David Rosner’s newest book, Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History, will release on October 8th, 2024. 

by cuhistory | Sep 10, 2024 | News |

David Rosner‘s newest book, Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History, will release on October 8th, 2024. Through the lens of death and disease, Building the Worlds That Kill Us provides a new way of understanding the...

Marc Van De Mieroop reviewed Bartle Bull’s Land Between the Rivers, a critical history of cultural and political development in the region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, for The New York Times.

by cuhistory | Sep 9, 2024 | News |

Marc Van De Mieroop reviewed Bartle Bull’s Land Between the Rivers, a critical history of cultural and political development in the region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, for The New York...

Over the summer, Greg Mann and his  workshop partners organized the Projet Archives des Femmes (PAF) workshop in Bamako, Mali.

by cuhistory | Sep 5, 2024 | News |

Over the summer, Greg Mann and his workshop partners organized the Projet Archives des Femmes (PAF) workshop in Bamako, Mali. Meeting weekly in day-long seminars, the workshop studied the history of Malian women’s public lives—social, economic, and religious—in the...

Frank Guridy’s newest book, The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play is now available through Basic Books.

by cuhistory | Aug 28, 2024 | News |

Frank Guridy’s newest book, The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play is now available through Basic Books. Read reviews by the Washington Post, the LA Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and listen to Professor Guridy’s interview...

James Tejani (PhD 2009) has published A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America

by cuhistory | Aug 23, 2024 | News |

James Tejani (PhD 2009) has published A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America (W. W. Norton, July 2024), which explores how America’s global gateway – the busiest container port in the Western hemisphere – came to be from...