Tag: Paige Glotzer

January 6, 2021

Announcing Our 2021 History Catalog

Letter from the Editors: We are pleased to present the 2021 history catalog from Columbia University Press. We have a slate of new books that unearth the origins of our global crises in capitalism, the international order, and conflicts over...

June 5, 2020

We Stand in Solidarity with All Those Peacefully Protesting Injustice

Columbia University Press strongly condemns the unjust killing of George Floyd and the deaths of many who went before him. We protest the systemic racism that plagues our country, and we must dedicate ourselves to eradicating it. We stand in...

April 4, 2020

OAH 2020 Happy Hour Reads: New in U.S. and Urban History

Hello, and welcome back to the second edition of Happy Hour Reads at the Columbia Virtual OAH Book Exhibit. This evening, we invite you to read excerpts from two brand new Columbia books that would have debuted at OAH. • ...

April 3, 2020

Join Stephen Wesley on a Tour of Our New Books in Urban History

Hello and welcome back to Columbia’s UAA Virtual Book Exhibit. My name is Stephen Wesley, and I’m the American history editor here at Columbia. I’m pleased to share with you several new books we have in urban history. First up...

April 2, 2020

Q&A: Paige Glotzer on How the Suburbs Were Segregated

“Paige Glotzer’s absorbing, vividly narrated study is a major contribution to the histories of capitalism and of American cities. She shows residential segregation’s roots in longer histories of race and empire, flows of global capital, and the actions of powerful...

April 2, 2020

Join Stephen Wesley on a Tour of Our OAH 2020 Virtual Booth

Hello there, I’m Stephen Wesley, the American history editor at Columbia University Press. Since the coronavirus pandemic has canceled most of the spring conferences—the Organization of American Historians annual program included—we are mounting virtual book exhibits on our blog. I...

March 31, 2020

New Book Tuesday! How the Suburbs Were Segregated, The Bearded Lady Project and Socialist Cosmopolitanism

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism series How the Suburbs Were Segregated Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960 Paige Glotzer Focusing on Baltimore’s wealthiest, whitest...