Tag: 19th Century

Tragedy of Errors: John Gooch’s The Italian Army and the First World War

Targets of Opportunity: AppleTV+’s Manhunt

Big Strategy: Ian Morris’s Geography is Destiny

Inconvenient Suits: The White of Citizenship

Bhagat Singh Thind in his Army uniform, 1918

Land of Exploitation: HBO’s Warrior

For Want of an Heir: Ancient Roman Fertility Theory and its Consequences

Imperial Free-for-All: William Dalrynmple’s The Anarchy

Remedial Case Studies: Dred Scott, Roger B. Taney, and the Slave Power Conspiracy

Dred Scott, photograph taken around the time of the Supreme Court decision

The Face of Trauma: HBO’s Wartorn 1861-2010