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November 28, 2024The Rutgers professor T.J. Jackson Lears is one of the most original historians of our time—so original, in fact, that it is hard to say exactly what he is a...
August 5, 2024Almost half a century ago, the historian of China Ray Huang wrote a profound, eccentric book called 1587: A Year of No Significance. Studying the emperor and half a dozen of his...
May 14, 2024The line between role model and reprobate runs through the middle of every human heart. Eighty-three-year-old Pete Rose, banished from baseball in 1989 for betting on sports, now...
February 14, 2024Anyone who lived through the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 will remember the pitiable figure cut by the Eastern Bloc residents interviewed back then. They looked stunned,...
