History

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

• Strange Bedfellows: The Modernists and the Nazis

  A study of the sometimes unhealthy alliance between artists and power.

  Jan BreslauerFeb 8, 2015

  • History

• The Definitive History of Postwar Britain

  As postwar Britain’s financial prospects changed, so too did the rhythms and habits of its daily life.

  Josh EmmonsJan 25, 2015

  • History

• The Art of Critique: Victor Serge’s “Midnight in the Century”

  “Personalism” combines the radical libertarian belief in the importance of the individual with the communist belief in the importance of the entire community. Victor Serge was its greatest champion.

  Guy Patrick CunninghamJan 24, 2015

  • History

  • Politics

• It’s the Emotions, Stupid

  "How did the ideals of 1789 … morph into the horrors of 1793, steeped in blood, violence, and paranoia?"

  Robert ZaretskyJan 12, 2015

  • History

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  James Laughlin’s New Directions

  By founding New Directions Books, James Laughlin shaped an entire chanel of literary history.

  Greg BarnhiselJan 4, 2015

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • History

• Perpetual War for a Perpetual Piece (of the Action)

  The bad news from one of the finest national security journalists working today.

  Zach DorfmanDec 17, 2014

  • History

  • Politics

• Xinjiang Stories

  Uyghur history as everyman’s history.

  Nile GreenDec 3, 2014

  • Around the World

  • History

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  Over Here, over Here: Books on World War I Everywhere

  2014 saw a bumper crop in World War I commemorations.

  Robert ZaretskyNov 23, 2014

  • History

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  1916 Revisited

  Dublin's Easter Rising

  Robert CreminsNov 15, 2014

  • History

• Lovely Bones: The Contested Invention of the Unknown Soldier

  Alessandro Carrera on the mysteries of mourning, the Unknown Soldier, and the scholarship of Laura Wittman.

  Alessandro CarreraNov 13, 2014

  • History

• Casaubon’s Humanities

  James Turner’s Philology makes a case for the comparative mode that gave birth to the modern humanities — but what does his argument say for the state of the humanities now?

  Scott SpillmanNov 11, 2014

  • History

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  The Love Letters of Heinrich Himmler

  "The Decent One" heralds a new kind of Holocaust documentary, one made by a documentarian two generations removed from the original horror, one that dares to look at a perpetrator with the assumption that he is not an animal or a monster but a human being.

  Laurie WinerOct 29, 2014

  • History