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What It Felt Like

If “living history” role-plays in the classroom can so easily go wrong, why do teachers keep assigning them?

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 20, 2019

How Americans Described Evil Before Hitler

Commentators compared the Nazi leader to Napoleon, Philip of Macedon, and Nebuchadnezzar.

by Gavriel Rosenfeld via The Atlantic on October 9, 2018

Portrait of young Bundists seated and standing

My Great-Grandfather the Bundist

Family paintings led me to a revolutionary society my mother’s grandfather was a member of and whose story was interwoven with Eastern European Jews.

by Molly Crabapple via New York Review of Books on October 6, 2018

Image of a person being affected by chemical weapons.

Why We Don’t Use Chemical Weapons

World War I exposed the world to the horror of gas attacks. But why do we draw the line there when other methods of killing prove so much more effective?

by Emil Friis Ernst via The Nib on July 30, 2018

Timothy Snyder’s Bleak Vision

"The Road to Unfreedom," Timothy Snyder's book on Russian influence around the world, is built on contradiction and conspiracy.

by Sophie Pinkham via The Nation on May 3, 2018

Haunted by History

War, famine and persecution inflict profound changes on bodies and brains. Could these changes persist over generations?

by Pam Weintraub via Aeon on April 18, 2018

The 100 Pages That Shaped Comics

From Mickey to Maus, tracing the evolution of the pictures, panels, and text that brought comic books to life.

by Jeet Heer, Abraham Josephine Riesman, Sarah Boxer, Heidi MacDonald, Fred Van Lente, Brian Cronin, Charles Hatfield, Christopher Spaide, Joshua Rivera, Klaus Janson, Mark Morales, Richard Starkings via Vulture on April 16, 2018

An open book.

Periodicals Are Reassessing Their Pasts. It’s Time for Publishers to Do the Same

For decades, book publishers regularly rejected authors on the basis of their race and religion. Their voices deserve to be heard.

by Yuliya Komska via Made By History on March 22, 2018

The Magic Mountain of Yiddish

Jacob Glatstein’s 1930s Yiddish novel ‘Homecoming at Twilight’ foresaw the coming doom.

by Dara Horn via Tablet on November 13, 2017

History is Not There to be Liked: On Historical Memory, Real and Fake

Historians have the uncomfortable role of shattering people’s memories.

by Jason Steinhauer via Foreign Policy Research Institute on September 15, 2017

Bryan Stevenson Explains How It Feels To Grow Up Black Amid Confederate Monuments

"I think we have to increase our shame — and I don't think shame is a bad thing."

by Ezra Klein, Bryan Stevenson via Vox on May 24, 2017

Painting "Open Casket" by Dana Schultz

Dana Schutz’s ‘Open Casket’

Should white artists be allowed to depict black suffering?

by Adam Shatz via LRB blog on March 24, 2017

Hitler's American Dream

The dictator modeled his racial campaign after another conquest of land and people-America's Manifest Destiny.

by Timothy Snyder via Slate on March 8, 2017

How American's Rejection of Jews Fleeing Nazi Germany Haunts Our Refugee Policy Today

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it's important to remember why America welcomes refugees.

by Dara Lind via Vox on January 27, 2017

Mrs. Roosevelt's Revolution

In the wake of the Second World War, Eleanor Roosevelt seized the moment and gave lasting life to the idea of universal human rights.

by Brian Urquhart via New York Review of Books on April 26, 2001

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