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Magritte in Koreatown
Bonnie Johnson on the history and legacy of LA's iconic Brown Derby restaurants.
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
The Endless War
Photography and the glamorization of battle, from the Greeks to modern-day journalism.
The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism is always being updated.
Paris: A Tale of Two Cities
"What strikes us today as terrifyingly new would in 1914 strike many Parisians, mutatis mutandis, as little more than déjà vu."
Let Them Have Debt: Money and the French Revolution
Spang’s Stuff and Money makes a powerful argument that politics and the economy were intimately linked in determining the French Revolution’s course.
Putting an End to It All: Understanding Suicide
Marzio Barbagli, a professor of sociology, has produced a bundle of findings collected over 14 years of studying the act of self-killing.
Who’s That Man?
Wil Haygood gives a dramatic account of Thurgood Marshall's nomination to the Supreme Court in his book "Showdown."
Why the Pilgrims Wore Beer Goggles
It’s a good time to rethink US history. So why not look at the role of alcohol? Cheever her new book asks who was loaded, and why did it matter?
Imagining the “Other”
Nazi propagandists instrumentalized and distorted Turkey for the political purposes of the Third Reich.
Human Google
A review of Wayne A. Wiegand's "Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library."
A Courageous Man: An Interview with John Carlos
David Davis interviews John Carlos, the 1968 Summer Olympics track athlete whose Black Power salute caused much political controversy.
From the Globe to the Brain and Back
Few subjects seem, at first glance, as detached from historical study, or indeed from one another, as globalization and the neurosciences.
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