Today’s featured articles
The life and thought of Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, and the competing claims for his legacy.
During the Holocaust, one Italian hospital’s invented disease helped save Jews and anti-fascists from the occupying Nazis.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini became a lightning rod for the mass protests which overthrew the Shah of Iran in 1979, but the causes of the Iranian Revolution lay elsewhere.
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
Sarah Wise’s The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation lays bare the cruelty and injustice of the Mental Deficiency Act of 1913.
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
A tour of Europe cemented Ronald Reagan’s reputation as an international statesman and helped secure his re-election.
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
In The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East Barnaby Rogerson seeks geopolitical answers for ideological conflicts.
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
History is built with words. How have historians filled the silence that came before?
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
Age of Wolf and Wind: Voyages through the Viking World by Davide Zori proves that if you want to understand the Vikings, you need to rove just as far.
The Indian Citizenship Act
The decision to make Native Americans citizens of the United States was not straightforwardly progressive.
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
Sea of Troubles by Ian Rutledge and The Damascus Events by Eugene Rogan watch as the ‘sick man of Europe’ turns violent.
Inventing Cyrillic
The Cyrillic alphabet is celebrated across the Slavonic-speaking world, but not only as an appreciation of literacy – it has a political dimension too.
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D-Day deceptions and war reporters, James I’s first year on the English throne, the allure of the Via Appia, Jack the Ripper and Victorian dark tourism, and the Treaty of Todesillas.
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