No Country for Heroes: History and our Narrative Need for Protagonists

Bushels of Borgias: Christopher Hibbert’s The Borgias and their Enemies and Showtime’s The Borgias

Well, Yeah: Jeffrey A. Auerbach‘s Imperial Boredom

Interpreting the Big Easy: Laughter in the Slave Quarters and other Dilemmas of Uncomfortable History

Away with 1619: Reinterpreting the Origins of American Slavery

Read a Book Instead: Netflix’s Empire Games

Unpacking Civil Wars: A Proposal in Terminology

A Perplexing Journey: David Armitage’s Civil Wars

Remember the North? Michael Pye’s The Edge of the World