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Lynn Hunt

Lynn Hunt is Distinguished Research Professor in History at the University of California at Los Angeles. Her books include Inventing Human Rights, Writing History in the Global Era, and, most recently, History: Why It Matters.  (November 2020)

Marie-Antoinette; unfinished portrait by Alexander Kucharsky, 1791–1792

Marie Antoinette: Why Was She So Hated?

How Marie Antoinette tried to save the monarchy.

Marie Antoinette’s World: Intrigue, Infidelity, and Adultery in Versailles

by Will Bashor

Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen

by John Hardman

November 5, 2020 issue

Jean-Léon Gérôme: Bonaparte Before the Sphinx, 1886

More Fraternité Than Liberté

A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution

by Jeremy D. Popkin

The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History

by Alexander Mikaberidze

March 26, 2020 issue

Jean-Baptiste Greuze: Portrait of Denis Diderot, eighteenth century

The Man Who Questioned Everything

Diderot started from a place that hardly any of his contemporaries ever reached.

Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely

by Andrew S. Curran

Catherine and Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment

by Robert Zaretsky

March 7, 2019 issue

Heads of owls, crows, and men resembling crows; drawing by Charles Le Brun, circa 1668–1678

Can a Chameleon Grieve?

1668: The Year of the Animal in France

by Peter Sahlins

May 10, 2018 issue

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