CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction
(Metropolis Books/Gordon DeVries Studio) Christopher Rawlins examines the career of Horace Gifford, a widely forgotten architect who died of AIDS…
All Men Free and Brethren: Essays on the History of African American Freemasonry
(Cornell University Press) The initiation of 12 or more black men into a Boston Freemason lodge in 1775 marked the…
The French Revolution in Global Perspective
(Cornell University Press) Placing both the origins and impacts of the French Revolution in their global context, the contributors to…
Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America
(University of Minnesota Press) Aiming to counter stereotypes about bland, suburban post-war America, Amy Ogata argues that baby boom parents…
Guatemala Journey Among the Ixil Maya
More than just a travel guide, Place’s book provides comprehensive information about the Ixil Maya — from history to regional…
Writing War: Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire
(Harvard University Press) Looking at diaries, memoirs, and letters from soldiers in the Asia-Pacific theater from 1937-1945, Moore argues that…
Quantum Mechanics in Everyday Life
(Rhodium, Inc.) Wilton Virgo describes how the mathematics behind quantum mechanics is the foundation for everyday technologies like GPS systems…
Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues
(Harvard University Press) James Fleming and Linda McClain tackle some of the biggest civil liberties issues of today in their…
Addiction Trajectories
(Duke University Press) Based on ethnography from around the world, this collection of essays explores the meaning of addiction in…
"Light Horse Harry" Lee In the War for Independence
(The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America) The second in a series on George Washington’s best officers, the book…
A Jew’s Best Friend? The Image of the Dog Throughout Jewish History
(Sussex Academic Press) This book of essays explores how Jews have viewed dogs through history. The essays look at different…
The Word on the Street
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) In this book of rock lyrics, Muldoon explores both working-class New Jersey and his Irish roots…
The Thoughtbook of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Secret Boyhood Diary
(University of Minnesota Press) Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minn., and at age 14 started keeping a short diary…
Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures
(Princeton University Press) Examining the long relationship between poetry and pictures, primarily from antiquity to the renaissance, Barkan notices that…
Upstanding Young Gentlemen
Founded by four students (Joey Edelmann ’13, Cory Furlong ’13, Javier Masis ’13, and Nathan Tyrell ’14) in 2011, Burne…
The Snail Darter and the Dam: How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River
(Yale University Press) Plater wrote this book in an attempt to clarify controversy surrounding a Supreme Court case he won…
Snippet the Early Riser
(Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers) This children’s book tells the story of snippet, an early-rising snail with early-morning…