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Elizabeth A Athens
William Bartram's Visual Wonders

Winner, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia 2024 Literary Award for NonfictionPennsylvania naturalist William Bartram (1739-1823) is best known as the author of a travelogue describing his botanizing journey th…

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Angela Ball
Steeplechase

Included in LitHub's Most Anticipated Poetry of 2026Steeplechaseexplores multiple landscapes, including Mississippi and its many church steeples; countries known and unknown; cities and inhabitants both a…

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Aristides Baltas
Peeling Potatoes or Grinding Lenses

"I can work best now while peeling potatoes. . . . It is for me what lens-grinding was for Spinoza."--L. WittgensteinMore than 250 years separate the publication of Baruch Spinoza's Ethics and L…

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Marci Baranski
The Globalization of Wheat

In The Globalization of Wheat, Marci R. Baranski explores Norman Borlaug's complicated legacy as godfather of the Green Revolution. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his role in fighting global …

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Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Investigations of Nature

Investigations of Nature takes us on a guided tour through history, when voyages of exploration and exploitation were tied to technological advances in navigation and warfare; religious unity was broken w…

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John Bonanni
retrovirology

Pitt Poetry Series

Winner of the 2025 Donald Hall Prize for Poetryretrovirology oscillates between Queer childhood erasure and the AIDS epidemic, pulling from the ACT UP oral history project, informal interviews with surviv…

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Susan L Burns
Mapping Medical Modernity

Mapping Medical Modernity explores the history of medical modernization and public health in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Tokyo, a city undergoing rapid transformation from the seat of pow…

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Shannon Cain
The Necessity of Certain Behaviors

Winner of the 2011 Drue Heinz Literature PrizeShannon Cain's stories chart the treacherous territory of the illicit. They expose the absurdity of our rituals, our definitions of sexuality, and above all, …

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Kameryn Alexa Carter
Antediluvian

Antediluvianengages with themes of the ecstatic, desire, mental illness, and spirituality. Written in part during the COVID-19 pandemic, the book's speaker calls on an intertextual constellation of artist…

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Jay Cephas
Fordism and the City

In the early twentieth century, the Ford Motor Company built an industrial empire with massive factory complexes and associated infrastructures. Henry Ford's 1915 plan to decentralize industrial manufactu…

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Joseph Stanhope Cialdella
Motor City Green

Winner, 2021 CCL J. B. Jackson Book Prize Winner, 2020 Jon Gjerde Prize from the Midwestern History AssociationMotor City Green is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteent…

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Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative
Writing Architectural History

Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism to draw instead from trends in critical theory focusing …

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Marilyn M Cooper
The Animal Who Writes

Writing begins with unconscious feelings of something that insistently demands to be responded to, acted upon, or elaborated into a new entity. Writers make things that matter--treaties, new species, soft…

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Matthew James Crawford
The Andean Wonder Drug

In the eighteenth century, malaria was a prevalent and deadly disease, and the only effective treatment was found in the Andean forests of Spanish America: a medicinal bark harvested from cinchona trees t…

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Milan Dezinsky,
Gravitation

Pitt Poetry Series

Translated by Nathan FieldsThe selected poetry of Milan Dězinský, translated by Nathan Fields, including many poems previously not published in English by the celebrated Czech poet.

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José Carlos Díaz-Zanelli
Insurgent Veins

Insurgent Veins examines the decolonial ideological bridge between the early twentieth-century indigenista literary tradition and its influence on the consolidation of Indigenous literature, which emerged…

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Marshall C. Eakin
Empires and Exploration

Empires and Explorations interweaves nineteenth-century Brazilian history, the extraordinary life of Richard Francis Burton, and the use of travel writing by historians. Burton witnessed the origins of th…

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Marshall C. Eakin
Empires and Exploration

Empires and Explorations interweaves nineteenth-century Brazilian history, the extraordinary life of Richard Francis Burton, and the use of travel writing by historians. Burton witnessed the origins of th…

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Lara Egger
Flop Era

Flop Era reckons with the complications of being human, and therefore, with the consequences of being fundamentally flawed. It contends with failed potential and the certain uncertainty of the future, whi…

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Lara Egger
Flop Era

A New Yorker Best Book of 2025Flop Era reckons with the complications of being human, and therefore, with the consequences of being fundamentally flawed. It contends with failed potential and the certain …

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