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Covers of popular history books.

Who Is History For?

What happens when radical historians write for the public.
by David Waldstreicher via Boston Review on July 25, 2023
Symbols of the American Civil War and Slavery against the backdrop of London and British Parliament

The Hunt for Judah P. Benjamin, the Spy Chief of the Confederacy

Suspected of orchestrating the Lincoln assassination, the South’s most prominent Jew escaped to London to start a new life as a high-powered lawyer.
by Jay Soliman, Jane Singer via Tablet on June 22, 2023
Barbie dolls in 1959 wearing the zebra-striped swimsuit.

A Cultural History of Barbie

Loved and loathed, the toy stirs fresh controversy at age 64.
by Emily Tamkin via Smithsonian on May 18, 2023
Shemp Howard and Tiny Brauer in "Fling in the Ring"

The House Next Door to the Stooges

A visit to the old neighborhood.
by Robin Hemley via Turning Life into Fiction on May 17, 2023
Harry Truman, left, holds a copy of the Torah presented to him by Israeli leader Chaim Weizmann in May 1948.

How A U.S. President Known to Disparage Jews Became Godfather of Israel

Harry Truman used antisemitic slurs in private. But his surprise decision 75 years ago to recognize Israel, launching a fierce alliance, was a long time coming.
by Gordon F. Sander via Retropolis on May 13, 2023
Painting of Noritoshi Kanai and Harry Wolff Jr. and various sushi preparations, by Yuko Shimizu.

How Two Friends Sparked L.A.’s Sushi Obsession — and Changed the Way America Eats

An unlikely pair of Southern California businessmen paved the way for the sushi revolution in Los Angeles, upending American dining — and their own lives.
by Daniel Miller via Los Angeles Times on May 3, 2023
The Supreme Court building.

Everything We Know about the History of Diversity Is Wrong

And historians aren't exactly helping in the Harvard case currently before the Supreme Court.
by Charles Petersen via Making History on March 19, 2023
Kanye West rapping.

Kanye and the Troubling History of Persistent Antisemitism

Past and present celebrities influence on the maintaining of antisemitism.
by Bradley W. Hurt via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on March 7, 2023
Black and white illustration of immigrants on a boat sailing into the harbor next to the Statue of Liberty.

How Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe Were Introduced to Whiteness

That status has been taken as obvious, then questioned, then reasserted over the decades.
by Emily Tamkin via Literary Hub on November 3, 2022

A Brief History of One of the Most Powerful Families in New York City: The Morgenthaus

An excerpt from a new book on the so-called "Jewish Kennedys."
by Andrew Meier via Literary Hub on October 17, 2022
Black-and-white collage style poster for the Jewish Museum

Fuzz! Junk! Rumble!

A show at the Jewish Museum surveys three eventful years of art, film, and performance in New York City—and the political upheavals that defined them.
by J. Hoberman via New York Review of Books on October 10, 2022
Lucille Walker, a domestic servant, holding a child on a suburban lawn.

Living in White Spaces: Suburbia's Hidden Histories

The Black women and men who worked and slept in white homes are mostly invisible in the histories of suburbia.
by David S. Rotenstein via The Metropole on October 10, 2022
Picture of a cross necklace over a suit.

The Faith and Its Keepers

In the 1990s, liberal intellectuals complained that evangelicals were moralistic on political questions. Now the complaint is reversed.
by D. G. Hart via The Wall Street Journal on October 4, 2022
The Supreme Court Building in the nation's capital.

A Family’s Journey From a School Prayer Dispute to the Supreme Court

The Weisman family objected to religious prayers at a 1986 school graduation. The case went to the Supreme Court, which is again ruling on prayer in schools.
by Linda K. Wertheimer via Retropolis on June 20, 2022
Collage of photos of musicians.

How a Saxophonist Tricked the KGB by Encrypting Secrets in Music

Using a custom encryption scheme based on musical notation, US musicians smuggled information into and out of the USSR.
by Lily Hay Newman via Wired on June 8, 2022
The first two panels of "Nazi Death Parade," a six-panel comic depicting the mass murder of Jews at a Nazi concentration camp August Maria Froehlich / Arco Publishing Company.

The Holocaust-Era Comic That Brought Americans Into the Nazi Gas Chambers

In early 1945, a six-panel comic in a U.S. pamphlet offered a visceral depiction of the Third Reich's killing machine.
by Esther Bergdahl via Smithsonian on May 24, 2022
Various photos of Dylan.

One Fan’s Search for Seeds of Greatness in Bob Dylan’s Hometown

The iconic songwriter has transcended time and place for 60 years. What should that mean for the rest of us?
by T. M. Shine via Washington Post Magazine on April 18, 2022
African-American man holding a medical bag, posing behind horse-drawn carriage.

Doctors Without Borders

On the Black doctors who received their medical degrees and a new sort of freedom in Europe.
by Deirdre Mask via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 7, 2022
Illustration of John von Neumann surrounded by mathematical formulas, by Valentin Pavageau

John von Neumann Thought He Had the Answers

The father of game theory helped develop the atom bomb—and thought he could calculate when to use it.
by Samanth Subramanian via The New Republic on March 8, 2022
Whoopi Goldberg overlaid with black and white stripes on red background

Whoopi Goldberg’s American Idea of Race

The “racial” distinctions between master and slave may be more familiar to Americans, but they were and are no more real than those between Gentile and Jew.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on February 3, 2022
Meir Kahane

Is Kahane More Mainstream than American Jews will Admit?

A new biography explores the American roots of Meir Kahane's far-right ideology — and how the U.S. Jewish establishment embraced his beliefs.
by Hadas Binyamini via +972 Magazine on December 30, 2021
Comedian Charlie Hill on stage with a microphone.

‘Part of Why We Survived’

Is there something in particular about coming from a Native background that makes a person want to write and perform comedy?
by Ian Frazier via New York Review of Books on December 23, 2021
Cartoon of a large Ronald Reagan leaning on a small Jimmy Carter.

The Surprising Greatness of Jimmy Carter

A conversation with presidential biographers Jonathan Alter and Kai Bird.
by Jonathan Alter, Timothy Noah, Kai Bird via Washington Monthly on November 8, 2021
Muhammad Ali

The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics

It’s never just about religion, says the author of a book about celebrities discovering new religious identities.
by Rebecca L. Davis, Eric C. Miller via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on October 19, 2021
Man Ray looking through a frame.

Man Ray’s Slow Fade From the Limelight

Man Ray made art that looked like the future. How did he become a minor figure?
by Jeremy Lybarger via The New Republic on October 7, 2021
Photo: "Mother Bird Protecting Her Young"

Motherhood at the End of the World

"My job as your mother is to tell you these stories differently, and to tell you other stories that don’t get told at school.”
by Julietta Singh via The Paris Review on September 1, 2021
A photo of Harrison Post.

“In 1934, My Life Snapped”

Hollywood has long abused conservatorships. I spent the past decade studying one of the darkest cases.
by Liz Brown via Slate on July 19, 2021
German American Bund members
partner

The Long History of American Nazism — And Why We Can’t Forget it Today

Even as the United States mobilized to defeat Nazi Germany, anti-democratic forces simmered at home.
by Ronald J. Granieri, Susan Elia MacNeal via Made By History on July 13, 2021
Demonstrators holding signs and Palestinian flag

‘We Know Occupation’: The Long History of Black Americans’ Solidarity with Palestinians

Why the Black Lives Matter movement might help shift the conversation about a conflict thousands of miles away.
by Sam Klug via Politico Magazine on May 30, 2021
Stephen Kinzer

The Untold Story of the CIA’s MK Ultra: A Conversation with Stephen Kinzer

Stephen Kinzer discusses his new biography, “Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.”
by Stephen Kinzer, James Penner, Ed Prideaux via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 19, 2021
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