Toby GreenThe Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589

July 30, 2014

[Cross-posted from New Books in History] Slavery was pervasive in the Ancient World: you can find it in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In Late Antiquity , however, slavery went into decline. It survived and even flourished in the Byzantine Empire and Muslim lands, yet it all but disappeared in Medieval Western and Central Europe. Then, rather [...]

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Lorena TurnerThe Michael Jacksons

July 23, 2014

[Cross-posted from New Books in Pop Music] During his lifetime, Michael Jackson became a global icon.  Michael Jackson was beloved by millions; his journey began as he became  a boy star with The Jackson Five and it culminated with his being crowned the King of Pop, While some of the controversy of his later years along diminished [...]

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Abigail PerkissMaking Good Neighbors: Civil Rights, Liberalism and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia

July 16, 2014

[Cross-posted from New Books in History] Sitting in my home office this morning, I’ve periodically looked up from my computer screen and out the window to see who the dog is barking at. Sometimes it’s a young mother pushing a stroller, sometimes an older man walking his dogs, occasionally a young woman jogging. Regardless of age, [...]

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Suzanne MettlerDegrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream

July 9, 2014

[Cross-posted from New Books in Big Ideas] From 1945 to the mid-1970s, the rate at which Americans went to and graduate from college rose steadily. Then, however, the rate of college going and completion stagnated. In 1980, a quarter of adult Americans had college degrees; today the figure is roughly the same. What happened? In her [...]

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Jacqueline E. WhittBringing God to Men: American Military Chaplains and the Vietnam War

July 5, 2014

[Cross-posted from New Books in Military History] In this original and innovative study of the American military chaplaincy, Jacqueline E. Whitt examines the institution’s challenges and struggles in the post-World War II era, with the Vietnam War acting as the fulcrum for existential change in its identity and mission.  By all accounts a largely ecumenical based [...]

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Robert E. Gutsche Jr.A Transplanted Chicago: Race, Place and the Press in Iowa City

July 1, 2014

[Cross-posted from New Books in Journalism] The city of Iowa City’s website promotes its “small-town hospitality” and its focus on “culture.” But a closer look at Iowa City, home to 70,000 and the University of Iowa, reveals a community trying to redefine itself as urban African-Americans relocate to the area. This is the focus of Robert E. “Ted” [...]

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Ian Haney LopezDog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class

June 30, 2014

[Cross-posted from New Books in Political Science] Ian Haney Lopez is the author of Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism & Wrecked the Middle Class (Oxford UP 2014). He is the John H. Boalt Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and on the Executive Committee of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social [...]

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Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. BrownTaming Lust: Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic

June 28, 2014

[Cross-posted from New Books in Law] Bestiality is more often the subject of jokes than legal cases nowadays, and so it was in late eighteenth-century western New England, when, strangely, two octogenarians were accused in separate towns in the space of a few years. Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown each discovered one case while they were researching other [...]

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Luke E. HarlowReligion, Race and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880

June 26, 2014

[Cross-posted from New Books in History] Luke E. Harlow, Religion, Race and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880 (Cambridge University Press, 2014) examines the role of religion, and more specifically, conservative evangelical Protestant theology, in the struggle over slavery and abolition in a crucial period of American history. The book makes an impressive case that we cannot really understand [...]

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Benjamin MarquezDemocratizing Texas Politics: Race, Identity, and Mexican American Empowerment, 1945-2002

June 23, 2014

[Cross-posted from New Books in Political Science] Benjamin Marquez is the author of Democratizing Texas Politics: Race, Identity, and Mexican American Empowerment, 1945-2002 (University of Texas Press 2014). Marquez is professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Democratizing Texas Politics covers 50 years of Texas political history, but also the changing institutional power of parties, organizations, [...]

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