Some of you are familiar with the online magazine Contingent. Historian Erin Bartram has put together a great team of historians who do not work in tenure-track history teaching jobs at colleges and universities. I encourage you to check it out. I have been reading it from the beginning.
In a recent post, Bartram writes: “As few historians make any significant money on their writing, just knowing that people have read their books can mean a lot to an author. Here are some books released in 2022 by historians working off the tenure track that you might consider as you do your end-of-the-year shopping.”
Here are those books:
Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd, Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South (University of Georgia Press).
Katherine L. Carroll, Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician (University of Pittsburgh Press).
Susan Colbourn, Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO (Cornell University Press).
David Conrad, Akira Kurosawa and Modern Japan (McFarland).
Cody Dodge Ewert, Making Schools American: Nationalism and the Origin of Modern Educational Politics (Johns Hopkins University Press).
Alex D. Ketchum, Engage in Public Scholarship: A Guidebook on Feminist and Accessible Communication (Concordia University Press).
Patrick Luck, Replanting a Slave Society: The Sugar and Cotton Revolutions in the Lower Mississippi Valley (University of Virginia Press). Check out our interview with Taylor at The Author’s Corner.
Thomas Dixon & Adam R. Shapiro, Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press).
Briana J. Smith, Free Berlin: Art, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life (MIT Press).
Jordan E. Taylor, Misinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America (Johns Hopkins University Press). Check out our interview with Taylor at The Author’s Corner.
Happy book shopping!
Bought one.
Wonderful!