The Chinese translation of Brad Reed’s Talons and Teeth: County Clerks and Runners in the Qing Dynasty, is out. The book is now in its fourth printing with total sales around 30,000.
Professors Xiaoyuan Liu and Joseph Seeley were interviewed by UVA Today for a recent article on the legacies of the Pearl Harbor attack for US involvement in East Asia. To read the article, click here:
https://news.virginia.edu/content/pearl-harbor-drew-us-not-just-war-all-asia
The November 2021 special issue of The Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (JESHO), “The Persianate Bazaar,” features key contributions from Professor Fahad Bishara. The collection of essays in this volume examines forms of business documentation in the late Persianate world and the Indian Ocean, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. In addition to writing the introduction with Nandini Chatterjee, Fahad contributed an article, “The Diver’s New Papers: Wealth, People, and Property in a Persian Gulf Bazaar.”
Grace Hale’s “Cool Town,” which explores the birth of such bands as R.E.M. and the B-52s, was just named this year’s top book on Georgia history by the Georgia Historical Society.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/faculty-spotlight-historian-revisits-a...
Alan Taylor’s American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 was mentioned in an article in The New York Times Magazine detailing long-standing debates about how we tell our national story and what that has to teach us about our current divisions: The 1619 Project and the Long Battle Over U.S. History.
Last month, Caroline Janney was a guest on C-SPAN's American History TV where she discussed her book Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomatox, as well as the uncertainties in the military and politics following the end of the Civil War.
Professor Neeti Nair has been appointed to the John W. Kluge Center’s inaugural alumni advisory board to serve two-year terms as Kluge Center ambassadors, helping the Center promote its scholarly opportunities to wider audiences.
In an interview with Town & Country Magazine, Andrew Kahrl discusses the historical struggles of Black families as they looked "to escape from the clutches of predatory conditions within their new neighborhoods."
Last week, Laurent Dubois joined NPR’s 1A to discuss how Haiti is faring after presidential assassination, the aftermath of the recent earthquake, & treatment of Haitian migrants. https://the1a.org/segments/haiti-and-its-migrants-an-update-on-del-rio/
Graduate student Thomas Storrs’ co-authored paper, “New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s” was published in the National Bureau of Economic Research: https://www.nber.org/papers/w29244?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg12 Congratulations Thomas.
