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Robert G Parkinson, "Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Earl…

7/14/2026 • 32 min

We are divided over the history of the United States, and one of the central dividing lines is the frontier. Was it a site of heroism? Or was it where the full force of an all-powerful empire was brought to bear on Native peoples? In this startingly original work Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier (Norton, 2024), historian… Play episode

Jeffrey A. Marx, "Jewish Firebugs: Arson and Antisemitism from the Civil W…
Rod Phillips, "Cats: A History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
Peter C. Mancall, "Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c.…
Paul Helseth and David P. Smith eds., "New Perspectives on Old Princeton, …
Daniel Rood, "In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantatio…
Gullah-Geechee Diasporas: Knowledge, Culture, and Black Lowcountry Legacies
Lauren Duval, "The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupati…
Stephen Robertson, "Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Vi…
Ted Powell, "Churchill and the Crown" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Xian Aubin Wang, "Islam and Maoism in Southern Yunnan: State Violence and …
Thomas Paine at the Semiquincentennial: A Conversation with Gregory Claeys
Jonathan Schneer, "Nine Days in May: The General Strike Of 1926" (Oxford U…
Kate Dannies, "Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empir…
Chiara Formichi, "Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernit…
Christopher de Bellaigue, "The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King" (Bodley…
Fred S. Naiden, "Railroaded: A Motorman’s Story of the New York City Subwa…
John Kapusta, "Self-Realization Nation: How Artists of the Creative Counte…
Thomas S. Mullaney, "How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information" …
Andy Byford, "Science of the Child in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russi…
Fabio Lanza, "Urban Revolution: People's Communes in Beijing" (Cambridge U…
Sharron Wilkins Conrad, "The Trinity: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, …
Michelle Chase and Isabella Cosse eds., "The Cuban Revolution and the New …
Ciruce A. Movahedi-Lankarani, "Accelerant: Energy Infrastructures and the …
Laura Borghetti and Thomas Arentzen, "Ecologizing Late Ancient and Byzanti…
Olivier Krischer and Shuxia Chen, "Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s…
Mesrob Vartavarian, "Privileged Minorities: A History of Wealth Concentrat…
Alex Boodrookas, "Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentie…
Peter Paul Dobek, "The Public House in Central Europe: Inns, Tavern, and A…
James O'Leary, "The Middlebrow Musical: Between Broadway and Opera in 1940…
Yoshiko Nakano and Georgina Challen, "Meiji Graves in Happy Valley: Storie…
Cheryl Thompson, "Staging Blackface in Canada: Public Amusements, Variety …
Cristina Florea, "Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderl…
Brook Wilensky-Lanford, "A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religi…
Derek R. Peterson, "A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda" (Yale UP, 2025)
Pamela Walker Laird, "Self-Made: The Stories that Forged an American Myth"…
Sarah McNamara, "Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South" (UNC Press, 2023)
Justin F Jackson, "The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of …
Aditya Deshbandhu, "The 21st Century in 100 Games" (Routledge, 2024)
Bruce Dearstyne, "Revolutionary New York: 250 Years of Social Change" (SUN…
Robert B. Marks, "Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin: Nature and History Ove…
Sarah M. Cushman et al eds., "The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau…
Bruno Shirley, "Religion, Gender, and Politics in Medieval Sri Lanka: The …
Homa Katouzian, "Iran and the Revolution: A History" (Yale UP, 2026)
Weipin Tsai, "The Making of China's Post Office: Sovereignty, Modernizatio…
Joanna Dee Das, "Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Id…
Sean Scalmer, "A Fair Day's Work: The Quest to Win Back Time" (Simon and S…
Annette Gordon-Reed ed., "Jefferson on Race: A Reader" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Christos Lynteris, "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" (J…
Hannah Shepherd, "The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall…

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