Professor Stoff research interests include American political culture, presidential history, the New Deal, the Second World War, international relations, the atomic bomb and photography, particularly during war. He is currently writing a book on the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and has also just completed a long, introductory essay to a book of photographs by Japanese photographers on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Titled Flash of Light/Wall of Fire, it will be published in the fall of 2020.