Since 2015, your H-Net Book Channel editors have commissioned original content from scholars, including essays, interviews, guest posts, and recommended reading lists. From pedagogy to current events to ongoing debates, these works introduce Book Channel users to new perspectives on recently published academic texts. Here, readers can peruse the full table of contents for this original scholarship.
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New Directions | A Convenient Excuse: Tech's Discrimination Problem, by Douglas Priest
Teaching Essay | Race in the European Middle Ages, by Geraldine Heng
In Memoriam | The Many Legacies of Marilyn B. Young: An Essay in Remembrance, by Rebecca Karl
- New Directions | Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe, by Olena Nikolayenko
2017
- Teaching Essay | Going Cage Free: Using Rural History in the Classroom, by Margaret Weber
Historical Perspectives on Tribal Sovereignty and the Environment, by Jacob Jurss
Reforming History: Contemporary Scholarship on the Progressive Era, by Adam Quinn, edited in partnership with H-SHGAPE
2016
Teaching Essay | Food in the First Half of the American History Survey, by Helen Zoe Veit
Memorial Essay: The World History Legacy of Sidney Mintz, by Richard Warner, edited in partnership with H-World
Book Channel Podcast Special: Shi'i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa, interview with Mara Leichtman, by Caleb Owen
New Directions: Catastrophe and the Katrina Effect, by William M. Taylor and Michael P. Levine
Op-Ed: Flint's Toxic Water Crisis Was 50 Years in the Making, by Andrew R. Highsmith
The Book Channel Top Five: Historiography with Jeremy Popkin
2015