Jeffrey Herf, Norman J. W. Goda, Alon Confino, David Feldman, et al. An Exchange on Holocaust Memory Is the history of Nazism and the Holocaust a useful point of comparison for Hamas’s crimes, or a false analogy? December 8, 2023
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Finding My Roots The storytellers who taught me over the course of my career all knew how to bring Black history vividly to life. September 29, 2023
Cristina Florea Ukraine’s Long Self-Determination Ukrainians have declared their independence five times—each time, defining their nation anew. December 7, 2022
E. Tammy Kim Big Stories, Little Stories “One thing I almost always do, across genres and subjects, is go places and call people.” May 14, 2022
Nick Laird The Hidden Crime “When murderers are rehabilitated without admissions of guilt, and history’s rewritten, a new and awful reality occurs.” March 19, 2022
Odd Arne Westad The Long Shadow of Nuclear War Putin has issued a stark reminder that the architecture of the atomic arms race was never dismantled. But his cold-war superpower gambit won’t win the war in Ukraine. March 18, 2022
R.H. Lossin William Morris, Romantic Revolutionary The utopia envisioned in his novel News from Nowhere harked back to precapitalist society, yet nothing could be more radically forward-looking than its dream of a world without exploitation. July 31, 2021
Sean Wilentz Bob Dylan, Historian Across the six decades of his career, the singer-songwriter has mined America’s past for images, characters, and events that speak to the nation’s turbulent present. June 19, 2021
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Naming New York City The words we use to refer to streets, buildings, and public places make maps of meaning across the city. March 24, 2021
Uki Goñi The Hidden History of Black Argentina A century of European immigration brought with it a comprehensive effort to erase the country’s multiracial past. Only recently has that been reversed. February 8, 2021