Unforced Errors: 15 Bad Decisions That Changed American History
Authored by Robert Blaemire, BA ’71, MA ’75 (Political Science), "Unforced Errors" lists 15 political calculations made by political figures that changed U.S. history.
Alumni Books
Each year, Columbian College alumni publish significant and relevant novels, biographies, histories and more. Read some of the latest titles from our alumni.
Launching Liberty: The Epic Race to Build the Ships That Took America to War
Doug Most, BA ’90 (Political Communication), offers a look into the giant ship-building industry in 1940 that launched American ships to war and to victory.
Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States
Michelle McDonald, MA ’94 (Museum Studies), examines how coffee tied the economic future of the early United States to the wider Atlantic world.
Emma Tanner, MA ’23 (Museum Studies), curates a visually stunning journey into the past, revealing the historic sites and stories that have built the nation’s capital.
Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic
Lindsay M. Chervinsky, BA ’10 (History), narrates how John Adams' political career came to be — and its longstanding impact.
The Court v. The Voters: The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights
Josh Douglas, BA ’02, JD ’07 (Political Science), takes us behind the scenes of significant cases in U.S. voting rights.
Public Scholarship in Communication Studies
Thomas Billard, BA ’14 (Political Communication), and SMPA Professor Silvio Waisbord explore a wide range of specialties within the study of communication.
Lectures in Knot Theory: An Exploration of Contemporary Topics
Professor Jozef H. Przytycki co-authored a textbook with former mathematics students Rhea Palak Bakshi, Dionne Ibarra, Gabriel Montoya-Vega and graduate student Deborah Weeks.
Down Ballot: How a Local Campaign Became a National Referendum on Abortion
Patrick Wohl, BA ’16 (Political Science), writes about the 1990 Chicago race for the Republican Party nomination for state representative.