History - Quillette (Page 7)

Shawls, Books, and Bombs

Reflections on Polish resistance.

Ben Sixsmith

19 Aug 2022 · 8 min read

Indigenous Activists Are Targeting My Research. My Own University Is Helping Them

Academics who study ancient Paleoindian populations are increasingly being denied access to skeletons, artifacts, and even old x-rays and research reports. We need to start fighting back

Elizabeth Weiss

18 Aug 2022 · 10 min read

The Roads Not Taken

A new book by Orlando Figes explores the role of Russian history in the Ukranian war.

John Lloyd

12 Aug 2022 · 10 min read

Assault in Alabama

Revisiting the attack on Nat King Cole.

Thomas Doherty

22 Jul 2022 · 10 min read

Slavery and Steam

The dangers of forfeiting societal sustainability.

David Foster

21 Jul 2022 · 7 min read

The Classically Greek Roots of Civilizational Self-Doubt

The Greeks were the first of all peoples to look at themselves in the mirror.

Benedict Beckeld

13 Jul 2022 · 10 min read

Troubadour at War

Leonard Cohen’s visit to Israel in its darkest hour.

Ari David Blaff

7 Jul 2022 · 8 min read

The Opposite of Junk

A dozen journals left to us by my wife’s Scottish grandmother were destined for the recycling bin—until we took a look at what was inside.

Herman Goodden

2 Jul 2022 · 11 min read

Science and Civil Liberties: The Lost ACLU Lecture of Carl Sagan

Around 1987, Sagan gave an uncannily prescient lecture to the Illinois state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Steven Pinker / Harvey Silverglate

1 Jul 2022 · 15 min read

The Alchemist Emperor of Prague

As the Holy Roman Empire descended into religious conflicts, its Habsburg ruler surrounded himself with magicians, astrologers, and scryers.

Martyn Rady

27 May 2022 · 8 min read

Conquering a Balkan Blood Feud—in Bovey, Minnesota

An American family descended from Serbian and Croatian immigrants finds a way to overcome old-world hatreds.

Jon Zobenica

23 May 2022 · 15 min read

Israel’s Perilous Moment, Then and Now

Herf tells the complicated and often surprising story of the internal political struggles in Western capitals, as well as in the halls of the United Nations, that erupted at the end of the Second World War.

Sol Stern

18 May 2022 · 14 min read

The Tragedy of American Diplomacy: A Rebuttal

Williams, W. A. (1962). The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. New York: Dell Pub. Co. When the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) pinned Putin’s recent invasion of Ukraine on NATO’s “imperialist expansionism,” many policymakers and journalists on both sides of the political spectrum lambasted the organization for its half-hearted

Niranjan Shankar

6 May 2022 · 15 min read

The Aztec Way of Empire

Six imperial rulers expanded the Mexica domain from 1430 until 1519, until the Spaniards first set foot in Tenochtitlan and disrupted the Aztec imperial agenda.

Frances F. Berdan

2 May 2022 · 11 min read

Putinism and the Stalinist Legacy

From the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, justifications offered for Moscow’s aggression must have struck most non-Russian observers as unrealistic, to say the least. Many observers were incredulous that any educated Russian could possibly believe Putin’s claim that Ukraine required “denazification and demilitarization,” or that the country

Tomislav Kardum

26 Apr 2022 · 7 min read