History

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

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  “Of the making of many books there is no end”: Remembering Michael Kammen, the Professor of Paradox

  A tribute to the great historian Michael Kammen, written by one of his closest colleagues and friends.

  Douglas GreenbergOct 26, 2014

  • History

  • Memoir & Essay

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  19th Century Paris: Terrorism's Training Ground

  1894 marked an exceptional harvest of one of the most notable isms to take root in French soil: anarchism.

  Robert ZaretskyOct 21, 2014

  • History

  • Politics

• Camp David: The Past and Future of Peace

  Israelis, Egyptians, and Americans were secluded at Camp David for 13 painstaking, frustrating, and very nearly fruitless days in September 1978.

  Max StrasserOct 21, 2014

  • History

  • Politics

• Muttnik: Canine Rocketeers in the USSR

  Rigged with a faulty cooling system, Sputnik 2 was a lemon and killed Laika in three hours, frying her like Icarus.

  Rory TolanOct 17, 2014

  • History

  • Nonfiction

  • Science & Technology

• Fatal Attraction: Love and Murder in Tennessee

  Love and murder and teenage girls in Memphis.

  Susannah LuthiOct 13, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • History

  • Nonfiction

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  A Labyrinth of Terror Made of Coral and a Fragile Global Wonder

  Coal meets coral: what could possibly go wrong?

  David ArmitageOct 10, 2014

  • History

  • Science & Technology

• Varieties of Hatred

  "Why did the Nazis kill the Jews? Nearly 70 years since the end of World War II, the causes and meaning of the Holocaust remain as high on historians’ agendas as ever."

  David BialeSep 30, 2014

  • History

  • Nonfiction

  • Religion

• Because Our Fathers Lied

  "They were no different one from another. They smiled, exchanged comments; hands reached out and grasped … If only we spoke the same language!”

  Patricia M.E. LorcinSep 26, 2014

  • History

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  Long Burn the Fire: On Political Order and Political Decay

  Fukuyama focuses on political decay by analyzing the slow rot of American institutions.

  Zach DorfmanSep 21, 2014

  • History

  • Politics

• Civil Disobedience

  The women, as Abbott expertly portrays them, are not simple-minded diarists accounting for the war in the margins of recipes or reports about social engagements.

  Anjali EnjetiSep 12, 2014

  • History

• Seeds of Grass

  The origins of American Bohemia in — where else — Greenwich Village, before the Civil War.

  Alexander C. KafkaSep 11, 2014

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • History

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  Hans Fallada

  Primo Levi called Every Man Dies Alone, by Hans Fallada, “the greatest book ever written about German resistance to the Nazis.”

  Robert CreminsAug 27, 2014

  • History