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 (W. W. Norton, July 2024), which explores how America’s global gateway – the busiest container port in the Western hemisphere – came to be from...

Kim Phillips-Fein published a review of Luke Nichter’s The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968 for The London Review of Books, exploring the unusual circumstances surrounding the 1968 election, including Lyndon B....

Angelo Caglioti published an article in Past and Present on the origins of Italian settler colonialism in the perspective of the environmental history of European imperialism.  It argues that the Italian project to turn the highlands of the Horn of Africa into a...

Susan Pedersen published an article in Granta on Gerald Balfour’s relationship with Winifred Coombe Tennant, a politician, suffragist, and medium whose “automatic writings” predicted that she would birth a child of great historical importance. Read...