This is an archive of Backlist, where historians recommended books for a general interest audience of curious readers from 2015-2016. Our contributors recommended 295 books across 30 thematic collections. Their lists will remain available, and we hope that readers will continue to find them useful.
Backlist was created by Christopher Heaney, Brian Jones, and Amy Kohout. We would like to thank all of our contributors for their insight and scholarship and our readers for their interest and support.
- Histories of Baseball By Paul Ringel • Published September 21, 2016
- Histories of American National Parks By Amy Kohout • Published August 31, 2016
- Histories of Modern Brazil By Felipe Fernandes Cruz • Published Augsut 10, 2016
- The American Revolution in Unexpected Places By Jacqueline C. Reynoso • Published August 3, 2016
- Histories of Peruvian Independence By Silvia Escanilla Huerta • Published July 27, 2016
- Histories of Antarctica By Adrian Howkins • Published July 20, 2016
- Jazz History By Michael Schmidt • Published May 25, 2016
- Catholicism in Modern Mexico By Brian A. Stauffer • Published May 18, 2016
- The History of Jim Crow By Mari N. Crabtree • Published May 11, 2016
- Histories of Food and Hunger By Rachel B. Herrmann • Published April 27, 2016
- Museum Histories By Samuel J. Redman • Published April 20, 2016
- The History of Asian Migrations By Sandy Chang • Published April 13, 2016
- The History of North American Slavery By Joshua D. Rothman • Published April 6, 2016
- Global Histories of Identification and Surveillance By José Ragas • Published March 30, 2016
- Off the Silk Road, beyond the Great Game: Histories of Modern Central Asia By Charles David Shaw • Published March 23, 2016
- The History of the Modern Papacy By Pablo Mijangos • Published March 16, 2016
- The History of that Supposedly-Fun Caribbean Vacation By Blake C. Scott • Published March 2, 2016
- Histories of the Scientific Revolution By Deborah Harkness • Published February 24, 2016
- Maps: A Beginner’s Cartography By Julia M. Lewandoski • Published February 17, 2016
- Family and Gender in Modern Chinese History By Kate Merkel-Hess • Published February 10, 2016
- The Cultural Cold War By Audra J. Wolfe • Published February 3, 2016
- U.S. Labor History By Erik Loomis • Published January 6, 2016
- The History of American Childhood By Rebecca Onion • Published December 30, 2015
- The History of Drugs from Ambergris to Zedoary By Benjamin Breen • Published December 21, 2015
- Monsters in American History By W. Scott Poole • Published December 16, 2015
- The History of Modern China By Jeffrey Wasserstrom • Published December 9, 2015
- Graphic Histories and Memoirs By Ari Kelman • Published December 9, 2015
- The History of U.S.-Cuban Relations By Renata Keller • Published December 9, 2015
- The History of Modern India By Durba Ghosh • Published December 9, 2015
- The Conquest of the Incas By Christopher Heaney • Published December 9, 2015
