Here's my list of books read in March. Last month's list is here. This goes out to my book patron, known as PS, who sends me books that make up a good portion of the fiction list. SCHOLARLY READING: Traci Brynne Voyles, The Settler Sea:...
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This month's reading list and open thread about books. Here's last month's list. SCHOLARLY READING: Kathryn Olivarius, Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom (Harvard University Press, 2022)..
Well, after a very long time--7 years!!--I finally have the next book completed, edited, and ready to go out. Organizing America: Stories of Americans Who Fought for Justice was very.
Detail showing the allegorical figure representing Independence (center) flanked by Miguel Hidalgo (left) and general Agustín Iturbide (right). Anonymous, Allegory of Independence, 1834 (Museo Histórico Curato de Dolores, Guanajato, INAH) When I published my year-end book list on January 1, our commenter Karen threw out the...
My annual reading list. You can follow previous years' lists by clicking back through this link. First, the historical and professional work. Let me use the same language I use.
What reader is asking for this? The ongoing strength of print books and the possible uses of AI were among the topics discussed by HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray on December.
I am teaching a graduate seminar this spring on methodologies of environmental history. As such, I have assigned the following books, with an emphasis on recent top books, but with some older work too. You should read along. I haven't decided all the articles to...
Women opposed to the Equal Rights Amendment sit with Phyllis Schlafly (left), national chairman of Stop ERA, at a hearing of the Republican platform subcommittee on human rights and responsibilities.
I appreciated Margaret Renkl's ode to the university press. That's not so much because of the academic writing that gets published at university presses, which is so key to all.
Time for my year-end list of what I've read. Here are the past lists: 2020; 2019; 2018; 2017; 2016. Let me use the same language explaining this as last year: I read these books for my own purposes–to prepare for teaching, to keep up or...
I mentioned last week that I had written the conclusion for the brand new book from Haymarket Press, Organizing for Power: Building a Twenty-First Century Labor Movement in Boston. I.
I was very happy to write the conclusion for the new book of essays organized and edited by Aviva Chomsky and Steve Striffler, Organizing for Power: Building a 21st Century.