Edward Gray, who passed away unexpectedly, was an award-winning cultural historian. 

In this excerpt from his book, Mason-Dixon, he shows how the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary was significant as a dividing line well before Mason and Dixon mapped it.

hup.harvard.edu/features/the-m…

It was such a pleasure chatting with Cindy Yu about my book for the Chinese Whispers podcast. I’ve been listening to the podcast for a while now and it was an honour to be on the other side.

You can listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: spectator.co.uk/podcast/was-ch…

Since Simon of Trent is in the news thanks to responses on social media to the 770 brawl yesterday, I recommend chapters 2-4 in my #bloodlibel book, so you understand what happened in 1475 and how media technology of the time popularized the story.
hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742…

A few highlights…

One week from tonight in Chicago! I’ll be talking about my book with one of my favorite people (Mark Bradley) at one of my favorite bookstores (Seminary Co-op)!

(Note: promoting a book is weird and hard and self-alienating, but this kind of thing is a dream come true.)

Dear Chicago people: I’ll be talking about my book, THE NONCONFORMISTS, at Seminary Co-op (one of my favorite places!) in two weeks. Come say hi!

(Cc: UChi Pozen Center Harvard University Press)

'Alongside his influence as a scholar and in government, through poetry Gewirtz has found a voice and a medium to reach multiple audiences.' Sabina Knight reviews the poetry and history of Julian Gewirtz. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-po…

Check out this excerpt from THE NONCONFORMISTS:

How Franz Kafka Achieved Cult Status in Cold War America lithub.com/how-franz-kafk… via Literary Hub Harvard University Press Harvard University Press International

TOMORROW
4:30pm pt

Sheila Miyoshi Jager will speak about The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia at Stanford University's CEAS.

Details:
events.stanford.edu/event/the_othe…

Delighted to talk to Andrew I. Port about his new book Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust (@Harvard_Press, May 2023) at Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies tomorrow at 4pm. If you're in the Boston area, please join us! ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2023/04…

If you're around Princeton on Monday please join us at 4:30pm to hear Kathryn Gin Lum lecture on her brilliant and important Heathen: Religion and Race in American History. For registration details see: effroncenter.princeton.edu/events/2023/as… Effron Center for the Study of America Princeton CCSR

Join us for #BookBreaks on Sunday at 2 pm ET! Marc J. Selverstone will discuss his book 'The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam.'

This program is free for K–12 students, teachers, and college students.

➡️ gilderlehrman.org/bookbreaks
Harvard University Press

My Mekong Review piece on Julian Gewirtz’s great new history of the 1980s in China is free to read this week.

mekongreview.com/reworking-narr…

I'm on Episode 1 of the The EU History Podcast EU History Podcast! Michael J. Geary was so much fun to speak with and asked such dynamic questions. Don't have time to read my whole book? Tune in! What's my greatest fear? Listen until the end to find out! Harvard University Press Harvard University Press International

Grateful to Madelyn Lugli and Tocqueville 21 for the first review of Every Citizen a Statesman! tocqueville21.com/books/the-fail…

Seeing so much mockery of the suspect’s name alongside mockery of #StopAsianHate . Guess what: you’re perpetuating Asian hate if you make a mockery of this horrific and heartbreaking situation. Please stop.

#MontereyPark

The Mongols have been either neglected by history or unfairly represented as mindlessly destructive barbarians.

Marie Favereau talked to Faisal Al Yafai onThe Lede about her book, The Horde, and what the world was like under nomad rule. New Lines Magazine

newlinesmag.com/podcast/the-no…

Honored to have been interviewed by Tom Discenna for New Books Network 📚. We recorded hours after SCOTUS announced its decision to hear the challenges to Biden cancellation plan. Today, NBN named Indentured Students, Harvard University Press, its Book of the Day

newbooksnetwork.com/indentured-stu…