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Date Title & Description Contributors
2017-06-04

  Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch, "Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family" (Columbia UP, 2017)

Public scholarship takes many forms, from op-eds to activism to blog posts. In their new book, Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family (Columbia University Press, 2017), Associate Professor Bruce Haynes and freelance writer, develop...
2017-06-04

  Susan Rubenstein DeMasi, "Henry Alsberg: The Driving Force Behind the New Deal Federal Writers' Project" (McFarland, 2016)

Over the course of a long and adventurous life, Henry Alsberg was guided by the constancy of his passion for radical causes. This focus, as Susan Rubenstein DeMasi makes clear in Henry Alsberg: The Driving Force Behind the New Deal Federal Writers' Pro...
2017-06-04

  Armando Salvatore, "Sociology of Islam: Knowledge, Power, Civility" (Wiley, 2016)

Armando Salvatore's (Professor Global Religious Studies, McGill University) formidable new book Sociology of Islam: Knowledge, Power, Civility (Wiley, 2016) is a dense yet delightful meditation on the concept of sociology of Islam. Building on the work...
2017-06-04

  Ana Miskovska Kajevska, "Feminist Activism at War: Belgrade and Zagreb Feminists in the 1990s" (Routledge, 2017)

In Feminist Activism at War: Belgrade and Zagreb Feminists in the 1990s (Routledge, 2017), Macedonian researcher, peace-worker, and activist Ana Miskovska Kajevska analyses the way feminists in Belgrade and Zagreb reacted to the (post-)Yugoslav wars, w...
2017-06-04

  Sarah Imhoff, "Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism" (Indiana UP, 2017)

In her new book, Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2017), Professor Sarah Imhoff explores the relationship between American identity and American Jewish depictions and definitions of masculinity. Professor Imhoff...
2017-06-04

  Mary E. Adkins, "Making Modern Florida: How the Spirit of Reform Shaped a New State Constitution" (University Press of Florida, 2016)

Mary E. Adkins has written Making Modern Florida: How the Spirit of Reform Shaped a New State Constitution (University Press of Florida, 2016), an account of the reformation of the Florida state constitution in the 1960s. Adkins reviews the history of ...
2017-06-04

  Michael J. Turner" Radicalism and Reputation: The Career of Bronterre O'Brien" (Michigan State UP, 2017)

From humble beginnings James Bronterre O'Brien became one of the leading figures in British radical politics in the first half of the 19th century, thanks in no small measure to his skills as a journalist and writer. In Radicalism and Reputation: The C...
2017-06-04

  Clyde Farnsworth, "Tangled Bylines: A Father and Son Cover the Twentieth Century" (U. Missouri Press, 2017)

Journalists intentionally leave themselves out of the stories they cover. In Clyde H. Farnsworth's book Tangled Bylines: A Father and Son Cover the Twentieth Century (University of Missouri Press, 2017) he gets the chance to tell not only his own stori...
2017-06-04

  Michael Neagle, "America's Forgotten Colony: Cuba's Isle of Pines" (Cambridge UP, 2016)

Cuba's Isle of Pines has a curious history. In the early twentieth century, hundreds of Americans moved there, hoping to get rich as citrus growers and hoping that one day the island would become part of the United States. Michael E. Neagle's new book,...
2017-06-04

  Gregory Reichberg, "Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

When is war justified? What makes a just war? These are difficult questions to answer, but particularly so for Christians, followers of Jesus, who suffered violence without responding in kind. One philosopher-theologian who wrestled with these issues ...