Joseph Michael Finger, who wrote the introduction to Robert Hudec's classic Developing Countries in the GATT Legal System, discusses how the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) tears developing countries apart—with a unique comparison to Robert Louis Stevenson.
Paul Bernal, the author of Internet Privacy Rights, breaks down the brave new world of the right to privacy in an online age. Google and Facebook have put our Internet privacy concerns front and center—but is there a solution in sight?
Before the conflict of World War I and the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, Europe was a very different place. Can you solve the puzzle below to assemble a map of Europe in 1914? Look out for the German Empire and Austria-Hungary, and good luck finding Poland!
Join the conversation: James Seaton, the author of Literary Criticism from Plato to Postmodernism outlines the debate on today's literary criticism and what approach we should take to discussing the literature of the past.
Submarine warfare was crucial to Allied victory in World War I. In this excerpt from The Great War at Sea, Lawrence Sondhaus unveils the Great War beyond the trenches.
Rosalind Grooms pulls An Outline History of the Great War out of the Press Archive and tells the fascinating story behind it.
It’s not too late to submit! Hurry—our summer astrophotography contest closes in three weeks. You could win $125 worth of Cambridge astronomy books of your choice. Whether you’re an experienced...
"Food Will Win the War!" the U.S. Food Administration proclaimed. Instructing the folks at home to cut back on their wheat and meat intake meant more food to fuel the soldiers overseas. But how to make it through those Meatless Tuesdays and Wheatless Wednesdays before 1920? Take a stab at these recipes for the experience of WWI at home.
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.
If 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.
The 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.
Tyler Lange, the author of The First French Reformation, traces European political thought through the 15th to 17th centuries in search of continuity.