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Review of No Place Like Nome: The Bering Strait Seen Through Its Most Storied City

Review of Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico by Monica A. Jiménez (2024)

Remembering Violeta Parra

Review of Chino: Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940 by Jason Oliver Chang (2017)

Review of Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra, by Ericka Verba (2025)

Review of Stalin as Warlord, by Alfred J. Rieber (2022)

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

Review of Indigenous Autocracy: Power, Race, and Resources in Porfirian Tlaxcala, Mexico, by Jaclyn Ann Sumner (2024)

Cover American While Black African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship

Review of American while Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship (2019) by Niambi Michele Carter

Review of Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World’s Most Coveted Delicacy (2002), by Inga Saffron.

Review of Bolivia in the Age of Gas (2020) by Bret Gustafson

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

Review of The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC, by Cleveland Sellers (with Robert Terrell), 1990

Review of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (2019) by Bathsheba Demuth

Reimagining Reconstruction: Where Do We Go from Here?

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

Digital Archive Review: The American Prison Writing Archive (APWA)

Memory's Turn

Review of Memory’s Turn: Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil by Rebecca J. Atencio (2014)

It’s all Connected: Introducing Filmmaker Adam Curtis

Book cover of Greedy Bastards: One City's Texas-Size Struggle to Avoid a Financial Crisis by Sheryl Sculley

Greedy Bastards – One City’s Texas-Size Struggle to Avoid a Financial Crisis, by Sheryl Sculley (2020)

Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera

Digital Archive Review: Latin American and Caribbean Digital Primary Resources

Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet by Nina Lakhani (2020)

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

Digital Archive Review – Más de 72

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

The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus (2019)

Film Review – Ayka (Dir: Sergei Dvortsevoy, 2018)

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

African Catholic Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church by Elizabeth A. Foster (2019)

Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan. By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci (2018)

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

Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary, by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali

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

City in a Garden: Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas by Andrew M. Busch (2017)

The Gorbachev Factor by Archie Brown (2003)

A Poverty of Rights, Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro by Brodwyn Fischer (2008)

Satan’s Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America’s Greatest Gaming Resort, By Paul J. Vanderwood (2009)

Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (2014)

Precarious Paths to Freedom: The United States, Venezuela, and the Latin American Cold War (2016)

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

A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America by Grace Elizabeth Hale (2011)

We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017)

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (2018)

Nature Boy, 30 for 30 (directed by Rory Karpf, 2017)

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 Angela Merkel: Europe's Most Influential Leader by Matthew Qvortrup

Angela Merkel: Europe’s Most Influential Leader (2016) by Matthew Qvortrup

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

How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS, by David France (2016)

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

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

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

Kissinger’s Shadow, by Greg Grandin (2015)

Historical Perspectives on Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

Great Books on Women’s History: Asia

Great Books on Women’s History: United States

Great Books on Women’s History: Crossing Borders

Great Books on Women’s History: Europe

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)

Past and Present in Modern China

Digital History: A Guide by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig (2006): New Archive (No. 18)

Has Texas Seen its Last Liberal?

Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint by R. Andrew Chesnut (2011)

Elevate (2012)

Great Books on Smoking History

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)

Book cover of The Politics of the Veil by Joan Wallach Scott

The Politics of the Veil by Joan Wallach Scott

Movie poster of the movie Boxing Shadows

Boxing Shadows, by W.K. Stratton with Anissa “The Assassin” Zamarron (2009)

Book cover of Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation Through Popular Culture by Ziad Fahmy

Ordinary Egyptians: Creating The Modern Nation Through Popular Culture by Ziad Fahmy (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”

Movie poster of the movie MoneyBall

Film Review – Baseball by the Numbers: Moneyball (2011)

Film Review – A Separation (2011)

Footnote (2011)

Hollywood’s Brazil: Rio (2011)

Great Books on Egypt in the Modern World

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (2009)

Book cover of Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism edited by Malinda S. Smith

Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism ed. Malinda S. Smith (2010)

Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet by James Mann (2004)

The Rebel’s Hour by Lieve Joris (2008)

The Age of Reagan: A History, by Sean Wilentz (2008)

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