The History of English and the Pedagogy of Belonging
Seth Lerer reflects on a lifetime of teaching the history of the English language....
Whatever You Say … Say Nothing: An Interview with Patrick Radden Keefe
Benedict Cosgrove interviews Patrick Radden Keefe, author of “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland.”...
The Persisting Relevance of Walter Rodney’s “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”
Walter Rodney’s "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" still reads cogently after almost 50 years....
The Chance for Transformation: On Giorgio van Straten’s “In Search of Lost Books”
Dalia Sofer explores “In Search of Lost Books: The Forgotten Stories of Eight Mythical Volumes” by Giorgio van Straten....
Fighting Trump, the Early Years
A historian writes an early draft version of the opposition to Trump....
The Kaiser’s Trial: How a Case that Never Happened Helped Create the International Criminal Justice System
Mark Ellis reviews William A. Schabas's meticulously researched and gripping "The Trial of the Kaiser."...
Rewriting the West: A Discussion About the Cultural History of the American “Frontier”
A conversation with Michelle García, Carolina A. Miranda, and Fernanda Santos of “Rewriting the West,” a partnership between Michelle García and “Guernica.”...
Have Your Dust and Eat It: On Alexander Robinson’s “The Spoils of Dust: Reinventing the Lake that Made Los Angeles”
A book about one of Los Angeles’s biggest historical embarrassments calls for a new way of seeing it as beautiful....
Never Past: On “The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present”
The Fourth Reich never happened, but its shadow still can be felt....
Love and Loss in the Sierra Maestra: On Tony Perrottet’s “¡Cuba Libre!”
Avoiding hagiographical impulses, Tony Perrottet’s "¡Cuba Libre!" remains grounded in the crude texture of everyday life during the Cuban Revolution....
The Person Formerly Known as Jemima Wilkinson
An excerpt from a new book on American messianic movements....
A History of the Houston Rap Tapes: Lance Scott Walker and Jacques Morel in Conversation
Jacques Morel interviews Lance Scott Walker, who makes the case for Houston rap as a critical part of black history and of American music history....
