A history of transgender medicine in the United States-from margins to mainstream - edited by Caroline Wolf-Gould et al - 2026

This week's #StaffPick is from Tanja Eise, director of sales and marketing. The most comprehensive history of transgender medicine to date, as told by more than forty scholars, physicians, psychologists, and activists from trans, gender-diverse, and allied medical communities. Proud we published this important book, just in time for our 60th anniversary. https://sunypress.edu/.../A-History-of-Transgender.

The Hobo by Robert Suits -Princeton University Press - 2026

is a panoramic history of America’s first climate migrants. Now available worldwide! Learn more: https://hubs.ly/Q04sjVMs0 From the mid-nineteenth century through the dust bowl years of the Great Depression, a new kind of migrant worker became a familiar sight in communities across America. The Hobo traces the journeys of these homeless men and women, showing how hobo work was an adaptation to energy transitions and a harsh and unpredictable climate, and how the hobo played a central role in the histories of industrialization and westward expansion. Challenging common depictions of the hobo as a world-weary, bearded man in ragged clothes, Robert Suits reveals how these wandering laborers were often fastidious and heartbreakingly young. Forever on the move due to economic hardship and climate disaster, they chased harvests and took seasonal jobs in industries like logging and mining. Too often they couldn’t find employment at all. Suits describes the difficult, dangerous, and highly unstable jobs they worked while shedding light on the hobo life and philosophy, from their techniques for stowing away on railroads to their unique blend of socialist, anarchist, and anti-work thought. He traces the emergence of the hobo to the advent of steam and the need for manual laborers in places where this new technology couldn’t reach and describes how a growing reliance on the internal combustion engine brought an end to hobo work. Drawing on oral histories, environmental data, and cutting-edge digital methods, The Hobo paints an unforgettable portrait of an eclectic group of wandering radicals, troublemakers, poets, and writers, demonstrating how their experiences upend some of our basic assumptions about how environments and technologies shape society.

Why is Tipu so defames - now the real story - Salim Khan 2026

🐯 **WHY IS TIPU SULTAN SO DEFAMED?** Ask ten people about Tipu Sultan today... And you may hear ten different versions of the man. **Tyrant.** **Hero.** **Fanatic.** **Freedom fighter.** **Coward.** **Tiger of Mysore.** But here's the question we rarely ask: **How many of us have actually studied his history before forming an opinion?** Tipu Sultan fought the expanding British East India Company until his final day at **Seringapatam in 1799**. His armies pioneered the battlefield use of advanced **iron-cased Mysorean rockets. 🚀** His kingdom became one of the Company's most formidable opponents in southern India. And when he finally fell, his possessions, weapons, manuscripts, treasures and symbols of kingship were carried away from Seringapatam. Yet more than **225 years later**, the battle over Tipu Sultan continues. Only now... **it is a battle over his memory.** 📖 **TIPU — SHER-E-MYSORE** A **340-page extensively researched book** that goes beyond the arguments and examines the historical evidence. 🖼️ **40 authentic historical photographs and paintings** — including many originating from British artists and historical collections. 📜 We examine the allegations against Tipu Sultan. ⚔️ We explore his wars against the British. 🚀 We tell the extraordinary story of Mysorean rockets. 🌍 We explore his diplomacy, administration and ambitions for Mysore. 🏰 We follow him to his final stand at Seringapatam. 💰 And we uncover what happened after the British finally conquered his kingdom. This book isn't asking you to blindly defend Tipu Sultan. **And it isn't asking you to blindly condemn him either.** It asks something much simpler: **Read the history. Examine the evidence. Then decide.** 📚 **Book readers** 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 **Parents** 🌱 **The young generation** 🕌 **Muslims** 🇮🇳 **And every Indian curious about our past** 🐯 **TIPU — SHER-E-MYSORE** **Beyond the lies.** **Beyond the narratives.** **Know the real story.**

An Enchanted World: The Shared Religious Landscape of Late Antiquity by Michael Satlow 2026

is on the Classical Wisdom podcast to discuss his latest book, An Enchanted World: The Shared Religious Landscape of Late Antiquity: https://hubs.ly/Q04t6WRj0

"Reckoning with Race in New Worlds" by Ruth Hill! 2026

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A landmark treatment of a pivotal historical question, 'Reckoning with Race in New Worlds' reveals how the empires of Spain and Portugal debated and came to determine who was white and who was not during their colonial era. How did free people with partial Native American, Asian, or African lineage either become or cease to be blancos or brancos—white people? Ruth Hill explains how, in unexpected ways, science and religion joined forces in the early modern era to shape the concepts of purity, mixture, and degeneration that would decide these questions. Fixing the thresholds of whiteness—degrees of blood, generations spent in a foreign environment—instigated centuries-long controversies with enormous consequences. By putting into dialogue archival sources as well as extensive engagement with secondary literature, paintings, and maps, 'Reckoning with Race in New Worlds' crafts a history of human diversity in the colonial era, with profound implications for our understandings of the natural and social sciences and of our racial present. "From Spanish and Portuguese America to the British Caribbean, from Benito Jerónimo Feijóo to Benjamin Rush, 'Reckoning with Race in New Worlds' is an essential and comprehensive account of how eighteenth-century racial concepts came to be created across a stunning array of geographies, doctrines, and disciplines." —Neil Safier, Brown University "Its historical reach and multilingual archival breadth are encyclopedic; its scholarly erudition and cross-disciplinary exigence are nothing short of breathtaking." —Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10164/ #colonialism #race #whiteness #blackness #history #EarlyAmerica #books #ReadUP

Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters - Four Dialogues on China's Past, Present & Future by Danielle Bell 2026

“Daniel A. Bell has produced a highly original, thoughtful and often witty account of why these thinkers still matter.” Read Rana Mitter's review of Why

Matters in Literary Review: https://hubs.ly/Q04t6vNq0

Language, Limits, and Beyond: Early Wittgenstein and Rabindranath Tagore by Priyambada Sarkar Oxford University Press, 2021

THE TWO WHO KNEW THE LIMITS OF REALITY AND THE EXISTENCE OF THE MYSTICAL ​"The world was non-existent to our knowledge until ourselves came upon the stage. It was waiting to be realized by the human mind." - Rabindranath Tagore, The Religion of Man "That the world is my world, shows itself in the fact that the limits of the language (the only language which I understand) mean the limits of my world." - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Ludwig Wittgenstein's interest in the writings of Rabindranath Tagore, is recognized among scholars worldwide though little has been written on his fascination with Tagore's poetry and symbolic plays. In Language, Limits, and Beyond, Priyambada Sarkar explores Tagore and Wittgenstein's philosophical arguments on the concept of 'threshold of language and meaning', highlighting the systematic connections between Tagore's canon and Wittgenstein's early works. Situating her study in the early 1900s, when Tagore's poetry had just become available in Europe, Sarkar finds similarities between Tagore's and Wittgenstein's exploration of the limits of language. She argues that Wittgenstein's early philosophy can be better understood when juxtaposed with Tagore. Drawing parallels between the worlds of philosophy and poetry, Sarkar identifies the point of convergence of their two philosophies in the realm of language, tracing how they reach surprisingly similar conclusions through entirely different paths of inquiry. Sarkar finally claims that such important points of contact will help one to arrange the pieces of the Tractarian jigsaw puzzle in a manner where all the pieces of logic, language, world, and the mystical will fall into place and form a coherent picture. An important study of the thinker/poet and the poet/thinker I most admire.