For better or worse, most icons of literary history have a reputation of being gratuitous imbibers. These famous authors ...

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Christopher Hill’s work on 17th-century England has been remarkably influential. In books like The World Turned Upside Down, ...

Now everything must change. That kind of knowledge production has, in effect, been automated. As a result, the “scientistic” ...

From the first world war to the invasion of Iraq, left-wing soldiers have questioned our involvement in wars. Yet we rarely ...

I like to help my fellow Westerners understand China by comparing it to our own history. The Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476 AD, leading to the Middle Ages — a time of political fragmentation, ...

and the American History Essay contests. The theme of the 2024-2025 JAC contest was “Sailing with the Stars and Stripes to Celebrate the 250th Birthday of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.” ...