What Is to Be Done?
Knox Peden on "The History Manifesto" by Jo Guldi and David Armitage.
Knox Peden on "The History Manifesto" by Jo Guldi and David Armitage.
Knox PedenFeb 18, 2015
The continuing malaise, 70 years later.
Richard GolsanFeb 10, 2015
A study of the sometimes unhealthy alliance between artists and power.
Jan BreslauerFeb 8, 2015
As postwar Britain’s financial prospects changed, so too did the rhythms and habits of its daily life.
Josh EmmonsJan 25, 2015
“Personalism” combines the radical libertarian belief in the importance of the individual with the communist belief in the importance of the entire...
Guy Patrick CunninghamJan 24, 2015
"How did the ideals of 1789 … morph into the horrors of 1793, steeped in blood, violence, and paranoia?"
Robert ZaretskyJan 12, 2015
By founding New Directions Books, James Laughlin shaped an entire chanel of literary history.
Greg BarnhiselJan 4, 2015
The bad news from one of the finest national security journalists working today.
Zach DorfmanDec 17, 2014
Uyghur history as everyman’s history.
Nile GreenDec 3, 2014
2014 saw a bumper crop in World War I commemorations.
Robert ZaretskyNov 23, 2014
Dublin's Easter Rising
Robert CreminsNov 15, 2014
Alessandro Carrera on the mysteries of mourning, the Unknown Soldier, and the scholarship of Laura Wittman.
Alessandro CarreraNov 13, 2014
James Turner’s Philology makes a case for the comparative mode that gave birth to the modern humanities — but what does his argument say for the...
Scott SpillmanNov 11, 2014
"The Decent One" heralds a new kind of Holocaust documentary, one made by a documentarian two generations removed from the original horror, one that...
Laurie WinerOct 29, 2014
A tribute to the great historian Michael Kammen, written by one of his closest colleagues and friends.
Douglas GreenbergOct 26, 2014
1894 marked an exceptional harvest of one of the most notable isms to take root in French soil: anarchism.
Robert ZaretskyOct 21, 2014
Israelis, Egyptians, and Americans were secluded at Camp David for 13 painstaking, frustrating, and very nearly fruitless days in September 1978.
Max StrasserOct 21, 2014
Rigged with a faulty cooling system, Sputnik 2 was a lemon and killed Laika in three hours, frying her like Icarus.
Rory TolanOct 17, 2014
Love and murder and teenage girls in Memphis.
Susannah LuthiOct 13, 2014
Coal meets coral: what could possibly go wrong?
David ArmitageOct 10, 2014
"Why did the Nazis kill the Jews? Nearly 70 years since the end of World War II, the causes and meaning of the Holocaust remain as high on historians’...
David BialeSep 30, 2014
"They were no different one from another. They smiled, exchanged comments; hands reached out and grasped … If only we spoke the same language!”
Patricia M.E. LorcinSep 26, 2014
Fukuyama focuses on political decay by analyzing the slow rot of American institutions.
Zach DorfmanSep 21, 2014
The women, as Abbott expertly portrays them, are not simple-minded diarists accounting for the war in the margins of recipes or reports about social...
Anjali EnjetiSep 12, 2014