Category: Reviews

A liberal arts education bears with it the blessing and curse of always thinking critically, so we’ve recorded here various reflections on books, movies, television shows, and other media in which history has been discussed and portrayed. At times we have chosen to offer a formal review; at others we’ve engaged with our subjects a bit more casually. In any case, we hope our opinions and recommendations provoke your curiosity and maybe even inspire you to try our suggestions out for yourself.

Mountains or Molehills? Duane Roller’s Empire of the Black Sea

Ultimate Responsibilty, or Ultimate Profits? Netflix’s Meltdown: Three Mile Island

The working cooling towers of Exelon Generation Unit 1 in the foreground are emitting water vapor. The dormant cooling towers are from Unit 2, which was permanently damaged in the 1979 accident.

Learning from Failure: Robert Lyman’s A War of Empires

From Repression, Revolution: The CW’s Riverdale, Season 7

Memory on Main Street: Jill Titus’s Gettysburg 1963

Historical Fanfiction: Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra

Treading the (Ship)boards: Lincoln Paine’s The Sea & Civilization

Monsters in the Ruins: Mans Marlind’s The Defeated

Falling and Failing: Edward Watts’ The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome