This Month's Magazine
In the September issue:
- Himmler's Witch Hunt
- Life on the Mississippi
- Keeping India Cool
- Enemies of the Habsburgs
- History in Ruins
- History of Borek
- The Beard Maketh the Man
- What Counts as a Concentration Camp?
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Selected articles from this issue
The Third Reich’s obsession with a pure Germanic past led to a renewed interest in the witch hunts of early modern Germany.
Mark Twain painted an evocative vision of the Mississippi River, but he didn’t tell the whole story.
Sweltering British imperialists relied on an army of fan bearers, whose stories are as invisible as the air they circulated.
During the Renaissance, the beard was the defining feature of a man.