Yesterday my friend and fellow historian Megan Kate Nelson posted a tweet that highlights just how difficult it is to publish right now amidst the ongoing COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
Nathaniel L. Moir- my book is Number One Realist - Bernard Fall and Vietnamese Revolutionary Warfare (published by Hurst/Oxford University Press). It is just now available in the US/Canada (late March 2022). The discount code is ADISTAS and the link for the bookhttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/number-one-realist-9780197629888?cc=us&lang=en& See www.twitter.com/number1_realist or @number1_realist for more information. Thanks!
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching, by Jarvis R. Givens. Helpful in contextualizing primary sources by Black teachers and historians during the Jim Crow era. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983687
Dwelling in the World, by Elizabeth LaCouture -- a history of family, house, and home in China, 1860-1960. Uses gender, material culture, architectural history, legal history, and more, to draw an intimate portrait of life in a hypercolonial Chinese city.
“Gettysburg’s Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond” by @hamptonnewsome from University Press of Kansas. Should come out later this year.
Our book, "A Deeper Sickness: Journal of America in the Pandemic Year," just came out two weeks ago with Beacon Press. It offers a first pass at a historical analysis of the pandemic experience. http://www.beacon.org/A-Deeper-Sickness-P1776.aspx . Thank you!
Thanks for this post! My new book is about the nuclear weapons freeze campaign of the 1980s. It’s based on the most recently declassified documents from the Reagan Library and much additional supplemental archival research in the US and London. I view it as a bottom-up look at the end of the Cold War. I argue antinuclear activism shaped public opinion and ultimately forced the Reagan administration to abandon loose talk of survivable nuclear war and take arms control negotiations seriously—or face potential electoral repercussions at the ballot box. The Reagan administration took the Freeze seriously—and so should historians.
A new history book that I recently received as a birthday gift and look forward to reading is Jonathan W. White ed., To Address My Friend: African Americans’ Letters to Abraham Lincoln (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1469665077/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=civwarmem 20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1469665077&linkId=311c9fc2bf274209cdf5789900a7d055
Thank you for supporting authors with books out this spring, Kevin! It really is rough out there, so we appreciate all the work you do to amplify and promote new scholarship. My new book, *Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America* (Scribner), tells the story of three men who staked their claims to the Yellowstone region in 1871-72: scientist-explorer Ferdinand Hayden, investment banker Jay Cooke, and Húŋkpapȟa Lakota leader Sitting Bull. Their stories illuminate how the U.S. Congress and the Ulysses S. Grant Administration were attempting to bring the West into the nation (as well as the South) during Reconstruction. Their actions, however, were not uncontested. Readers can buy the book in all formats (hardcover, e-book, and audiobook: https://www.amazon.com/Saving-Yellowstone-Exploration-Preservation-Reconstruction-ebook/dp/B098421GPD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=UAXEZ2S7GMN2&keywords=saving+yellowstone&qid=1647711928&s=books&sprefix=Saving+Yellowstone%2Cstripbooks%2C67&sr=1-1
Just ordered it. Looking forward to learning more about our first national park. Never thought of it being influenced by Reconstruction, but 1872, so… of course. Loved *Three Cornered War*!
*Saving Yellowstone* arrived today 😌 Beautiful book, beautifully produced. Font, paper, even the amount of white space on the page make reading your work a pleasure. And I do, indeed, appreciate the dedication.
Would it be possible to send my copy of SY to you for your signature? I would love to add it to signed books from Kevin Levin and Joanne Freeman ❤️❤️
Love this book! Loved our interview. I will have it posted soon. My wife has been in and out of the hospital over the last week and my life has been on hold. Buy this book people! Even though I had an advance copy I still bought the audiobook when it landed.
During the pandemic, I have been watching a lot of historical dramas like The Last Kingdom and I love reading the history these stories inspired, so a shot out to 2 of my new favorite historians and their book The Bright Ages by David Perry and Matthew Gabriele. It has pretty much everything: Great religious, military, and political battles, Vikings on camels, a greyhound who is a Christian Saint, a church building arms race involving a not so obscure church called Notre Dame in Paris. I cannot recommend highly enough.
Definitely an amazing book. I read that and Dan Jones’ Power and Thrones back to back. Wealth of wonderful new stuff for medieval history lovers. Also check out The Anglo Saxons by Marc Morris.
My book, Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands, tells the story of 144 children of Nazi scientists who moved to El Paso, TX in 1947 as part of Operation Paperclip and attended a majority Mexican American school system. It’s a story of segregation, education inequality, and a patriotic curriculum that was more inviting to the children of Nazi scientists than some American citizens. Signed copies can be purchased by calling Literarity Books in El Paso. They’re fabulous and independent.
My new book, Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement, will be released April 22 after several paper-shortage delays. You can get a 25% discount if you order through the University of Chicago Press using the code UCP22. The book examines utopian thought and practice in the long civil rights movement including the Highlander Folk School, the Father Divine movement, the Fellowship House movement, CORE and much more! https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo130984902.html
My new book, Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South, will be released in a couple of weeks (the ebook is already available.) The book explores how generations of slavery shaped the environment and how the environment shaped the lives of the enslaved.
Nathaniel L. Moir- my book is Number One Realist - Bernard Fall and Vietnamese Revolutionary Warfare (published by Hurst/Oxford University Press). It is just now available in the US/Canada (late March 2022). The discount code is ADISTAS and the link for the bookhttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/number-one-realist-9780197629888?cc=us&lang=en& See www.twitter.com/number1_realist or @number1_realist for more information. Thanks!
Congratulations. Sounds like a fascinating study.
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching, by Jarvis R. Givens. Helpful in contextualizing primary sources by Black teachers and historians during the Jim Crow era. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983687
Thanks, Anne. I've heard some really good things about this one.
Victor Davis Hanson's The Second World Wars
Dwelling in the World, by Elizabeth LaCouture -- a history of family, house, and home in China, 1860-1960. Uses gender, material culture, architectural history, legal history, and more, to draw an intimate portrait of life in a hypercolonial Chinese city.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dwelling-in-the-world/9780231181792
“Gettysburg’s Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond” by @hamptonnewsome from University Press of Kansas. Should come out later this year.
Our book, "A Deeper Sickness: Journal of America in the Pandemic Year," just came out two weeks ago with Beacon Press. It offers a first pass at a historical analysis of the pandemic experience. http://www.beacon.org/A-Deeper-Sickness-P1776.aspx . Thank you!
Very relevant. Thanks for sharing and congratulations.
My book, Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman, is just coming out. Available from Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Clare-Boothe-Luce-American-Renaissance-Woman/Nash/p/book/9780367407339 Use the code ESA22 to save 20%. Thanks! Phil Nash
Thanks for sharing and congratulations.
My book "Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620" will be out with Cambridge University Press in July. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/reformation-in-the-low-countries-15001620/55D1C5365A1274A221921D077BACB489
Thanks for sharing, Christine.
Thanks for this post! My new book is about the nuclear weapons freeze campaign of the 1980s. It’s based on the most recently declassified documents from the Reagan Library and much additional supplemental archival research in the US and London. I view it as a bottom-up look at the end of the Cold War. I argue antinuclear activism shaped public opinion and ultimately forced the Reagan administration to abandon loose talk of survivable nuclear war and take arms control negotiations seriously—or face potential electoral repercussions at the ballot box. The Reagan administration took the Freeze seriously—and so should historians.
Here’s the Cornell UP link: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501760884/freeze-/
Use the code 09BCARD for 30% off.
This sounds really interesting. Thanks for sharing, Henry.
I also want to highlight Linda Hirshman's new book, THE COLOR OF ABOLITION, which just arrived today. https://amzn.to/367boGC
A new history book that I recently received as a birthday gift and look forward to reading is Jonathan W. White ed., To Address My Friend: African Americans’ Letters to Abraham Lincoln (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1469665077/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=civwarmem 20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1469665077&linkId=311c9fc2bf274209cdf5789900a7d055
Hi Robert. This is a wonderful new book. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for supporting authors with books out this spring, Kevin! It really is rough out there, so we appreciate all the work you do to amplify and promote new scholarship. My new book, *Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America* (Scribner), tells the story of three men who staked their claims to the Yellowstone region in 1871-72: scientist-explorer Ferdinand Hayden, investment banker Jay Cooke, and Húŋkpapȟa Lakota leader Sitting Bull. Their stories illuminate how the U.S. Congress and the Ulysses S. Grant Administration were attempting to bring the West into the nation (as well as the South) during Reconstruction. Their actions, however, were not uncontested. Readers can buy the book in all formats (hardcover, e-book, and audiobook: https://www.amazon.com/Saving-Yellowstone-Exploration-Preservation-Reconstruction-ebook/dp/B098421GPD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=UAXEZ2S7GMN2&keywords=saving+yellowstone&qid=1647711928&s=books&sprefix=Saving+Yellowstone%2Cstripbooks%2C67&sr=1-1
Just ordered it. Looking forward to learning more about our first national park. Never thought of it being influenced by Reconstruction, but 1872, so… of course. Loved *Three Cornered War*!
Thank you so much, Suzanne! This is wonderful to hear!
My pleasure. Retired history teacher and K-12 librarian, books really are my life. ❤️📚
❤️❤️❤️ You will appreciate SY’s dedication!
*Saving Yellowstone* arrived today 😌 Beautiful book, beautifully produced. Font, paper, even the amount of white space on the page make reading your work a pleasure. And I do, indeed, appreciate the dedication.
Would it be possible to send my copy of SY to you for your signature? I would love to add it to signed books from Kevin Levin and Joanne Freeman ❤️❤️
😄
Love this book! Loved our interview. I will have it posted soon. My wife has been in and out of the hospital over the last week and my life has been on hold. Buy this book people! Even though I had an advance copy I still bought the audiobook when it landed.
Hi Megan. I wish I could more. Looking forward to celebrating your wonderful new book in a couple weeks.
During the pandemic, I have been watching a lot of historical dramas like The Last Kingdom and I love reading the history these stories inspired, so a shot out to 2 of my new favorite historians and their book The Bright Ages by David Perry and Matthew Gabriele. It has pretty much everything: Great religious, military, and political battles, Vikings on camels, a greyhound who is a Christian Saint, a church building arms race involving a not so obscure church called Notre Dame in Paris. I cannot recommend highly enough.
https://www.powells.com/book/bright-ages-a-new-history-of-medieval-europe-9780062980892
Definitely an amazing book. I read that and Dan Jones’ Power and Thrones back to back. Wealth of wonderful new stuff for medieval history lovers. Also check out The Anglo Saxons by Marc Morris.
Thanks for the reminder. I definitely need to check this one out.
My book, Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands, tells the story of 144 children of Nazi scientists who moved to El Paso, TX in 1947 as part of Operation Paperclip and attended a majority Mexican American school system. It’s a story of segregation, education inequality, and a patriotic curriculum that was more inviting to the children of Nazi scientists than some American citizens. Signed copies can be purchased by calling Literarity Books in El Paso. They’re fabulous and independent.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/P/J/au13105551.html
Thanks for sharing.
My new book, Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement, will be released April 22 after several paper-shortage delays. You can get a 25% discount if you order through the University of Chicago Press using the code UCP22. The book examines utopian thought and practice in the long civil rights movement including the Highlander Folk School, the Father Divine movement, the Fellowship House movement, CORE and much more! https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo130984902.html
Thanks for sharing.
My new book, Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South, will be released in a couple of weeks (the ebook is already available.) The book explores how generations of slavery shaped the environment and how the environment shaped the lives of the enslaved.
It can be ordered at OUP (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/scars-on-the-land-9780197564226?cc=us&lang=en), Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Scars-Land-Environmental-History-American-dp-0197564224/dp/0197564224/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=), or your local bookstore.
Thanks, David. Really looking forward to this one.