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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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 Kate Masur is a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction. Before the Civil War, the United States implemented restrictive laws against African Americans focused on limiting...
Historian Deborah Cohen’s new book, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial, explores the lives of four journalists who reported from Europe and Asia during the lead-up to World War II. Cohen is the Richard W. Leopold Professor of History at...
Cultural anthropologist Mary Weismantel's book Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots (2021) was awarded the 2022 ALAA-Arvey Foundation Book Award for the best book in Latin American Art History. Weismantel is professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology...
This episode of the Global Lunchbox podcast features a conversation with anthropologist Mark Hauser about his book Mapping Water in Dominica: Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism (2021). His book talks about re-evaluating one's worldview through the eyes of slavery, as...
