History

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

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
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