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Historian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancie
At the height of his career, Sargent painted twelve portraits of the Wertheimer family, commissioned
Whitney Dirks joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Ear
Cold Glitter: The Untold Story of Canadian Glam (Feral House, 2025) uncovers a forgotten yet fascina
Everything to Play For: How Videogames Are Changing the World (Verso, 2024) by Marijiam Did asks if
What were two Irish sisters doing in Russia during the early years of the nineteenth century, editin
A celebrity decorator with blue hair. A single mother who advised JFK in the Oval Office. A Christia
Taking readers to the farms and factories, the marae and churches where Māori lived, worked and rais
Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025) expl
Sara Burdorff joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Maternity, Monstrosity and Heroic (Im)mor
In this engaging interview, young scholar Dr, Joel Z. Garrod explains his book's main argument, with
From one of the world’s leading historians comes the first substantial study of environmentalism set
As Wall Street swooned and boomed through the last decade, our livelihoods have—now more than ever—c
Animals in World History (Routledge, 2024) by Dr. Helen Cowie provides a concise synthesis of human-
Antisemitic caricatures had existed in Polish society since at least the mid-nineteenth century. But
The definitive history of Canadian foreign policy since the 1930s, Canada First, Not Canada Alone: A
Today’s European Union grew out of functional communities set up in the wake of world war in the 195
In the history of Nazi concentration camps, and particularly labor camps, there is probably no place
Where is the "life" in scholarly life? Is it possible to find in academic writing, so often abstract
Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them,
