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The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776 (Cambridge Universi
In Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950 (Indiana UP, 2022), Kirsten L. Schei
The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women l
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa (Harvard UP, 2023) is a revelatory new account of th
Generations of social scientists and historians have argued that the escape from empire and conseque
On June 8, 1967, Egypt's most famous radio broadcaster, Ahmed Said, reported that Egyptian, Syrian,
Since their origins in eighteenth-century England, railroads have spread across the globe, changing
California has more natural hazards per square mile than any other state, but this hasn’t deterred p
The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their heal
Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the
Few towns in America are as famous as Woodstock, New York—although Woodstock may be most famous for
The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous perio
Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization (University of California Press, 202
What is Hinduism?For centuries, that question was particularly thorny, both for local Indians and fo
The names are iconic and familiar to anyone in Minnesota with an interest in dance: the Andaházy Sch
This biography of “African explorer” Richard Dorsey Mohun, written by one of his descendants, reveal
On 23rd August 1944, following the collapse of the pro-Nazi dictatorship of Ion Antonescu, Romania c
George M. Cohan was one of those rare Broadway figures who was a composer, lyricist, playwright, per
Listen to this engaging podcast with historian Robert Austin, the author of Royal Fraud: The Story o
One hundred years ago, Gabriel Wells, a New York bookseller, committed a crime against history. He b
