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Visions of a world organization armed with its own air force, imposing international law and order through high-tech aeroplanes, may sound like a science-fiction fantasy, straight from the books of H.G. Wells or movies and shows such as Avengers or Thunderbirds. My new book, Technological Internationalism and World Order: Aviation, Atomic Energy, and the Search […]
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Debate concerning anachronism has long vexed historical interpretation. Forms of anachronism are often declared the greatest failure, almost a moral sin, that a historian can commit. Yet, many have spoken in favor of anachronism, considering it either as an inevitable, or even as a desirable feature of an historical work.
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In 1829, Ohio’s state legislators made an announcement that reverberated through African American communities across the nation. Responding to white discomfort over the state’s growing free Black population, they announced that Ohio’s longstanding Black Laws would be enforced, effective the following year. Largely ignored and unused since they first went on the books in 1804 […]
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So said former CIA Director R. James Woolsey to the House Armed Services Committee in 1999, channeling what had become a consensus about Iraq in the U.S. foreign policy establishment by the end of the 1990s: that Saddam Hussein could no longer be contained because he was fixated on shedding sanctions and inspections, rebuilding his […]
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What did it mean to be a prince in the Middle Ages? During the Hundred Years’ War (c. 1337–1453), the kingdom of France contained a number of powerful duchies and counties, such as Brittany in the west, Burgundy to the east, and Armagnac down south. These principalities were technically subservient to the French king, but […]
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The following is a Press Release prepared by Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings for Nobel Life: Conversations with 24 Nobel Laureates on their life stories, advice for future generations and what remains to be discovered by Stefano Sandrone
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What can we gain, as historians, if we look closely at the history of refugees in Britain? In my new book I argue that it can illuminate all sorts of unexpected areas of British life, society, and government, and how it has changed over time. How? Well. Refugees are awkward. Their arrivals are typically unpredictable […]
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