History

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

House Without Men
In the first English translation of Fausta Cialente’s ‘A Very Cold Winter,’ institutions imposed on women by patriarchal forces ‘appear as foreign and inexplicable as language itself.’
Francesca MancinoMar 22
- Fiction
- History
The Weirdness of the Archive, the Possibilities of the Present
On the global resurgence of feminist film curating collectives.
Maggie HennefeldMar 19
Untidy Feminist Entanglements
In the 13th essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Margaret R. Eby shows how, during feminism’s first wave, white women physicians became the unlikely standard-bearers of eugenics.
Margaret R. EbyMar 15
Big Men and Little People
Two recent books on Idi Amin’s Uganda present an African mirror for Trump’s United States to see itself.
Samuel Fury Childs DalyMar 12
- History
- Politics
The Eagle and the Lion
An exhibition charts the ties between East Asia and Latin America, from the colonial era to the new Cold War.
Tim BrinkhofMar 10
Sadism as Psychotherapy
Jon Stock’s recent book examines the deplorable career of prominent psychiatrist Willam Sargant and his brand of bio-therapeutics.
Andrew ScullMar 4
- Science & Technology
- History
Can the Internet Be Saved?
After troubleshooting Tim Berners-Lee’s memoir, it becomes clear that the internet’s flaws were there from the start.
Nicholas CarrFeb 28
- Science & Technology
- History
It Really Can Happen Here
What the transnational links among fascist movements in the 1930s can tell us about the Far Right today.
Juliette BretanFeb 27
- Politics
- History
Sustaining the Rule of Law
Jessica Greenberg offers a compelling, though at times jargon-ridden, analysis of the history of the European Court of Human Rights.
Mark EllisFeb 21
You Say You Want a Revolution
Should historians look at violent revolutions with rose-colored glasses while vindicating the terror that carried them forth?
Jack JacobsFeb 19
- History
- Politics
I Was a Punk for the FBI
Brian James Schill speaks with the founders of ‘Punk’ magazine on its 50th anniversary about whether they were surveilled by the feds.
Brian James SchillFeb 18
Opera (and Comics) Against Fascism
Exploring how the graphic novel ‘Death Strikes’ intersects with the modernist opera ‘Der Kaiser von Atlantis,’ a work composed by Jewish prisoners during the Holocaust.
Melissa ChanFeb 16