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When the interstate highway program connected America’s cities, it also divided them, cutting through and devastating countless communities—many of them minority urban neighborhoods lacking the political and economic power to […]
This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary sources originally written in 15 languages by or about Sephardi Jews—descendants of Jews who fled medieval Spain and Portugal settling in the […]
FLeading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today’s global world and how it should be written. George Orwell wrote that “history is written by the winners.” Even if […]
Part geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popular culture has carved out a short […]
Born in New Delhi in 1961 in a family of civil servants and intellectuals – his father was an influential specialist of strategic studies and defence – Sanjay Subrahmanyam received […]
The close diplomatic, economic, and military ties that comprising the “special relationship” between the United States and Great Britain have received plenty of attention from historians over the years. Less […]
Brenda Stevenson has just published What is Slavery (New York: Wiley, 2015) What is slavery? It seems a simple enough question. Despite the long history of the institution and its widespread use around […]
Government debt crises are a fact of political and economic life. The costs of government default are often severe. Nowhere has this been more clearly demonstrated than in Latin America. […]
This, the first full-length history of the major scandal caused by the eviction of Mexican Americans from their barrio – subequently being left without housing owing to the cancellation of the […]
In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D’Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise […]
