Category: History

April 17, 2018

Trivia Tuesday: This Book Debuted in 1959, Launched a Career, and is Still in Print Today!

Columbia University Press closed the 1950s with the publication of Man, the State, and War — a book by Kenneth N. Waltz, a young political scientist who would go on to become one of the most highly-regarded figures in the field of...

March 28, 2018

Gender and the Politics of History: An Excerpt

It’s been 30 years since this book was first published; its endurance is a testimony to the continuing importance of gender in our political and cultural vocabulary. –Joan Wallach In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re closing out March with one of...

March 21, 2018

Party Rape: An Excerpt from Hunting Girls

As long as college men continue to see women as sexual prey or trophies, rape will continue to plague college campuses. –Kelly Oliver As part of Women’s History Month, we have dedicated this month to highlighting titles about women’s issue. Today we...

March 1, 2018

More Than a Decade of Publishing on Feminism and Gender

It’s Throwback Thursday and the first day of Women’s History Month. Did you know that Columbia has been a leader in gender studies, queer studies, and feminist theory since the publication in the 1980s of now-classic works such as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Between Men and...

February 20, 2018

The FBI’s War on Black-Owned Bookstores

From the author of From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs. This is an excerpt from a piece that originally appeared in The Atlantic, by author Joshua Clark Davis. At the height of the Black Power movement,...

February 7, 2018

By the time King was shot, everyone in Harlem was black

This week, our featured book is Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family, by Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitc. Today we are happy to present an excerpt from the book’s first chapter. Remember to enter our book giveaway by Friday...

February 6, 2018

Join author Kevin McGruder on Wednesday, Feb 7. The author of Race and Real Estate will be speaking at Revolutionary Books at 7 PM

In celebration of Black History Month, Kevin McGruder, author of Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem 1890-1920, will be speaking at Revolution Books tomorrow at 7 pm.   Join Author Kevin McGruder When: Wednesday, February 7 Time: 7 PM Location: Revolution Books 437 Malcolm...

February 5, 2018

Book Giveaway! Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family

This week, our featured book is Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family, by Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitc. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as...

December 13, 2017

A Twenty-First-Century-Platform

This week, our featured book is American Literature in the World An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler, edited by Wai Chee Dimock, with Jordan Brower, Edgar Garcia, Kyle Hutzler, and Nicholas Rinehart. Today we are happy to present...

November 2, 2017

Thursday Fiction Corner: Propaganda, the Absurd, and the Truth of Stalinist USSR in Andrei Platonov’s Plays

Welcome to Thursday Fiction Corner! This week Ani Kodzhabasheva, a PhD Candidate in Art History at Columbia University, considers Andrei Platonov’s portrayal of the USSR in relation to her experiences growing up in the former Eastern Bloc. In post-Communist Bulgaria,...

October 22, 2017

Safwan Masri on the success of Tunisian democracy after the Arab Spring

Watch four videos from Safwan M. Masri’s recent talk at George Washington University in support of his new book, TUNISIA: AN ARAB ANOMALY.

October 19, 2017

Tunisia and the Arab Spring

Listen to an interview with Safwan M. Masri, author of TUNISIA: AN ARAB ANOMALY!