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The Legacy of Luther
Review of Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther’s World and Legacy, by Lyndal Roper (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021)
The Ukrainian Crisis: In Russia's Long Shadow
… events became international with Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the eruption of separatist insurgencies in … on March 18 and April 17 (that took liberties with history ). He claimed that for reasons he could not … Alexander II prohibited the publication of any Ukrainian books, now including literature, as well as the use of …
The View from the Countryside
Review of A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China, by Dong Guoqiang & Andrew G. Walder (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021)
… including oral histories and six well-preserved notebooks and diaries, A Decade of Upheaval covers the episodes …
The Space In Between
Review of Cleansing the Czechoslovak Borderlands: Migration, Environment, and Health in the Former Sudetenland, by Eagle Glassheim (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
3/25/2015: At the Movies: "Birth of a Nation" After 100 Years
… Birth of a Nation was the first 12-reel film in movie history and the first movie to be screened at the White … so taken with the film that he enthused: “It’s like writing history with lightning.” The history presented on the screen came from Thomas Dixon’s …
The Past and Future of the Global War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Finale)
… against communist Cuba, for example, or the long history of drug prohibitionism in the Philippines from US … ones that all point to the importance of approaching the history of and solutions to the war on drugs from a global … in the 60s and 70s, but really go much further back in history than that. Brionna Mendoza This is true not only …
The Jamestown Project
Review of The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007)
… documentaries, stage elaborate recreations, and release new books that reflect upon the current state of scholarship …
Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend
Review of Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend, by Richard Stoneman (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2008)
… research into one monograph that allows scholars and history buffs alike to develop a firm grounding in the life …
American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust
Review of American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust, by Laura Levitt (New York: New York University Press, 2007)
A Day in a Medieval City
Review of A Day in a Medieval City, by Chiara Frugoni (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007)
… her late father, Arsenio Frugoni, a professor of medieval history at the University of Rome. Prior to his death, …
Honduras, TPS, and U.S. Policy
… the conditions that spur migration? On this episode of History Talk, we zero in on Honduras, as hosts Brenna Miller … Jessica Vinas-Nelson Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a panel of … there? And why do people leave in the first place? Today on History Talk , we have two guests with us to discuss this …
A Suit, or a Statement?
Review of Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style, by Kathy Peiss (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)
… and symbolic power that the zoot suit had in American history in her new book Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of … social understanding during a critical moment of American history. …
Film, Television, and China’s (New) Cold War
… intellectuals as binary thinking that oversimplifies both history and the present moment. Given that the Cold War, … Chosin led to “fundamental changes in, in American history. That built the national security state, built … abroad, a large standing army for the first time in US history. And all of that transpired in December 1950 …
God for Nazis
Review of The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany , by Susannah Heschel (Princeton University Press, 2008)
… and Buddhism. As a work of intellectual and social history Aryan Jesus is quite remarkable. Meticulously … culture under Nazi rule. As with all good intellectual history, Aryan Jesus succeeds at presenting and analyzing …
The End of the World as They Knew It
Review of 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire, by Giusto Traina (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xix, 203. Trans. by Allan Cameron)
… late antique religion, and more. Anyone (scholars, history buffs, or those who know nothing of late antiquity) …
