Fake News, Then and Now
May 29, 2020
Tracy Campbell— In his first fireside chat after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt urged Americans “to reject all rumors,” noting that “these ugly little hints of complete disaster fly thick and… READ MORE
Category: History
The Life of an American Seaman
May 28, 2020
Stephen Taylor— He was a patriot who took up arms in the Revolution against the Crown. Jacob Nagle was aged just fifteen when he set out from his Pennsylvania home… READ MORE
The Scottish Enlightenment
May 26, 2020
J. H. Elliott— When asserting their equality of status with English men and women in the British national enterprise, Scots in the 1760s and early 1770s could point to Scotland’s… READ MORE
Racism and Malaria
May 25, 2020
Frank M. Snowden— Perhaps the most sinister aspect of the Fascist antimalarial campaign in the Pontine Marshes was its integration into an overarching scheme to transform Italy into a racial… READ MORE
Travel-in-Place
May 21, 2020
Just because we can’t travel doesn’t mean our minds have to stay put. Here are some books to satisfy your wanderlust from the comfort and safety of your own home…. READ MORE
Ebola, Health Care, and Globalization
Frank Snowden— Ebola painfully exposed the extent of global unpreparedness to face the challenge of epidemic disease despite the warning provided by SARS. But however heavy the burden of suffering… READ MORE
The Pace of Change
May 20, 2020
Danny Dorling— Did you think that the rate of innovation was rising and that more and more was being invented every year? Did you pause to question the claim, if… READ MORE
Crisis Musings on the Constitutional Revolution
May 15, 2020
Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn— Recently a United States Senator, reflecting on the terrible crisis we all now face, recalled an earlier time when the nation confronted an existential threat to its… READ MORE
The Brave Silence of Harry Rée
May 14, 2020
Jonathan Rée— Back in May 2016 I was sitting in the garden of my little cottage outside Oxford when I got an email from someone whose name I didn’t know… READ MORE
Military Strategy in the Manchu Dynasty
May 13, 2020
Jeremy Black— In the last iteration of dynastic change, the rise of the Manchu (or Qing) dynasty and its replacement of the Ming in 1644–52, a process in which campaigning,… READ MORE
From 9/11 to 9/11: The Widening of the Atlantic