History

A Conversation with Taylor Branch A Conversation with Taylor Branch

MLK's biographer on presidents, politics, racial injustice, poverty and war.

Jan 18, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Wallace

Little Ships of Horror Little Ships of Horror

Marcus Rediker's breathtaking "human history" of the slave ship reveals how the transatlantic slave trade demeaned everyone it touched.

Jan 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Leslie Brown

Battle Pieces Battle Pieces

In This Republic of Suffering, historian Drew Gilpin Faust strips from the Civil War any purpose beyond massive slaughter.

Jan 10, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner

United We Scam United We Scam

Two new books profile the generation of counterfeiters and con men who sprouted up in Jacksonian-era America.

Jan 10, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Steve Fraser

Christianizing US History Christianizing US History

With House Resolution 888, the religious right seeks to rewrite American history, turning the founding fathers from deists to Christian fundamentalists.

Jan 10, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Chris Hedges

Castro Helps Chavez Avert a Coup Castro Helps Chavez Avert a Coup

An excerpt from Fidel Castro: My Life, a spoken autobiography.

Jan 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / The Nation

Dark Rooms Dark Rooms

Susie Linfield | The photographers who documented the Spanish Civil War captured the heart of battle in ways that now seem iconic but were then radically new.

Nov 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Susie Linfield

Terra Incognita Terra Incognita

A mosaic of anecdotes and historical snapshots surveys the sociological diversity of France, past and present.

Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Ruth Scurr

Moyers & FDR Moyers & FDR

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was President, my father knew he had a friend in the White House. We should rekindle that spirit today.

Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Bill Moyers

The Thinking Person’s Reader’s Digest The Thinking Person’s Reader’s Digest

Lapham's Quarterly makes its debut, seeking to explain the present with illuminations from the past.

Nov 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Evan Cornog

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