New Books in Biography

1697 Episodes

1. Marion Deshmukh, “Max Liebermann: Modern Art and Modern Germany” (Routledge, 2015)

   Published: 10/17/2017
2. Robert W. Cherny, “Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art” (U. Illinois Press, 2017)

   Published: 10/4/2017
3. Barry W. Holtz, “Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud” (Yale UP, 2017)

   Published: 9/26/2017
4. Deanne Stillman, “Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill” (Simon & Schuster, 2017)

   Published: 9/25/2017
5. Paige Bowers, “The General’s Niece: The Little-Known de Gaulle Who Fought to Free Occupied France” (Chicago Review Press, 2017)

   Published: 9/19/2017
6. Was Presidential Leadership Decisive in Determining the Outcome of the Civil War?

   Published: 9/12/2017
7. Joanna Dee Das, “Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora” (Oxford UP, 2017)

   Published: 9/7/2017
8. Tracy A. Thomas, “Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law” (NYU Press, 2016)

   Published: 9/6/2017
9. Tamara Plakins Thornton, “Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life” (UNC Press, 2016)

   Published: 8/27/2017
10. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, “Bricktop’s Paris: African American Women in Paris between the Two World Wars (SUNY Press, 2015)

    Published: 8/26/2017
11. Mitch Kachun, “First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory” (Oxford UP, 2017)

    Published: 8/23/2017
12. Marcia Walker-McWilliams, “Reverend Addie: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality (U. Illinois Press, 2016)

    Published: 8/22/2017
13. Rosalind Rosenberg, “Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray” (Oxford UP, 2017)

    Published: 8/6/2017
14. Joyce Salisbury, “Rome’s Christian Empress: Galla Placidia Rules at the Twilight of the Empire” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)

    Published: 8/6/2017
15. Naoko Wake, “Private Practices: Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality, and American Liberalism” (Rutgers UP, 2011)

    Published: 8/1/2017
16. Elias Sacks, “Moses Mendelssohn’s Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism” (Indiana UP, 2016)

    Published: 7/31/2017
17. Kief Hillsbery, “Empire Made: My Search for an Outlaw Uncle Who Vanished in British India” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)

    Published: 7/26/2017
18. Jon Kukla, “Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty” (Simon and Schuster, 2017)

    Published: 7/24/2017
19. Peter Eisner, “MacArthur’s Spies: The Solider, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in WWII” (Viking, 2017)

    Published: 7/20/2017
20. Leigh Fought, “Women in the World of Frederick Douglass” (Oxford UP, 2017)

    Published: 7/16/2017