One of the most satisfying parts of my job as an academic librarian is to see a research project that started out as a twinkle in someone’s eye appear in the Library as a published book. Here are some new titles by University of Illinois faculty members in the subject areas we collect here in the History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library (African American Studies, History, Jewish Studies, Philosophy, and Religious Studies) that we’ve recently acquired (a few are still on order). Congratulations, all!
Ernest LePore and Luvell Anderson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Marsha Barrett, Nelson Rockefeller’s Dilemma : The Fight to Save Moderate Republicanism. Cornell University Press, 2024.
David Beck, Bribed with Our Own Money: Federal Abuse of American Indian Funds in the Termination Era. University of Nebraska Press, 2024.
Jochen Bojanowski, Geschwisterliche Gerechtigkeit: Prinzipien einer politischen Utopie. Campus Verlag, 2023.
Claudia Brosseder, Inka Bird Idiom: Amazonian Feathers in the Andes. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023.
Sundiata Cha-Jua, Mary Frances Berry, and V. P. Franklin, eds. Reparations and Reparatory Justice: Past, Present, and Future. University of Illinois Press, 2024.
Tamara Chaplin, Becoming Lesbian: A Queer History of Modern France. University of Chicago Press, forthcoming (December 2024).
Teri Chettiar, The Intimate State: How Emotional Life Became Political in Welfare-State Britain. Oxford University Press, 2023.
Maria Angela Diaz, A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War-Era Gulf South. University of Georgia Press, 2024
Jonathan Ebel, From Dust They Came : Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California. New York University Press, 2023.
Brett Kaplan (ed), Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches. Bloomsbury, 2023
Erik McDuffie, The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom. Duke University Pres, forthcoming (December 2024).
Leonard McKinnis, The Black Coptic Church: Race and Imagination in a New Religion. New York University Press, 2023.
John Paul Meyers, Same Old Song: The Enduring Past in Popular Music. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2024.
Harriet Murav, As the Dust of the Earth: The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine. Indiana University Press, 2024.
Elena Aronova, David Sepkoski, and Marco Tamborini, ed.s, Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences. Springer, 2025. (Open access, available now.)
Bobby J. Smith, Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023.
Kyle A. Thomas and Carol Symes, The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo): A Dramaturgical Analysis, Historical Commentary, and Latin Edition with a New English Verse Translation. Medieval Institute Publications, 2023.