The Hero and the Madman: Two American Myths
August 10, 2018
Mary Stockwell— Even the most hidebound analytical historian can’t resist the archetype of the hero. The hero comes forward at the beginning of great events, sets out on a quest,… READ MORE
Category: American History
Surviving English Colonialism
July 25, 2018
Jenny Hale Pulsipher— By the end of the seventeenth century, the Native people of what we now call New England were overwhelmed by a rapidly growing, land-hungry English colonial population… READ MORE
What Happened to Enlightenment?
July 2, 2018
Caroline Winterer— What happened to enlightened ideas after the long eighteenth century? As more scholars are placing ideals of enlightenment in their global contexts, we are learning that the conventional… READ MORE
Adapting Atticus
June 26, 2018
Anders Walker— Now that the lawsuit between Harper Lee’s estate and Broadway producer Scott Rudin is settled, the question remains whether the stage version of Atticus Finch is going to… READ MORE
Why 2018 is Likely to be a Historic Midterm
June 20, 2018
Alan I. Abramowitz— On the night of June 5, while most of the nation’s attention was focused on the results of California’s crucial “top two” primary, something unusual happened in… READ MORE
The Fur Trade in the Western Arctic
June 18, 2018
John R. Bockstoce— The fur trade in North America was an important part of the continent’s economic and social evolution. For better and for worse, from the sixteenth to the… READ MORE
The Pluralism of MLK
June 12, 2018
Anders Walker— Fifty years after Memphis, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy remains closely tied to integration, to Brown v. Board of Education, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the creation of… READ MORE
Free Speech in America
June 8, 2018
Floyd Abrams— American law could hardly be more inconsistent. When a family of religious zealots that formed what it characterized as the Westboro Baptist Church carried signs a thousand feet… READ MORE
Ep. 58 – Mark Bradford’s Pickett’s Charge Installation
June 7, 2018
We discuss the Mark Bradford exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC with the curator of that show, Evelyn Hankins. YaleUniversity · A conversation with the curator… READ MORE
Global Power and US Sanctions
June 5, 2018
Victor Bulmer-Thomas— Sanctions have always played a part in conflicts among states and between states and non-state actors. However, their use by the United States government has accelerated in recent… READ MORE
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