Today we begin to look at more recent works that influenced us — at least “recent” in historians’ […]

“Surely the greatest book ever written about a city.” – David Halberstam Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: […]

Daniel T. Rodgers, Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics since Independence This book is one that I suspected […]

Edward Said, Orientalism, 1978 Edward Said’s seminal Orientalism is without a doubt a massively influential work that grad […]

Ahhh summer. If you are not melting on the East Coast or Southeast then hopefully you are relaxing […]

As the combined impact of climate change and the sweltering plague known as Atlanta in August settles upon […]