No Country for Heroes: History and our Narrative Need for Protagonists Jeremy Irons as Rodrigo Borgia. Unfairly maligned visionary, or really just despicably corrupt churchmen among many? Post author By Bryan Caswell Post date January 27, 2020
Bushels of Borgias: Christopher Hibbert’s The Borgias and their Enemies and Showtime’s The Borgias Francois Arnaud as Cesare Borgia, Jeremy Irons as Rodrigo Borgia, and Holliday Grainger as Lucrezia Borgia in The Borgias Post author By Bryan Caswell Post date January 20, 2020
Well, Yeah: Jeffrey A. Auerbach‘s Imperial Boredom Post author By Bryan Caswell Post date November 11, 2019
Interpreting the Big Easy: Laughter in the Slave Quarters and other Dilemmas of Uncomfortable History Post author By Bryan Caswell Post date May 13, 2019
Away with 1619: Reinterpreting the Origins of American Slavery A 1901 Harper’s Magazine depiction of the arrival of slaves to Virginia in 1619. Courtesy of the New York Public Library Digital Collections. Post author By Jeffrey Lauck Post date February 11, 2019
Unpacking Civil Wars: A Proposal in Terminology A bust of Gaius Julius Caesar, Rome's most famous civil warrior Post author By Bryan Caswell Post date December 17, 2018
A Perplexing Journey: David Armitage’s Civil Wars Post author By Bryan Caswell Post date December 10, 2018
Remember the North? Michael Pye’s The Edge of the World Post author By Bryan Caswell Post date July 23, 2018