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Smith Edited Volume
Pamela Smith’s most recent edited volume, Entangled Itineraries: Materials, Practices, and Knowledges Across Eurasia, is now available for pre-order at the University of Pittsburgh Press. Its twelve essays trace the pathways of diverse materials, techniques, and systems of knowledge across Eurasia, 800-1800.
Smith at Huntington Library
Pamela Smith gave the annual Dibner Lecture in the History of Science at the Huntington Library on March 20. Her lecture was entitled “Of Lizards, Laboratories, and History: The Making and Knowing Project.”
McCurry Women’s War Release
Stephanie McCurry’s recently released book Women’s War “challenges the idea that women are outside of war, through a trio of dramatic stories revealing women’s transformative role in the American Civil War.” It is now available through Harvard University Press.
Wertheim in The New Republic
Stephen Wertheim wrote for The New Republic: “How to End Endless War: The case against American military supremacy.”
David Greenberg (PhD 2001), Moshik Temkin (PhD 2007), and Mason B. Williams (PhD 2012) co-edited Alan Brinkley: A Life in History, in honor of Allan Nevins Professor Emeritus Alan Brinkley. On April 8th, David Greenberg will discuss their new book at Book Culture.
Ngai at Pacific Lutheran University
On March 11th, Mae Ngai delivered the 45th annual Walter Schnackenberg Lecture at Pacific Lutheran University. The talk title was “Mother of Exiles: Refugees in American History and Myth.”
Frank Guridy and Brenda Elsey interviewed Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin about their book Things that Make White People Uncomfortable. The interview was the keynote event in the “Building Critical Sports Communities: New Directions in Sports Scholarship, Journalism, and Activism” conference (organized by Professors Guridy and Elsey).
Tooze in Washington Post
Adam Tooze was quoted in The Washington Post: “Global economic slowdown looms, exposing outgunned central banks.”
Ngai’s Audiobook
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America, Mae Ngai’s seminal history of undocumented immigration, is now available at Audiobooks.com, Libro.fm (a retailer which allows buyers to nominate a local book store to benefit from the sale of the audio book, encouraging book stores to promote audio editions), and Audible.com.
Ngai in How to be American
Mae Ngai is featured in the Tenement Museum’s new podcast series “How to be American.”