Tag: history

Columns

Ireland, We Hardly Knew Ye

Jack Sheehan

March 29, 2022

Against history-by-columnist.

Passing for Racial Democracy

Stephanie Reist

December 06, 2021

The complexities of the color line in the U.S. and Brazil.

The Singing Left

Kim Kelly

September 21, 2021

Music and struggle at the Battle of Blair Mountain centennial.

How Empires Fall

Matt Wehmeier

August 19, 2021

On the Berlin Wall, the “August Coup,” and the decline of Great Powers

His Own Prophet

Suleiman Mourad

August 04, 2021

Adonis’s Misguided Polemic Against Islam.

The Unwinnable War on Disease

Alex de Waal

June 21, 2021

Pandemics and the ecology of armed conflict.

The Fruit of Power

James Wham

April 21, 2021

Raoul Peck unspools Western history in a new documentary on colonialism and genocide

Going Medieval on Your Gram

Esmé Hogeveen

February 02, 2021

Blackletter fonts find new life on politicized social media.

Talk Less, Work More

Namit Arora

November 23, 2020

On India’s troubled relationship with democratic values.

Razors, Razors, Razors

Gavin Jacobson

August 11, 2020

How the United States abetted mass murder to save the world from communism.

The Hidden Faces of Apartheid

Bongani Kona

August 04, 2020

Uncovering the secret crimes of the apartheid security police.

Storm in a Teacup

Francis Wade

July 16, 2020

On tea, colonial trade, and the origins of capitalism in India and China.