CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975
Artists Respond explores how the Vietnam War galvanized American artists and challenged them to transform their art into political statements…
White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela
Based upon exhaustive research, White Supremacy Confronted a comprehensive account of the entangled histories of apartheid and Jim Crow culminating…
So You Want To Be A Diplomat?
George Lambrakis ’52 writes this memoir with the aim to help students or other prospective diplomats learn what they might…
The Language Warrior’s Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds
When the first Europeans made contact with American Indians more than 500 indiginous languages were spoken on the continent. Today…
Imperialism and the Developing World: How Britain and the United States Shaped the Global Periphery
By exploring how Western imperialism shaped the developing world, Atul Kohli analyzes British and American influence on Asia, Africa, the…
Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville
Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville is a multidisciplinary examination of Melville’s works. The book explores how the…
Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains
Big-screen villains tend to live in architectural splendor, their homes often locations where a hero is tested. Movie villains’ abodes…
The Power Notebooks
Told in a series of notebook entries, Roiphe weaves her personal experiences with divorce, single motherhood, and relationships with insights…
Medusa's Head: The Rise and Survival of Joseph Fouché, Inventor of the Modern Police State
Medusa's Head recounts the career of Napoleon's security chief Joseph Fouché, creator of the modern police state. Fouché was an…
Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump
In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph S. Nye ’58, a leading scholar of international relations, analyzes how ethics have factored into…
Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America
In Beyond Broadway, Stacy Wolf considers how examines musical theater in all of its forms and considers how it has…
Breaking Through: How Female Athletes Shattered Stereotypes in the Roaring Twenties
Breaking Through examines the evolution of women's rights in sports, introducing to young-adult readers the female athletes who from the…
Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China
Pharmacy—both a medical and commercial enterprise—has influenced China’s early modern cultural transformation. In Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in…
What Happens When We Practice Religion?: Textures of Devotion in Everyday Life
We say we “practice” religion, but what does this really mean? In What Happens When We Practice Religion?: Textures of…
Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity
In this book, Peter Schäfer, professor emeritus of religion and Judaic Studies, complicates Judeo-Christian monotheism by reintroducing a second, junior…
The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) has helped solidify manufacturing as a foundational base of the U.S. economy since 1895…
Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds
The avian mating system starts with courtship and ends with raising chicks. In Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds…
The Little Book of Cosmology
It can be hard to conceptualize the enormity of the universe, but Lyman Page, professor of physics, creates an accessible…
