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Ryan Tripp is an adjunct for universities and California community colleges.
In Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (NYU Press, 2019), Ian Saxine, Visiting Assistant Profes…
It is hard to overestimate the influence of John Rawls on political philosophy and theory over the last half-century. His books have sold millions of …
Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy (Oxford University Press, 2018), offers a holistic treatment of the developme…
In 1936, long before the discovery of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, the Royal Ontario Museum made a sensational acquisition: the conten…
The Frankfurt School’s own legacy is best preserved by exercising an immanent critique of its premises and the conclusions to which they often led. By…
Understanding and Teaching Native American History (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023), co-edited by Kristofer Ray and Brady DeSanti, is a timely an…
What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century's most important ph…
In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, …
In The Transcendentalists and Their World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021), Robert A. Gross offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact …
There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of an idea a…
The basic story of the rise, reign, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical groundswell is well known among scholars. In this intel…
In Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), Joy Porter examines the extraordinary life of…
Political parties are taken for granted today, but how was the idea of party viewed in the eighteenth century, when core components of modern, represe…
A city of modest size, Providence, Rhode Island, had the third-largest Native American population in the United States by the first decade of the nine…
In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, acclaimed scholar and critic Louis Menand, Professor of English at Harvard Unive…
In American Writers and World War I (Oxford University Press, 2020), David A. Rennie argues that authors' war writing continuously evolved in response…
A new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France. With the development of modern biological, economic, and social engineering, the future…
A beautifully written exploration of religion's role in a secular, modern politics, by an accomplished scholar of critical theory, Migrants in the Pro…
The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding (Cambridge University Press, 2020) argues that conf…
The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 changed the lives of English republicans for good. Despite the Declaration of Breda, where Charles II p…
While it has often been recognized that counsel formed an essential part of the political discourse in early modern England, the precise role that it …
My Lai, Wounded Knee, Sandy Hook: the place names evoke grief and horror, each the site of a massacre. Massacres-the mass slaughter of people-might se…
The opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of radicals and reformers fighting for a new America, seeking change not only in labor pic…
Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding me…