Joyce Seltzer
Senior Executive Editor for History and Contemporary Affairs
Acquisitions Editors: Michael Aronson | Susan Wallace Boehmer | Michael Fisher | Elizabeth Knoll | John Kulka | Ian Malcolm | Kathleen McDermott | Joyce Seltzer | Sharmila Sen | Lindsay Waters
I seek serious and scholarly non-fiction that appeals to a general intellectual audience as well as to students and scholars in a variety of disciplines. My particular interest is history across a broad spectrum, which includes intellectual, social, cultural, African-American, women’s, Atlantic, and world history. American studies, contemporary politics and social problems, and biography are also part of my list.
Recent Books
The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
W. Jeffrey Bolster
FDR and the Jews
Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman
American Umpire
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
Napalm: An American Biography
Robert M. Neer
The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle
Bernhard Rieger
Age of Fracture
Daniel T. Rodgers
Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts
Daniel K. Richter
Family Trees: A History of Genealogy in America
François Weil






