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Martine Syms: Neural Swamp
The Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media
New commissioned work by an important American contemporary artist using a multidisciplinary approach to examine issues of race and identity Produced for the Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media by the...
Our Common Ground
A History of America's Public Lands
The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation’s land primarily for recreation and conservation The U.S. government holds nearly one-third of the nation’s land—more...
A Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Engravers, 1714–1820
The first reference work to cover all engravers working on copper in Britain and Ireland 1714–1820 This biographical dictionary of engravers working on copper encompasses both those who produced fine art prints, and...
Full House
From the Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection
A study of two exhibitions that took place five years apart in the same building in Brussels city-centreFull House explores two exhibitions that took place five years apart in the same building in Brussels...
Radical Form
Modernist Abstraction in South America
A timely look into how abstract art in South America aimed to envision a better society Emphasizing the open-ended and self-critical nature of the projects of abstraction in South America from the 1930s through the...
Global Calvinism
Conversion and Commerce in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800
A comprehensive study of the connection between Calvinist missions and Dutch imperial expansion during the early modern period Calvinism went global in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as close to a...
The Frederick Douglass Papers
Series Four: Journalism and Other Writings, Volume 1
The journalism and personal writings of the great American abolitionist and reformer Frederick Douglass Launching the fourth series of The Frederick Douglass Papers, designed to introduce readers to the...
Jonas Mekas
The Camera Was Always Running
Exploring the life and work of avant-garde film’s most influential and intriguing figure Between 1950 and his death, the filmmaker, videographer, photographer, archivist, and impresario Jonas Mekas (1922–2019) made...
The Economic Weapon
The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed...
The Last Slave Ships
New York and the End of the Middle Passage
This stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States represents “a signal contribution to U.S. antebellum historiography.” (Library Journal, Starred...