Predatory Aliens: Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey

View from the Center: John Darwin’s The Empire Project

Hindsight is 1938: Christian Schwochow’s Munich: The Edge of War

Sinews of Empire: Zach Sell’s Trouble of the World

Historical Theme Park: HBO’s Deadwood

Historical Infrastructure: Chris Wickham’s Medieval Europe

Rehabilitation of a Grump? HBO’s John Adams

The Path Unchosen: Helmut Walser Smith’s Germany, A Nation in its Time

Flouting Expectations: HBO’s Our Flag Means Death