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2018
Greater Gotham :
a history of New York City from 1898 to 1919 by Mike Wallace
2017
From the war on poverty to the
war on crime : the making of mass incarceration in America by Elizabeth
Hinton
2016 The murder of William of
Norwich : the origins of the blood libel in Medieval Europe by E. M. Rose
2015
The Parthenon
enigma by Joan Breton Connelly
2014
Anti-Judaism :
the Western tradition by David Nirenberg
2013
Short nights of
the Shadow Catcher : the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis
by Timothy Egan
2012
Armies of heaven
: the first crusade and the quest for apocalypse by Jay Rubenstein
2011
Bloodlands
: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
2008
Muhammad's
grave : death rites and the making of Islamic society by Leor Halevi
2007
Inhuman bondage : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World by David
Brion Davis
2006 American curiosity : cultures of natural history in
the colonial British Atlantic world by Susan Scott Parrish
2005
Absolute destruction :
military culture and the practices of war in Imperial Germany by
Isabel Hull
2004
The end of the
soul : scientific modernity, atheism, and anthropology in France by Jennifer
Michael Hecht
2003
The
eye of the Lynx : Galileo, his friends, and the beginnings of modern natural
history by
David Freedberg
2002
Ermengard of Narbonne and the world of the troubadours by
Fredric L. Cheyette
2001
Van
Gogh and Gauguin : the search for sacred art by
Debora Silverman
2000
The
Holocaust in American life by
Peter Novick
1999
A history of
madness in sixteenth-century
Germany by
H. C. Eric Midelfort
1998
The name
of war : King Philip's War and the origins of American identity by
Jill Lepore
1997
Spinoza, liberalism, and the question of Jewish identity by
Steven B. Smith
1996
Codex Telleriano-Remensis :
ritual,
divination, and history in a pictorial Aztec manuscript by Eloise Quinones Keber
1995
The
resurrection of the body in Western Christianity, 220-1336 by
Caroline Walker Bynum
1994
W.
E. B. Du Bois -- biography of a race, 1868-1919 by
David Levering Lewis
1993
Protecting
soldiers and mothers : the
political origins of social policy in the United States by
Theda Skocpol
1992
The
radicalism of the American Revolution by
Gordon S. Wood
1991
In
search of human nature : the decline and revival of Darwinism in American social
thought by
Carl N. Degler
1990
America's
Rome by
William L. Vance
1989
The
body and society : men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity
by
Peter Brown
1988
The
fall of the house of labor : the workplace, the state, and American labor
activism, 1865-1925 by David Montgomery.
1987
Ecological imperialism : the biological expansion
of
Europe,
900-1900 by
Alfred W. Crosby (2d ed., 2004,
here)
1986
The
world of thought in ancient China by
Benjamin I. Schwartz
1985
The
crucible of race : black/white relations in the American South since
emancipation by
Joel Williamson
1984
Against the apocalypse : responses to catastrophe in modern Jewish culture
by
David G. Roskies
1983
The
war within : from Victorian to modernist thought in the South, 1919-1945 by
Daniel Joseph Singal
1982
Philosophical explanations by
Robert Nozick
1981
White supremacy : a comparative study in American and South African history
by
George M. Fredrickson
1980
Utopian thought in the Western World by
Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel
1979
The
printing press as an agent of change: communications and cultural
transformations in early modern Europe by
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
1978
The
rise of American philosophy : Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930 by
Bruce Kuklick
1977
Peasants into Frenchmen : the modernization of rural France, 1870-1914 by
Eugen Weber
1976
The
Great War and modern memory by
Paul Fussell
1975
The
venture of Islam : conscience and history in a world civilization by
Marshall G. S. Hodgson
1974
Venice, a maritime republic by
Frederic C. Lane
1973
Reflections on the causes of human misery and upon certain proposals to
eliminate them by
Barrington Moore, Jr.
1972
A
theory of justice by
John Rawls
1971
American convictions : cycles of public thought, 1600-1850 by
Charles A. Barker
1970
Love and will by
Rollo May
1969
Weimar culture : the outsider as insider by
Peter Gay
1968
White over black : American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by
Winthrop D. Jordan (1974
version)
1967
Children of crisis : a study of courage and fear by
Robert Coles
1966
The career of philosophy, volume 2 : from the German Enlightenment to the age of
Darwin by
John Herman Randall, Jr.
1965
O strange new world : American culture : the
formative years by Howard Mumford Jones
1964
Race : the history of an idea in America by
Thomas F. Gossett
1963
Anti-intellectualism in American life by
Richard Hofstadter
1962
Freedom in the ancient world by
Herbert J. Muller
1961
Mysticism and philosophy by
W. T. Stace
1960
Philosophy and the modern world by
Albert William Levi