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HistoryFebruary 25, 2016
Missionaries of the Middle East
How 19th-century American evangelicals came to have second thoughts about doing missionary work in the Ottoman empire.
Nicholas Guyatt
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HistoryNovember 7, 2012
A Peculiar Revolt: On Marcus Rediker’s ‘The Amistad Rebellion’
Public sympathies and political outcomes over the Amistad Africans drifted in opposite directions.
Nicholas Guyatt
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CultureJune 7, 2011
A Test of Loyalties: The Exiles of the American Revolution
Between a fifth and a third of the white population remained loyal to Britain in 1776. Why?
Nicholas Guyatt
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CultureMay 26, 2010
Movement and Rootedness
Ira Berlin and Steven Hahn want to counter the ways that the integrationist story of the American past casts aside alternative understandings of black history.
Nicholas Guyatt
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HistoryJune 3, 2009
Orchids and Lilacs: Darwin, Lincoln and Slavery
What are the intellectual costs of recasting Lincoln and Darwin into heroes for our troubled times?
Nicholas Guyatt
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TelevisionMay 29, 2008
Adams Ribbed
A John Adams portrait seen through the sympathetic lens of HBO is more than the historical figure ever hoped for.
Nicholas Guyatt
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HistorySeptember 20, 2006
Father Knows Best
Have you attacked the Founding Fathers lately? Know anyone who has? Gordon Wood knows you’re out there, on a campaign to dehumanize Washington, Jefferson and their peers.
Nicholas Guyatt