An anthropologist investigates how archaeology helped the U.S. colonize the Panama Canal Zone—just as the current U.S. government threatens to retake it.
While the most horrific acts of injustice in German courtrooms may have occurred during the reign of Hitler, in many ways the courts had been corrupted by right-wing extremism years before, and helped facilitate his rise to power.
This book looks at previously under examined aspects of Arendt's thinking, especially regarding issues of love, gender, and race, in order to probe more deeply into the work of one of the 20th century's most celebrated political thinkers.
Manisha Sinha’s history of Reconstruction sheds fresh light on the period that fleetingly opened a door to a different America.
This refusal to learn is the shadow of the Vietnam War that hangs over us now as our nation appears to be losing its soul and the Trump regime demonstrates not only how to ignore history but how to erase it, as if it’s an easily edited website.
In mapping the Palestinian history and culture that persists despite Israeli suppression, Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson display a strength of purpose and a promise of hope.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which began 82 years ago today, is now hailed as a bold act of Jewish resistance against the Nazis. But at the time, many Poles watched — or cheered — as the ghetto burned. The parallels with Gaza are hard to ignore.
Taking George Orwell's classic text, 1984, as her foundation, poet Rebecca Foust asks where the current regime is taking us.
The untold story of America’s hidden role in Ukrainian military operations against Russia’s invading armies.
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War, the largest European uprising before the French Revolution, in which peasants seized upon the radical implications of Martin Luther’s theology to challenge a hierarchical social order
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