History

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

Territorial Taxonomy: On Melissa L. Sevigny’s “Brave the Wild River”
Mary L. Holden considers Melissa Sevigny’s “Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon.”
Mary L. HoldenJun 25, 2023
- History
- Science & Technology
All but Appeared: On Douglas Ober’s “Dust on the Throne”
Liesl Schwabe reviews Douglas Ober’s “Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India.”
Liesl SchwabeJun 22, 2023
- History
- Philosophy & Religion
The Divine City: On J. T. Roane’s “Dark Agoras”
Charles McKinney reviews J. T. Roane’s “Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place.”
Charles W. McKinneyJun 15, 2023
- History
Sleepwalking to Madness in Mid-Century America: On Audrey Clare Farley’s “Girls and Their Monsters”
Ellen Wayland-Smith is haunted by Audrey Clare Farley’s exposé, in “Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America,” of white American mid-century pathologies.
Ellen Wayland-SmithJun 13, 2023
How Much Faith Is Left?: On Warren Zanes’s “Deliver Me from Nowhere”
Tim Riley reviews Warren Zanes’s “Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska.’”
Tim RileyJun 9, 2023
A Close-Up on Iranian Cinema: On Godfrey Cheshire’s “In the Time of Kiarostami”
Abe Silberstein reviews Godfrey Cheshire’s “In the Time of Kiarostami: Writings on Iranian Cinema.”
Abe SilbersteinJun 8, 2023
- Film
- History
The Drama of History, in Poems: On Robert Selby’s “The Kentish Rebellion”
Dan O’Brien reviews Robert Selby’s new poetry collection “The Kentish Rebellion.”
Dan O’BrienJun 7, 2023
- History
- Poetry
Tracing the Hard Edges of Religion: On Peter Brown’s “Journeys of the Mind”
Michael Ledger-Lomas reviews Peter Brown’s “Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History.”
Michael Ledger-LomasJun 6, 2023
- History
- Religion
Relevés and Revolutions: On Jennifer Homans’s “Mr. B”
Martha Anne Toll reviews Jennifer Homans’s “Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century.”
Martha Anne TollJun 4, 2023
Foundational Anxieties, Modern Mathematics, and the Political Imagination
Massimo Mazzotti uses a forgotten episode in revolutionary Naples to demonstrate the entanglement of mathematics and politics.
Massimo MazzottiJun 2, 2023
The General Crisis of Whiteness: A Conversation with Nicholas Mirzoeff
Natasha Lennard speaks with Nicholas Mirzoeff about his new book “White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness.”
Natasha LennardJun 1, 2023
- History
- Politics
I Was Determined to Remember: Harriet Jacobs and the Corporeality of Slavery’s Legacies
Koritha Mitchell discusses her research for a scholarly edition of Harriet Jacobs’s “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.”
Koritha MitchellMay 30, 2023