Recent News

• Steven Mintz, author of The Prime of Life , took the long view on the ever-evolving nature of “adulthood” —when it begins and what responsibilities, joys, and stresses it entails—on KUER’s RadioWest .
• Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, author of The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland , was also a recent guest on RadioWest .
• Lapham’s Quarterly excerpted Peter Brown’s The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity .
• The evolving Charleston Syllabus (as conceived by Chad Williams at #CharlestonSyllabus ) published by the African American Intellectual History Society features Steven Hahn’s A Nation under Our Feet , Ira Berlin’s Many Thousands Gone , Walter Johnson’s Soul by Soul , and Adam Rothman’s Beyond Freedom’s Reach , among other recommended works.

Stay Posted

Blog

June 12: Still Separated by the Length of Two Swords

In the weeks before last month’s General Election in Britain, politicians had begun to look bored by their own campaigns. The Premier League had already been won, the royal baby was refusing to appear, and the weather was dull. Suddenly, however, a challenge to a duel was made public, and a nation stirred. Yanek Zlinski, who was identified by the media as a Polish “Prince” (the application of the scare quotes has yet to provoke any further challenges), had invited Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), to cross swords in Hyde Park. The proposed duel, of course, never took place. But Zlinski had made his point. He wished to suggest that UKIP’s stance on immigrat …