This weekend, I showcased two new books authored or edited by faculty at my home institution: Ty Matejowsky’s Smothered and Covered: Waffle House and the Southern Imaginary (University of Alabama Press, 2022; see here) and David Head and Timothy Hemmis’s A Republic of Scoundrels: The Schemers, Intriguers, and Adventurers Who Created a New American Nation (Pegasus Books, 2023; here). Today, I want to single out for honorable mention Peter L. Larson’s historical case study of two rural parishes in County Durham in northeastern England, which is titled Rethinking the Great Transition: Community and Economic Growth in County Durham, 1349-1660. Professor Larson, a historian at my home institution, the University of Central Florida, is now the Associate Dean of UCF’s College of Arts and Humanities.