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This essay concerns a common rite of conviviality among the seventeenth-century Muscovite elite — the...
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The later seventeenth century was an era of unprecedented social mobility in the upper reaches...
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Among Western historians it is generally agreed that the "military revolution" spurred bureaucratization, and that...
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What has been called the early modern military revolution may be described most simply as...
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Like it or not, governments need to mobilize their populations in times of crisis and...
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My uncle fought in Vietnam. He flew F-105 Thundercheifs, or "Thuds." He bombed the heck...
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Many years ago I had the opportunity to spend a summer in Germany, more specifically...
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I have a friend who, as a young child, happened to meet Herbert Marcuse, by...
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When I was in college about a million years ago, we used to sit in...
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When I was young, I remember going to my high school library (not to study,...
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Memorial day is coming up, and maybe you are going to take a little car...
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When I was in high school, I really didn't go in for reading. Until, that...
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It's shocking and embarrassing how little I, as an American, know about Mexican history. Mexico...
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It's the classic historical question: Why did the Roman Empire fall? There are doubtless lots...
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How different is the United States from other nations? American leaders and common folk have...
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Most people know what "appeasement" is. You know, the Spanish Civil War, the Nazi Anschluss...
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I always assumed that the Jews who emigrated from Eastern Europe to New York and...
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Most everyone has heard of the Nuremberg Trials. Popular books have been written about them....
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When did Americans begin to think of marriage as "work," as in, "If you want...
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Ronald Reagan was a odd fellow. Nobody seems to know what to make of him....
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Gordon Brown, the British PM, came calling to Washington recently. He jumped the pond, of...
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First, the conventional wisdom. Because Homo sapiens are a young species and haven't had time...
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When we speak of the "Age of Discovery," we usually mean the later fifteenth and...
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In the Soviet Union, artists lived lives that were at once charmed and cursed. Though...
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My Midwestern high school was pretty typical. There were freaks, geeks, jocks, drama-types. Some were...
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Every Jew knows the story. The evil tsarist authorities ride into the Shtetl. They demand...
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Scholars argue about whether the Holocaust was unprecedented. It's a difficult question. On the one...
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The modern newspaper is not as old as you think. Until the early nineteenth century,...
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In just a few days, the United States will inaugurate its first black president, Senator...
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The vast majority of historians write history. Perhaps that's good, as one should stick to...
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There was a time when "history" was the history of powerful people. Shakespeare captures this...
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If you study pre-modern history in any depth, one of the most startling things you...
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If you ask me, the "white wedding" is the oddest thing. I'm a modern guy...
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While researching his Pulitzer-Prize-winning Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (with Mike...
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Did you ever wonder how we got from a moment in which almost everything on...
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The thing about empire building is that when you're done building one, you've got to...
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As some of you may be aware, there's a big election coming up. Yes, it's...
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If you ask most Americans when the U.S. became heavily involved in the Persian Gulf,...
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There are some topics that historians know not to touch. They are just too hot...
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It's curious how historical images become stereotyped over time. One hears the word "Nazi," and...
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Being "sent to Siberia" is practically a synonym for exile even in English-speaking countries. Why...
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U.S. forces invade a distant country in order to disarm an international threat to American...
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It's hard to know what to think about the Russian Revolution of 1917. Was it...
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"Swords and Sandals" movies always amaze me. You know the ones I'm talking about: "Spartacus,"...
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There is just something about Fidel Castro that American presidents don't like very much. Maybe...
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We don't think much about institutions. They just seem to "be there." But they have...
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When you were in college, did you visit the health center? I did, several times....
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Why did Reconstruction fail? Why didn't the post-war Federal government protect the civil rights of...
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The question of how we come to understand who we are--nationality-wise--is a thorny one. In...
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I confess I sometimes wonder where we got in the habit of proclaiming, usually with...
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Much has been written about Winston Churchill recently. Some love him, some hate him. But...
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People will often say that "this land"--wherever this land happens to be--is theirs because their...
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Tim Snyder has written a great book. It's called The Red Prince: The Secret Lives...
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Every so often I read a book that reminds me that things weren't at all...
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Today I'm very pleased to have Professor Walter Moss of Eastern Michigan University on the...
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Today we are happy to have Colin Grant on the show. Colin is that rare...
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A number of years ago I read Robert Service's excellent biography of Lenin and came...
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Today we have Professor Kimberly Jensen on the show. She teaches in the Department of...
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John Randolph, assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is our guest on...
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This week we have Professor Colin Gordon of the University of Iowa on the show...
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This week on New Books in History we interviewed Donald Ritchie about his new book...
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Today we're pleased to feature an interview with Robert Gellately of Florida State University. Professor...
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Today we talked with Eric Gardner, who is chair and professor of English at Saginaw...
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Today we talk to J. D. Bowers of Northern Illinois University about his book ...
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This week we talk to Matt Wasniewski. Matt is the historian and publications manager in...
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This week we feature an interview with Abigail Foerstner about her new book, James Van...
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Today we feature an interview with Kevin Mumford about his new book Newark. A...
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Welcome to New Books in History. In this, our inaugural podcast, we're honored to have...
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The Hive, The Atlantic monthly (2006)
Can thousands of Wikipedians be wrong? How an attempt to build an online encyclopedia touched...
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It’s a question I’ve long asked myself: Why and how did common soldiers fight for...
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You’ve heard of “Reconstruction,” that is, the reform of the South after the Civil War....
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Ever wonder where the term “populist” came from? It came from “Populism,” a nineteenth/early twentieth-century...
