Nation Topics - History | The Nation

The values of the market have come to permeate every aspect of our society.

When it comes to the distant past, there’s a lot we don’t know about what occurred sexually.

Is the current financial crisis a problem of liquidity or one of solvency?

A book by the famous British historian was not published in Russia because the Moscow publisher discovered too many errors and misrepresentations—not, as Figes suggested, for political reasons.

A postwar German novelist’s complicated legacy.

Rodric Braithwaite, Jonathan Steele and Artemy Kalinovsky analyze the forgotten history of Afghan communism and the Soviet occupation.

Norman Davies’s Vanished Kingdoms.

Opposites collapse in the work of the Shaman-Showman of contemporary Italian art.

The use of food as a weapon during World War II.

Dale Carpenter's exceptional account of the history of Lawrence v. Texas.