Kim Phillips-Fein has won the 2025 LaGuardia Book Prize for her book Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics.
Kim Phillips-Fein has won the 2025 LaGuardia Book Prize for her book Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics. Professor Phillips-Fein will present a talk on this book at LaGuardia Community College on April 24th at 1:00 PM (RSVP here). See more about the award here.

Kim Phillips-Fein was interviewed by Charter to discuss the parallels between the Trump Administration’s actions against federal workers and those of the Reagan Administration. Read the full interview in @TIME here:
Kim Phillips-Fein was interviewed by Charter to discuss the parallels between the Trump Administration’s recent actions against federal workers and those of the Reagan Administration. Read the full interview in TIME here.

Natasha Lightfoot will be presenting the Department of History at Sacred Heart University’s 2025 Endowed Lecture on 3/18 at 2:00 PM, where she will be presenting on a chapter of her new book in progress about an enslaved woman in the Caribbean who tries to free herself by sea and the politics of self emancipation.
Natasha Lightfoot will be presenting the Department of History at Sacred Heart University’s 2025 Endowed Lecture on 3/18 at 2:00 PM, where she will be presenting on a chapter of her new book in progress about an enslaved woman in the Caribbean who tries to free herself by sea and the politics of self emancipation. See more about the lecture here.

James Stafford reviewed Isaac Nakhimovsky’s The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation for the London Review of Books.
James Stafford reviewed Isaac Nakhimovsky’s The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation for the London Review of Books. Read the full review here.

2025 Book Releases
Martha Howell, Making Merchants, The Cultural Construction of a Merchant Class in Early Modern Germany. October, 2025: Cambridge University Press.
Mark Mazower, On Antisemitism: A word in History. September, 2025: Penguin Press.
A. Tunç Şen, Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450 – 1600. 2025: Stanford University 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
Manan Ahmed, Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore. 2024: The New Press
Frank Guridy, The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play. 2024: Basic Books
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
Catherine Evtuhov, Julia Lajus, and David Moon (eds.), Thinking Russia’s History Environmentally. 2023: Berghahn Books
2022 Book Releases
Hilary Hallett. Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood. 2022: Liveright.




















