Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era: Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War
Christopher Bright, PhD ’06 discusses the widespread acceptance of American weapons by the American public, a result of being touted in news releases, featured in films and disseminated as a...
Klu Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s
In Klu Klux Kulture, Felix Harcourt argues that in the 1920s the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire had an even wider significance as a cultural movement.
The Uprooted: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890-1980
The Uprooted offers an in-depth investigation of the colony's child-removal program: the motivations behind it, reception of it, and resistance to it.
Empowering Revolution: America, Poland and the End of the Cold War
In this groundbreaking history, Gregory F. Domber, PhD ’08, shows how both the United States and the Soviet Union vied for influence over Poland’s politically tumultuous steps toward democratic...
For Fear of an Elective King: George Washington and the Presidential Title Controversy of 1789
Kathleen Bartoloni-Tuazon, PhD ’10, gives a rich account of the title controversy and its meanings. In the spring of 1789, within weeks of the establishment of the new federal government based on...
Brooke Speer Orr, PhD ’02, traces the captivating life of renowned activist Mary Elizabeth Lease in this comprehensive biography. While Lease is most remembered in American history textbooks as...
The Limits of Détente: the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1973
In the first book-length analysis of the origins of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Craig Daigle, PhD ’08, draws on documents only recently made available to show how the war resulted not only...
Betting on the Africans: John F. Kennedy's Courting of African Nationalist Leaders
Philip Muehlenbeck, PhD ’07, closely examines former President John F. Kennedy’s policies toward Guinea, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Egypt, Algeria, Tanganyika and South Africa. Kennedy’s...
Emily Greene Balch: The Long Road to Internationalism
Kristen Gwinn, PhD ’08, delivers this first scholarly biography of Emily Greene Balch, a well-known American academic and cofounder of Boston's first settlement house. Balch was an important...
