Michael A. Livingston, the author of The Fascists and the Jews of Italy, draws parallels between Mussolini's Italian Race Laws and sentiment about immigration through the ages—from the Jim Crow American South to today's Europe.
Read MoreIf you enjoyed Craig Gibson's post last Monday on researching life in the trenches in WWI, take a look at the introduction to his book, Behind the Front, and get the full story about Major Arthur Murray Jarvis.
Read MoreThe author of The United States, Italy and the Origins of Cold War: Waging Political Warfare discusses how the case of Italy in the early years of the cold war helped set the stage for over half a century of U.S. interventions abroad.
Read MoreTyler Lange, the author of The First French Reformation, traces European political thought through the 15th to 17th centuries in search of continuity.
Read MoreIn this excerpt from his new book July Crisis, T.G. Otte reflects on the year 1914 as the beginning of the greatest war in world history. The events in Europe that July catapulted nations around the globe into a years-long conflict that continues to define national identity, international relations, and global culture.
Read MoreRobert E. May, the author of Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics, sat down with us to discuss the complex causes of the Civil War, including the little-studied debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas about slavery’s expansion into Latin American territory. His book was finalist for the 2014 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.
Read MoreCraig Gibson, the author of Behind the Front, describes the arduous process of historical research and takes us inside an unexpected breakthrough.
Read MoreDavid A. Schweidel, the co-author of Social Media Intelligence, outlines the terms of service we agree to when we search in Google, log in to Facebook, and Tweet, and how today's social media innovators may be invading our privacy and learning more about us than we'd like.
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