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Before Hungary’s transition from communism to democracy, local dissidents and like-minded intellectu
What are fallen tyrants owed? What makes debt illegitimate? And when is bankruptcy moral? Drawing on
Gervase Phillips' book Persecution and Genocide: A History (Routledge, 2024) offers an unparalleled
Writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries—a period of vast economic change—reco
The Chosŏn dynasty of Korea enjoyed generally peaceful and stable relations with Ming China, a relat
In our conversation about Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp (University of Nebraska Press,
Our book is: Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts To Aid Refugees from Nazi Germa
In 2019, journalist and writer Peter Hessler traveled with his family to China. He’d gotten a gig as
In the shadow of the Cold War, whispers from the cosmos fueled an unlikely alliance between the US a
What we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two. Eating and Being: A History of Ideas
Growing up in a remote corner of the world’s largest rainforest, Pio, Maria, and Oita learned to hun
We interview Dr. Joel Whitebook, philosopher and psychoanalyst about his book Freud: An Intellectual
If the United States has been so hostile to Marxism, what accounts for Marxism's recurrent attractiv
In The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide (University of Minnesota Press, 2019),Benja
The history of antisemitism in Europe stretches back as far as Ancient Rome, but persecutions of Jew
Dr. James Burt believed women’s bodies were broken, and only he could fix them. In the 1950s, this O
When Nazi Germany launched the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, its leadership made clear to th
In his new book Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s (Faber, 2020), Simon Ha
How did public demand shape education in the 20th century? In The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain
Judith Giesberg, an expert on the history of women and gender during the Civil War, is professor and
