OK, Francis Fukuyama was an idiot. But there is today an End of History and specifically, the end of the historical profession. Daniel Bessner has a good op-ed about this and it's real my friends. When I received my Ph.D. in history in 2013, I...
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There’s plenty to unpack in Trump’s likening of ICE raids to “liberating towns” with military force. Certainly, it aligns with other moments of exclusion and militarization. Me, I’m reminded of.
Last week I had the opportunity to tear into the newly released manuscript of Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon: The Story Of The Last Black Cargo with a fantastic supplemental material.
[Thanks so much to Erik for his kind intro and the rest of you for your welcome messages. For the record: anti-ketchup, all the way. Don't get me started on mayonnaise.] This we know: 2016 was awful. But now that the year has turned, it’s...
Above: Gerda Lerner, Badass Political Historian This is a guest post by Gabriel Rosenberg and Ariel Ron. Gabriel N. Rosenberg is assistant professor of gender, sexuality, and feminist Studies at.
This is an incredible story of inmates at an Indiana prison doing grassroots research on the history of their own prison with assistance from a historian-volunteer. Not surprising, the findings.
At the Diplomat, I ruminate on some parallels... In short order, the United States may go to war against Syria in order to send a message about the use of chemical munitions. I’ve written many times in this space about the difficulty of sending clear...
A bunch of conservative Texas groups are taking history departments at the University of Texas and Texas A&M to task because they supposedly talk too much about race, class, and.
John Keegan has passed away. His work as a military historian was uneven; The Face of Battle is a truly excellent popular evocation of combat through the ages, but his.
Here's a fascinating series of photographs from a book on the Soviet bomb program. Someday, I would love to see a big coffee table book of pictures like these from all of the nuclear powers. The story that Richard Rhodes tells about the Manhattan Project is...
Concerned about its image, the Navy has determined that the War of 1812 is just the thing it needs: Faced with little public understanding of its modern mission, the U.S..
I'm currently in the UK doing some research at the National Archives, and I'm reminded that accidental finds are always more interesting that what you're actually looking for. Amidst the.