Edited by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Jewish Photographers and Photo Studios in L’viv/Lwow/Lemberg, 1860-1939 (L’viv: The Old Lion Publ., 2024), in press [in Ukrainian, English annotation].
David L. Schoenbrun (emeritus), Beyond Ethnicity? A New Regional History of Buganda, 900 to 1930. (Kampala: Fountain Publishers). Read the book flyer here.
2023
An Afterlife of the Khan: Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia by Jonathan Brack (University of California Press).	In the Shadow of Slavery : African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863. by Leslie M. Harris (University of Chicago Press).
The Modern Japanese Nation and Empire, Cambridge History of Japan vol 3 (Cambridge UP) by Laura Hein.	Co-editor with Mikhail Nazaerenko and Yulia Veretennikova of Miron Petrovsky and his Epoch by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2023), [in Russian and Ukrainian].
Myth America by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer - Essays by Kathleen Belew, Geraldo Cadava, and Daniel Immerwahr (Basic Books).
2022
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War by Deborah Cohen (Random House and William Collins).	Fear of the Family: Guest Workers and Family Migration in the Federal Republic of Germany by Lauren Stokes (Oxford University Press).
A Frail Liberty: Probationary Citizens in the French and Haitian Revolutions (Nebraska) by Tessie Liu.	The Jewish Architectural Legacy of Lviv Co-edited by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Lviv: The Old Lion Publishing House).
The Mamluk Sultanate: A History by Carl Petry (emeritus) (Cambridge UP).	Turkish Jews and their Diasporas: Entanglements and Separations by Co-editor Ipek Yosmaoglu (Palgrave Macmillan).
2021
*God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War* by Jeff Eden (New York: Oxford University Press).	*From the Khan's Oven: Studies on the History of Central Asian Religions in Honor of Devin DeWeese* co-edited by Jeff Eden (Brill).
*Americans and the Holocaust* Edited by Daniel Greene, Edward Phillips (Rutgers University Press).	Revolutionizing politics: Culture and conflict in England, 1620–60 Edited by Paul D. Halliday, Eleanor Hubbard, and Scott Sowerby (Manchester University Press).
Therapeutic Properties: Global Medical Cultures, Knowledge, and Law Edited by Helen Tilley (The University of Chicago Press).	*From Improvement to City Planning* by Henry C. Binford (emeritus) (Temple University Press).
Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur (W. W. Norton & Company).	The Shattering: America in the 1960s by Kevin Boyle (W. W. Norton & Company).
A Field Guide to White Supremacy Edited by Kathleen Belew and Ramon A. Gutierrez (University of California Press).	*Unrevolutionary Mexico: The Birth of a Strange Dictatorship* by Paul Gillingham (Yale University Press).
Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier by Melissa Macauley (Princeton University Press).	The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930 by David L. Schoenbrun (emeritus)(University of Wisconsin Press).
The Birth Certificate: An American History by Susan J. Pearson (The University of North Carolina Press).
2020
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley (Scribner).	Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia Edited and introduced by Adrienne Edgar and Benjamin Frommer (University of Nebraska Press).
The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump by Geraldo Cadava (Ecco).	Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise by Lina Britto (University of California Press).
2019
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).	Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies, Co-edited by Leslie M. Harris (University of Georgia Press).
After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe by Lydia Barnett (Johns Hopkins University Press).

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

Recent Faculty Books

Browse through the Faculty Library

2025 - 2026

2024 - 2025

Edited by Lina Britto with Ricardo Lopez-Pedreros,

Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-1970s (Routledge).

Read the book flyer here.

2023

2022

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War by Deborah Cohen

(Random House and William Collins).

Fear of the Family: Guest Workers and Family Migration in the Federal Republic of Germany by Lauren Stokes

(Oxford University Press).

A Frail Liberty: Probationary Citizens in the French and Haitian Revolutions (Nebraska) by Tessie Liu.

The Jewish Architectural Legacy of Lviv

Co-edited by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

(Lviv: The Old Lion Publishing House).

The Mamluk Sultanate: A History by Carl Petry (emeritus) (Cambridge UP).

2021

From the Khan's Oven: Studies on the History of Central Asian Religions in Honor of Devin DeWeese co-edited by Jeff Eden (Brill).

Americans and the Holocaust Edited by Daniel Greene, Edward Phillips (Rutgers University Press).

Therapeutic Properties: Global Medical Cultures, Knowledge, and Law Edited by Helen Tilley (The University of Chicago Press).

Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur (W. W. Norton & Company).

The Shattering: America in the 1960s by Kevin Boyle (W. W. Norton & Company).

A Field Guide to White Supremacy Edited by Kathleen Belew and Ramon A. Gutierrez (University of California Press).

Unrevolutionary Mexico: The Birth of a Strange Dictatorship by Paul Gillingham (Yale University Press).

Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier by Melissa Macauley (Princeton University Press).

The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930 by David L. Schoenbrun (emeritus)(University of Wisconsin Press).

The Birth Certificate: An American History by Susan J. Pearson (The University of North Carolina Press).

2020

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley (Scribner).

Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia Edited and introduced by Adrienne Edgar and Benjamin Frommer (University of Nebraska Press).

The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump by Geraldo Cadava (Ecco).

Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise

by Lina Britto (University of California Press).

2019

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies, Co-edited by Leslie M. Harris (University of Georgia Press).

After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe by Lydia Barnett (Johns Hopkins University Press).