History

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

Muscular Sanity: The Language of Pain in Literature
Emily Wells on the language of pain in literature.
Emily WellsMar 14, 2018
- Gender & Sexuality
- History
Don Franzen Talks with Adam Winkler on the Corporate Civil Rights Movement
LARB Legal Affairs editor Don Franzen interviews Adam Winkler about his new book "We the Corporations."
Don FranzenMar 11, 2018
Next! How Superpowers Change Places
Should the transition from British imperial power to American hegemony be seen as a model for the Chinese Century?
Ali WyneMar 6, 2018
A Historian’s Call to Arms
Anne Richardson reviews Mary Beard's "Women & Power: A Manifesto."
Anne RichardsonMar 5, 2018
“No Longer the Person I Was”: The Dazzling Correspondence of Albert Camus and Maria Casarès
Robert Zaretsky on the correspondence between Albert Camus and Maria Casarès.
Robert ZaretskyMar 4, 2018
The Slippery Search for Creativity
Dan Falk reviews two new books on the cause of creativity.
Dan FalkFeb 27, 2018
The Gay Conspirators: On Gregory Woods’s “Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World”
Dustin Friedman on Gregory Woods’s “Homintern,” a study of how homosexuals and queer culture shaped the modern world.
Dustin FriedmanFeb 25, 2018
Outside It Is Already Winter: Two New Books on Stalinist Terror
Patrick Kurp on “The Day Will Pass Away: The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard: 1935-1936” and “Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial.”
Patrick KurpFeb 21, 2018
Judaism Without a Temple: An Excerpt from Martin Goodman’s “A History of Judaism”
An excerpt from “A History of Judaism” by Martin Goodman, published this month by Princeton University Press.
Martin GoodmanFeb 20, 2018
- History
- Religion
Active Shooter
A recent book on a famous 2010 mass shooting in the United Kingdom.
Jeff MayshFeb 19, 2018
- History
A Terraqueous Counter-Narrative in US History
Michele Currie Navakas’s “Liquid Landscape” convincingly demonstrates that Florida has always compromised master narratives of US nationalism.
D. Berton EmersonFeb 18, 2018
- History
The United States’s Sacred Gun Problem
The American fetish for firearms goes back to the nation’s genocidal roots, a new book argues.
Mark TreckaFeb 15, 2018
- History
- Politics