Bookshelf

In her April 10 event at the Guild Lounge, Benjamen will discuss how Assyrians, long marginalized and minoritized in Iraq, gained agency in an often-overlooked period of modern Iraqi history. Spanning thousands of years, the history of the Assyrian people is...

Three-time Emmy and Grammy Award-winning broadcaster Rachel Maddow paid a visit to Northwestern’s history department Oct. 19. At the invitation of associate professor Kathleen Belew, Maddow spent two hours with faculty and graduate students exchanging questions and ideas about ways to...

In his new novel, creative writing professor Juan Martinez gets at “frightening corners of our lived experience and our messy interior lives” Years after leaving Las Vegas in 2011, creative writing professor Juan Martinez couldn’t shake off disturbing visions of that city. Originally from...

Historian Deborah Cohen’s latest book, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World War, recently received two awards: the Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University, and the prestigious Lynton History Prize from Columbia University. Cohen is...

Dyan Elliott, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and professor of history, has won the Medieval Academy of America’s Haskins Medal for her 2020 book, The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy​. The Haskins Medal is awarded annually...

Kelly Wisecup, Professor of English, has been awarded the St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize for her 2021 book, Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures. Wisecup is also Interim Director (2022-23) of the Alice Kaplan...

Historian Deborah Cohen’s book Last Call at the Hotel Imperial has been chosen as one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New Yorker, NPR, BookPage, and Booklist. The book explores the lives of four journalists who reported from Europe and Asia during...

Historian Jeff Eden’s book, God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War, has been named one of Foreign Affairs’ Best Books of 2022. God Save the USSR explores Muslim life and political policy in a four-year period of...

Susan J. Pearson, Professor of History at Northwestern, has been awarded the 2022 Book Award by the Order of the Coif Executive Committee, for her 2021 book The Birth Certificate: An American History. The Order of the Coif is the national...

Historian Kate Masur’s latest book Until Justice Be Done: American’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction has won the American Society for Legal History’s John Phillip Reid Book Prize. The John Phillip Reid Book Prize is presented...