Parameters of Marie-Antoinette’s New Reign
January 17, 2020
John Hardman— The diary entry of the new king is succinct: 10 [May 1774]: Death of the King at two in the afternoon and departure for Choisy. This château was… READ MORE
Category: History
Martha Gibbs Was a Southern Woman and a Slave-Master
January 16, 2020
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers— In 1859, after touring the antebellum South, the journalist and New York Tribune editor James Redpath attempted to explain for his readers why white southern women opposed emancipation. He… READ MORE
Refugees in World War II and Today
January 9, 2020
Marion Kaplan— As I sit here, the week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve 2019, reading the news on various websites, I am drawn to the plight of refugee children… READ MORE
What Can We Know about Early Christ Groups?
January 8, 2020
John Kloppenborg— A common misconception about early Christ groups is that we know quite a lot about them—their approximate size (50–100), their meeting places (private houses), and the ways they… READ MORE
Dances with Wolves and the Many Abuses of Lakota History
January 7, 2020
Pekka Hämäläinen— The histories of the Lakota people and the United States are intimately and violently linked. The Lakotas almost always seem to be there when American history turns and… READ MORE
A Lesson for American Foreign Trade with China
January 6, 2020
Matthew Lockwood— In 1792, the Emperor of China sent a letter to George III of Great Britain. Beneath the surface of diplomatic politeness, it was a gallingly peremptory, even dismissive… READ MORE
Race, Land, and Migration after the Civil War
January 3, 2020
Kendra Taira Field— When Thomas Jefferson Brown finally decided to make his home in Indian Territory in 1870, he had been there many times before. For months he had been… READ MORE
On the Origin of Hiking Trails
December 18, 2019
Silas Chamberlin— In the autumn of 1921, a small group of volunteers from the Palisades Interstate Park Conference assembled at dawn for a day of work in Harriman State Park,… READ MORE
The Jubilee Year of the Six-Day War
December 16, 2019
Micah Goodman— On the eve of the Six-Day War, Israel formed a national unity government (a broad coalition of all major parties) for the first time in its history. Faced… READ MORE
Josephus and Jesus: The Early Christian Movement
December 12, 2019
Paula Fredriksen— Priest, Pharisee, prophet, military leader, war captive, historian: Josephus. Josephus aids us, in crucial ways, in our quest for the assembly of Jesus’ earliest followers in Jerusalem. Indeed,… READ MORE
From 9/11 to 9/11: The Widening of the Atlantic