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Shortly after the ratification of the US Constitution in 1789, twenty-two-year-old Andrew Jackson pl
Becoming Modigliani (Rake Press, 2024) is a comprehensive biography that delves into the troubled li
The balance of power between the United States Congress and the president is particularly contested
The Bible shaped nearly every aspect of Jewish life in the ancient world, from activities as obvious
The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the "archival revolution" du
Nordic Fascism: Fragments of an Entangled History (Routledge, 2022) is the first comprehensive histo
Lottaz and Ottosson explore the intricate relationship between neutral Sweden and Imperial Japan dur
Richard Evans, author of the acclaimed The Third Reich Trilogy and over two dozen other volumes on m
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe (Knopf, 2025) is the essenti
The inter-war period (1918–1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation – the 'hungry t
Today I’m speaking with Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins about the new, edited volume, Did It Happen Here? P
From their founding, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) educated as many as 90 per
New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s greatest cultural institutions. Its
Predicting Disasters: Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan (University of Pennsy
'All art is propaganda,' wrote George Orwell, 'but not all propaganda is art.' Moving from World War
Today I talked to Joy McCorriston about Persistent Pastoralism: Monuments and Settlements in the Arc
The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories of men. But women wer
The trial of former SS lieutenant and Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie was France's first trial for crimes
Today I’m speaking with Jeffrey Pilcher, Professor of Food History at the University of Toronto. We
What do we get if we combine stories about a merchant, an exile, an activist, a pop star, a doctor,
