Dr. Rosie Zagarri wrote the narrative for Martha Washington: A Life, an on-line exhibit created jointly between the Center for History and New Media and Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens.

On Thursday, December 10, 2009, Dr. Michele Greet’s latest book Beyond National Identity: Pictorial Indigenism as a Modernist Strategy in Andean Art will be launched at the Art Museum of the Americas. The event will start at 6:30 pm. Street parking is available beginning at 6:00 pm.

Dr. Mike O’Malley’s book, The Cultural Turn in U.S. History (co-edited with James Cook and Lawrence Glickman), has just been published by the University of Chicago Press. A definitive account of one of the most dominant trends in recent historical writing, the volume takes stock of the field at the same time as it showcases exemplars of its practice.

Dr. Rosie Zagarri’s most recent book, Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic, has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press.

The books just keep coming. Last week Michael Chang’s book, A Court on Horseback: Imperial Touring and the Construction of Qing Rule, 1680-1785 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2007), was released by Harvard University Press.

In the most recent issue of the AHA Perspectives, Zach Schrag takes a look at the training required by institutional review boards for his oral historians in “Ethical Training for Oral Historians” and argues that the training is not appropriate for historians on several counts.

Mack Holt has been busy with several publications.

Again, in the most recent issue of the AHA Perspectives, the Teaching American History team at the Center for History & New Media report on their problems and prospects of using primary sources in the secondary classroom.

In her first book, Sumaiya Hamdani, director of Islamic Studies and associate professor of history, analyzes the writings of the revolutionary 10th-century Muslim theologian and jurist Qadi al-Nu’man.