CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes
(The University of Chicago Press) Greene spends 227 pages on five words: blood, invention, language, resistance, and world. Discussing such…
A President in Yellowstone: The F. Jay Haynes Photographic Album of Chester Arthur’s 1883 Expedition
(University of Oklahoma Press) Eleven years after the founding of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, President Chester A. Arthur became…
At Home in the World: Globalization and the Peace Corps in Nepal
(Orchid Press) A first-hand narrative and analysis of the first set of U.S. Peace Corps volunteers to travel to Nepal…
Mania: The Story of Outraged and Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural Revolution
(Top Five Books) The culmination of eight years of research, Mania tells the fascinating story of post-war nonconformists including Jack…
Huldah: The Prophet Who Wrote Hebrew Scripture
(Wipf and Stock Publishing) Kavanagh examines the influence of Huldah, a female prophet, on the Hebrew bible and Israeli history…
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…
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…
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…
Addiction Trajectories
(Duke University Press) Based on ethnography from around the world, this collection of essays explores the meaning of addiction in…
Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues
(Harvard University Press) James Fleming and Linda McClain tackle some of the biggest civil liberties issues of today in their…
Bioluminescence: Living Lights, Lights for Living
(Harvard University Press) Hastings and Williams look into why organisms that emit light do so. The book shows how bioluminescence…
The Contest for the Delaware Valley: Allegiance, Identity, and Empire in the Seventeenth Century
(Louisiana State University Press) Looking at the colonization efforts in the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth century, Thompson explains how…
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…