Categorie archieven: Amerikaanse geschiedenis

Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Fotoboek, Ruimtevaart, Verenigde Staten

J.L. Pickering & John Bisney – Apollo 7 in Photographs

J.L. Pickering & John Bisney Apollo 7 in Photographs  review, recensie en informatie nieuw ruimtevaartboek over de eerste bemande vlucht met het ruimtevaartuig. Op 28 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Schiffer Publishing het deel 2 in de reeks The Apollo Photo Archive over de Apollo 1 die op 11 oktober 1968 werd gelanceerd en in een baan om de aarde werd gebracht. De astronauten Wally Schirra (commandant), Donn Eisele (piloot), Walter Cunningham (piloot maanlander) waren aan boord van de Apollo 7. Ze landden veilig op 22 oktober 1968 na een missie van ruim 260 uur.

J.L. Pickering & John Bisney Apollo 7 in Photographs review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Apollo 7 in Photographs, het boek van J.L. Pickering en John Bisney en het tweede deel in de Apollo Photo Archive reeks, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

J.L. Pickering & John Bisney Apollo 7 in Photographs

Apollo 7 in Photographs

The Apollo Photo Archive 2

  • Auteurs: J.L. Pickering, John Bisney (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: ruimtevaartboek, fotoboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Schiffer Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 28 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $ 49,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon

J.L. Pickering & John Bisney Apollo 7 in Photographs review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Apollo 7 in Photographs, het boek van J.L. Pickering en John Bisney en het tweede deel in de Apollo Photo Archive reeks, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Flaptekst van het boek over ruimtevaartuig Apollo 7

More than 700 images capture the history of the Apollo 7 mission, America’s triumphant return to manned spaceflight.

The Apollo Photo Archive series comprises the most comprehensive pictorial record of America’s moon-landing program ever published.

The series continues with Apollo 7’s launch in October 1968. Crewed by Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walt Cunningham, it was the first successful Apollo space flight. Less than two years after the Apollo 1 disaster in January 1967, the success of Apollo 7 helped redirect the course of the Apollo program and, therefore, space history.

Readers will enjoy more than 700 photos, which feature the arrival and assembly of the rocket and spacecraft, crew selection and training, preflight activities, mission countdown, launch, the flight itself, splashdown, and subsequent crew appearances and related activities.

J.L. Pickering & John Bisney Apollo 1 in Photographs reviewJ.L. Pickering & John Bisney – Apollo 1 in Photographs
The Apollo Photo Archive 1
ruimtevaartboek
Uitgever: Schiffer Publishing
Verschijnt: 28 oktober 2025

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Psychiatrie, Slavernij

Diana Martha Louis – Colored Insane

Diana Martha Louis Colored Insane review, recensie en informatie boek over Slavernij, opvang en psychische aandoeningen in de negentiende eeuw. Op 28 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Columbia University Press het boek van Diana Martha Louis, de assistent hoogleraar vrouwen- en genderstudies aan de Universiteit van Michigan. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Diana Martha Louis Colored Insane review en recensie

  • “Bringing together an impressive array of primary sources ranging from medical case studies and asylum records to literary fiction and nonfiction, Colored Insane offers a unique narrative that centers the perspectives of marginalized patients that have largely been absent from the established discourse on asylums.” (Michael Ra-shon Hall, author of Freedom Beyond Confinement)
  • “I couldn’t stop reading this book. Writing in a thrilling voice and centering Black knowledge-makers, Diana Louis uncovers countless surprises as she explores histories of Black mental disability. Her archival research and astute analysis respond to critical questions about “mental illness” and “disability” in the context of enslavement, freedom, and human experience itself. Colored Insane is necessary reading for anyone teaching, writing, and thinking about disability and Black histories.” (Margaret Price, author of Crip Spacetime)

Diana Martha Louis Colored Insane

Colored Insane

Slavery, Asylums, and Mental Illness in the Nineteenth Century

  • Auteur: Diana Martha Louis (Verenigde Staten0
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Columbia University Press
  • Verschijnt:28 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00 / € 140,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over slavernij, opvang en psychische aandoeningen in de 19de eeuw

The nineteenth century in the United States witnessed the end of slavery and the expansion of another form of confinement: the asylum. How did enslaved and free Black people encounter psychiatric institutions? How were notions of mental disability used to reinforce slavery and Jim Crow? And how did Black people express alternative ideas about individual and communal mental health?

Diana Martha Louis explores Black experiences and views of mental disability in the nineteenth century, shedding light on the lives and struggles of the “colored insane.” She demonstrates how psychiatric discourses made Blacks “mad” both by inflicting real psychological harm within asylums, plantations, jails, and society writ large and by constructing mental disorders according to prevailing notions of race, class, gender, and sanity. Yet even as white medical professionals pathologized the enslaved as suffering from “drapetomania” (runaway slave syndrome), portrayed slavery as beneficial to Black mental health, or cast African-derived spiritual beliefs and practices as signs of madness, Black people developed their own complex perspectives on mental disability.

Louis considers the lives and writings of Black intellectuals and cultural figures including James McCune Smith, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Tubman, and Charles Chesnutt, as well as a group of Black women who were incarcerated in Georgia Lunatic Asylum, showing how mental disability was entangled with questions of freedom, spirituality, and self-determination. Combining literary and historical analysis, Colored Insane is a rich account of nineteenth-century Black Americans’ experiences of mental illness and wellness.

Diana Martha Louis is an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies and American culture at the University of Michigan.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Fotoboek, Ruimtevaart, Verenigde Staten

J.L. Pickering & John Bisney – Apollo 1 in Photographs

J.L. Pickering & John Bisney Apollo 1 in Photographs review, recensie en informatie nieuw ruimtevaartboek over de tragedie in 1967. Op 28 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Schiffer Publishing het boek in de reeks The Apollo Photo Archive over de Apollo 1 die 27 januari 1967 door brand werd verwoest en waarbij gezagvoerder Virgil Grissom, senior-piloot Ed White en piloot Roger Chaffee om het leven kwamen.

J.L. Pickering & John Bisney Apollo 1 in Photographs review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Apollo 1 in Photographs, het boek van J.L. Pickering en John Bisney en het eerste deel in de Apollo Photo Archive reeks, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

J.L. Pickering & John Bisney Apollo 1 in Photographs

Apollo 1 in Photographs

The Apollo Photo Archive 1

  • Auteurs: J.L. Pickering, John Bisney (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: ruimtevaartboek, fotoboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Schiffer Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 28 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $ 49,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over ruimtevaartuig Apollo 1

A detailed visual record of the Apollo 1 tragedy, written by J.L. Pickering, John Bisney and with Ed Hengeveld.

The Apollo Photo Archive series comprises the most comprehensive pictorial record of America’s moon-landing program ever published.

In January 1967, the Apollo 1 command module caught fire on the launchpad, claiming the lives of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. Apollo 1, expected to be a triumphant first manned mission for the program, thus ended in tragedy and devastation.

With more than 500 photos, this volume includes the arrival and assembly of the rocket and spacecraft, crew selection and training, preflight activities, the launchpad fire, and subsequent investigation.

J.L. Pickering & John Bisney Apollo 7 in Photographs reviewJ.L. Pickering & John Bisney – Apollo 2 in Photographs
The Apollo Photo Archive 2
ruimtevaartboek
Uitgever: Schiffer Publishing
Verschijnt: 28 oktober 2025

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Jazzmuziek, Muziek

John Gennari – The Jazz Barn

John Gennari The Jazz Barn review, recensie en informatie boek over de Music Inn, de Berkshires en de plaats van jazz in het Amerikaanse leven. Op 15 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Brandeis University Press het boek van John Gennari over hoe Lenox een klein stadje in New England een thuishaven voor Amerikaanse jazz werd. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek beschikbaar.

John Gennari The Jazz Barn review en recensie

  • “A brilliant meditation on art, place, and the political imagination as they entwined to the sound of jazz in postwar New England. Dazzling cultural analysis slyly delivered as a lively untold story.” (David Hajdu)

John Gennari The Jazz Barn

The Jazz Barn

Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life

  • Auteur: John Gennari (Verenigde Staten)
  • Foto’s: Clemens Kalischer
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Brandeis University Press
  • Verschijnt: 15 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 254 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over het thuis van de jazz in New England

How a small town in New England became a home for jazz, challenging conventional assumptions about the relationship between culture and landscape, art and geography, town and city, and race and place.

This is a book about what happened in the 1950s in a barn, an icehouse, and a greenhouse in the verdant Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. Against the backdrop of McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, the expansion of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, and postwar cultural tourism, two New Yorkers bought part of a sprawling estate in Lenox, where they converted an old barn and other outbuildings into an inn that could host musical performances and seminars. The Berkshire Music Barn went on to host jazz greats like Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, and Billie Holiday, as well as jazz roundtables grounded in folkloric approaches to the music.

The Jazz Barn explores the cultural significance of venues like the Berkshire Music Barn and later the Lenox School of Jazz to tell a surprising story about race, culture, and place. John Gennari explores how a predominantly white New England town became a haven for African American musicians, and reveals the Berkshires as an important incubator not just of American literature and classical music but also of the Modern Jazz Quartet and Ornette Coleman’s “new thing.” The Berkshire Music Barn became a crucial space for the mainstreaming of jazz. By the late 1950s, the School of Jazz was an epicenter of the genre’s avant-garde.

Richly illustrated with the photographs of Clemens Kalischer among others, The Jazz Barn demonstrates that the locations where jazz is played and heard indelibly shape the music and its meanings.

John Gennari is professor of English and critical race and ethnic studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Flavor and Soul: Italian America at Its African American Edge and Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Non-Fictie, Verenigde Staten

Toni Morrison – Spelen in het duister

Toni Morrison Spelen in het duister recensie en informatie boek over witheid in de literaire verbeelding. Op 14 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Letterwerk de Nederlandse vertaling van Playing in the Dark, het non-fictie boek uit 1993 van Toni Morrison. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Toni Morrison Spelen in het duister recensie

  • “Door de Amerikaanse literaire slagader aan te vallen plaatst ze zich, met argumenten, in het centrum van het hedendaagse publieke debat over wat het betekent om authentiek en oorspronkelijk Amerikaans te zijn. Ze herinterpreteert op gedurfde wijze de mogelijkheden van Amerika.” (Chicago Tribune)
  • “Een diepgaande herdefiniëring van de Amerikaanse culturele identiteit.” (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Toni Morrison Spelen in het duister

Spelen in het duister

Witheid in de literaire verbeelding

  • Auteur: Toni Morrison (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: literaire non-fictie
  • Origineel: Playing in the Dark (1993)
  • Uitgever: Letterwerk
  • Reeks: Filosofische Bibliotheek Diotima
  • Verschijnt: 14 november 2025
  • Omvang: 200 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: € 24,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Toni Morrison over racisme

Spelen in het duister is een van de weinige non-fictiewerken die Toni Morrison schreef. In dit boek maakt ze een messcherpe analyse van de verborgen, maar cruciale rol die Afro-Amerikanen spelen in de literaire verbeelding van wit Amerika. Ze spreekt over ‘Afrikanisme’: Afrikanen en Afro-Amerikanen vormden de vaak impliciete achtergrond van onvrijheid, waartegen de Amerikaanse idealen van autonomie en zelfredzaamheid konden worden afgezet (door witte schrijvers).

Morrison reflecteert op de impact van raciale aannames op het lezen en interpreteren van literaire werken. Door het ontrafelen van het ‘Afrikanisme’ ontstaat er een fascinerend nieuw perspectief op het werk van canonieke witte Amerikaanse schrijvers zoals E.A. Poe, Herman Melville, Will Cather en Ernest Hemingway.

In Spelen in het duister houdt Morrison ons een spiegel voor. Ze legt haarfijn de subtiele onderstromen van racisme en uitbuiting bloot die de basis vormen van veel Amerikaanse literatuur. Bovendien plaatst ze kritische vraagtekens bij het idee van ‘rasvrije’ literatuur en pleit ze voor de erkenning van de invloedrijke, maar vaak over het hoofd geziene, rol van Afro-Amerikanen hierin.

Geïllustreerd met een nawoord door de inspirerende Sibo Kanobana, levert Spelen in het duister een niet te onderschatten bijdrage aan het hedendaagse debat over racisme in Europa.

Toni Morrison is geboren op 18 februari1931 in Lorain, Ohiao, Verenigde Staten. Ze was een Afro-Amerikaanse schrijfster. In 1993 ontving ze de Nobelprijs voor Literatuur voor haar oeuvre. Een aantal van haar boeken wordt gezien als klassiekers van de Amerikaanse literatuur, waaronder The Bluest Eye, Beloved (dat bekroond werd met de Pulitzerprijs), en Song of Solomon. Door haar unieke stem en onwrikbare toewijding aan het vertellen van de complexe verhalen van Afro-Amerikanen heeft ze een onuitwisbare stempel gedrukt op de wereldliteratuur. Ze overleed op 5 augustus 2019 in The Bronx in New York City en werd 88 jaar oud.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse politiek, Sociologisch boek

Paul Starr – American Contradiction

Paul Starr American Contradiction review, recensie en informatie boek over revolutie en wraak van de jaren vijftig tot nu in de Verenigde Staten. Op 14 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van Paul Starr de Amerikaanse hoogleraar sociologie en public affairs aan de Princeton Universiteit. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Paul Starr American Contradiction review en recensie

  • “Anything Paul Starr writes is important to read, and this book is no exception. American Contradiction is a highly sophisticated history of the United States since the 1950s emphasizing the interplay between social movements, politics, culture, law, and social policy.” (Nelson Lichtenstein)
  • “Paul Starr, one of the great chroniclers of American institutions, provides a brilliant reinterpretation of the modern political era. His book unpacks the fundamental contradictions that have haunted the body politic since the 1960s. A country born in contraction between slavery and freedom has remained at odds with itself even as the issues changed. The bold attack by the progressive project on hierarchical institutions produced an equally fierce counterattack by those who wanted to restore an imagined earlier era. American Contradiction teaches us how, far from being an anomaly, the election of Donald Trump twice to the presidency was a result of deeply-rooted political forces that had been steadily gaining strength within the Republican Party for decades. This is a must-read book for sociologists, historians, political scientists, and any reader interested in our nation’s political history.” (Julian E. Zelizer, Princeton University)
  • “A thoughtful study of the push and pull from right to left and back again in the past 75 years ,,, A useful key to understanding how American politics and the American polity have become so intractably polarized.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Paul Starr American Contradiction

American Contradiction

Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now

  • Auteur: Paul Starr (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse politieke geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 14 oktober 2025
  • Omvang; 456 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon 

Flaptekst van het boek van Paul Starr over de Amerikaanse politiek

How did Americans come to elect Barack Obama—and then Donald Trump? Those choices capture what Paul Starr calls the American contradiction.

The whole truth about America, Starr argues in this new history of the United States since the 1950s, has never been contained in one consistent set of values or interests. Our nation was born in the contradiction between freedom and slavery. Today it is beset by a contradiction between a changing people and a resisting nation, a nation with entrenched institutions that have empowered those who fear the changes and look to restore an old America of their imagining.

Starr tells this history from the dual standpoints of the progressive movements that changed the American people and of the movements that emerged in response. Black Americans, he argues, served as a model minority, setting in motion America’s twentieth-century revolutions in gender as well as race and rights. With industry’s decline and the rise of economic inequality, millions of Americans have felt dispossessed and want the old America back. Trump is their revenge. American Contradiction tells the story of how 1950s America became the almost unrecognizable America of the 2020s.

Paul Starr is born 12 May 1949. He is professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and founding coeditor of the American Prospect magazine. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and Bancroft Prize in American History for The Social Transformation of American Medicine. Over a half-century he has written essays and op‑eds for newspapers and magazines as well as books on America’s institutions, history, and politics.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse historicus

John Fabian Witt – The Radical Fund

John Fabian Witt The Radical Fund review, recensie en informatie boek over hoe een groep visionairs en een miljoen dollar Amerika op zijn kop zette. Op 14 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het nieuwe geschiedenisboek van de Amerikaanse schrijver John Fabian Witt. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

John Fabian Witt The Radical Fund review en recensie

  • “Original and riveting. A remarkable reminder that people who adhere to diverse ideas about how to make this a better society can—indeed must—work together to bring about social change.” (Eric Foner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Fiery Trial)
  • “Insightful… The engaging writing, paired with Witt’s keen eye for the limitless effects of seemingly small historical events, make this book important for scholars and general readers alike seeking to understand American society.” (Library Journal)
  • “Profoundly human… A reason to hope for our own future, especially if we are willing to take it into our own hands.” (Martha Jones, author of Vanguard)

John Fabian Witt The Radical Fund

The Radical Fund

How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America

  • Auteur: John Fabian Witt (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 14 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 736 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 35.00 / $ 16.99 / $ 34.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek John Fabian Witt over het Garland Fund

From Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the captivating secret history of an epic experiment to remake American democracy. Before the dark money of the Koch Brothers, before the billions of the Ford Foundation, there was the Garland Fund.

In 1922, a young idealist named Charles Garland rejected a million-dollar inheritance. In a world of shocking wealth disparities, shameless racism, and political repression, Garland opted instead to invest in a future where radical ideas—like working-class power, free speech, and equality—might flourish. Over the next two decades, the Garland Fund would nurture a new generation of wildly ambi­tious progressive projects.

The men and women around the Fund were rich and poor, white and Black. They cooperated and bickered; they formed rivalries, fell in and out of love, and made mistakes. Yet shared beliefs linked them throughout. They believed that Amer­ican capitalism was broken. They believed that American democracy (if it had ever existed) stole from those who had the least. And they believed that American institutions needed to be radically remade for the modern age.

By the time they spent the last of the Fund’s resources, their outsider ideas had become mass movements battling to transform a nation.

A luminous testament to the power of visionary organizations and a meditation on the vexed role of money in American life, The Radical Fund is a hopeful book for our anxious, angry age—an empowering road map for how people with heretical ideas can bring about audacious change.

John Fabian Witt is the Allen H. Duffy class of 1960 professor of law at Yale Law School and a professor in the Yale history department. He is the author of a number of books, including Lincoln’s Code, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Nation, and The New Republic, among other publications. He lives with his family in Connecticut where he tends an orchard, watches baseball, and fishes in the Long Island Sound.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Familiegeschiedenis, Memoir

Dorothy Roberts – The Mixed Marriage Project

Dorothy Roberts The Mixed Marriage Project review and information memoir of Love, Race, and Family. Atria Books will publish the memoir by Dorothy Roberts, the American sociologist and social justice advocate, on February 10, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Dorothy Roberts The Mixed Marriage Project reviews

  • “Dorothy Roberts is a bold scholar, always challenging the systems and structures of racial injustice. Here she is a daughter too, who explores her mixed-race lineage through the lives and scholarship of her parents. This tender, rigorous memoir shows how valiantly they worked to dismantle centuries of prejudice against mixed marriage and to create their own loving family.” (Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland)
  • “Few books manage to rewrite both a family’s history and a nation’s moral record, yet The Mixed Marriage Project miraculously does both. Dorothy Roberts transforms personal excavation into social revelation, unearthing how love, race, and law have intertwined across generations. With the precision of a scholar and the passion of a truth-teller, she restores voices long silenced and shows how the intimate and the political are never apart. This memoir is an astonishing act of remembrance and repair.” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow)

Dorothy Roberts The Mixed Marriage Project

The Mixed Marriage Project

A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family

  • Author: Dorothy Roberts (United States)
  • Book type: memoir, family history
  • Publisher: Atria Books
  • To be released: February 10, 2026
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 30.00 / $ 14.99 / $25.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the Dorothy Roberts memoir

A spirited and riveting memoir of growing up in an interracial family in 1960s Chicago and a daughter’s journey to understand her parents’ marriage—and her own identity.

Dorothy Roberts grew up in a deeply segregated Chicago of the 1960s where relationships barely crossed the “colorline.” Yet inside her own home, where her father was white and her mother a Black Jamaican immigrant, interracial marriage wasn’t just a part of her upbringing, it was a shared mission. Her father, an anthropologist, spent her entire childhood working on a book about Black-white marriages—a project he never finished but shaped every aspect of their family life.

As a 21-year-old graduate student, Dorothy’s father dedicated himself to the study of interracial marriage and her mother soon became his full-time partner in that work. Together over the years they interviewed over 500 couples and assembled stunning stories about interracial marriages that took place as early as the 1880s—studying, but also living, championing, and believing in their power to advance social equality.

Decades later, while sorting through her father’s papers, Roberts uncovers a truth that upends everything she thought she knew about her family: her father’s research didn’t begin with her parents’ love story—it came long before it. This discovery forces her to wrestle with her father’s intentions, her own views about interracial relationships, and where she fits in that story. Rather than finish the book her father never published, Roberts immerses herself in their archive of interviews to trace the story of her parents and to better understand her own.

Though grounded in her parents’ research, it’s Roberts’ captivating storytelling that drives this memoir. In following the arc of her parents’ interviews and marriage, The Mixed Marriage Project invites us into the everyday lives of interracial couples in Chicago over four decades. Along the way, Roberts reflects on her own childhood as a Black girl with a white father, and how those experiences shaped her into one of today’s most prominent public thinkers and scholars on race. Blurring the boundaries between the political and the personal, between memoir and history, The Mixed Marriage Project is a deeply moving meditation on family, race, identity, and love.

Dorothy Roberts is born March 8, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois. She is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society. The author of five books, including Killing the Black Body, a MacArthur Fellow, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Biografie, Engelse historicus

Matthew Restall – The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus

Matthew Restall The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus review, recensie en informatie van de In Genua geboren ontdekkingsreiziger. Op 8 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij W.W. Norton & Company de biografie van Columbus, geschreven door Matthew Renstall, de Engelse historicus. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Matthew Restall The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus review en recensie

  • “In this compelling book, Matthew Restall comprehensively dismantles the myths surrounding Christopher Columbus while simultaneously revealing their power and importance for understanding his ever-changing legacy. A fascinating read for anyone seeking to understand how history is made, contested, and remembered.” (Caroline Dodds Pennock, author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe)
  • “I found The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus to be a marvelous fusion of ingenuity and scholarship, a kaleidoscope of the explorer’s provocative legacies.” (Laurence Bergreen, author of Columbus: The Four Voyages)

Matthew Restall The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus

The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus

  • Auteur: Matthew Restall (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: W.W. Norton & Company
  • Verschijnt: 8 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de Columbus biografie van Matthew Restall

A gifted historian presents a definitive book on Columbus—his life, his legacies, and the controversies that outlived him.

Christopher Columbus was born Cristoforo Colombo, in the autumn of 1451 in the Mediterranean port city of Genoa, and he died in the Spanish city of Valladolid in May 1506, as don Cristóbal Colón. More than five centuries later, we are still arguing over his life and its significance. Millions if not billions of people have learned his name. Most have some sense of what he did, that it was momentous, a great achievement, an act of primacy. But was his achievement “great” because he “discovered America” and thus made possible the hemisphere’s “great” nations? Or was it an apocalyptic catastrophe for tens of millions of Indigenous and African peoples?

In The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus, acclaimed historian Matthew Restall, perhaps the leading scholar of the Spanish Empire, presents a new, authoritative biography of Columbus, while at the same time tracing his many afterlives down into our own time. He explores the mysteries, many of them manufactured, that color our understanding of Columbus even in the twenty-first century—mysteries surrounding Columbus’s name, nationality, place of birth, ancestry, education, religion, intellectual vision, moral fiber, sexual proclivities, and current resting place. He shows how Columbus became an iconic American hero in the nineteenth century, and how a parallel hero emerged in the form of the Italian American Columbus.

Restall takes us beyond polemic, sifting through the evidence across nations, languages, and five centuries to explore the many questions that make up what he calls “Columbiana.” He demonstrates that, far from a uniquely talented individual, Columbus was typical of the Iberian and northern Italian men of his day—a merchant mariner who became an explorer, slave-trader, and conquistador-settler. And Restall challenges the notion, deeply held to this day, that Columbus can be credited or blamed for all that happened after 1492.

Whatever one’s views of Columbus, Restall’s book is the necessary, definitive account. It dispels the myths and gives us Columbus as he was. It shows how he has been distorted in the centuries since his death—and how we might come to understand him, and his legacies, anew.

Matthew Restall is born on 17 March 1964 in London. He is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Anthropology, and director of Latin American Studies, at Penn State University. He is the author of Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest and When Montezuma Met Cortés, among other books.

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Daniel E. Zoughbie – Kicking the Hornet’s Nest

Daniel E. Zoughbie Kicking the Hornet’s Nest review, recensie en informatie boek over het Amerikaanse buitenlands beleid in het Midden-Oosten van Truman tot Trump. Op 7 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van Daniel E. Zoughbie, de Amerikaanse historicus en schrijver over het Midden-Oostenbeleid van de presidenten van Amerika. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Daniel E. Zoughbie Kicking the Hornet’s Nest review en recensie

  • “Daniel E. Zoughbie tracks the tensions in foreign policy—the incidentals of urgent personalities and the fundamentals of enduring national interest—between the shallow and the deep. Most importantly, he underscores the need for wisdom and reflection when interfering in the affairs of other nations. I wish I had read his book years ago.” (Mark Allen CMG, former head of MI6 Counter-Terrorism and honorary fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford)
  • “This book is a must-read for those wanting to understand the complexities involved in Middle East conflicts and the reasons why our policies have failed.” (General Anthony Zinni, USMC (retired), former commander in chief of CENTCOM, and former US special envoy to Israel and the Palestinian Authority)

Daniel E. Zoughbie Kicking the Hornet's Nest

Kicking the Hornet’s Nest

U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East from Truman to Trump

  • Auteur: Daniel E. Zoughbie (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse politiek in het Midden-Oosten
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 7 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 432 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 31,00 / $ 16,99 / $ 26,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst boek over buitenlands beleid van Amerikaanse presidenten in het Midden-Oosten

The compelling, groundbreaking investigation of how the choices of twelve US presidents, from Truman to Trump, have fueled turbulence and turmoil in the Middle East. And the one president who chose a better way.

Kicking the Hornet’s Nest is a riveting exploration of how twelve US presidents have shaped the Middle East, often unleashing instability and conflict along the way. It is also the story of one US president who successfully charted a better course. From Truman to Trump, Daniel Zoughbie meticulously unpacks the decisions that have set the stage for today’s unrest. But this book is more than just a history lesson; it’s a sharp analysis of presidential decision-making and its far-reaching consequences.

Today, the Middle East stands as a volatile landscape, more tumultuous than at any time since the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Zoughbie paints a vivid picture of how nearly every major nation-state in the Middle East and North Africa has grappled with existential crises in the recent years, paving the way for terrorist groups to threaten national sovereignty and for local conflicts to destabilize world order.

Drawing on a vast array of primary sources and interviews with world leaders, the narrative explores pressing issues like nuclear proliferation, genocide, and nationalist conflicts fueled by sectarian fervor that have triggered global refugee waves. Kicking the Hornet’s Nest is an eye-opening study of US presidential decision-making and foreign policy. With compassion and insight, Zoughbie reveals the essential information necessary for anyone seeking to understand eight decades of US foreign policy and its profound impact on billions of lives worldwide.

Daniel E. Zoughbie is a complex-systems scientist, a historian, and an expert on presidential decision-making. He is associate project scientist at the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley; a faculty affiliate of the UCSF/UCB Center for Global Health Delivery, Diplomacy, and Economics; and a faculty affiliate at the New England Complex Systems Institute in Cambridge. He is also principal investigator of the Middle East and North Africa Diplomacy, Development, and Defense Initiative and author of Indecision Points: George W. Bush and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (MIT Press, 2014). His award-winning research has been published in journals such as PLOS Medicine, PLOS Complex Systems, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, JAIDS, and Social Science and Medicine. Zoughbie has been appointed to positions at Georgetown University, Stanford University, Harvard University, University of Bologna, University College Dublin, University of Athens, and Campus Bio Medico University of Rome. Zoughbie graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley. He studied at Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship and completed his doctorate, also at Oxford, as a Weidenfeld Scholar.

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