History

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

Fire, Books, and Memories: On Susan Orlean’s “The Library Book”
What can the 1986 LAPL fire tell us about today's library?
Richard M. ChoNov 8, 2018
- History
A Long-Haired Mule and a Porkepine
Eric Gudas dishes on Daryl Sanders’s “That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound.”
Eric GudasNov 7, 2018
- History
- Music
The Texas Senate Race Is Not “Historic”
Fifty years before Tuesday’s US Senate election, a multiracial coalition of civil rights activists rewrote the rules of Texas politics.
Max KrochmalNov 4, 2018
- History
- Politics
A Muslim Founder of the Social Sciences?
In "Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography," Robert Irwin sets out to both demythologize and re-mystify the influential 14th-century philosopher.
Nile GreenNov 3, 2018
The Close Fight for Women’s Suffrage
"The ideas and attitudes that fostered opposition to women's suffrage are still with us." Adam Winkler on "The Woman's Hour."
Adam WinklerNov 2, 2018
The Texas Rangers: Good Guys No More
Lily Meyer reviews "The Injustice Never Leaves You."
Lily MeyerOct 31, 2018
- History
- Politics
Himmler’s Antiquity
Alison C. Traweek discusses the racist origins of classics as a discipline.
Alison C. TraweekOct 18, 2018
California Sons: Miriam Pawel’s “The Browns of California”
Jake Wertz reviews “The Browns of California,” a four-generation biography of the Brown family and a portrait of the state they shaped.
Jake WertzOct 17, 2018
- History
- Politics
Cold War Cold Files
A Hungarian author confronts his parents’ Cold War past.
Ksenya GurshteinOct 17, 2018
The Biggest US City That Shouldn’t Exist
An entertaining history of one of the United States’s most improbable cities.
Robin Kaiser-SchatzleinOct 12, 2018
- History
- Politics
The Great Red North
Gabriel Winant considers Barry Eidlin’s answer to the perennial question: why has leftism fared better in Canada?
Gabriel WinantOct 10, 2018
History for Sale: On Paige Williams’s “The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy”
Lydia Pyne digs into “The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy” by Paige Williams.
Lydia PyneOct 10, 2018
- History
- Science & Technology