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General History
Interviews with historians about their new books.
June 12, 2026
Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe
Commercial seafaring, both dangerous and with large amounts of capital at stake, was the source of the risk-management institutions that still und…
June 11, 2026
The Shah's Party
In 1971, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi threw a party to celebrate the 2,500-year anniversary of the Persian Empire. It was planned to be a massive party,…
June 11, 2026
Ybor City
Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men from prerevolutionary Cuba crossed the Florida Straits…
June 10, 2026
The Work of Empire
In 1898, on the eve of the Spanish-American War, the US Army seemed minuscule and ill-equipped for global conflict. Yet over the next fifteen years, i…
June 9, 2026
Shanghai
Home to 25 million people, Shanghai is the most populous and wealthiest city in China. A meeting point between China and the wider world, the city …
June 8, 2026
Revolutionary New York
Revolutionary New York: 250 Years of Social Change (SUNY Press, 2026), edited by Bruce Dearstyne and published by SUNY Press, examines what the volum…
June 7, 2026
The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau
The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau examines Auschwitz-Birkenau as both a site and a symbol of Nazi genocide. Scholars from a range of discip…
June 6, 2026
When the City Stopped
The COVID-19 pandemic delivered its first and most devastating strike in the United States in New York City in the Spring of 2020. Closely connected t…
June 4, 2026
Iran and the Revolution
Iran's revolution in 1979 shook the world. The Pahlavi dynasty came crashing down, and the Islamic Republic rose in its place. But what led to this se…
June 3, 2026
The Home Front
Prior to the American Revolution, the urban centers of colonial North America had little direct experience of war. With the outbreak of violence, Brit…
June 3, 2026
The Making of China's Post Office
How did a vast, nationwide institution like a modern postal system come into being in Qing China — right at the very end of the empire? In The Maki…
June 1, 2026
The Predictable Shock of Brexit
Was Brexit really a sudden, populist shock, or was the writing on the wall for decades? This week on International Horizons, Eli Karetny sits down wit…
June 1, 2026
Empires of the Southern Ocean
From about the middle of the first millennium of the Common Era through to the fifteenth century, Southeast Asian societies underwent a political tran…
May 31, 2026
Faith, Family, and Flag
Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America (University of Chicago Press, 2025) examines the history of Branson, Missouri…
May 30, 2026
How Plague Got Rats
Today, rats are nearly synonymous with plague, but this association is surprisingly recent. For centuries, plague devastated populations without b…
May 30, 2026
Jefferson on Race
From The New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’…
May 29, 2026
A Fair Day's Work
Australia has a special place in the history of struggle for a Fair Day's Work. In giving a history of Australian worker struggles over the length of…
May 28, 2026
The Wisdom of the Ancients
The Wisdom of the Ancients: Four Ideas That Changed the World (Oxford UP, 2025) is about four cornerstones of modern thought that were put in place by…
May 28, 2026
After Barbary
After Barbary: Algeria's Roles in the French and American Empires (Cornell University Press, 2025) by Dr. Timothy Mason Roberts explores the connectio…
May 27, 2026
The Narrowing Sea
In The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region (U California Press, 2025), Hannah Shepherd examines the shared hist…