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Pandemic Narratives and the Historian
Alex Langstaff interviews an international group of leading historians of public health, epidemics, and disaster science.
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
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."
The Fire and the Fizzle
Jerald Podair reviews "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties," a new history from Mike Davis and Jon Wiener.
Set the Night on Fire
LARB presents an excerpt from Mike Davis and Jon Wiener"s "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties."
Freeway Dreams
A historian of misbegotten urban development writes of growing up queer in Tucson.
Among the Athenians: A Conversation with Grace Elizabeth Hale
Andrew Holter talks with Grace Elizabeth Hale, writer of “Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture.”
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