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Jehovah’s Witnesses are one of the most successful “new religious movements” to have emerged from th
Britain and Russia maintained a frosty civility for a few years after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. But
The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983 (Simon & Schuster, 2018), by Marc
Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture (University of Pennsylvani
Movies under the Influence (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) by Dr. Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
In the 1970s, the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migrati
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Benjamin Waterhouse, full-as-full-can- be Professor
The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2024) by Sara J. Charles takes
When the draft majority decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health was leaked, the media, public of
In his new book The Stalinist Era(Cambridge University Press, 2018), David L. Hoffmann focuses on th
For the first half of the twentieth century, no American industry boasted a more motley and prolific
Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660 (Oxford University Press
Throughout the 20th century, especially during and immediately after WWII, New York Jews changed the
Tens of thousands of Italian civilians perished in the Allied bombing raids of World War II. More of
One of the most well-told episodes of the First World War, the 1915 Gallipoli expedition, also has i
The significance of religion for the development of modern racist antisemitism is a much debated top
Losing a pet has always been a unique kind of pain. No set rituals exist to help provide closure whe
After the unprecedented Exxon Valdez oil spill, a jury of ordinary Alaskans decided that Exxon had t
More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive
With the passing of those who witnessed National Socialism and the Holocaust, the archive matters as
