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In this episode of the CEU Review of Books Podcast I sat down with Dr Doina Anca Cretu to talk about

Who are 'gifted' children? In ‘Gifted Children’ in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since

Bruce Harvey is a historian and photographer based in Syracuse, NY, who works at the intersection of

On August 27, 1783, a large crowd gathered in Paris to watch the first ascent of a hydrogen balloon.

As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia – India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yeme

An award-winning writer captures a year that defined the modern world, intertwining historical event

Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict, and Freedom, 1812-1897 (Wilfred Lau

In this episode, Alisa interviews Dr. Felix Cowan about his new book, The Kopeck Press Popular Journ

In this episode, Alisa interviews Dr. Felix Cowan about his new book, The Kopeck Press Popular Journ

Hair is always and everywhere freighted with meaning. In nineteenth-century America, however, hair t

What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to

The history of Tanzimat in the Ottoman Empire has largely been narrated as a unique period of equali

Michael Grunwald is a well renown journalist, who over the last thirty years has focused on public p

Fire is a means of control and has been deployed or constrained to levy power over individuals, soci

Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York's Blac

Between May 21 and June 16, 1791, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison went on a trip together through

Between May 21 and June 16, 1791, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison went on a trip together through

Iran presents one of the most significant foreign policy challenges for America and the West, yet ve

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world witnessed the “creative, freewheeling, darkly humorou

Fake news, outright political lies, a shamelessly partisan press, and the collapse of truth, civilit