Longread
Past Tense
The historical novel isn’t cool. Popular? Yes. Enduring? Yes. A bit, well — for nerds? Also yes. Coolness lies in being at the right place at the right time.
Argument
Don’t Be So Quick to Laud Woodrow Wilson
An effort is underway to restore President Wilson’s reputation as a great reformer. His best reforms were won by a mass movement, often pushing against Wilson.
Q&A
Generating the Age of Revolutions
Age of Revolutions was happy to interview Nathan Perl-Rosenthal about his new book, entitled 'The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It.'
TV Review
The Real History Behind Apple TV+'s 'Manhunt' and the Search for Abraham Lincoln's Killer
A new series dramatizes Edwin Stanton's hunt for John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators in the aftermath of the president’s 1865 assassination.
Profile
The Atomic Bomb, Exile and a Test of Brotherly Bonds: Robert and Frank Oppenheimer
A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent the brothers on diverging paths. For one, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public.
Longread
Sorting the Self
The self has never been more securely an object of classification than it is today.
Retrieval
Rings of Fire
Arsenic cycles through racism and empire in the Americas.