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In Straighten Up, Girls and Boys: How Schools Have Shaped Sexuality and Gender (Harvard Education Press, 2026), acclaimed historian and educ...
There is no alternative. The End of History. Climate Apocalypse. It seems that our contemporary moment is defined by the idea that things ca...
What does it mean, three decades after the demise of the USSR, to inhabit cities built for a future that has never arrived? In pursuit of th...
The 21st Century in 100 Games (Routledge India, 2024) is an interactive public history of the contemporary world. It creates a ludological r...
How queer men in Kazakhstan navigate dating apps in a context of stigma, surveillance, and limited legal protections. It shows how platforms...
In this episode of the New Books Network, I spoke with Dr Olga Burlyuk and Dr Ladan Rahbari about their new edited volume, From the Margins:...
In this episode hosts Salman Sayyid and Amina Easat-Daas were joined by William Barylo to discuss his most recent book ‘Muslims in the Neoli...
The thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment have often been claimed for sociology. But, what does it mean to say these thinkers were sociolog...
Are children naturally picky? It sure seems that way. Yet, amazingly, pickiness used to be almost nonexistent. Well into the 20th century, A...
How did black suits become so ubiquitous? Why has men's business clothing been so plain for the last 250 years? How did a style adopted by t...
In Race, Class, and Affirmative Action: College Admissions in a New Era (Harvard Education Press, 2026), Julie J. Park offers deft analysis...
Today, rats are nearly synonymous with plague, but this association is surprisingly recent. For centuries, plague devastated populations wit...
For much of the Crescent City's history, days began with the cries of roaming street vendors and the percussive thwack of butchers' meat cle...
Campus Whisper Networks: Knowing with Sexual Assault Survivors (Rutgers University Press, 2026) examines how personal knowledge about studen...
What explains the rise of religious populism in contemporary Turkish politics and society? How does industrialization help to explain change...
In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States attempted to build a colony in the Philippines in its own image—one fraught wi...
Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China's Housing Market (Cornell UP, 2026) is a study of the power that shapes the forms of the homes Ch...
In a world marked by increasingly destructive ecological and meteorological upheavals, Cyclonic Lives in an Indian Ocean World: Environment,...
While most English-language histories of Taiwan focus on its geopolitical role, Taiwan: A People’s History (Reaktion, 2026) by Dr. Evan N. D...
Hotels represent nations, hosting visiting monarchs, politicians, and diplomats. Hotels underpin global networks of travel and communication...