Episodic History: Ryan’s Picks

Failure of Analysis: Philip Bobbitt’s The Shield of Achilles

Towards a More Total War: ‘Gentlemanly Warfare’ and the Rise of the Nation-State

Episodic History: Bryan’s Picks

Dueling Perspectives: John Keay and J.A.G. Roberts’s Histories of China

States’ Rights, the Slave Power Conspiracy, and the Causes of the Civil War

Grand Prize, or Honorable Mention? The Case of American Settler Empire

Size, or How You Rule It? Determining History’s Greatest Empire

Asking Questions: Society, Truth, and Trying to Understand it All