Embracing Uncertainty, From Economic Policy To Space Colonization
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Amy Stanley’s “Stranger in the Shogun’s City” wins Taiwan’s 2022 OpenBook Award
Amy Stanley, Professor of History at Northwestern, has won Taiwan’s 2022 OpenBook Award for her book, Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World. “It’s the story of a rebellious, discontented woman who sacrificed everything to be there,”...
Kathleen Belew On Mitigating Political Violence
Kathleen Belew, Associate Professor of History, has been featured many times over in the news lately to comment on the rise of white nationalist extremism, and, specifically, Trump's meeting with white supremacist leader Nick Fuentes. Belew, author of Bring the War...
David Schoenbrun wins 2022 Bethwell A. Ogot Prize for “The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930”
David Schoenbrun, Professor of History at Northwestern, has been awarded the 2022 Bethwell A. Ogot Prize by the African Studies Association (ASA) for his book, The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930. The Bethwell A. Ogot...
Professor Deborah Cohen’s book “Last Call at the Hotel Imperial” one of The New Yorker’s 2022 best books
Historian Deborah Cohen’s book Last Call at the Hotel Imperial has been chosen as one of The New Yorker's best books of 2022. The book explores the lives of four journalists who reported from Europe and Asia during the lead-up to...
Professor Kate Masur’s book, “Until Justice Be Done” wins the American Historical Association’s Littleton-Griswold Prize
History Professor Kate Masur's book Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction has won the American Historical Association's Littleton-Griswold Prize as the best book on American law and society, broadly defined. Masur’s work details the events...
One of the nation’s most prominent voices on climate change and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert to speak about her book “Under a White Sky” Oct.12
Over the last two decades, award-winning journalist and author Elizabeth Kolbert has traveled the globe, peppered top scientists with thoughtful questions and scrutinized research and media reports in one enterprising, unrelenting quest: to get to the heart of the debate...
Pulitzer Prize author Elizabeth Kolbert to discuss her book “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future” at the Leopold Lecture on October 12
The 33rd Annual Richard W. Leopold Lecture, delivered this year by author Elizabeth Kolbert who will discuss her book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, on October 12, 2022 at 5pm CT at Cahn Auditorium at Northwestern University....
Professor Alessia Ricciardi awarded the 2021 American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize in the category of Literary Studies
Alessia Ricciardi, the Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor in Literature, has been awarded the 2021 American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize in the category of Literary Studies for Finding Ferrante: Authorship and the Politics of World Literature...
“How the World is Passed” selected as Northwestern’s One Book in 2022-2023
One Book One Northwestern has chosen How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with The History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith as the selection for the 2022-2023 One Book. How the World is Passed explores the history of slavery through its discussion of various...
History Professor Daniel Immerwahr outlines the danger of nuclear weapons in new article for The Guardian
History Professor Daniel Immerwahr, recently wrote a piece in The Guardian on why a complacent attitude about nuclear weapons is dangerous. In the article, Immerwahr details the history of nuclear weapons and the discussion surrounding their use in the mid 1900s. Major...