History

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

Still Arab
Reflections on the 10th anniversary of the Arab uprisings: language, identity, and the politics of despair.
Rayan FakhouryJan 29, 2021
The Great White Reunion: On Duncan Bell’s “Dreamworlds of Race”
Could the separation of the Revolutionary War have been patched in the late 19th century? Some powerful men tried.
Bassam SidikiJan 26, 2021
This Unhallowed Ground
Winthrop Rodgers travels to Kurdistan’s historic battlefields and reflects on our relationship to these conflict zones.
Winthrop RodgersJan 24, 2021
Gritty and Glittery
A juicy, jaunty book about Broadway in the 1990s.
Harrison HillJan 23, 2021
- Art & Architecture
- History
A Combustible Compound: On Paul Hanebrink’s “A Specter Haunting Europe” and Elissa Bemporad’s “Legacy of Blood”
On “A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism” and “Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets.”
David N. MyersJan 20, 2021
Travelogue of the Exodus
Charles Dunst reviews Anne Goldman's "Stargazing in the Atomic Age," her search for modern Jewish identity.
Charles DunstJan 15, 2021
Cultural Fronts
A well-researched and very useful study of the Soviet Union’s cultural diplomacy.
B. Amarilis Lugo de FabritzJan 14, 2021
A Show Trial Gets Its Show
A film about the marquee trial of the 1960s counterculture fails to explain its enduring relevance.
Andrew GumbelJan 9, 2021
A Fabricating Tyrant?: On Elizabeth Mitchell’s “Lincoln’s Lie”
A story of Lincoln’s economy with the truth demonstrates the same fault itself.
Evan KutzlerJan 7, 2021
- History
Beheaded
As a young woman, I fell in love with a man who owned a machete. He terrorized me for over a year. I have no doubt he would have killed me if I had stayed.
Leanne PhillipsJan 6, 2021
Unmaking California’s Central Valley
Water piped in from elsewhere has performed a peculiar kind of magic in California’s Central Valley, writes Sayd Randle. That magic is now dimming.
Sayd RandleDec 31, 2020
The Black College Experience: On Jelani M. Favors’s “Shelter in a Time of Storm”
Elwood Watson reviews Jelani M. Favors's new book, "Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism."
Elwood WatsonDec 31, 2020
- History
- Politics