Award-winning historian Warren Milteer, Jr. provides the first modern comprehensive history of free people of color in Virginia from the colonial era through Reconstruction.
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View a selection of recently published books by Department of History faculty.
Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom
Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom by historian Warren Milteer, Jr. is a definitive study of free people of color that reshapes our understanding of freedom and citizenship in the Civil War era.
Jenna Weissman Joselit paints a vivid portrait of the life of Mordecai M. Kaplan, who was a rabbi, writer, and teacher with an undeniable influence on American Judaism.
Award-winning historian David Silverman examines the emergence of a racial identity among Euro-Americans amidst their efforts to reign over Native Americans.
Gregg Brazinsky brilliantly explores the ideal of Sino-North Korean friendship as a vital factor in building and maintaining socialist states.
The first book of its kind, Less than Victory explores both the impact the Vietnam War had on American Catholics
Inquiring into Empire: Colonial Commissions and British Imperial Reform, 1819–1833
Co-written by Lisa Ford, this research covers the vast project of British imperial investigation between the 1815 Battle of Waterloo and the Great Reform Act.
Left Adrift by Historian Timothy Shenk explores the transformation of the left over the last 50 years via the recent history of the democratic party through the experience of Stan Greenberg and Doug...
Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative
In Weapons in Space, Aaron Bateman draws from recently declassified American, European, and Soviet documents to give an insightful account of the SDI.
Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York
Acclaimed historian Tyler Anbinder presents for the first time the Famine generation’s individual and collective tales of struggle, perseverance, and triumph.