Kim Phillips-Fein’s article for Jewish Currents, “Lessons From La Guardia,” explores the historical lessons one can draw from the success of mayor Fiorello La Guardia against a political establishment opposed to his platform, made especially relevant by the recent victory of Zohran Mamdani in NYC’s mayoral primary. Read the full article here.

Kim Phillips-Fein‘s article for Jewish Currents, “Lessons From La Guardia,” explores the historical lessons one can draw from the success of mayor Fiorello La Guardia against a political establishment opposed to his platform, made especially relevant by the recent victory of Zohran Mamdani in NYC’s mayoral primary. Read the full article here.

Lori Flores published an article in The Guardian, “How US Immigration Raids Hurt Summer Pleasures, From Berries to Barbecues” discussing how recent ICE raids will negatively impact America’s food labor system, exploring the profound harm caused both to immigrant workers and the food supply system they contribute to.

Lori Flores published an article in The Guardian, “How US Immigration Raids Hurt Summer Pleasures, From Berries to Barbecues” discussing how recent ICE raids will negatively impact America’s food labor system, exploring the profound harm caused both to immigrant workers and the food supply system they contribute to. Read the full article here.

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2025 Book Releases

Martha HowellMaking Merchants, The Cultural Construction of a Merchant Class in Early Modern Germany. October, 2025: Cambridge University Press.

Mark MazowerOn Antisemitism: A word in History. September, 2025: Penguin Press.

Paul Thomas Chamberlin, Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II. 2025: Basic Books.

2024 Book Releases

David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History. 2024: Columbia University Press

Mae Ngai, Chee Wang Ng, and Corky Lee (eds.), Corky Lee’s Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice. 2024: Clarkson Potter

Marc Van De Mieroop, A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 – 323 BC, 4th Edition. 2024: Wiley-Blackwell.

2023 Book Releases

Neslihan Senocak. Lateran IV: Theology and Care of Souls. 2023: Brepols Publishers.

Catherine Evtuhov, Julia Lajus, and David Moon (eds.), Thinking Russia’s History Environmentally. 2023: Berghahn Books

Neslihan Senocak and Agostino Paravicini Bagliani . A People’s Church: Medieval Italy and Christianity, 1050 – 1300. 2023: Cornell University Press.
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