[It’s been a bit since I dedicated a blog series to highlighting great new scholarly books—so this week I’m dedicating a blog series to highlighting great new scholarly books. Please add more recommendations, new, old, and anywhere in between, in comments!]
On the one
hand, when a scholarly book by a public historian reaches #1
on the New York Times bestseller list
it clearly doesn’t need a blog mention from me (or anyone). But on the other
hand, that is an achievement very, very much worth highlighting and celebrating
everywhere—and as someone who has been talking with the wonderful Heather Cox
Richardson about public and online scholarship since she was first creating the
idea for the great We’re History site, I
couldn’t be more excited that her latest book, Democracy
Awakening: Notes on the State of America, has taken her voice and work
to even one more level of well-deserved prominence. Clearly I don’t need to
tell y’all to check out this book, but I do need to say that it’s one of those
things that gives me hope for the future, as long as we can keep learning and
talking about the past.
October
Recap this weekend,
Ben
PS. What
do you think? Other books or publications you’d recommend?
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