Science versus Ignorance: Clio Barnard’s The Essex Serpent

Spotight on the Steppe: Barry Cunliffe’s The Scythians

Based on a True Photograph: Antoine Fuqua’s Emancipation

Some Places at Some Times: Lester, Boehme, and Mitchell’s Ruling the World

Fable, Interrupted: Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick

When Losers Write History: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s Stony the Road

Alpha to Omega: Roderick Beaton’s The Greeks

Behind the Times: S. Craig Zahler’s Bone Tomahawk

Controversy in the Modern Classroom: Sam Wineburg’s Why Learn History