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Review of Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History, by William T. Taylor (2024)

Review of The Devil’s Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee by Stewart Lee Allen (1999)

Review of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (2016), by Ibram X. Kendi

Review of The Age of Dissent: Revolution and the Power of Communication in Chile (2023), by Martín Bowen

Review of Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700 (2020) by Ron Harris

Review of Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 (2010) by J. R. McNeill

Review of The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power (2018) by Megan Black

Reimagining Reconstruction: Where Do We Go from Here?

Review of Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa (2007) by Diana K. Davis

Review of The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land (2002) by Conevery Bolton Valencius

Roundtable Review of Jeremi Suri’s Civil War by Other Means

Coding Viceregal Art: Project Arca and Spanish Visual Culture Within the Digital Humanities

Review of Sex Among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 (2006)

Review of Sex Among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 (2006)

The Intra-American Slave Trade Database: A Review and Interview with Gregory O’Malley and Alex Borucki

Film Review: The Harder They Fall, Directed by Jeymes Samuel

Digital Archive Review: Visualizing Cultures

Republics of Knowledge, Democracy, and Race in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America (2020) by Nicola Miller

Review of From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890-1950 (2018) by Susie S. Porter

Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera

A Black Jurist in a Slave Society: Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship, translated by Kristin M. McGuire (2019)

A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America by Anya Zilberstein (2016)

Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale by Deborah R. Coen. (2018)

Digital Archive Review: Latin American and Caribbean Digital Primary Resources

The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India by Mark Condos (2017)

Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World by Ussama Makdisi (2019)

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones (2020)

Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World By Jessica Marie Johnson (2020)

Digital Archive Review – Imágenes y relatos de un viaje por Colombia

Digital Archive Review – Ticha: A Digital Text Explorer for Colonial Zapotec

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee (2019)

A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century by Andrei Pop (2019)

This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman (2019)

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman (2018)

The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt by Jennifer L. Derr (2019)

To Chicago and Back by Aleko Konstantinov (1894)

Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the U.S.-Mexico Divide by C.J. Alvarez (2019)

Review of The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World (2017), by Cyrus Schayegh

The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus (2019)

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (2008)

Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire by Jeffrey A. Auerbach (2018)

Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution by Ada Ferrer (2014)

Digital Archive Review – Authorship and Advocacy: The Native American Petitions Dataverse

Anxieties, Fear, and Panic in Colonial Settings: Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné (2016)

The Habsburg Empire: A New History by Pieter Judson (2016)

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa Fuentes (2016)

Mother is a Verb: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott (2019)

Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World; Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade by Roquinaldo Ferreira (2012)

A Brief History of Feminism by Patu (illustrations) and Antje Schrupp and translated by Sophie Lewis (2017)

Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies, by Sue Peabody (2017)

The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us by Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (2015)

Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China, by Frank Dikötter, Lars Peter Laamann, and Zhou Xun (2004)

Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico by Shirley Boteler Mock (2010)

Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes edited by Gabriela Ramos and Yanna Yannakakis (2014)

Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco by Clare Sears (2015)

Book cover of Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo

Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum by James Delbourgo (2017)

Book cover of Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert

Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert (2015)

Book cover of By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 by Michael J. Green

Rethinking American Grand Strategy in the Asia Pacific

Book cover of Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands by Juliana Barr

Peace Came in the Form of a Woman by Juliana Barr (2007)

Humanity: A History of European Concepts in Practice From the Sixteenth Century to the Present, edited by Fabian Klose and Mirjam Thulin (2016)

Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia, by Nancy P. Appelbaum (2016)

The Works of Steven Hahn

Historical Perspectives on The Birth of a Nation (2016)

Seeds of Empire, By Andrew Torget (2015)

The End of White Christian America, by Robert P. Jones (2016)

Playing Indian, by Philip Deloria (1999)

A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks, by Stewart Gordon (2015)

Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age, by Muhammad Qasim Zaman (2012)

Trauma and Recovery, by Judith Herman (1992)

Americans Against the City, By Stephen Conn (2014)

A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence, by John E. Mack (1976)

Great Books on Women’s History: United States

Five Books on the End of Empire, by Wm. Roger Louis

Architectural Agents: The Delusional, Abusive, Addictive Lives of Buildings, by Annabel Jane Wharton (2015)

Honest Abe’s Archive: The New Archive (No. 21)

The Professor and the Madman, by Simon Winchester (2005)

When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity, by Kolleen M. Guy (2010)

Personal Memoirs, by Ulysses S. Grant (2003)

A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920, by Michael McGerr (2003)

Past and Present in Modern China

Outlaws of the Atlantic, by Marcus Rediker (2014)

Francisco de Miranda: A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution 1750-1816, by Karen Racine (2002)

Among the Powers of the Earth: the American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire, by Eliga Gould (2012)

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, by Robert C. Allen (2009)

Visitors of the Nile: The New Archive (No. 13)

Harper’s Weekly’s Portrayal of the Civil War: The New Archive (No. 11)

Mapping The Slave Trade: The New Archive (No. 10)

An Emotional Database: The New Archive (No. 8)

History Made Magic: The Scrapbooks of Harry Houdini Come Alive

38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier’s End by Scott W. Berg (2012)

Visualizing Emancipation(s): Mapping The End of Slavery in America

“12 Years a Slave” and the Difficulty of Dramatizing the “Peculiar Institution”

Great Books on Islam in American Politics & History

Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia by João José Reis (1993)

The Republic of Nature by Mark Fiege (2012)

Honorable Mention of 2013 Essay Contest: Covered with Glory: The 26th North Carolina Infantry at Gettysburg by Rod Gragg (2000)

The Founders and Finance by Thomas K. McGraw (2012)

Why is Anne Hathaway So Sad? The History Behind “Les Misérables” (2012)

The Emancipation Proclamation and its Aftermath

Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012)

A Historian Views Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012)

Great Books on Smoking History

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman (2007)

Great Books on William James and The Varieties of Religious Experience

Book cover of A History of the World in 100 Objects: From the Handaxe to the Credit Card by Neil MacGregor

A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor (2011)

Ancestral Leaves: A Family Journey through Chinese History by Joseph W. Esherick (2011)

Movie poster of the movie The Descendants

The Invisible History of Hawaii in Alexander Payne’s “The Descendants”

The Fiery Trial by Eric Foner (2011)

Navajo Arts and the History of the U.S. West

Book cover of The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire by John Gallagher

The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire by John Gallagher (1982)

Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South by Hannah Rosen (2008)

Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: Birth Control in America by Linda Gordon (1976)

Movie poster of the movie Camila: Love Against All Odds

Camila (1984)

From Baseball to Politics

Book cover of A History of Islam in America by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri (2010)

Undergraduate Essay Contest Winner: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano (1971)

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)

Movie poster of the movie Amigo

Film Review – Amigo (2011)

Movie poster of the movie Sankofa, A Haile Gerima Film

Sankofa (1993)

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2002)

Great Books on Enslaved Life and Labor in the US

Book cover of The Doubtful Strait/El estrecho dudoso by Ernesto Cardenal and translated by John Lyons

The Doubtful Strait/El Estrecho Dudoso by Ernesto Cardenal (1995)

Shinohata: A Portrait of a Japanese Village by Ronald P. Dore (1994)

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz (1999)

Great Books on Science Myth-Busters

Scum of the Earth by Arthur Koestler (1941)

Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History by Karl Jacoby (2008)

Book cover of The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914 by Ilham Khuri-Makdisi

The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914 by Ilham Khuri-Makdisi (2010)

Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon by Lytton Strachey

Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey (1918)

Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in the Americas, 1492-1830 by J.H. Elliott (2007)

Sounds of the Past

The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918 by Stephen Kern (2003)

Book cover of Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism Second Edition by Zachary Lockman

Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism by Zachary Lockman (2004)

Book cover of The Hour of Our Death: The Classic History of Western Attitudes Toward Death Over the Last One Thousand Years by Philippe Ariès

The Hour of Our Death by Philippe Ariés (1982)

Great Books on The Rise of American Capitalism

Book cover of Besieged: Voices from Delhi 1857 compiled and translated by Mahmood Farooqui

Beseiged: Voices from Delhi 1857 by Mahmood Farooqui (2010)

Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction by Michele Mitchell (2004)

Book cover of The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies by Alan Taylor

The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies by Alan Taylor (2010)

Book cover of Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by João José Reis

Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by João José Reis (2007)

Great Books on Slavery, Abolition, and Reconstruction

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