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History 2023
FORTHCOMING Fearless Women
Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé
Elizabeth Cobbs
This passionate and inspiring book by the New York Time s bestselling author of The Hello Girls shows us that the quest for women’s rights is deeply entwined with the founding story of the United States.
“A gripping panoramic history.”
—Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried March 2023 Belknap Press 480 pp. $35.00 • £30.95 cloth 9780674258488
Q&A WITH ELIZABETH COBBS
IN FEARLESS WOMEN, YOU ARGUE THAT FEMINISM HAS BEEN AS IMPORTANT IN SHAPING WHO WE ARE AS AMERICANS AS WERE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, THE CIVIL WAR, AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION. WHY?
“My book shows that many of the major achievements that have defined US history are connected with strides in women’s rights and the civic activism of feminists. The Industrial Revolution depended on the creation of a literate labor force—one that female teachers produced after women won the right to attend school. Susan B. Anthony organized the petition campaign that sped passage of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, and Frances Perkins (first female member of any presidential cabinet) spearheaded the creation of Social Security and fair labor laws. This list of transformative developments could—and does—go on. “
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The Legacy of Slavery at Harvard Report and Recommendations of the Presidential Committee
The Presidential Committee on the Legacy of Slavery
Preface by Lawrence S. Bacow
Harvard’s searing and sobering indictment of its own long-standing relationship with chattel slavery and anti-Black discrimination.
288 pp. $21.95 • £19.95 cloth
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FORTHCOMING
The Madman in the White House
Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson
Patrick Weil
“A rich study of the role of personal psychology in the shaping of the new global order after World War I. So long as so much political power is concentrated in one human mind, we are all at the mercy of the next madman in the White House.”
— Gary J. Bass, author of The Blood Telegram
May 2023 400 pp.
$35.00 • £30.95 cloth
9780674291614
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Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons
A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas
Kirsten Silva Gruesz
“An essential reconsideration of the historical and contemporary place of the Spanish language and ‘Brown identity’ in the U.S.”
Publishers Weekly
“One of the most exciting and illuminating books I have read this century.”
— Ramón Saldívar, author of The Borderlands of Culture
Belknap Press 336 pp.
$35.00 • £30.95 cloth 9780674971752
NEW Necropolis Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
Kathryn Olivarius
“[This] new analysis of yellow fever in antebellum New Orleans highlights striking parallels with the ongoing pandemic.”
— Smithsonian
“A brilliant book. Olivarius’s insightful reading of sources and beautiful writing give us a new and important way to think about slavery, race, health, and hierarchy.”
—Annette Gordon-Reed
Belknap Press 352 pp.
$35.00 • £30.95 cloth 9780674241053
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Kennedy Withdrawal Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam
Marc J. Selverstone
“This book will be the go-to account on Kennedy and the Vietnam War for a long time to come.”
— Fredrik Logevall, author of JFK and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Embers of War
“Scrupulous and revealing.”
— Publishers Weekly
336 pp. $35.00 • £30.95 cloth
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Every Citizen a Statesman
The Dream of a Democratic Foreign Policy in the American Century
David Allen
“With a firm grasp of the historical materials, a fluid writing style, and a gift for narrative, Allen shows that the United States has never figured out what a truly ‘democratic’ foreign policy might be. This fascinating book is a pleasure to read, and the lessons it draws are both timely and troubling.”
Stephen
M. Walt, author of The Hell of Good Intentions
344 pp. $45.00
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Traveling Black A Story of Race and Resistance
Mia Bay
★ Bancroft Prize
★ Liberty Legacy Foundation Award
★ A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of the Year
“This extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation… Mia Bay shows that Black mobility has always been a struggle.”
— Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist
Belknap Press 400 pp. $19.95 • £17.95 paper 9780674278622
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Fugitive Pedagogy
Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
Jarvis R. Givens
★ Outstanding Book Award, American Educational Research Association
“A tremendous offering.”
— Los Angeles Review of Books
“Groundbreaking…Givens restores Carter G. Woodson, one of the most important educators and intellectuals of the twentieth century, to his rightful place alongside figures like W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells.”
Imani Perry, author of May We Forever Stand
320 pp. $21.95 • £19.95 paper 9780674278752
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Liner Notes for the Revolution
The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
Daphne A. Brooks
★ American Book Award
★ Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History of Boston and Nantucket
★ PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Book Award
“A wide-ranging study of Black female artists, from elders like Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters to Beyoncé and Janelle Monáe… Connecting the sonic worlds of Black female mythmakers and truth-tellers.”
Rolling Stone
Belknap Press 608 pp.
$24.95 • £21.95 paper
NEW EDITION
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Democracy’s Discontent
A New Edition for Our Perilous Times
Michael J. Sandel
“Americans have lost faith in the possibility of self-government, and they are frightened by the disintegration of community they see happening all around them. Twenty-six years since Democracy’s Discontent was first published, Sandel writes that this way of thinking has brought us to a political precipice—a moment when the combination of frayed social bonds and intense political polarization calls into question the very future of the American experiment.”
New Republic
Belknap Press 384 pp.
$24.95 • £21.95 paper
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FORTHCOMING IN PAPERBACK The Next Shift The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
Gabriel Winant
★ Frederick Jackson Turner Award
“A deeply upsetting book.”
New Republic
“A useful guide to the sweeping social changes that have shaped a huge segment of the economy and created the dystopian world of contemporary service-sector work.”
— The Nation
April 2023 368 pp.
$19.95 • £17.95 paper 9780674292192
FORTHCOMING IN PAPERBACK God in Gotham The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan
Jon Butler
“Scholars of urban history, American religion, urban religion and modernity and secularism will find much to think with in God in Gotham ’s compelling history of how congregations responded to the technologies, pace, and cityscape of Manhattan to engage with ‘the enchanted,’ not turn away from it.”
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
March 2023 Belknap Press 320 pp.
$19.95 • £17.95 paper 9780674292215
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NEW IN PAPERBACK Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
Alexander Keyssar
★ A New Statesman Best Book of the Year
“America’s greatest historian of democracy now offers an extraordinary history of the most bizarre aspect of our representative democracy—the electoral college…A brilliant contribution to a critical current debate.”
Lawrence Lessig, author of They Don’t Represent Us
544 pp. $24.95 • £21.95 paper
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FORTHCOMING IN PAPERBACK Shields of the Republic
The Triumph and Peril of America’s Alliances
Mira Rapp-Hooper
“Despite enduring support among the U.S. public for the alliance system, President Donald Trump seems determined to upend it, as Mira Rapp-Hooper observes in her astute new book defending U.S. alliances… The threat of COVID-19 has bolstered her argument, making plain both the importance of the alliance system and the imperative to adapt alliances to new ends.”
— Foreign Policy
April 2023
272 pp.
$19.95 • £17.95 paper
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FORTHCOMING IN PAPERBACK Threat of Dissent
A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States
Julia Rose Kraut
“Magisterial and well written…A gripping, expansive story that traces the consequences of suspicions of ‘un-American’ ideologies and loyalties in federal jurisprudence from the War of 1812 through the still-raging War on Terror.”
— Journal of Interdisciplinary History
March 2023 352 pp. $24.95 • £21.95 paper 9780674292352
Landscapes of Hope
Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago
Brian McCammack
★ George Perkins Marsh Prize
★ Frederick Jackson Turner Award
★ Co-Winner, John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize
“A beautifully written, smart, painstakingly researched account.”
American Historical Review
“A major work of history that brings together African-American history and environmental studies in exciting ways.”
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
376 pp. $29.95 • £26.95 paper
9780674260375
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Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery • Bruce A. Ragsdale
★ George Washington Prize
“Delightfully instructive…Ragsdale undeniably casts new light on Washington on the question of slavery.” Washington Post
Belknap Press 368 pp.
$29.95 • £26.95 cloth
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The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution • Lindsay M. Chervinsky
★ NSDAR Excellence in American History Book Award
“Cogent, lucid, and concise, Lindsay Chervinsky’s book gives us an indispensable guide to the creation of the cabinet.” —Ron Chernow
Belknap Press 432 pp.
$17.95 • £15.95 paper
9780674271036
Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front • Charles R. Gallagher
“A fascinating and terrifying story of terrorist plots, secret efforts to undermine the Allied war effort, and the stoking of antisemitic attacks.”
Jewish Chronicle
336 pp. $29.95 • £26.95 cloth
9780674983717
The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States
• Brian Hochman
★ A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
“Smart, entertaining, and occasionally alarming… Hochman narrates a century and a half of wiretapping, from the Civil War to the War on Terror.” New Republic
368 pp. $35.00 • £30.95 cloth
9780674249288
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Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote • Susan Ware
★ An Atlantic “How to Make Change, Slowly” Selection
“An intimate account of the unheralded activism that won women the right to vote.” — Ms.
Belknap Press 360 pp.
$18.00 • £15.95 paper 9780674248298
After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate • Mary Ziegler
★ A New York Times “Ten Books to Understand the Abortion Debate in the United States” Selection
“This fair-minded yet hard-hitting book charts the descent of abortion politics into partisanship and rancor.” — New York Times
400 pp. $41.00 • £35.95 cloth
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Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War • Stephanie McCurry
★ PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Book Award
“Correcting histories that erase women’s share in wartime work, McCurry reminds us that ‘Women are never just witnesses to war.’” — Wall Street Journal
Belknap Press 320 pp.
$20.00 • £17.95 paper 9780674251403
Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870 • Daniel Carpenter
★ James P. Hanlan Book Award
★ J. David Greenstone Book Prize
★ Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award
“An extraordinary tour de force.” —Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award Selection Committee
648 pp. $51.00 • £44.95 cloth
9780674247499
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Common Reads: First-Year Experience Must Reads
Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 • Andy Horowitz
★ Bancroft Prize
“The main thrust of Horowitz’s account is to make us understand Katrina—the civic calamity, not the storm itself—as a consequence of decades of bad decisions by humans, not an unanticipated caprice of nature.” — New Yorker
296 pp. $17.95 • £15.95 paper 9780674271074
Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White • William Sturkey
★ Zócalo Book Prize
“Meticulous…Shows how Hattiesburg’s black residents, forced to forge their own communal institutions, laid the organizational groundwork for the civil rights movement.” — New York Times
Belknap Press 456 pp.
$23.00 • £20.95 paper 9780674248274
The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America • Beth Lew-Williams
★ Caroline Bancroft History Prize
★ Ellis W. Hawley Prize
“A powerful argument about racial violence that could not be more timely.”—Richard White
360 pp. $29.95 • £26.95 paper 9780674260351
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America • Kathleen Belew
★ A Guardian Best Book of the Year
“A gripping study of white power.” — New York Times
“Belew’s book helps explain how we got to today’s alt right.” —Terry Gross, Fresh Air
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We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush • Andrea G. McDowell
★ A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year
“Andrea McDowell’s engaging study of the ensuing Gold Rush challenges Wild West stereotypes and explains how the miners who poured into California built workable forms of self-government.”
Financial Times
336 pp. $39.95 • £34.95 cloth
9780674248113
Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White • Patricia Sullivan
“A moving and enlightening account…Kennedy’s personal growth and his political triumphs are reminders of the transformative potential of American democracy.” — Washington Post
Belknap Press 544 pp.
$39.95 • £34.95 cloth
9780674737457
New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State • William J. Novak
“Superb…Bound to become a landmark in constructing the map of governance’s constitutional history… A major contribution to an overall narrative of U.S. constitutional development.” — Balkinization
384 pp. $45.00 • £39.95 cloth
9780674260443
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom • Sarah A. Seo
★ Sidney M. Edelstein Prize
★ Littleton-Griswold Prize
“From traffic stops to parking tickets, Seo traces the history of cars alongside the history of crime and discovers that the two are inextricably linked.”
Smithsonian
352 pp. $18.95 • £16.95 paper
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Why White Liberals Fail: Race and Southern Politics from FDR to Trump • Anthony J. Badger
“[An] important book.” — The Telegraph
“A highly readable account of the decades of racist politics that brought us to our present moment.”
Glenda Gilmore, author of Defying Dixie
The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures 256 pp.
$27.95 • £24.95 cloth
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Heathen: Religion and Race in American History • Kathryn Gin Lum
“Nuanced and illuminating…Sheds light on a troubling yet overlooked aspect of U.S. religious history and issues a powerful call for change. Readers will gain new insight into the roots of ‘White Protestant American’ exceptionalism.” — Publishers Weekly
368 pp. $35.00 • £30.95 cloth
9780674976771
Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy • Stephen Wertheim
★ A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
“A tour de force…While Wertheim is not the first to expose isolationism as a carefully constructed myth, he does so with devastating effect.” — The Nation
Belknap Press 272 pp.
$19.95 • £17.95 paper
9780674271135
The Cigarette: A Political History • Sarah Milov
★ Willie Lee Rose Prize
★ A Smithsonian Best History Book of the Year
“Vaping gets all the attention now, but Milov’s thorough study reminds us that smoking has always intersected with the government, for better or worse.”
New York Times Book Review
400 pp. $22.95 • £19.95 paper
9780674260313
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Cover art: The Gordon Brigade (27th & 67th Infantry Regiments) defend the Sviep wood near Cishkoves, Carl Röchling, 1894, color print / akg-images
