Convenience as we now know it is a product of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when labor-saving devices for the […]
We entered the war against Germany in 1941, but not because they were Nazis. We did so because the Japanese had attacked […]
We imagine the villains of history as cunning strategists, brilliant masterminds of horror. This happens because we learn about them from history […]
All history is retrospective. We’re always looking at the past through the lens of later developments. How else could we see it? […]
The Shoah, it seems, has come to be read for portents and interpretation as much as for history itself. Yet one reason […]
Magna Carta’s unusual legacy in the United States is a matter of political history. But it also has to do with the […]
Fraenkel’s approach would seem to create an unbridgeable chasm between historical writing and other sorts of literature, with Rabbinic tales irrevocably in […]
When a version of a myth is told (orally or in writing), it is always an account of the past in intimate […]
There is often a tension between the quest for historical truth and the desire of communities of faith to pass on their […]
Journalism and history are about getting things right. But the past has many uses, and one of them is to inspire the […]
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