Historian as Detective: Eric Cline’s 1177 B.C.

American State of Nature: Jefferson Cowie’s Freedom’s Dominion

Scumbag Benjamin: Apple TV+’s Franklin

The Best Kind of Revision: Alan Allport’s Britain at Bay

Echoes of Superstition: Questions of Legitimacy and Regime Change Through the Ages

Austere Beauty: FX’s Shogun

Inconvenient Suits: Foreign in a Domestic Sense

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

Remedial Case Studies: For Want of a Recount