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December 8, 2016 (December 2, 2016)

Backlist Bop: Mythbusting an American institution

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Forbidden Relatives challenges the belief—widely held in the United States—that legislation against marriage between first cousins is based on a biological risk to offspring. In fact, its author maintains, the […]

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December 1, 2016 (November 23, 2016)

Backlist Bop: The Mars Project

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This classic on space travel was first published in 1953, when interplanetary space flight was considered science fiction by most of those who considered it at all. Here the German-born […]

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November 10, 2016 (November 10, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday: Cambodians in America

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Winner of the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award, Survivors follows the saga of Cambodian refugees striving to distance themselves from a series of cataclysmic events in their homeland. […]

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November 3, 2016 (November 2, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday: The Immigrant Songs

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Pretty much every world religion and ethical system makes a virtue of offering succor to travelers, the rootless, and the persecuted. Immigration, the social-political system we’ve constructed around those ideas, […]

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October 12, 2016 (August 30, 2016)

Release Party: Gendered Asylum

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Women filing gender-based asylum claims long faced skepticism and outright rejection within the U.S. immigration system. Despite erratic progress, the United States still fails to recognize gender as an established […]

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October 1, 2016 (August 16, 2016)

Release Party: A Century of Transnationalism

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Immigrant transnationalism reminded scholars that migrants, in leaving home for a new life abroad, inevitably tie place of origin and destination together, scholars of transnationalism have also insisted that today’s […]

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July 18, 2016 (July 11, 2016)

Release Party: Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship

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The latest e-book in our trendsetting Common Threads series, Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship draws on decades of scholarship to provide the context for current discussions about immigration, a topic of national […]

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May 15, 2016 (May 5, 2016)

Q&A with Taste of the Nation author Camille Bégin

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Camille Bégin is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. She answered some questions about her book Taste of […]

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April 5, 2016 (April 1, 2016)

5 reasons to visit us at OAH

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If you are headed to the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island during April 7-9 there are a few things you’ll want to be on the […]

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March 18, 2016 (March 21, 2016)

Q&A with Driven by Fear author Guenter Risse

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Guenter B. Risse is a professor emeritus of the history of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He answered some questions about his book Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation […]

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February 19, 2016 (February 17, 2016)

Q&A with Immigrants against the State author Kenyon Zimmer

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Kenyon Zimmer is an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington. He answered some questions about his book Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America. […]

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February 5, 2016 (February 4, 2016)

Not our first Zika

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To judge when an emerging pathogen enters the historical record, we look to medical journals and the Centers for Disease Control. To judge when an emerging pathogen enters the zeitgiest, […]

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