New Books in Military History Creators & Guests

Mike Duncan is a political history podcaster and author.

Donald L. Miller is a biographer, historian, writer, professor of History at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, and author of the book, Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy.

Dr. Jade McGlynn is an author and Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Her research focusses on Russia’s war against Ukraine since 2014, propaganda, memory politics, and state-society relations in Russia.McGlynn is a frequent contributor to BBC, Deutsche Welle, The Telegraph and The Spectator. She has published four books about Russia. Her first book, "Rethinking Period Boundaries: New Approaches to Continuity and Discontinuity in Modern European History and Culture," was published in 2022.Jade is also often engaged as a public speaker and to consult on issues of foreign policy, diplomacy and defence relating to Russia and Ukraine by governments and organisations in the UK, USA, and beyond.

Risa Brooks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Marquette University.

Daryl G. Press is a writer, and author of the book The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution.

Olesya Khromeychuk is a historian and writer.

Giles Tremlett is a historian and author.

Shay Hazkani is a historian.

Kirsten A. Greer is an author and historian.

Joy Porter is a Professor of Indigenous history at the University of Hull.

Tobias Hof is a Lecturer in Modern History at Ludwig Maximilian University.

James Bailey Blackshear is a Professor of History at University of North Texas Dallas.

Kanako Kuramitsu is a visiting scholar at the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku.

Maksim Goldenshteyn is an author.

Linda Kinstler is a writer, journalist, and editor. Currently, she is the Deputy Editor at The Dial Magazine and a contributing writer for The Economist’s 1843 Magazine.Previously, Kinstler covered British politics for The Atlantic. She has been a contributing writer at Politico Europe, which she helped launch. Before that, she was the managing editor of The New Republic, where she covered the war in Ukraine.Kinstler's writing has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Wired. Her first book, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends," was published in 2022.

Elizabeth F. Thompson is a leading historian of the modern Middle East and Mohamed S. Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace at American University's School of International Service.

Erik Grimmer-Solem is Professor in the Departments of History and German Studies and Tutor in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University. Before joining Wesleyan in 2002, he was a Harper Fellow at the University of Chicago, and prior to that, Lecturer in Modern European History at Balliol College, Oxford University. His field is modern German history with specializations in economic history, the history of economic thought, and imperialism.

Jonathan M. Katz is a journalist and author.