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Last updated: 2/27/2026. Deadline for submissions to be included in next planned update: 3/15/2026.
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| Carson, John |  |
John Carson, The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940 |
Princeton University Press, 2007 | The Measure of Merit seeks to understand how merit and intelligence came to be linked within French and American conversations about democracy and equality. It explores some of the similarities and differences in the ways that two republics, born at approximately the same moment and with similar commitments to equality and opportunity, at the same time constructed what might be called “shadow languages of inequality,” centered on notions of merit, in order to make, or at least justify, decisions about who gets access to what opportunities. We continue to live with the consequences of these attempts to render inequality legitimate. | Read more here available from Princeton Press |
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| Chaffetz, David |  |
David Chaffetz, Raiders, Rulers, and Traders |
W.W. Norton, 2024 | A captivating history of civilization that reveals the central role of the horse in culture, commerce, and conquest. No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe; later, their horses enabled new forms of warfare, encouraged long-distance trade routes, and ended up acquiring deep cultural and religious significance | Read more here available from Book website |
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| Daly, Christopher B. |  |
Christopher Daly, Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism |
U Mass Press, 2018 | A prize-winning history of the U.S. news business, from its origins in 1704 to the internet era. Covers the rise of press freedom, partisan press, urban mass-market newpapers, radio news, TV news, wire services, and digital news sites. | available from this link | ||||
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Christopher Daly et al., Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Hill World |
UNC Press, 2000 | A rare history of industrialization told from the workers' point of view, in their own voices. This prize-winning oral history documents the rise of the textile industry in the Carolinas piedmont. | available from this link | |||||
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| Goldstone, Jack |  |
Jack A. Goldstone, Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd ed |
Oxford University Press, 2023 | A short comprehensive introduction to the history of revolutions and current theories of their causes and outcomes. | available from Amazon | ||||
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| Ruel, Susan |  |
Susan Ruel with Daniel Royot, Médias société et culture aux États-Unis |
Ophrys-Ploton, 2000 | A brief history of the news media in the United States, from colonial times to the mid 1990s — dawning of the digital news era. As an assistant professor of English/journalism at the University of Delaware, I co-authored this book with Prof. Daniel Royot, chair of the department of American Civilization at the Sorbonne. | available from Amazon | ||||
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Susan Ruel with Daniel Royot, Les médias et l’information aux États-Unis de 1945 à aujourd’hui: Presse, radio, télévision et multimédia |
Didier-Erudition, 1997 | This compilation of essays regarding U.S. media from 1945 through the mid-1990s was co-authored by me and Prof. Daniel Royot, chair of American Civilization department at the Sorbonne. We featured four other contributors in this overview of U.S. journalism. Here I wrote chiefly about print news from the end of World War II to the advent of online news at the end of the 20th century. I also contributed an essay called “`Based on a true story: How the news media loses credibility by blurring fact and fiction.” | available from Amazon | |||||
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| Sachs, Jeffrey |  |
Jeffrey D. Sachs, The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions |
Columbia University Press, 2020 | The history of globalization provides fresh perspective on the ongoing processes taking place in our time – a globalization based on digital technologies. | Read more here available from this link |
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| Schulenberg, David |  |
David Schulenberg, Historical Performance in Baroque Music |
Boydell Press, 2026 (in May) | A guide for musicians, listeners, students, and instructors to the performance of European music ca. 1600 to 1750, available in May 2026. | available from this link | ||||
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David Schulenberg, Music of the Baroque, 3d edition |
Oxford University Press, 2013 | A textbook on European music ca. 1600 to 1750, accompanied by an anthology of scores by composers from Monteverdi and Lully to Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi. | available from this link | |||||
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| Toff, Nancy |  |
Nancy Toff, The New York Flute Club: A Centennial History |
The New York Flute Club | NYFC archivist and historian Nancy Toff narrates the storied history of the New York Flute Club, the oldest non-keyboard musical instrument organization in the world. From its beginnings in Georges Barrère’s apartment in 1920, the club has served as a model for flute clubs worldwide. It has presented some 700 professional concerts featuring a who’s who of professional flutists and has witnessed more than 200 premieres. Its competition, founded in the 1970s, has helped launch the careers of many important flutists worldwide. | Read more here available from This link |
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