Seeing Red

Christianity and American Democracy

Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold ...

Marvellous Thieves

Ranging from the coffeehouses of Aleppo to the salons of Paris, from Calcutta to London, Paulo Le...

Policing Sexuality

Jessica Pliley links the crusade against sex trafficking to the FBI's growth into a formidable la...

Galileo’s Telescope

Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky was ripped open by an object created almost by ...

Before Orthodoxy

A controversial episode in the life of the Prophet Muhammad concerns an incident in which he alle...

First European

Enlightenment thinkers, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, were the...

Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost

William Poole recounts Milton's life as England's self-elected national poet and explains how the...

Price of Aid

Debates over foreign aid can seem strangely innocent of history. Economists argue about effective...

Frontiers of Possession

Tamar Herzog asks how territorial borders were established in the early modern period and challen...

Burdens of Brotherhood

Winner of the J. Russell Major Prize, American Historical AssociationWinner of the David H. Pin...

Untold Story of the Talking Book

Histories of the book often move straight from the codex to the digital screen. Left out is nearl...