In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Here’s something remarkable: at some point in the future, something you believe to be just fine will

Try to imagine having never seen an airplane. It’s hard. Aircraft are an ordinary part of our daily

I have a (much beloved) colleague who calls all history about things before AD 1900 “that old stuff.

I have a good friend who grew up in East Germany in the bad old days. The East German authorities su

In the 1940s, the United States military performed an “experiment,” the substance of which was the f

Historians don’t generally like the idea of “human nature.” We tend to believe that people are intri

The past is always with us, but it’s really always with politicians. Once you put yourself up for of

Sometimes when you win you lose. That’s called a Pyrrhic victory. But sometimes when you lose you wi

Here’s something I learned by reading Joel Wolfe’s terrific Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search

There’s a concept I find myself coming back to again and again–“speciation.” It’s drawn from the voc

When I was in high school I had several friends who went to Wichita’s only prep school. They were ni

This is the first in a series of podcasts that New Books in History is offering in conjunction with

It’s hard to be a Christian. It’s even harder to be a good Christian. But being a good Christian on

Ever wonder where the term “populist” came from? It came from “Populism,” a nineteenth/early twentie

Like it or not, governments need to mobilize their populations in times of crisis and one of the way

When I was in college about a million years ago, we used to sit in bars and talk about the Revolutio

In the Soviet Union, artists lived lives that were at once charmed and cursed. Though relatively poo

There was a time when “history” was the history of powerful people. Shakespeare captures this notion

If you study pre-modern history in any depth, one of the most startling things you will discover is

There is just something about Fidel Castro that American presidents don’t like very much. Maybe it’s