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Why do we eat? Is it instinct? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to eat ar
Violet Moller has written a narrative history of the transmission of books from the ancient world to
The Zinoviev Affair is a story of one of the most long-lasting and enduring conspiracy theories in m
Ancient Christians and their non-Christian contemporaries lived in a world of 'magic.' Sometimes, th
John Garrison's Red Hot + Blue (33 1/3 Series) (Bloomsbury, 2024) is a meditation on music's capaci
Brewed from the dried leaves and tender shoots of an evergreen tree native to South America, yerba m
Today I talked to Anne Landau and Margaret Sinclair, the translators of Through the Morgue Door: One
One of my talking points when hanging out with my fellow diplomatic historians is the painful absenc
In Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy (Cornell Univers
Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937–1946 (University of Wisc
In Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia(New York University Pr
Barrels – we rarely acknowledge their importance, but without them we would be missing out on some o
In his recent book, High-Bounty Men in the Army of the Potomac: Reclaiming Their Honor (The Kent Sta
In Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space (I. B. Tauris, 2018), Cynth
Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People (Cambridge UP, 2024) is a probing biography of o
The second of Daniel Todman's two sweeping volumes on Great Britain and World War II, Britain's War:
Mango: A Global History (Reaktion, 2024) by Constance L. Kirker & Dr Mary Newman is a beautifull
Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola (U Chicago Press, 2024) takes readers deep inside
In the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned cri
Aleksander Pluskowski of the University of Reading joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, The
