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Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson set out, their new collection, Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons i
In Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860 (University of New M
What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a ca
How has migration shaped Mediterranean history? And what role did conflicting temporalities and the
In the summer of 1925, Katharine Sergeant Angell White walked into The New Yorker's midtown office a
Few would dispute that Hitler’s ideas led to war and genocide. Less clear however, is how and when t
Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe;
"With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that 1949 was actually the beginning, not the end, of th
In the space of about two decades, five major parks were proposed, designed, and created in Paris. S
Which society was the first to domesticate the horse? It’s a difficult question. The archaeological
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more tha
When U.S. presidents clash with corporate titans, what tips the balance of power?In The Power and th
Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule: Resettlement, Germanization and Population Policies
In this episode, we talk to Professor Jonathan Brown about his book, Slavery and Islam. Learn more a
40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World (Ivy Press, 2024) by Dr. Alistair Bonnett is a meticu
Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age (Routledge, 2024) investigat
What is the connection between where people live and how they vote? In The Changing Electoral Map of
Winning by Process: The State and Neutralization of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar (Southeast Asia Pro
From the image offered by the Babylonian Talmud, Jewish elites were deeply embedded within the Sasan
Dan La Botz's book Riding with the Revolution: The American Left in the Mexican Revolution, 1900-192
