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And last but not least, Eric Lohr reviews Sheila Fitzpatrick's Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Andrew Muldoon (@arjm5184.bsky.social) reviews Paul M. McGarr's (@paulmcgarr.bsky.social) Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India’s Secret Cold War doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Sarah-Jane Corke reviews Hugh Wilford's The CIA: An Imperial History doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Brian Masaru Hayashi reviews Sarah B. Castro's Mission to Mao: US Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Benjamin Smith reviews Aaron Brown's The 1970s and the Making of the Modern US-Mexico Border: Fortifying a Frontier doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Maartje Abbenhuis (@maartjeabb.bsky.social) reviews Cormac Ó Gráda's The Hidden Victims: Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Carly Goodman (@carlygoodman.bsky.social) reviews Brianna Nofil's (@briannanofil.bsky.social) The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Benjamin Coates (@benjamincoates.bsky.social) reviews Mary Bridges' Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Penny Bryden reviews Asa McKercher and Michael D. Stevenson's (@asamckercher.bsky.social @mdstevenson.bsky.social) Building a Special Relationship: Canada-US Relations in the Eisenhower Era, 1953–61 doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Andrew Byers reviews Eva Payne's (@evapayne.bsky.social) Empire of Purity: The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Dirk Bonker reviews Katherine C. Epstein's Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
We also have an excellent slate of book reviews, starting with Stefan Aune reviewing Justin Jackson's (@justinfdjackson.bsky.social) The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
And from Fritz Bartel we have "In Search of a Superpower: The West’s Abortive Search for Leverage in Early Post-Soviet Russia" doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
By Kevin E. Grimm we have "Workers Occupy the Most Vital Role: The ICFTU, NATO, and Western Rearmament in the 1950s" doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
We have an article from Lewis Defrates "Neutrality by Absence: Overseas Americans at the Beginning of World War I" which is open access! doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Thank you to all of our reviewers!
September 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
and Lisa Kirschenbaum @lakirsch.bsky.social review's Alexis Peri's Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence between American and Soviet Women doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
September 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Andrew Preston reviews Sam Lebovic's State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
September 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
W. Taylor Fain reviews Kuan-Jen Chen's Charting America's Cold War Waters in East Asia doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
September 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Connie Shemo reviews Rumi Yasutake's The Feminist Pacific: International Women's Networks in Hawai'i, 1820–1940 doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
September 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM