History

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

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
It Me
Scott Selisker reviews Merve Emre’s “The Personality Brokers.”
Scott SeliskerOct 8, 2018
- Cultural Studies
- History
“I Wanted It to Be a Comedy”: On “The Saintliness of Margery Kempe”
Clare Davidson and Boyda Johnstone review Austin Pendleton’s “The Saintliness of Margery Kempe.”
Boyda Johnstone, Clare H. DavidsonOct 6, 2018
- Gender & Sexuality
- History
Literature and Life: An Interview with Soledad Fox Maura
A biography of perhaps the most interesting man in the (20th-century) world.
Aaron ShulmanOct 1, 2018
“The Blood of the Unhappy Tsar”: On Helen Rappaport’s “The Race to Save the Romanovs”
Douglas Smith investigates “The Race to Save the Romanovs” by Helen Rappaport.
Douglas SmithSep 30, 2018
- Around the World
- History