H-Urban Review of Nightclub City
04/16/2008
". . .[Nightclub City: Politics and Amusement in Manhattan] is an important addition to the literature on New York and the social world of leisure and entertainment that emerged between… READ MORE
Category: Political Science
Blum Lecture Available Online
04/09/2008
In a post titled "Du Bois in the Lone Star State 2.0", The Bald Blogger has made a recent lecture by Edward J. Blum, author of W. E. B. Du… READ MORE
Human Rights in the Arab World–Now in Paperback
03/26/2008
Human Rights in the Arab World: Independent Voices Edited by Anthony Chase and Amr Hamzawy 336 pages | 6 x 9 Paper 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2032-2 | $24.95 | £16.50… READ MORE
Time Magazine Reviews Leaderless Jihad
03/24/2008
This week, Time magazine became the latest major publication to review Marc Sageman’s new study of Islamist terrorism, Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century. Time’s Aryn Baker writes,… READ MORE
A Newsweek Web Exclusive with Edward J. Blum
03/20/2008
A recent Newsweek Web article opens with the following line: As Sen. Barack Obama deals with the fallout of controversial remarks by his pastor, a noted historian explains how the… READ MORE
Edward J. Blum puts Jeremiah Wright’s Rhetoric in Context
03/18/2008
In an HNN.us commentary, “God Damn America” in Black and White, Penn Press author and historian Edward J. Blum places the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s controversial oratory in the historical context… READ MORE
The Future of Human Rights–Now Available
03/11/2008
The Future of Human Rights: U.S. Policy for a New Era Edited by William F. Schulz 288 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4111-2 | $45.00 |… READ MORE
Doug Rossinow, HNN Top Young Historian
03/10/2008
Doug Rossinow, author of Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America, is the latest Penn Press author to be named a Top Young Historian by History News Network. Read… READ MORE
Washington Post Op-Ed on Sageman’s Leaderless Jihad
02/28/2008
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius has this to say about Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century: Politicians who talk about the terrorism threat — and it’s already clear… READ MORE
Marc Sageman on YouTube
02/26/2008
Jihad and 21st Century TerrorismA Discussion with Marc Sageman on Leaderless JihadHosted by the New America Foundation on February 20, 2008 Marc Sageman is the author of Leaderless Jihad: Terror… READ MORE
