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Willing Executioners: On Grant T. Harward’s “Romania’s Holy War”
Exposing the depths of Romania’s ideological commitment to its crusade against “Judeo-Communism.”
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
No Walk in the Park
A history of the beginning of the United States’s signature national park, told through the stories of three men with different visions.
Roads to Everywhere
Two books reveal the hidden lives of Los Angeles thoroughfares.
A People’s Guide to Orange County: Real People, Real Stories, and the Shaping of Local History
An unconventional guidebook to Orange County points to locations of forgotten history.
The Berliner Pipeman: Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin
Madeleine Cohen uncovers Yiddish Berlin with the help of Marc Caplan’s and Samuel J. Spinner’s new studies and Robert Adler Peckerar’s translation of Moyshe Kulbak.
Viral Stories: On Guobin Yang’s “The Wuhan Lockdown”
Yangyang Cheng reviews Guobin Yang's new book on China's COVID-19 response, "The Wuhan Lockdown."
Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History
McCarthy imagined a vast border region where colonial empires clashed, tribes went to war, and bounty hunters roamed.
Protected Children, Regulated Mothers: A Conversation with Eszter Varsa
A social historian of gender on child protection policy in Stalinist Hungary.
How to Tell Africa’s History?
The saga of a continent, told by a longtime journalist.
A Political Garden of Eden
Matthew Porges reviews “The Dawn of Everything,” the new book by David Wengrow and David Graeber.
No One Knows Roe like Joshua Prager
A new history of Roe v. Wade.
Color and Class: A Conversation with Joe William Trotter Jr.
Jeffrey J. Williams talks to Joe William Trotter Jr. about the history of the African American working class.
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