History professor Julian Zelizer has gathered leading historians’ writings on the legacy of Barack Obama. The Presidency of Barack Obama (Princeton University Press) delves into the issues that shaped his eight years in office.
Associate professor of French Christy Wampole traces the history of the root as a metaphor in Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor (University of Chicago Press). Drawing on many fields, Wampole describes how the evolution of this common metaphor, from the family tree to the rhetoric of nationalism, has had far-reaching political and social consequences.