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The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman Book Cover

The Jamestown Project

Review of The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007)
… The Jamestown Project. This book will surprise readers looking to delve immediately into the adventures of Captain … United Kingdom …
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“No News Day” at the BBC

… that regard news as just another part of their profit-making enterprises. Newsrooms place a high priority on being … services — is any better. Political partisanship is even making its way into local news broadcasts. Reith wanted the … United Kingdom …
This painting by Jean-Baptiste de Saive (1562) portrays the environment of the kitchen as a place of making. As Wall argues, the kitchen was one of the main spaces for women to create and experiment.

Kitchen Wisdom

Review of Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen, by Wendy Wall (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).
… recipes…offered practitioners the occasion for undertaking and scrutinizing nothing less than world making” (3). The recipe archive, she argues, offers a … portrays the environment of the kitchen as a place of making. As Wall argues, the kitchen was one of the main spaces …
battle scene of men with axes fighting men on horseback

1066: The Normans Conquer England

The Battle of Hastings, which took place on October 14, 1066 was a pivotal moment in the invasion from across the English Channel that resulted in the conquest of Anglo-Saxon England by William, the French Duke of Normandy.
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A memorial dedicated to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War (1941-45) in Yaroslavl.

From Kulikovo Field to Kursk: Russia’s Forever War

Review of Russia: The Story of War, by Gregory Carleton (Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2017)
… that drive Russia’s war myth is also crucial to making sense of Russia’s behavior on the international stage … monograph for students and seasoned Russia watchers seeking to understand Russia’s war myth in its many … Harrison King …
Shakespeare For All Time, by Stanley Wells Book cover.

Shakespeare For All Time

Review of Shakespeare For All Time, by Stanley Wells (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
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FDR and Churchill at the Atlantic Conference in 1941.

A New Atlantic Charter?

… denoting a special relationship between two English-speaking countries separated by an ocean but sharing a heritage … United Kingdom …
Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, 1814

The War We Refuse to Remember

… where the Admiral of the Royal Navy James Gambier is shaking hands with the U.S. Ambassador to Russia, John Quincy … and will not commemorate its end either, and it is worth asking why. The notion that the United States had to … United Kingdom …
Cover of The Anatomy Murders by Lisa Rosner

The Anatomy Murders

Review of The Anatomy Murders, by Lisa Rosner (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)
… cobbler he and his mistress supplemented their income by taking in boarders.  With so many itinerant laborers moving in … with the face just in case the authorities came around asking questions. As long as the medical practitioners of … United Kingdom …
Omagh, Northern Ireland in 2001.

Taking the Guns Out of Irish Politics

… village of Rosslea, Northern Ireland, a plaque linking a rebellion that occurred in 1798 and the present IRA’s … United Kingdom … Taking the Guns Out of Irish Politics …
men fighting with swords and some are on horseback

The Battle of Bosworth Field

The Battle of Bosworth Field was one of the last major battles of the Wars of the Roses, a decades-long conflict between the House of York and the House of Lancaster over claims to the English throne.
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Title page of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, 1818.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

… idolatry of reason and mechanistic forces by attacking the idea that man was a predictable and rationally … of a human being by unnatural means is a dangerous undertaking fraught with perils from human emotions and … a celebration of the most ambitious scientific undertakings, even though the two men who first undertake to carry …
illustration of Prince George IV

Unspoken Anxiety or Vivid Metaphor?

Review of Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination, by Noelle Gallagher (New Haven: Yale, 2019)
… Gallagher writes that fear of venereal infection was “lurking around every corner” in the Britain of the long 18th … races and form a basis for racial politics, frequently attacking Jews and persons of African descent as bringers of … United Kingdom …
Queen Mary’s College, opened in 1914.

A Postcard from Madras: A City Born of the Colonial Encounter

… kilometers of land, bounded by the Adyar river and the Buckingham canal in the south and north respectively, on the beach overlooking the Bay of Bengal. Madras was an odd choice for a city … busiest roads, with no pedestrian crossing to reach it! Taking a photo of the War Memorial therefore involves a swift …
Idi Amin addresses troops during a visit to border regions

Idi Amin's Uganda

When Idi Amin, commander of the Ugandan Army, seized power in Uganda on 25 January 1971, there was hope among many Ugandans that a new beginning beckoned.
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In 2011, thousands of ultra-nationalist demonstrators took to the streets of Moscow, armed with tsarist insignia and shouting the anti-immigrant chant "Let's give Russia back to the Russians!"

Russia’s Lost Empire

Review of Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation, From 1470 to the Present, by Serhii Plokhy (New York: Basic Books, 2017)
… in former Soviet republics, especially in Ukraine . In Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation, From 1470 to the Present , … inquiries under what he calls the “Russian question.” Lost Kingdom both investigates the historical development of this …

Time It Was: 1968 Around the World

… of Lyndon Johnson and not one but two major assassinations. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered in early April, and Robert Kennedy …
JFK and Jackie Kennedy on a sailboat

Watching JFK Live and Die Years Later

… about the tragic couple and their mythic Camelot. Stephen King’s recent best-selling novel 11/22/63 (2012) tells the … that saving Kennedy would also “save his brother. Save Martin Luther King. Stop the race riots. Stop Vietnam, maybe … Get …