Declassified: An Interview with Jessica Pearce Rotondi
Meredith Maran talks to writer Jessica Pearce Rotondi about unresolved grief, hidden political histories, and her debut book, “What We Inherit.”
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
Forgotten Movie Royalty
A new biography of early cinema’s first family, the Costellos.
A Different Civil War in the Southwest
A riveting new book shows how the Civil War in the West was both strategically important and lacking in the moral contours of the broader war.
The Footmen of Liberalism
An unauthorized history of the world’s most vaunted digest of power shows the fatal assumptions within its magisterial voice.
Pandemic Narratives and the Historian
Alex Langstaff interviews an international group of leading historians of public health, epidemics, and disaster science.
Letter to the Editor: Frontiers of Boyhood
The author of a cultural history of Western America throws a lasso around aspects of a review.
Collectors and Their Collections: Archer Huntington and The Hispanic Society of America
On the “Glory of Spain” exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
The Things We Love
A gallery of portraits of a Sephardic Jewish family in the 20th century.
The Bullet/The Amulet
For my work on Sidney Howard, I collected shards of meaning, but how to look at these discoveries was informed by Sam See.
Europe’s Victimhood Olympics
Michael Colborne reviews Jelena Subotić’s “Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance After Communism.”
An Apology for Buffalo Bill
A history of frontier theorizing leaves many questions blowing in the wind.
To Stop the Shrug: An Interview with Susannah Cahalan
Taylor Larsen talks to writer Susannah Cahalan about her new book, "The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission that Changed Our Understanding of Madness."
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