CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

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WAVES on the Potomac

Ruth Ann Bush ’90

Bush was inspired to write this book after a Princeton assignment where she came across the story of a woman…

The Right to Research

(edited) Kate Reed ’19 and Marcia C. Schenck *17

What does it mean to be a researcher? That’s the question The Right to Research (McGill-Queen's University Press) explores, as…

India is Broken

Ashoka Mody, professor of international economic policy

In his new book, Mody melds his expertise in history and economics to analyze India’s transition from its hope-filled founding…

Queer Career

Margot Canaday, professor of history

In Queer Career (Princeton University Press) Canaday sets out to review and re-write our understanding of queer people in the…

Writing with Pleasure

Helen Sword ’84 *91

In her latest book poet, scholar, and teacher Helen Sword sets out to re-energize those who find writing to be…

Hope and Fortune

Marissa Bañez ’80

The children’s picture book Hope and Fortune (Black Rose Writing) tells the story of Esperanza and the multicultural and multigenerational…

Elverhoj

Leslie Melvin and William Rhoads ’66 *75

The word Elverhoj which is Danish for “hill of the fairies” refers to an arts and crafts colony established by…

Merchants of Virtue

Divya Cherian, assistant professor of history

In Merchants of Virtue (University of California Press), Cherian explores what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia…

Ink Under the Fingernails

Corinna Zeltsman, professor of history

Zeltsman explores the impact of the printing press, by taking readers into the printing shops, government offices, courtrooms, and stress…

The King’s Road

Xin Wen, assistant professor of East Asian studies and history

This book tells the story of diplomatic travelers on the Silk Road — the network of Eurasian trade routes spanning…

Myth America

(edited) Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer, professors of history

It’s no secret that the lines between fact and fiction continue to blur — and are further fueled by the…