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
How important is the study of the powerful, epoch-defining individual?
Public monuments have become sites of historical conflict, revealing bitter divisions over interpretations of the past.
A celebrated dish of the Ottoman Empire that spread far and wide.
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.
An alliance between Louis XIV and a Transylvanian prince was just one aspect of the Sun King’s ambition to dominate Europe.
The changing fates of one of France’s grandest castles are a microcosm for its history.
Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrived in Los Angeles on 8 September 1916
Even for Nazi camp survivors who sought to eradicate them, they were hard to define.
During the Renaissance, the beard was the defining feature of a man.
Beaverbrook’s radical vision and prominent platform gave him enormous political sway.
For Louis, the conversion of Muslims to Christianity, ideally by peaceful means, was important.
The story of a Gutenberg Bible, from 15th century Mainz to Keio University, Tokyo.
The Southern Ocean was the last quadrant of the globe to be ‘discovered’ by Europeans.
A remarkable political career suggests that social mobility is of benefit to us all.
Which moment would I most like to go back to? Berlin at the end of the First World War.
We should take more notice of the work of those once despised and disregarded.