Episodic History: Ryan’s Picks

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

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

Not Without Meaning or Purpose: Hew Strachan’s The First World War

Testing Whether That Nation Can Long Endure: America as a Failed State during the Civil War?

Just Stop: Brian Kilmeade’s Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates