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Beyond Jefferson
Christa Dierksheide
Yale University Press (2024)
Savings and Trust
Justene Hill Edwards
W.W. Norton (2024)
Border of Water and Ice
Joseph Seeley
Cornell University Press (2024)
Citizenship, Belonging, and the Partition of India
Neeti Nair
Routledge Taylor and Francis Group (2024)
Not In My Backyard
Brian Balogh
Yale University Press (2024)
The Black Tax
Andrew Kahrl
University of Chicago Press (2024)
The War That Made America
Caroline Janney
The University of North Carolina Press (2024)
The Japanese Ideology
Robert P. Stolz
Columbia University Press (2024)
Age of Emergency
Erik Linstrum
Oxford University Press (2023)
Confronting Saddam Hussein
Melvyn P. Leffler
Oxford University Press (2023)
Chinese Autobiographical Writing
Cong Ellen Zhang
University of Washington Press (2023)
In the Pines
Grace Elizabeth Hale
Little, Brown, and Company (2023)
Hurt Sentiments
Neeti Nair
Harvard University Press (2023)
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
Elizabeth R. Varon
Simon & Schuster (2023)
Paradoxes of Nostalgia
Penny Von Eschen
Duke University Press (2022)
The Unsettled Plain
Chris Gratien
Stanford University Press (2022)
The Man Who Understood Democracy
Olivier Zunz
Princeton University Press (2022)
The New Era In American Mathematics, 1920-1950
Karen Parshall
Princeton University Press (2022)
Communism's Public Sphere
Kyrill Kunakhovich
Cornell University Press (2022)
That Tyrant, Persuasion
J. E. Lendon
Princeton University Press (2022)
Ghosts From the Past?
Neeti Nair
Routledge (2021)
Unfree Marks: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina
Justene Hill Edwards
Columbia University Press (2021)
When Sunday Comes
Claudrena N. Harold
University of Illinois Press (2020)
Performing Filial Piety in Northern Song China
Cong Ellen Zhang
University of Hawaii Press (2020)
Cool Town
Grace Elizabeth Hale
UNC Press (2020)
To the End of Revolution
Xiaoyuan Liu
Columbia University Press (2020)
The Cigarette
Sarah Milov
Harvard University Press (2019)
The Long 1989
Kyrill Kunakhovich
Central European University (2019)
Armies of Deliverance
Elizabeth R. Varon
Oxford University (2019)
To Build a Better World
Philip Zelikow
Twelve Books (2019)
The Law of Strangers
Cambridge University Press (2019)
Rooted Cosmopolitans
Yale University Press (2018)
The Age of Eisenhower
William Hitchcock
Simon & Schuster (2018)
Petersburg to Appomattox
Caroline Janney
University of North Carolina (2018)
A Sea of Debt
Fahad Ahmad Bishara
Cambridge University Press (2017)
Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean
Joshua M. White
Stanford University Press (2017)
Singing the Resurrection
Erin Lambert
Oxford University Press (2017)
Ruling Minds
Erik Linstrum
Harvard University Press (2016)
Shaper Nations
William Hitchcock
Harvard University Press (2016)
Pandemics
Christian W. McMillen
Oxford University Press (2016)
Lens of War
Gary W. Gallagher
University of Georgia Press (2015)
Cold Harbor to the Crater The End of the Overland Campaign
Gary W. Gallagher
UNC Press (2015)
The American War
Gary W. Gallagher
Flip Learning (2015)
Causes Won and Lost
Elizabeth R. Varon
Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War (2015)
The Associational State
Brian Balogh
University of Pennsylvania Press (2015)
Discovering Tuberculosis
Christian W. McMillen
Yale University Press (2015)
Enlightenment Underground
H. C. Erik Midelfort
University of Virginia Press (2015)
Tosaka Jun
Robert P. Stolz
Cornell University East Asia Program (University of Hawaii Press) (2014)
Bad Water
Robert P. Stolz
Duke University Press (2014)
Taming the Unknown
Karen Parshall
Princeton University Press (2014)
La Frontera
Thomas Klubock
Duke University Press (2014)
Black Leaders on Leadership
Phyllis Leffler
Palgrave Macmillan (2014)
The Inscriptions of Dodona and a New History of Molossia
Elizabeth A. Meyer
Franz Steiner Verlag (2013)
Appomattox
Elizabeth R. Varon
Oxford University Press (2013)
The King's Bishops
Everett U. Crosby
Palgrave Macmillan (2013)
The Punitive Turn
Claudrena N. Harold
University of Virginia Press (2013)
Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic Perspective
Manuela Achilles
Palgrave Macmillan (2013)
The Chile Reader
Thomas Klubock
Duke University Press (2013)
Becoming Confederates
Gary W. Gallagher
University of Georgia Press (2013)
Tesla
W. Bernard Carlson
Princeton University Press (2013)
Remembering the Civil War
Caroline Janney
University of North Carolina (2013)
The Human Rights Revolution
William Hitchcock
Oxford University Press, USA (2012)
La Philanthropie en Amérique
Olivier Zunz
Fayard (2012)
For the Soul of Mankind
Melvyn P. Leffler
East China Normal University Press (2012)
The War of 1812
J.C.A. Stagg
Cambridge University Press (2012)
Alexis de Tocqueville
Olivier Zunz
Library of America (2012)
The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, Volume 7
University of Virginia Press (2012)
African-American History
Kevin Gaines
American Historical Association (2012)
Habeas Corpus
Paul D. Halliday
Harvard (2012)
Freedom Has a Face
Kirt von Daacke
University of Virginia Press (2012)
The Union War
Gary W. Gallagher
Harvard University Press (2011)
Philanthropy in America
Olivier Zunz
Princeton University Press (2011)
In Uncertain Times
Melvyn P. Leffler
Cornell University Press (2011)
Changing Homelands
Neeti Nair
Harvard University Press (2011)
The 9/11 Commission Report
Philip Zelikow
W. W. Norton & Company (2011)
Карл Маркс: Бремя разума
Allan Megill
Moscow: KANON+ (2011)
By Sword and Plow
Jennifer Sessions
Cornell University Press (2011)
A Nation of Outsiders
Grace Elizabeth Hale
Oxford (2011)
Transformative Journeys
Cong Ellen Zhang
University of Hawaii (2010)
Peaceful Kings
Paul Kershaw
Oxford (2010)
Metics and the Athenian phialai-Inscriptions
Elizabeth A. Meyer
Franz Steiner Verlag (2010)
The Cambridge History of the Cold War (3 Volumes)
Melvyn P. Leffler
Cambridge (2010)
Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America
Olivier Zunz
University of Virginia (2010)
The Most Musical Nation
Yale University Press (2010)