What are the Enduring Legacies of the American Civil War?
What did the violence in the bloodiest conflict in US history yield in the postwar era?
Volume 69 Issue 8 August 2019
Memories of a Massacre
It is the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre. How have the events of that day been remembered?
Doctoring the Ladies
Although not allowed to study at university, women in 18th-century England still found ways to join – and challenge – the scholarly world.
Masters and Mamluks: Islam’s Slave Soldiers
The military elite of the medieval and early modern Muslim world consisted of men who had been captured and forced into service. But to what extent were the janissaries and their predecessors subject to slavery?
Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Nightmare
During the Cold War, nearly a quarter of all the world’s nuclear testing took place in Kazakhstan, in secret. In 1986, a high-profile disaster in Ukraine changed that.
Oil and Water: How Iran Lost the Tanker War
The Strait of Hormuz became a fraught passage in the Tanker War between Iran and Iraq. Nevertheless, the oil continued to flow.