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The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Ages of Columbus, by David Abulafia Book Cover

The Old World Meets the Neolithic Age

Review of The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Ages of Columbus, by David Abulafia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008)
… story, but one that does not tell the entire history of Europe's meeting with the native populations of … the Bible ever mentioned, is the main theme of Abulafia's history. The indigenous peoples of the Americas both … the modern individual emerged to take his place in history. This is an extremely interesting part of the book, …
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD, by Brown, Peter Book Cover.

What to Do About the Money?

Review of Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD, by Brown, Peter (Princeton University Press, 2012)
Mutineers in Petrograd during March 1917, shooting upon the Tsar’s police forces.

Russia’s Trial by Fire

Review of Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War 1914-1921, by Laura Engelstein Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017
… of the 1917 Russian Revolution with a flood of new books which explore the Revolution and its long-term impact … it will appeal to both specialists in the field of Russian history and to general audiences that wish to unpack the rich and complex history of the Russian Revolution.    … Review of Russia in …
Image of Shirley Chishorm, Hillary Clinton, Condaleeza Rice, and Kamala Harris

The New Normal (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 8)

… we can learn from the last 200 years of women's political history to better inform our present, and future. For  … Dr. Joan Flores-Villalobos is a historian of women's history who recently joined the University of Southern California's history department. And she found that her students were …
Cover of The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC by David W. Anthony and  Jennifer Y. Chi.

The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC

Review of The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC, by David W. Anthony and Jennifer Y. Chi (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. pp. 254)
… the rest of the book. The second chapter presents a brief history of archaeology in Romania, whose roots as an … in learning about a burgeoning field in European prehistory—and rethinking some assumptions and conclusions …
 In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement, by Michael Lienesch Book Cover.

In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement

Review of In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement, by Michael Lienesch (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2007)
… In the Beginning . Lienesch begins with a brief but solid history of the development of American fundamentalism. … continuance up to today. As well as providing a detailed history of the movement, Lienesch, a political scientist, … the past seventy-five years combined. Given the plethora of books on Scopes, including Edward Larson's excellent Summer …
Demonstrators protest the judicial proceedings against suspected White Power activists following the Greensboro massacre of 1979.

"Lone Wolves" No More

Review of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, by Kathleen Belew (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018)
… the Oklahoma City bombing squarely within the longer history of a White Power movement that had its genesis in …
Cover A Revolution in Taste The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650–1800 by Susan Pinkard.

Bon Appetit, Historically Speaking

Review of A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800 , by Susan Pinkard (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009)
… the importance of fresh and local ingredients.  Many cookbooks published in past ten years promise simple and … some of the primary sources available for studying the history of food in this period.  Pinkard's summary of early … as restaurants developed in the eighteenth century and cookbooks became less expensive and readily available.  …
State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen Book Cover.

The Anatomy of the Military-Industrial Complex

Review of State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2012)
… through our foreign aid. This is a quiet, measured history, but it is not without a point of view, one which … other words, that Eisenhower was right. Sometimes writing history is about charting change over time. Sometimes it is …
Cover of "Our Hemisphere"? The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the Twenty-First Century by Britta H. Crandall and Russell C. Crandall.

Episodes of Ambivalent Empire

Review of “Our Hemisphere”? The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the Twenty-First Century by : Britta H. Crandall and Russell C. Crandall (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021)
… including much of their own previous work. Throughout the history of U.S. relations with Latin America, the Crandalls … far outside the realm of official policymaking in their history.  While a book with the subtitle The United States … objectivity.  But undergraduates being exposed to the history for the first time will benefit from the Crandalls’ …
The Norwegians Land in Iceland 872 by Oscar Wergeland (1877).

Why We Love the Vikings

… the Vikings and Norse mythology are having a moment.  From History Channel’s  Vikings  to Marvel’s  Thor  films, to … remember. Icelanders in particular had a keen interest in history, as evidenced by works such as  The Sagas of … of  Vikings  paved the way for many of the shows and books mentioned in the first paragraph of this article, with …
Banksy mural of worker chipping star off EU flag

Brexit: Dividing the United Kingdom

… Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. In this month’s History Talk , we speak with Professors Laura Beers and Ian … Image Source) … Eric Michael Rhodes   Hello and welcome to History Talk . We're the podcast that brings together … Britain is Dr. Laura Beers. She's associate professor of history at American University in Washington. There, Dr. …

Colombia: On the Brink of Peace with the FARC?

… demobilization constitutes a major shift in the political history of that republic. Colombians marching against FARC … era. Political Violence and Violent Politics: Colombia’s History Political violence has been a mainstay of Colombian … of protracted peace are the aberration in Colombia’s history, not the other way around. Political activity and …
Bruce Lee

The Original Street Fighting Man

Review of Striking Distance: Bruce Lee and the Dawn of Martial Arts in America, by Charles Russo Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 2016)
… studied kung fu Russo also provides a necessarily concise history of kung fu itself, carefully negotiating the many “invented traditions” that exist in the history of martial arts. He goes into greater detail about the history of kung fu as it was taught in America, especially …
Review of Ho Chi Minh: A Biography, by Pierre Brocheux (translation by Claire Duiker) Book Cover

Ho Chi Minh: A Biography

Review of Ho Chi Minh: A Biography, by Pierre Brocheux (translation by Claire Duiker) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
… book is dedicated to the idealists of the world, for whom history always ends in disappointment." The ironic turn of … influencing the trajectory of twentieth century world history until he was finally frozen by the cult of …
JFK and Jackie Kennedy on a sailboat

Watching JFK Live and Die Years Later

… says as much about how we understand our collective history and ourselves as it does about the tragic couple and … of JFK, Jake’s knowledge of the dead president is more history than memory, and yet he takes up the mission when … film “the saddest movie ever made.” According to Lubin’s history of the Kennedys in pop culture, Life magazine …
Photo of Ernest Hemingway smiling.

The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles

Review of The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles, by Stephen Koch (New York: Counterpoint, 2005)
… ultimately fail him, he becomes the insufferable boar that history has revealed. Dos Passos's precarious fame always … 1970, but his art died in 1937. Koch's book is light on the history of the war, biography, and literary analysis. If one …
In Mauritania, Aissata Abdoul Diop shows how the maize ears have dried in the drought stricken garden, 2012. 

Hunger Is Not Eradicated: The Food Crisis in Africa

… United Nations announced “the worst food crisis in modern history.”  The phrase “ global polycrisis ” captures the … mostly successful. In his 2018 book, Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine , Alex de Waal notes “a … and some even die as a result of starvation.  The Long History of Food Insecurity in Africa Food insecurity in …
Cover of The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe by David Marquand

The End of the World as We Know It?

Review of The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe, by David Marquand (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011)
… to the idea of a triumphant Europe. Marquand's topic is the history of the idea of Europe since 1945: How that idea … in medieval Spain) had on the course of European history. In addressing the politics of the federalism of the … he points out that while not perfect there is much in the history of the United States that the European could learn …

Media and Politics in the Age of Trump

… These are historical questions. A look at modern media history, particularly the 1940s, shows that the American … from entirely democratic decisions. It arose instead from a history of commercial interests winning out over others . This history is marked by pronounced conflict, in which …

Conflict Termination: How to End -- and Not to End -- Insurgencies

… should end. It is surely an understatement to assert that books and articles about conflict termination are … the imbalance. There is no shortage of examples in history of both successful and failed strategies for ending … University, Class of 1992 How to End Wars: The Lessons of History A certain conventional wisdom holds that an …
Taylor Swift at the 2014 Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

2/12/2015: Top Ten Origins: Oscar Dresses and Women’s Fashion

… year’s Oscars we feature Top Ten moments in women’s fashion history. 1. Empire Waist All image captions read from left … Awards Broad shoulder silhouettes cycle through fashion history beginning with Henry VIII, and women’s styles … of Vogue that year. This was the first time in fashion history that hemlines rose above the knee so a dress could …
Detail from the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.

Common Good and Common Evil in American Religion

Review of America’s Religious Wars: The Embattled Heart of Our Public Life, by Kathleen M. Sands (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019)
… one-or-the-other conceptions is woven into the nation’s history. Sands explores this by examining what she terms … Through the three sections of her book, Sands presents the history of ideas that have shaped American religious strife. … controversy is meant to encapsulate the entirety of Sands’s history though it is specifically framed in the context of …
Herd of horses on desert-steppe

A Postcard from Eastern Kazakhstan

… known in the West yet contains fascinating examples of its history and culture with connections to the wider world. … and wooden path, we could sense the millennia of its history in the dark shadows and the lake’s eerily … weapons testing, Semey (right). Another phase in the city’s history is recalled by the long bridge carrying the Turk-Sib …