Volume 67 Issue 2 February 2017
Portrait of the Author as a Historian: Toni Morrison
The dead, white, male canon has not merely stifled African-American history so much as smothered it. One author has spent her career grappling with the problem of America’s whitewashed past, writes Alexander Lee.
No Island is an Island
The world does not influence Britain’s native culture, the world is its culture, as anyone with a grasp of the country’s history will understand, argues Suzannah Lipscomb.
Talkin’ ’bout a revolution
The meaning of revolution is ever-changing. David Armitage shows how events in recent history have caused a revolution in the meaning of revolution.
Pain behind the Pleasure: the Italian Social Republic
Salò was Mussolini’s German-backed experiment in ‘real Fascism’ and fine living. Italians find it hard to come to terms with its legacy.
Turkey’s First Coup: The 1926 Plot to Assassinate Atatürk
Turkey has a long history of coups, but the failed İzmir plot to assassinate Atatürk in 1926 had a lasting impact. One foreign journalist recorded the reprisals that followed with admiration – which soon turned to fear.
The Forgotten Women of Archaeology
Behind the traditional story of archaeology, with its pith-helmeted Victorian gentlemen, are the equally important yet neglected stories of its female pioneers.
The Civil Wars’ Troubled Waters
The often overlooked importance of maritime affairs on the course of the Civil Wars.
Vietnam Before The War
Vietnamese national identity has been forged in opposition to foreign invaders. But while a united Vietnam is a recent development, the country has long been coloniser as well as colonised.
The Map: The Road from London to Dover, 1675
A look at John Ogilby's Britannia road atlas.