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Linda Colley

Linda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton. Her latest book is Acts of Union and Disunion: What Has Held the UK Together—and What Is Dividing It?  . (June 2017)

An Open Letter to Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, and Donald Tusk, President of the European Council

March 21, 2019 issue

Benjamin West: Death on the Pale Horse, 1817

What Gets Called ‘Civil War’?

David Armitage’s ‘Civil Wars: A History in Ideas’

Civil Wars: A History in Ideas

by David Armitage

June 8, 2017 issue

Philip James de Loutherbourg: The Battle of the Nile, 1800

Facing Napoleon’s Own EU

In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793–1815

by Jenny Uglow

November 5, 2015 issue

A Tale of Two Empires

Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830

by J.H. Elliott

July 17, 2008 issue

The Sea Around Us

Atlantic History: Concept and Contours

by Bernard Bailyn

The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640–1661

by Carla Gardina Pestana

June 22, 2006 issue

Tough Guys

From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity

by Leo Braudy

May 13, 2004 issue

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