History

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

Classic Rock’s Götterdämmerung
Ed Simon dances with Steven Hyden’s “Twilight of the Gods.”
Ed SimonDec 2, 2018
Cute as a Button? Think Twice
Buttons may be the ultimate tangible expression of modernity, but how much do we know about what’s underneath them?
Anna FeuerNov 30, 2018
“Was America Born Capitalist?”: On John Winthrop’s “A Model of Christian Charity”
LARB presents an excerpt from “As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon” by Daniel T. Rodgers.
Daniel T. RodgersNov 26, 2018
- Economics and Finance
- History
A Sidelined People: On the Crisis in Palestine
Two new books examine the consequences of the failed bid for Palestinian statehood.
Sam RisakNov 21, 2018
Bruno Schulz: The Shadow of the Word
Philip Ó Ceallaigh goes in search of Bruno Schulz 76 years after his murder.
Philip Ó CeallaighNov 19, 2018
Memorializing the Present: Montgomery’s New Legacy Museum
Jeffrey Lawrence discusses Montgomery’s new Legacy Museum and its radical approach to African-American history.
Jeffrey LawrenceNov 19, 2018
Science’s Freedom Fighters
Any process of designing science, with its complex suite of methods, funding structures, laboratories, and so forth, is inherently political.
W. Patrick McCrayNov 18, 2018
The Polish Predicament
John Connelly reviews "Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and 'Revolution,' 1891-1956."
John ConnellyNov 18, 2018
Hide-and-Seek Amid the Ruins
A mixed-media quest to recover one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Paul MaziarNov 17, 2018
The Emperor and the Empty Tomb: An Ancient Inscription, an Eccentric Scholar, and the Human Need to Touch the Past
Is the Nazareth inscription the oldest artifact of Christianity? A mysterious document and an eccentric scholar hold the clues.
Kyle HarperNov 11, 2018
- History
- Religion
Hippies in the USSR: An Interview with Juliane Fürst
Sasha Razor interviews Juliane Fürst, curator of “Socialist Flower Power: Soviet Hippie Culture” at the Wende Museum.
Sasha RazorNov 9, 2018
Arguing in Love
Diana Selig reviews Nathaniel Frank's "Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America."
Diana SeligNov 9, 2018