History

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

Beast Mode
Colin Dickey on Peter Sahlins’s “1668: The Year of the Animal in France”
Colin DickeyApr 15, 2018
Navigating “The Epic City”
A multifarious portrait of a giant South Asian city.
Gary SinghApr 13, 2018
The Surprising Roots of Recent White Extremism
On Kathleen Belew's "Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America."
Joseph DardaApr 9, 2018
- History
- Politics
Inventing the Pogrom: Assigning Meaning to the Kishinev Massacre
How the word “pogrom” became one of the surprisingly few Russian words that have ever made it into English.
Jack MilesApr 9, 2018
- History
- Religion
“Weapons Not of the Weak, but of the Strong”: On Nikolay Koposov’s “Memory Laws, Memory Wars: The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia”
Douglas Smith on “Memory Laws, Memory Wars,” by Nikolay Koposov, which “makes clear the dangers in trying to legislate our understanding of the past.”
Douglas SmithApr 8, 2018
- History
- Law
Fifty Years of Beyond Baroque: 1968–2018
Johanna Drucker celebrates the 50th anniversary of Beyond Baroque, one of Los Angeles’s core cultural institutions.
Johanna DruckerApr 5, 2018
- History
- Poetry
Out of the Mystic
Jeff Melnick on Ryan H. Walsh’s “Astral Weeks,” a history of Van Morrison’s iconic album.
Jeff MelnickApr 3, 2018
- History
- Music
“Johnny Appleseed” and the Revision of American Masculinity
Ashley Rattner reviews Paul Buhle and Noah Van Sciver's graphic biography "Johnny Appleseed."
Ashley RattnerMar 24, 2018
- Comics
- History
“Women with the Gun”: American Women Journalists and the Women’s Battalion of Death
Angela Shpolberg on Maria Bochkareva and the Women’s Battalion of Death, as seen through the eyes of American women journalists.
Angela ShpolbergMar 23, 2018
The Long March of the Corporate Rights Movement
Ryan Azad reviews Adam Winkler's "We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights."
Ryan AzadMar 22, 2018
Banking Against (Black) Capitalism: On “The Color of Money”
Armond Towns and Carolyn Hardin considers Mehrsa Baradaran's recent book.
Armond Towns, Carolyn HardinMar 19, 2018
- Economics and Finance
- History
“Young Marx” at the Bridge Theatre London: An Interview with the Writer Clive Coleman
Jason Barker speaks to Clive Coleman, co-writer with Richard Bean of “Young Marx,” a play about Marx and his family’s early years in London.
Jason BarkerMar 16, 2018