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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)

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)

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)

Rethinking American Grand Strategy in the Asia Pacific

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)

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)

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

Great Books on Smoking History

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

The Politics of the Veil by Joan Wallach Scott

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

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)

Great Books on Egypt in the Modern World

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (2009)

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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