CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Cowboy Howie. The Adventure of the Central Park Coyote & Thanksgiving Day Parade
Cowboy Howie (CreateSpace) is a children’s book about Howie Kaplinsky, who imagines that the dogs walking down the streets of…
Richard Potter: America’s First Black Celebrity
Though he is not well known today, 200 years ago Richard Potter was the first entertainer to win national fame…
The Stone Girl’s Story
Mayka and her family are made of stone but were brought to life by the stories that were etched into…
The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy
Four figures — Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman — were writers who argued for things…
Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of Confederacy
Denmark Vesey’s Garden (The New Press) speaks to current controversies over Confederate monuments and how we are to remember slavery…
Humanitarian Hypocrisy: Civilian Protection and the Design of Peace Operations
There are often huge disparities between governments’ stated commitment to protect civilians undertake peace operations and their willingness to allocate…
Robin
Robin Williams’s smart humor masked self-doubt, long struggles with addiction, and depression, as Dave Itzkoff ’98 shows in Robin (Henry…
Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change
Reverend Jim Antal ’72 argues that climate change is the greatest moral challenge the world has faced because it makes…
Dear Friends: The Letters of St. Paul to Christians in America
In the first century, Paul wrote to Christians about important problems in his day like marriage and how Christians should…
Devotions and Desires: Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the Twentieth Century United States
Gillian Frank, a visiting fellow studying religion at Princeton, Bethany Moreton, and Heather R. White *07 discuss the history of…
Rose Fear
The poems in Rose Fear (World Poetry Books) are indebted to Sappho’s work. Written by Maria Laina and translated from…
Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
Set the World on Fire (University of Pennsylvania Press) is a historical account of an overlooked group of women who…
In Defense of Charisma
Charisma is a contested force. People like Mother Theresa used it for good, but Adolf Hitler also had it and…
Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict
Drawing on data about modern warfare, which is usually fought against smaller groups of insurgents who commit terrorist attacks, Small…
Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity
Before we knew about genes, doctors pointed to heredity as a cause for madness, and they, along with government officials…
Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States
Early Americans claimed that the Bible alone was their authority, but Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States…
“Keep the Damned Women Out”: The Struggle for Coeducation
Nancy Weiss Malkiel, a professor of history emerita, explores the end of the 1960s, when many traditional, prestigious universities and…
The Future of Mainline Protestantism in America
Though mainline Protestantism has seen a sharp decline in the past 50 years — from half to one-tenth of the…
