The Historical Middle Earth: The Architecture of Kings (and their Stand-ins)

Cycles of Justification: George Rable’s God’s Almost Chosen Peoples

Book Club: Empire of Guns, by Priya Satia

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

Rehabilitation, or Overcorrection? An Afternoon with the Warriors of the North Sea

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

Memory on Main Street: Jill Titus’s Gettysburg 1963

Historical Fanfiction: Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra

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