Jennifer J. Davis is an associate professor of early modern European history in the Department of History and an affiliate member of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Defining Culinary Authority: … Continue reading Excerpt: Bad Subjects
R. Douglas Hurt is a professor of history at Purdue University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Food and Agriculture during the Civil War; The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century; and The Great Plains during World … Continue reading Excerpt: Agriculture in the Midwest, 1815-1900
Rainer F. Buschmann is program chair and a professor of history at California State University, Channel Islands. He is the author of several books, including Iberian Visions of the Pacific Ocean, 1507–1899 and Anthropology’s Global Histories: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870–1935. … Continue reading Excerpt: Hoarding New Guinea
Maxwell Johnson is a humanities instructor at Park Tudor School in Indianapolis. His newest book, A Connected Metropolis: Los Angeles Elites and the Making of a Modern City, 1890–1965, was published last month. In A Connected Metropolis Maxwell Johnson describes Los Angeles’s rise … Continue reading Excerpt: A Connected Metropolis
José D. Najar is an assistant professor of history at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale. His new book Transimperial Anxieties was published in June. From the late 1850s to the 1940s, multiple colonial projects, often in tension with each other, influenced the formation … Continue reading Excerpt: Transimperial Anxieties
Mike Bezemek is the author and photographer of three books that combine stories with trip guides, including Paddling the John Wesley Powell Route: Exploring the Green and Colorado Rivers and Discovering the Outlaw Trail: Routes, Hideouts, and Stories from the Wild West. His newest … Continue reading Excerpt: Space Age Adventures
LaShandra Sullivan is an associate professor of anthropology at Reed College. Her new book Unsettling Agribusiness: Indigenous Protests and Land Conflict in Brazil was published in June. In the last half century Brazil’s rural economy has developed profitable soy and sugarcane … Continue reading Excerpt: Unsettling Agribusiness
Erik Hansson is a human geographer. He wrote The Begging Question (Nebraska, 2023) during his postdoctoral fellowship at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has also been stationed at Uppsala University, University of Gothenburg, and Mid Sweden University. The Begging … Continue reading Excerpt: The Begging Question
Nina Kushner is an associate professor of history at Clark University. She is author of Erotic Exchanges: Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris and coeditor of Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France. Andrew Israel Ross is an associate professor of history at Loyola University Maryland. He is … Continue reading Excerpt: Histories of French Sexuality
Arnold Krupat is a professor emeritus of global studies and literature at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Boarding School Voices: Carlisle Indian School Students Speak (Nebraska, 2021) and Companion to James Welch’s “The Heartsong of Charging … Continue reading Excerpt: From the Boarding Schools
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