History

Secret Histories

Creating a Colombian national identity through crime fiction.

  • Santiago Gamboa

The Uses and Abuses of Photojournalism

Do we approach the photograph as spectators, or as citizens of the world?

  • Susie Linfield

Down on Law

On Carl Schmitt, Germany’s most influential jurist of the authoritarian right wing.

  • William E. Scheuerman

No Revolution Without Counterrevolution

On Arno Mayer’s The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions.

  • Corey Robin

The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker tell two hundred years of Atlantic history through the everyday struggles of working people. 

  • Robin Blackburn

The American Jobs Machine

Is the new economy creating good jobs?

  • Erik Olin Wright
  • Rachel Dwyer

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Trading Truth for Justice?

South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

  • Susie Linfield

The Lost World of Richard Yates

Why a great writer of the Age of Anxiety disappeared from print.

  • Stewart O’Nan

Behind the Beat

The pages of Neurotica.

  • James Campbell

Primo Levi’s Last Moments

On that tragic Saturday, only his body was smashed.

  • Diego Gambetta

The Two Hundred Years War

The origins of conflict in Yugoslavia. 

  • G. M. Tamás

Uncle Franz’s Legacy

A personal history of two Germanies.

  • Vivian Rothstein

Banishing the Specter of War

How early warning and early action can prevent the escalation of disputes into armed violence.

  • Randall Forsberg
  • Jonathan Dean
  • Saul Mendlovitz
with responses from
  • Kosta Tsipis
  • Mary Kaldor
  • Alan Cranston
  • Lora Lumpe
  • Randall Forsberg

On Pinochet

The dictator's extradition and the limits of international law.

  • Paul W. Kahn

Review: The Color of Truth

By Kai Bird.

  • Jeff Jones

Eugene Rivers’s Challenge: A Response

  • Eugene Genovese

Reading, Writing, and Redbaiting

When McCarthy stalked the groves of academe.

  • Alan Wald

Upper West Side Story

Against history as self-help.

  • Jackson Lears

Ethnicity and Education

The politics of black education.

  • Tony Hill
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